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African American Music
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performing-arts
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music
Instructions:
Answer 35 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An African American music that often expresses sadness - longing - or frustration
Syncopation
The Blues
Duke Ellington
Polyrhythmic
2. One of the most famous male blues singers who helped R & B develop
Duke Ellington
Syncopation
The Blues
B.B. King
3. Rebirth of African-American culture
Louis Armstrong
Beat
Duke Ellington
Harlem Renaissance
4. An istrument that derives its sound by being shaken or struck.
Percussion
B.B. King
Polyrhythmic
The Blues
5. Juxtaposing two or more different rhythms
Polyrhythmic
Form
Break
Clave
6. A larger jazz band characterized by ensemble and solo improvisation
Clave
Big Band
Kente Cloth
Syncopation
7. The art of planning dance
W.C. Handy
Choreography
Scott Jplin
The Blues
8. 'Father of the Blues'
W.C. Handy
Billie Holliday
Fusion
Dixieland Jazz
9. A spirit dancer
Count Basie
Egungun Dancer
Improvisation
'Strange Fruit'
10. Developed ragtime music
Lindy Hop
Benny Goodman
Scott Jplin
Polyrhythmic
11. A type of spontaneous musical invention
Billie Holliday
The Blues
'Strange Fruit'
Improvisation
12. If dancer messes up - then the drums stop
Drum Censorship
Savoy Ballroom
Count Basie
W.C. Handy
13. Combination of jazz and rock
Percussion
Egungun Dancer
Lindy Hop
Fusion
14. A musical figure repeated at the same pitch throughout the composition
Beat
Louis Armstrong
Scat
Ostinato
15. First recorded anti-racial song; recorded by Billie Holliday
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16. A steady - recurring pulse
Beat
Count Basie
Savoy Ballroom
'Strange Fruit'
17. Basic rhytmic pattern that forms the foundation for complex rhythms played by multiple drums.
Harlem Renaissance
Scat
Percussion
Clave
18. Most prolific American composer (Big Band)
Smooth Jazz
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
B.B. King
19. Black dance; once America's national dance
Harlem Renaissance
Smooth Jazz
Lindy Hop
Savoy Ballroom
20. Form of vocal improvisation on nonsense syllables
Scat
Fusion
Savoy Ballroom
Polyrhythmic
21. A musical form distinguished by its reliance on improvisation and its rhythmic urgency; America's gift to the world
Jazz
Scat
Bebop (bop)
Ostinato
22. Rhythm characterized by syncopation in the melody and regularly accented accompaniment.
Drum Censorship
Syncopation
Benny Goodman
Ragtime
23. One of the most famous female blues singers; first black woman to work with a white orchestra
Jazz
Smooth Jazz
Big Band
Billie Holliday
24. Structure and design of a musical composition incorporating unity - variety - content - and repitition.
Big Band
Form
Count Basie
Three Things All Dance Involves
25. 'King of Swing'
Louis Armstrong
Scat
Percussion
Benny Goodman
26. And easy-listening type of jazz
Choreography
Louis Armstrong
Smooth Jazz
Egungun Dancer
27. Ballroom that both whites
Improvisation
Beat
Savoy Ballroom
W.C. Handy
28. Jazz played by small band and characterized by ensemble and solo improvisation
Egungun Dancer
Scott Jplin
Dixieland Jazz
Kente Cloth
29. Brightly colored woven fabric originally worn by Ashante kings
B.B. King
Savoy Ballroom
Benny Goodman
Kente Cloth
30. A measure or two where nobody plays except for the soloist.
Benny Goodman
Jazz
Break
Percussion
31. One of America's most famous jazz musicians
Louis Armstrong
Big Band
W.C. Handy
Savoy Ballroom
32. Deliberate shifts of accent so that it conflicts with a steady beat
Count Basie
Clave
Harlem Renaissance
Syncopation
33. Space - time - and force
Big Band
Break
Three Things All Dance Involves
Louis Armstrong
34. Big Band-first inter-racial music group
Count Basie
Break
Billie Holliday
Choreography
35. A complex and sophisticated type of improvisation jazz
Savoy Ballroom
Bebop (bop)
Three Things All Dance Involves
Kente Cloth