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