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