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