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