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