Intro to Jazz music

The roots of Jazz music are on what continent?

• Asia

• North America

• Africa

• South America

What style of music was used by enslaved people to help communicate, give hope, and make plans for freedom?

• Jazz

• Classical

• Spirituals

• Nursery rhytmes

Classical music originates from...

• Enslaved Africans

• Australians

• Spain

• White Europeans

After slavery was abolished in North America, spirituals became very individual and personal. These new songs were called...

• the blues

• Classical music

• Jazz

• still spirituals

Jazz music mixes together..

• Rock and Soul

• Classical and Spiritual/Blues

• Classical and Pop

• Blues and Spirituals

Improvisation is...

• When music sounds funny

• When people create music together

• Playing all the notes correctly

• creating music spontaneously, without a written out plan.

What makes Jazz different from Classical music?

• Jazz sounds better; Classical music is no fun to listen to.

• Jazz is made today, and Classical music stopped being made hundreds of years ago.

• Jazz is constantly changing and evolving, and Classical music has mostly stayed the same.

• Classical music uses more instruments than Jazz.