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Jazz Quiz

Authored by Brandi Colon

Performing Arts

9th - 12th Grade

Used 10+ times

Jazz Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

________ is a style of American music that originated in New Orleans around the late 1800's characterized by strong meter, improvisation and syncopated rhythmic patters

Jazz

R&B

Rock & Roll

Country

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

___________ is a genre of musical composition for the piano, generally in duple meter and containing a highly syncopated treble lead over a rhythmically steady bass.

Bebop

Big Band

Blues

Dixieland

Ragtime

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

_____________ is to "play or sing music, by inventing variations on a melody or creating new melodies, rhythms and harmonies while performing.

Improvisation

Syncopation

Swing

Scat

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

___________ is a form of jazz that comes from the emphasis on the off–beat, or weaker pulse.

Improvisation

Syncopation

Swing

Scat

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

___________ is the displacement of the beat from its regular and assumed course of meter.

Improvisation

Syncopation

Swing

Scat

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

___________ is a style of jazz, originating in New Orleans, played by a small group of instruments similar to a marching band including trumpet, trombone, clarinet, tuba, piano, and drums.

Bebop

Big Band

Blues

Dixieland

Ragtime

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

___________ is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s which features compositions characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

 

Bebop

Big Band

Blues

Dixieland

Ragtime

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