Jazz Quiz

________ 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

___________ 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

_____________ 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

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

• Improvisation

• Syncopation

• Swing

• Scat

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

• Improvisation

• Syncopation

• Swing

• Scat

___________ 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

___________ 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

__________ is a type of music that originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s by African-Americans from roots in African-American work songs, and spirituals.

• Bebop

• Big Band

• Blues

• Dixieland

• Jazz Fusion

__________ is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

• Bebop

• Big Band

• Blues

• Dixieland

• Jazz Fusion

__________ is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.

• Bebop

• Big Band

• Blues

• Dixieland

• Jazz Fusion