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The term , from Italian (meaning obstinate), is music terminology for repeated pattern

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The guitar came to America with the

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The dependent phrase in a single period construction melodic construction is called an

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“” refers to a place in New York where the music publishing business began

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The term , originally a solo piano style in the early 1900’s, comes from the “ragged rhythm” result of stride left hand and syncopated right hand rhythms

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In music, some of the music was written out, some improvised

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was the name of the talent scout, producer, who discovered and produced Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, George Benson, and others:

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in jazz music refers to Extemporaneous invention of material based on the music introduced in the tune or reflecting musical or emotional statements of other improvisers

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The “”, as a jazz term, refers to the tune or the song

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, as a jazz term, refers to the chord progression

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The “”, as a jazz term, refers to the contrasting middle section of a song

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The independent phrase in a single period melodic construction is called the

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The 1943 Rogers & Hammerstein musical “” proved that American musical theater could deal with serious subject matter

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referrs to when the relationship between phrases in a single period melodyis 90% the same material

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is the word used in music to describe the specific sound of an instrument

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“” is measured in cycles per second

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The “” is the honor given to W.C. Handy

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American popular music moves in a linear evolution: ❌ –❌ –❌ –❌--❌--❌—❌. Each new style remains even though a new style receives more popularity for awhile

Spirituals

gospel

blues

ragtime

big band jazz

small jazz bands

BeBop

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The foundation chord progression for a blues is

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The first female big band leader, due to the death of the original band leader (her husband Chic Webb), and composer/arranger of the big band hit “A Tisket, A Tasket” was

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is the name of the highly virtuosic style of jazz that features often fast playing, high use of complex ornamentation, over complex and a quickly changing chord progression

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What is the name of the African-American a capella vocal ensemble that first presented authentic black music to the post-civil war North?

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“” is a jazz term that refers to soloing over four bar groups in “conversation” with another member of the band

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“” is a jazz music slang term for accompaniment

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The overtone series/ harmonic series refers to the “”: unheard pitches that collectively are silently part of the fundamental and drive the root progression used throughout music is Western Civilization

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Boogie-Woogie is best described as a(n)

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❌ is a “jazz piano concerto” that was composed by ❌ in 1924. Originally scored for piano and jazz band, it was later scored by American composer ❌ {“The Grand Canyon Suite”) and remains highly popular throughout the world to this day

George Gerswhin

Ferde Grofe

Rhapsody in Blue

An America in Paris

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shows, shows, and shows merged into musicals

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A “” is an existing, audible metronome sound played into the headphones of musicians to stabilize rhythm for recording in studios and live performance

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refers to singers using random extemporaneous phonemes instead of actual words to improvise, basically emulating the sounds of wind, brass, and percussion instruments

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The Dave Brubeck Quartet experimented with jazz songs in irregular meters. The most famous, “”, was composed by Paul Desmond, the alto sax player

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Glenn Miller’s big band hit was basically a blues

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Who was the now famous arranger for the Benny Goodman Orchestra. His work created the Benny Goodman sound. Arrangers were responsible for ‘branding” a band’s signature?

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The lyrics in Blues follows the form

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BeBop is a virtuosic style of jazz music, the invention of which is credited to

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The librettist, lyricist for the musical West Side Story was

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Howard Shore composed the musical score for the film...

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SHMRF is the acronym (standing for___, , _, _, and ___) we’ve been using to afford a comprehensive view of the contents of any piece of music

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Duple, triple, and quadruple plus the term simple or compound is music terminology referring to

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What term refers to the texture of music with regard to its threads or melodic lines means melody plus accompaniment

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What form from classical music terminology has a direct correlate in jazz form approaches because it inovlves exposition / development / recapitulation which equals Head-improv – out chorus?

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Who is the man referred to as the “March King”? He created many popular marches for the band he conducted: The United States Marine Band

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The first music sung in America by immigrants was mostly pre-existing _ from their native country, usually in their native languages

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With the advent of the Big Band, the most critical, most important contribution to creating the sound print of the band was made by the _________

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______________ refers to when a solo singer or solo instrumentalist sings or plays a line that is echoed back by other singers or musicians, reflecting a style born in work songs: railroad gangs, whaling ships, prison road crews, loggers, field hands, etc.

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___________ is the name of the now famous composer of many piano rags in the early 1900’s. He was buried in an un-marked grave until his music was made “popular” through its use in the film “The Sting”

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___________ is the man who is credited as being the “founder of American musical theater”

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____________ was the composer of many beloved, published American songs in the mid-1800s and is now referred to as “The father of American song”

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The lawyer _____________ wrote a poem that became the lyrics for the American National Anthem. The four-verse poem speaks about events that happened during the attack on Fort McHenry in 1812. The words were later sung to a preexisting British drinking song “To Anacreon in Heaven”

Apop Exam 1 Fall 2015

Exam 1

The term , from Italian (meaning obstinate), is music terminology for repeated pattern

The guitar came to America with the

The dependent phrase in a single period construction melodic construction is called an

“” refers to a place in New York where the music publishing business began

The term , originally a solo piano style in the early 1900’s, comes from the “ragged rhythm” result of stride left hand and syncopated right hand rhythms

In music, some of the music was written out, some improvised

was the name of the talent scout, producer, who discovered and produced Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, George Benson, and others:

in jazz music refers to Extemporaneous invention of material based on the music introduced in the tune or reflecting musical or emotional statements of other improvisers

The “”, as a jazz term, refers to the tune or the song

, as a jazz term, refers to the chord progression

The “”, as a jazz term, refers to the contrasting middle section of a song

The independent phrase in a single period melodic construction is called the

The 1943 Rogers & Hammerstein musical “” proved that American musical theater could deal with serious subject matter

referrs to when the relationship between phrases in a single period melodyis 90% the same material

is the word used in music to describe the specific sound of an instrument

“” is measured in cycles per second

The “” is the honor given to W.C. Handy

American popular music moves in a linear evolution: ❌ –❌ –❌ –❌--❌--❌—❌. Each new style remains even though a new style receives more popularity for awhile

The foundation chord progression for a blues is