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History of Jazz (Swing Quiz)

Questão 1 de 35

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Was Swing (or "big band era") the most popular style in jazz history?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 2 de 35

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What was the preferred instrumentation for swing music?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Combo

  • Big Bands

  • Soloists

Explicação

Questão 3 de 35

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Banjos, guitars, and flutes were common in swing?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 4 de 35

1

Bass appeared more often in swing?

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  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 5 de 35

1

High-hat cymbals WERE NOT used more in swing?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 6 de 35

1

Collective improvisation was ________ in swing.

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • common

  • included

  • rare

Explicação

Questão 7 de 35

1

Swing music (rhythmic) feeling was smoother?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 8 de 35

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Swing musicians showed a higher level of instrumental proficiency in terms of _______.

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • speed

  • agility

  • tone control

  • playing in tune

  • All of above

Explicação

Questão 9 de 35

1

How many musicians would a big bang include?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • 5

  • 8

  • 11

  • 10 or >

Explicação

Questão 10 de 35

1

Are saxophones strictly brass instruments?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 11 de 35

1

Sax section was often called the "________".

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • woodwinds

  • rythm

  • reed section

Explicação

Questão 12 de 35

1

The alto and tenor saxophones were rarely used saxes.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 13 de 35

1

Saxophonists usually stick with one instrument throughout a big band performance.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 14 de 35

1

Size of trumpet section varied from _____ to _____ players.
Trombone section ranged from _____ to ____ players.

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 2 to 5
    1 to 5

  • 3 to 7
    1 to 4

Explicação

Questão 15 de 35

1

Big bands relied on written arrangements; it was not necessary for combo groups.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 16 de 35

1

What was the general setup of a big band performance?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Melodies played by the entire band in unison or harmony, then jazz improv with both rhythm section and finally riffs.

  • Jazz improv with both rhythm section, riffs, and finally melodies.

Explicação

Questão 17 de 35

1

Did rhythm section contain banjo, cello, and piano?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 18 de 35

1

Although pianist in rhythm section played melodies ... not just chords and embellishments ... and played in stride style ... COMPING was not the COMMON accompaniment style during the SWING ERA.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 19 de 35

1

Guitar and bass were usually assigned timekeeping.
Guitarist strummed one chord on each beat (rhythm guitar style).
Bassist played a note on the first and third of every four beats (two-beat style) or every beat (walking style).

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 20 de 35

1

band drummers tended not to play new or provacative rhythms that ran counter to the horn lines.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 21 de 35

1

What are some facts about Roy Eldridge?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Did not die young

  • He was a trumpeter

  • Advanced improvisers of the swing era, linked between swing and modern jazz.

  • Style of playing was fiery and aggressive.

  • Demonstrated that long, sinewy lines were possible on trumpet. These, though easy to execute on saxophone, do not lend themselves to the mechanics of the trumpet.

  • All of the above!

Explicação

Questão 22 de 35

1

What are some facts about Coleman Hawkins?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Did not die young.

  • Being a jazz tenor saxophonist.

  • He made the saxophone famous(brand), being the most popular instruments in jazz.

  • He is a harmonic improviser rather than a melodic improviser.

  • All of the above!

Explicação

Questão 23 de 35

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What are some facts about Count Basie?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Did not die young.

  • Long time Band Leader (1937-unitl death)

  • Stride style pianist

  • He led the first rhythm section in jazz history

  • Rhythm swung smooth and relaxed way.

  • All of the above!

Explicação

Questão 24 de 35

1

Count Basie Rhythm included:
Basie (Himself, Pianist)
Freddie Green (Rhythm guitar)
Walter Page (string bass)
Jo Jones (drums)

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 25 de 35

1

Comping is playing piano by accompanying chords as accents behind the soloist.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 26 de 35

1

Was Count Basie and Lester Young famous for Kansas City Style?

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 27 de 35

1

Kansas City Style arrangements were based on short musical riffs that were repeated again and again.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 28 de 35

1

Head Arrangements are spontaneously created riffs during a performance, learned by ear, and kept in the heads of players. This is basics of Kansas City riff band Style.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 29 de 35

1

What are some facts about Lester Young?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Did not die young

  • Tenor Saxophone player

  • NN was "Pres or Prez"

  • Style of playing can be modeled as being modern jazz or cool jazz.

  • Trumpeters and guitarists were inspired by the way he improv.

  • One of the five most influential saxophone players in jazz history.

  • Young offered a clear alternative to the heavy tone, fast vibrato, and complicated style of Coleman Hawkins.

  • All of the above!

Explicação

Questão 30 de 35

1

What are some facts about Billie Holiday?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Died Early @ 44 yrs. old

  • NN was "Lady Day"

  • Not really a blues singer----more on pop and show tunes.

  • Has toured with Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Count Basie.

  • All of the above!

Explicação

Questão 31 de 35

1

What are some facts about Ella Fitzgerald?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Did not die young

  • Most outstanding nonoperatic singer of the 20th century.

  • Master of swing eighth notes and perfect timing of syncopation gave her singing rhythmic effect---hornmen.

  • Her first number one single was "A-Tisket-A-Tasket" with the Chick Webb Band.

  • Her tone spanned the unusually wide range of 3 and a half octaves.

  • Not melodramatic when it comes to her singing, she's cheerful.

  • Scat Singer.

  • She was able to imitate instrument tunes using her voice.

  • All of the above!

Explicação

Questão 32 de 35

1

What are some facts about Art Tatum?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Died early, at 46 yrs. old

  • Pianist

  • Stride style

  • Master at spontaneously adding and changing chords during his performance of pop tunes (this is called Substitution).

  • All of the above!

Explicação

Questão 33 de 35

1

What are some facts about Benny Goodman?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Did not die young

  • Bandleader

  • Clarinet player

  • All of the above!

Explicação

Questão 34 de 35

1

Are all these true about Duke Ellington?

Did not die young
Bandleader, pianist, and composer
Ellington's group was the most stable and longest-lived big band in jazz history.
Single most creative and prolific composer arranger in jazz history.
Wrote more than 2000 compositions and many arrangements and rearrangements. Had recordd more than any other group.
Piano tunes were stride style
Wrote 100s of instrumentals. Some of them paint musical portraits of famous personalities. Others paint musical pictures of places.
Widely acclaimed for having taken jazz into the format of "extended works"
"voicing across sections of the band"
"voicing across sections of the band"

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 35 de 35

1

What was important for big bands?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Provide dance music.

  • Elabrate costumes

  • Showy staging

  • Having several singers

  • All of the above!

Explicação

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