Lectures 25-27: Test Yourself

Choose the best answer and write your answers down. Then compare your responses with the answer key.

Matching: Match each style with its definition.

a. bebop	1. piano style generally in duple meter, performed at a moderate march tempo, popular from the 1890s to about 1915
b. blues	2. style that emerged in the early 1950s that was related to bop but calmer and more relaxed in character
c. cool jazz	3. style popular from 1935 to 1945, characterized by arrangements for about fifteen musicians
d. free jazz	4. dance music of American blacks that fused blues, jazz, and gospel styles
e. fusion	5. combination of Jazz improvisation with rock rhythms and New Orleans tone colors
g. New Orleans style	6. style that emerged in the early 1960s that was not based on rhythm and regular forms or established chord patterns
h. ragtime	7. jazz style that evolved in the early 1940s, characterized by complex rhythmic patterns, asymmetrical melodic phrases, solo improvisation, and irregular accents
i. rhythm & blues	8. form of vocal music usually characterized by a 12-bar chord progression over a steady 4/4 beat
j. soul	9. style developed in the early 1900s, characterized by collective improvisation of solo performers over a clearly marked beat
k. swing	10. emphasis on emotionality, gospel roots, and its relationship to the black community

Multiple-choice: Choose the answer that best completes each sentence.

11. The chord progression usually used in the blues involves only three basic chords: tonic,

dominant, and

a. supertonic

b. mediant

c. subdominant

d. submediant

12. Frequently repeated short melodic phrases commonly used in swing are called

a. riffs

b. breaks

c. gigs

d. tags

Matching: Match each performer with the style with which he or she is most closely associated:

1-h; 2-c; 3-k; 4-i; 5-e; 6-d; 7-a; 8-b; 9-g; 10-j;

11-c;12-a;

13-a; 14-h; 15-j; 16-c; 17-j; 18-i; 19-b; 20-a