Deck 12: The Jazz Age

Question 1

Which of the following is not a way in which Chicago jazz differed from New Orleans jazz?

A) Chicago style featured different instruments
B) Chicago style featured more complex improvisation
C) Chicago style featured a backbeat
D) Chicago style abandoned blues form

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Unrequited love is a typical blues topic.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The roots of rural blues are found in the field holler.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith are considered pioneer jazz instrumentalists.

Question 5

Classic blues was conceived primarily as entertainment.

Question 6

New Orleans became an important center for jazz in part because

A) the "Storyville" district provided job opportunities for musicians
B) the blues recording industry had its roots there
C) large numbers of jazz artists were born there
D) jazz musicians were forced to live in the southern United States

Question 7

Urban blues had a strong association with jazz.

Question 8

Blues harmony is distinctive because

A) it is limited to the use of three chords
B) it is performed by a complex interlocking of instruments
C) it utilizes unusual chord patterns
D) it is improvised

Question 9

Jazz instrumentation that evolved in New Orleans can be most directly traced to

A) the importation of European-style orchestral instruments
B) the availability of recently used Civil War band instruments
C) the eclectic nature of New Orleans in the early twentieth century
D) the Creole influence

Question 10

Classic blues singers were primarily men.

Question 11

Which of the following makes "sweet jazz" significantly different from jazz as a whole?

A) lack of improvisation
B) syncopated rhythms
C) use of twelve-bar blues
D) combo instrumentation

Question 12

Blues always utilizes a three-line form.

Question 13

"Stride" and "boogie-woogie" are terms that are both related to

A) melodic embellishments
B) jazz piano
C) New Orleans jazz
D) sweet jazz

Question 14

The roots of the jazz combo are in New Orleans.

Question 15

Jazz roots are partially found in European marches and dances.

Question 16

Which of the following is not true regarding the "twelve bar" blues?

A) It is considered a type of musical form.
B) It is broken down into four, three-measure lines.
C) It provides a harmonic basis for improvisation.
D) It often is associated with a text setting.

Question 17

Blues form provides spaces for performers to

A) insert dance-related motions
B) create impromptu musical responses
C) change the harmonic structure of the piece
D) add complex layers of rhythms

Question 18

Which of the following became a center for jazz immediately following the exodus of jazz musicians from New Orleans?

A) New York
B) Chicago
C) St. Louis
D) Dixieland

Question 19

AAB form in blues refers to the harmonic progression as well as the lyrics.

Question 20

Which of the following most significantly impacted the development of jazz?

A) European marches
B) Creole melodies
C) Caribbean harmony
D) African rhythms

Question 21

Despite its roots in folk and popular music styles,jazz has rarely been associated with popular music? Why do you think this is true?

Question 22

Urban blues often included at least some stanzas in the traditional ____________ form of popular music.

A) two-line
B) three-line
C) four-line
D) five-line

Question 23

New Orleans jazz musicians improvised upon

A) classical melodies
B) pre-written melodies
C) new melodies
D) no melodies at all

Question 24

Louis Armstrong was a virtuoso performer on the

A) saxophone
B) trumpet
C) piano
D) double bass

Question 25

A combo is

A) a chamber ensemble
B) an early jazz style
C) a small jazz work
D) a percussion instrument

Question 26

The basic harmonic pattern of the blues is limited to which of the following chords?

A) tonic and dominant
B) dominant and subdominant
C) tonic, dominant, and subdominant
D) tonic and subdominant

Question 27

The "father of the blues" was

A) Scott Joplin
B) Louis Armstrong
C) W.
C) Handy
D) George Gershwin

Question 28

How did the vocally-based blues become a primary foundation for instrumentally-based jazz?

Question 29

The classical blues contains how many lines of text?

A) two
B) three
C) four
D) five