Exam 24: Music in America: Jazz and Beyond

In a typical early jazz band,which instrument was not a melody instrument?

What characteristic of African music is still used in African American church music today?

Briefly describe the style of composition and performance called swing.Refer to improvisation in your answer.

A mid-nineteenth-century comic variety show in which white actors performed in blackface was called:

What is heard in the introduction to "Cool"?

Briefly describe some of the elements of avant-garde jazz.

Light operas from the nineteenth century containing spoken dialogue,light tunes,and dancing are called:

Name the three styles of jazz,in chronological order,from its beginnings to just after World War II.

The two key features of jazz performance style are:

Define improvisation.

The style that originated as a pointed expression of black urban concerns and quickly grew during the 1980s and 1990s is:

Briefly describe two outcomes of the recording of early jazz.

Define gospel music.

A distinctive feature of ragtime music is:

Rhythm and blues differs from earlier blues in its:

Besides the electric bass guitar,what other electric instrument is heard in this excerpt from Bitches Brew?

What has had the largest impact on music around the world in the twentieth century?

In the "Fugue" dance in "Cool," the fugue subject consists of:

Briefly describe the makeup of a typical big band.

The style known as acid rock is marked by: