Ch 8 Test

______________ is a twelve-bar strophic song form that, at the turn of the twentieth century, began to form out of African American work songs, field hollers, and spirituals.

blues

An early form of country music, ________________ was an alternative to the jazz and dance music of the 1920s and was portrayed as wholesome music of the “good old days.”

hillbilly music

____________ are large jazz ensembles (15-20 members) popular in the 1930’s and 1940’s. The term also refers to the era in which these bands were popular.

big bands

Charlie Parker's genius on the alto saxophone can be heard in____________.

donna lee

____________ is a type of folk song written to directly, or by suggestion, voice complaints about some injustice.

protest song

__________ is a form of spoken word delivered over a beat. It can be improvised or written out in advance.

rap

_________________ is a type of dramatic performance that tells a story through dialogue, with singing and dancing added to support and move the plot along.

musical theatre

_________________ is a term describing a broad variety of musical styles including Bluegrass, Hillbilly Music, and Contemporary Country. Generally speaking, most types of music that fall under this category originated in the American South (although it also encompasses Western Swing and cowboy songs) and features a singing style with a distinctly rural southern accent, as well as an instrumentation that favors string instruments such as the banjo, guitar, or fiddle.

country music

One most important ragtime composers is acknowledged to be____________.

scottt joplin

______________________ is a mixture of rock rhythm sections and a singer singing with a country accent about many of the same topics that traditional country singers have used over the decades.

contemporary country

________________ is a style of small group jazz developed in the late 1940s, which featured fast moving harmonies, angular melodies, and highly complex rhythms.

bebop

_______________ is a style of music that grew out of Rhythm and Blues and came into prominence during the 1950s. The style features a strong backbeat and often features electric guitar, bass and drums. The style has spawned many subgenres.

rock and roll

___________________ is a variation of country music featuring fiddle, guitar, mandolin, bass guitar, and the five-string banjo that developed largely in the Appalachian region.

bluegrass

_______________________ is a term used to describe a wide variety of musical forms that developed within different cultures, often for different reasons.

folk music

Where did jazz begin?

new orleans

___________________ is a type of folk song designed to teach a simple lesson. The songs are often simple to sing and easy to remember.

children’s song

_____________ is the act of creating melodies and harmonies on the spot without reading the music off a page.

improvisation

______________ is a “light opera” developed in the nineteenth century that required classically trained singers, but featured less complex music than a typical opera.

operetta

Which of the following is not a attribute of the blues?

is merely sad and slow

_____________ is a style of country music that developed in western cities and borrowed instruments from the dance band such as saxophones, trombones, trumpets, piano, bass, and drums.

western swing

_____________ is the act of disrupting the normal pattern of accents in a piece of music by emphasizing what would normally be weak beats.

syncopation

_______________________ generally refers to music with jazz, gospel, and funk roots that uses electronic instruments, drums, horns, and vocals.

contemporary R&B

_________________ is a type of folk song devised to help groups of people perform physical work. The music usually uses the tempo of the work itself and was sung by lumberjacks, railroad workers, and prison chain gangs, among others.

work songs

In jazz, each statement of the basic harmonic pattern or melody is called a____________.

chorus

A ________________ is a song form used often in folk music, which is used to tell a story that usually contains a moral or lesson.

ballad