Sweet Georgia Brown (1925)

Sweet Georgia Brown uses a _______ bar chorus split into ______ bars

32, 16

What form does Sweet Georgia Brown use?

Show-tune

How did Brunswick Records advertise Sweet Georgia Brown?

A Charleston-swing song

What two types of jazz does Sweet Georgia Brown use?

New Orleans and Chicago

What instruments use mutes?

Trumpets

What pre-swing characteristic is found in Sweet Georgia Brown?

Riffs and sectional writing

What Chorus uses sectional writing and for what instrument?

2, the saxophone

What is the meter of the song?

Common-time

Bernie uses a hemiola that seems to shift the song into…?

3 4 time

What notes make up the hemiola in Sweet Georgia Brown?

Four eighths and a quarter

The successive phrases in Sweet Georgia Brown modulate to a key a ________ lower than the previous phrase

Perfect fifth

During what part of Sweet Georgia Brown is the hemiola used?

Introduction

What section is the Charleston rhythm heard in?

C

What instruments preform the first vamp?

Woodwinds

What instrument provides a countermelody in the fourth chorus?

Clarinet

What chorus has a saxophone solo?

5

What instrument closes out Sweet Georgia Brown?

Cymbal