MUH 1011 Music Appreciation
Study Guide for Final Exam
Listening to Jazz
Is it true that every style of jazz involves some degree of improvisation?
What is syncopation?
Is it true that we have an extensive amount of records preserved about the beginning and the first years
of jazz?
Is it true that in jazz HOW music was played was more important than WHAT was being played?
Jazz heritages
Is it true that Jazz is the result of a unique blending in America of African harmony and
instrumentation with European rhythmic and melodic techniques?
Is it true that the Spirituals and gospels are both religious musical compositions; however,
Spirituals are folk songs based on scriptures and gospels are generally musical settings of scripture?
Is it true that the African slaves brought the jazz music with them from Africa?
Who were the Creoles and what was their contribution in early jazz music?
Blues and Beyond
Is it true that Blue was brought to America from Africa?
The standard blues chorus (traditional) is composed of how many measures (bars)?
Who was one of the most famous Country blues singers?
What was the major city associated with Classic (City) blues in the 1920s?
What were Race records?
Who is considered as “The Mother” of the Blues?
Who was the most famous blues singer of the 1920s, known as the "Empress of the Blues"?
Who is considered as “The Father” of the Blues?
Who is considered to be “The King of the Blues”?
Ragtime to Boogie-Woogie
Is Ragtime considered a jazz style or not and why?
Who was the most prolific ragtime composer?
Who was the best-known ragtime piano player of all time?
What was Jelly Roll Morton famous with?
Who is generally considered the father of the stride piano style?
Is it true that Stride piano was much easier and more relaxed than the Ragtime?
Who was Fats Waller?
Who was the best Stride piano player?
Is it true that all the Boogie-Woogie pieces were through-composed?
Although it is closely related to its vocal model, the piano blues, also known as ______, is happy in
mood and brisk in tempo.
New Orleans
What was “Storyville” and what was its importance in the early jazz?
What was “Congo Square” and what was its importance in the early jazz?
Who was Buddy Bolden?
Who was Freddy Keppard?
Who was Sidney Bechet?
Who was the musician that introduced the soprano saxophone to jazz music?
What is the essence of Dixieland sound?
Is it true that the New Orleans bands usually have a tuba, banjo, trumpet, clarinet and a tenor sax?
Is it true that the role of the clarinet in a Dixieland band is to play/embellish a melody above the
trumpet (during collective improvisation)?
Is it true that the piano was an essential instrument in early Dixieland orchestras?
Chicago
Where did jazz relocate after moving North from New Orleans? What 3 major cities?
The saxophone replaced what instrument from the early jazz music?
The guitar replaced what instrument from the early jazz music?
What was the name of the first Jazz band to be recorded?
Who was Louis Armstrong?
Who was the “Father of Jazz”?
Who introduced scat singing to jazz?
Bix Beiderbecke’s style of playing was associated with what style?
Swing era
Is it true that during the Swing/Big-band period, jazz was the most listen-to music in the world?
The Swing style was prominent in the jazz scene during what years?
What were the differences between the swing and the earlier styles of jazz?
What was the name of the short repeated melodic phrases frequently used during the swing era?
Is it true that Count Basie's band always placed more emphasis on complexity of arrangements and
colorful sounds than on simplicity and swing feeling?
What is “Sweet” swing and what is “Hot” swing; differences?
How did they call a big band that emphasized pretty arrangements and vocals more than improvised
jazz solos?
Is it true that all big bands had a great deal of freedom for soloists?
What are the three principal sections of the swing era big band?
The string bass became more popular in jazz during the swing era, replacing what bass instrument of
the early jazz band?
Which was one of the most important solo instruments of the swing era?
Who was Fletcher Henderson?
Who was Paul Whiteman?
What were the instruments of the typical swing era rhythm section?
What is “walking bass”?
Who was Benny Goodman?
Who was Duke Ellington?
Who were an outstanding jazz pianist, big band leader, and arranger who also wrote a number of
impressive concert works?
What was characteristic for the sound of Kansas City swing and Big band?
What is a “head arrangement”?
Who was Count Basie?
Which band had the greatest rhythm section in the jazz history?
Who was Glen Miller?
Who was Chick Webb?
Who was Tommy Dorsey?
Who was Artie Shaw?
Who was the jazz trumpeter who bridged the styles of Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie?
What is a “ghost band”?
Bebop
Is it true that with the arrival of bebop jazz became even more popular than before?
Is it true that the clarinet and the guitar were much used instruments during the Bebop period?
Is it true that Bebop musicians had a great respect for their audience and their fellow jazz musicians?
Is it true that the Bebop musicians were the greatest entertainers in Jazz music?
What was Minton's playhouse?
What was Bebop primarily used for?
Is it true that new bebop melodies were often written over chords of familiar songs (standards)
replacing the original melody?
Is it true that the bebop style required a greater understanding of jazz theory and called for virtuoso
technique?
Is it true that Bebop had the same large audience enjoyed by the swing bands?
Is it true that Bebop musicians elevated jazz from an entertaining music to an art form?
Is it true that the Blues was an often-used form in Bebop?
Is it true that the trumpet and the sax would often play the main melody of a Bebop tune in unison?
"Bird" was the nickname for…
Who was the most influential artist in the bebop style that most jazz musicians believe?
Who was Dizzy Gillespie and what instrument did he play?
Who was the bebop artist who was noted for writing Afro-Cuban music?
Who was the bebop musician who spent a great deal of his time in educating younger musicians about
the art of Bebop?
Is it true that the two most influential Bebop pianists were Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk?
Who was Thelonious Monk and what instrument did he play?
Cool jazz/Third stream
What are the characteristics of Cool jazz?
Is it true that Cool jazz artists preferred the use of “Classical/Symphonic” instruments?
Who was Miles Davis?
In 1949 and 1950, trumpeter Miles Davis and what arranger organized recording sessions for the
"Birth of the Cool" band?
Who was the cool jazz artist famous for composing music in unusual meters?
Who was Gil Evans?
Who was the cool jazz musician who is credited with introducing Brazilian Bossa-Nova rhythms to
jazz? (“Girl from Ipanema”)
What was the difference between the West coast jazz and East coast jazz?
Who was the originator of the “Third stream” music?
What was “Third stream” music?
Hard bop
Who are considered the pioneers of “Hard bop”?
What was the name of their jazz band?
Who was Sonny Rollins and what instrument does he play?
Who was Charles Mingus and what instrument did he play?
Who was Bill Evans and what instrument did he play?
Free jazz/Avant garde
What are the characteristics of Free jazz?
Who was Ornette Coleman and what instrument did he play?
Who is Cecil Taylor and what instrument does he play?
Who was John Coltrane and what instrument did he play?
Is it true that the Free jazz performers were considered among the most radical musicians since the
bebop era?
Jazz Styles late 60’
What was characteristic for Jazz-rock fusion?
Is it true that Fusion is the first jazz style to gain widespread popularity since the swing era?
Is it true that Blood, Sweat and Tears and Chicago were rock bands with great influence from jazz
music?
Who is considered as “The Grandfather of Fusion”?
Is it true that Miles Davis sometimes used Indian instruments, such as the sitar and the tabla drums?
What artist was associated with the group “The Mahavishnu Orchestra”?
Who played piano and keyboards with Miles Davis and won Grammy for 2008?
Who was the pianist who incorporated Spanish flamenco rhythms into jazz?
What kind of band was "Weather Report"?
Besides jazz Miles was listening to the music of…
What kind of instrument was the Pikasso I?
New directions in jazz
Who is Quincy Jones and what are his contributions to jazz and pop music?
What was characteristic for the unique style of George Benson?
What was characteristic for Smooth jazz?
What was characteristic for Urban jazz?
Is it true that in acid jazz, disc jockeys became more involved in making the music themselves, instead
of only playing the work of others?
Is it true that jazz musicians invented Acid jazz?
What other popular style was Acid jazz associated with?