1. Classroom Assignment

2. What musical style is described with the following adjectives? Improvisation, syncopated rhythm, steady beat, distinctive tone colors, techniques of performance?

3. When did people start recording jazz music?

4. Name six sub styles of jazz.

5. What is call and response? (Page 554)

6. What was the major source of jazz?

7. Name the style that had syncopated piano music, popular from the 1890’s to about 1915.

8. What style involved “bent” notes and slides of pitch? (Page 555)

9. Jazz has never been played in the church. (True or False)

10. Jazz has never been played in Tokyo. (True or False)

11. Jazz has been played in Paris. (True or False)

12. Jazz has never been played in concert halls. (True or False)

13. Jazz has been played in the college classrooms. (True or False)

14. Jazz has been played in nightclubs. (True or False)

15. What is the “backbone” of the jazz ensemble? (True or False)

16. What are the three main instruments of the rhythm section? (Page 556)

17. Name four examples of “pitch inflection”.

18. What does the reputation of a jazz performer rest mainly on? (Page 557)

19. What is each statement of the basic harmonic pattern or melody called?

20. Name the technique in which several musicians make up different melodies simultaneously.

21. In swing jazz rhythmic precision is crucial. (True or False)

22. In swing jazz rhythmic precision is not crucial. (True or False)

23. Jazz melodies are flexible in pitch but not in rhythm. (True or False)

24. Jazz melodies are flexible in pitch and rhythm. (True or False)

25. What is the major instrument of ragtime music? (Page 559)

26. Who is the “King of Ragtime Music”?

27. What was Scott Joplin’s most famous piano piece, published in 1899?

28. Name the opera that led to the physical and mental breakdown of Scott Joplin in 1916. (Page 561)

29. Vocal Blues is intensely personal. (True or False)

30. A blues stanza is set to a harmonic framework of 12 bars. How many measures are in 12 bars?

31. What is the symbol for quadruple meter where each bar contains four beats? (Page 563)