Match the following:

a. animal dance
b. improvisation
c. foxtrot
d. front line
e. collective improvisation
f. piano rag
g. race record
h. ragtime
i. swing
j. Storyville
1. Based on the march, this is a syncopated music style, generally played on piano.
2. The most popular dance of the 1920s.
3. This phrase refers to "spontaneous musical creation," and is the essence of what jazz music is all
about.
4. A ragtime piece written for the piano.
5. More than one performer simultaneously making up music as they play.
6. A popular dance which was borrowed and adapted from a black folk dance.
7. A recording made by black artists for a black audience.
8. The "Red Light" district in New Orleans where jazz thrived in at the turn of the century.
9. Rhythmic play over a four-beat rhythm.
10. In a jazz band, this phrase refers to the horn soloists (trumpet, clarinet, and trombone).

1. ANS: H PTS: 1
2. ANS: C PTS: 1
3. ANS: B PTS: 1
4. ANS: F PTS: 1
5. ANS: E PTS: 1
6. ANS: A PTS: 1
7. ANS: G PTS: 1
8. ANS: J PTS: 1
9. ANS: I PTS: 1
10. ANS: D PTS: 1

Art & Culture

You might also like to view...

Explain how the growing desire in the Renaissance to reflect nature as accurately as possible became a major motivation for the development of perspective to painting and drawing

What will be an ideal response?

Art & Culture

The most prominent feature of Minoan complexes was a large, central __________.

A. courtyard B. shrine C. temple D. graveyard

Art & Culture