Music: An Appreciation, 10th Edition (Kamien)

Chapter 4: New Orleans Style

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
The "front line" of a Dixieland group included
A)cornet, clarinet, and trombone.
B)drums, bass, and banjo.
C)piano.
D)All answers are correct.
2
The most distinctive feature of New Orleans jazz was
A)use of a saxophone for playing the melody.
B)collective improvisation by the front line.
C)solo breaks by the rhythm instruments.
D)its lack of syncopated melodies.
3
"Scat singing," which Louis Armstrong introduced into jazz, is
A)vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables.
B)singing with a gravel-throated sound.
C)singing above the normal vocal range, or falsetto.
D)not being able to sing on pitch.
4
The musical life of New Orleans at the beginning of the twentieth century included
A)opera and chamber music.
B)sacred music.
C)marching and dance bands.
D)All answers are correct.
5
Louis Armstrong learned to play the cornet
A)at a private conservatory in New Orleans.
B)in a reformatory.
C)in the bars in New Orleans' French Quarter.
D)from a private teacher in his neighborhood.
Music: An Appreciation, Brief
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