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Which of the following elements is not characteristic of traditional African music? |
| | A) | Call and response. |
| | B) | Harmony in the form of chordal accompaniment. |
| | C) | Polyrhythms. |
| | D) | A variety of scales. |
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What note of the scale is rarely if ever lowered when singing blues? |
| | A) | The third. |
| | B) | The seventh. |
| | C) | The fifth. |
| | D) | The second. |
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The most important jazz soloist in the Chicago style was |
| | A) | Louis Armstrong, trumpet. |
| | B) | Duke Ellington, piano. |
| | C) | King Oliver, cornet. |
| | D) | Edward Kennedy Ellington, piano. |
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Which idiom combines regular, sectional formal structure, an emphasis on works for piano, and syncopated rhythms influenced by African music? |
| | A) | Dixieland jazz. |
| | B) | Blues. |
| | C) | Ragtime. |
| | D) | Field hollers. |
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Which of the following was not an African American band leader of the Swing era? |
| | A) | Fletcher Henderson. |
| | B) | Artie Shaw. |
| | C) | Count Basie. |
| | D) | Cab Calloway. |
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The most outstanding feature of New Orleans jazz is |
| | A) | Improvisation. |
| | B) | The contrast between the front line instruments and the rhythm section. |
| | C) | The use of banjos as jazz instruments. |
| | D) | Collective improvisation. |
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What part of Africa is most likely to hold the origins of jazz and is the homeland of most Africans who were brought to the Americas as slaves? |
| | A) | Western Africa. |
| | B) | Northern Africa. |
| | C) | Southern Africa. |
| | D) | Eastern Africa. |
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Which of the following was a promenient blues singer? |
| | A) | Louis Armstrong. |
| | B) | Scott Joplin. |
| | C) | Bessie Smith. |
| | D) | Cab Calloway. |
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The blues as an idiom was most influenced by which of the following? |
| | A) | Field hollers and work songs. |
| | B) | Ragtime. |
| | C) | Dixieland. |
| | D) | Scat. |
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The Swing era is associated with what time period, city, and ensemble? |
| | A) | 1935-1950, New York, Big Band. |
| | B) | 1920-1935, Chicago, Jazz Combo. |
| | C) | 1895-1920, New Orleans, Dixieland. |
| | D) | 1935-1950, Chicago, Big Band. |
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