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MUS 122 Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025 walking bass line - ANSWERSsimply walks through the appropriate scale of each chord, one note per beat, hitting every beat of each measure. Comping - ANSWERSthe action of playing a musical accompaniment, especially in jazz or blues. Improvisat...

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walking bass line - ANSWERSsimply walks through the appropriate scale of each chord, one note per
beat, hitting every beat of each measure.



Comping - ANSWERSthe action of playing a musical accompaniment, especially in jazz or blues.



Improvisation - ANSWERSto invent without preparation



basic rhythm section - ANSWERSbass, piano, drums



country/old blues - ANSWERSwanderers singing for their supper

solo singing

accompanied with guitars

subdivide with call and response



"Does Jazz Put Sin in Syncopation" - ANSWERSjazz was outrageous

doesn't automatically think it's evil

NDMA made the rule: no vulgar cheap jazz music

many clubs had no policies about jazz

"all music that has syncopation was jazz" was a false statement

goes off of rhythm and harmonies



Blues - ANSWERSwork/plantation songs, church songs

late 1800's-early 1900's

singing on a street corner, bar, traveling from town to town

12 bars with 3 phrases

,"I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" by Robert Johnson - ANSWERSIt is a solo performance in the Delta blues-
style with Johnson's vocal accompanied by his acoustic guitar.

blues notes sliding around

AAB format



City/Classic Blues - ANSWERSa band or a least two people performing

featuring piano

women more involved singing this type of blues

becomes 4/4 time standard music

1920's blues craze

Bessie Smith brought it to world wide fame



Bessie Smith - ANSWERSAfrican American blues singer who played and important role in the Harlem
Reniassance.



humbly dancing and singing on street corners before fame

"Down Harded Blues"

sang in tune; "good pitch"

sang expressively

great comedian, entertainer, etc.

many of her songs had sexual connotations

born in Tennessee in 1894

died in a horrible car crash in the 1930's

"Back Water Blues"



"Back Water Blues" by Bessie Smith - ANSWERSThe song has long been associated with the Great
Mississippi Flood of 1927. However, that flood was at its worst some two months after the song was
written. Study of Smith's touring itinerary, of testimony of fellow entertainers who toured with her, and
of contemporary reports indicates that the song was written in response to the flood that struck

, Nashville, Tennessee on Christmas Day 1926. The Cumberland River, which flows through the city, rose
56 feet (17 m) above its normal level, still a record as of 2014.

The lyrics are in the often-used AAB blues format. The words vary from one performer to another; this
opening verse is representative:

When it rains five days, and the skies turn dark as night

There's trouble taking place in the lowland that night.

The song is quoted in the poem, "Ma Rainey" by Sterling A. Brown.



James Reese Europe "A Negro Explains Jazz" - ANSWERSthought music was based on ethnicity

also liked Russian music

believed jazz was truly original American music

article came out in 1919 a month before he died

drummer cut his neck open and he bled to death



"Memphis Blues" by the James Reese Europe Orchestra - ANSWERSsliding trombones

trumpet players growling while they played

popular for their unbelievable sounds

two bar breaks "improvised"

ragtime orchestra but sounding more like jazz

AABA format



instrumentation - ANSWERSthe particular instruments used in a piece of music; the manner in which a
piece is arranged for instruments.



rhythm section in a jazz band - ANSWERSbass, piano, drums, guitar



meter/rhythm in jazz - ANSWERS4/4, 2/4, 7/16 meter



rhythm - ANSWERSa further subdivision of meter

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