MUSI-1301.701 Jazz, Pop, & RockQuizzesListening Quiz 2(1) What is the title of this piece? My Funny Valentine Confirmation Shaw Nuff The Girl from Ipanema I Got Rhythm (2) Who is performin

• MUSI-1301.701 Jazz, Pop, & Rock
• Quizzes
• Listening Quiz 2

(1)

What is the title of this piece? 

 My Funny Valentine

 Confirmation

 Shaw Nuff 

The Girl from Ipanema

 I Got Rhythm

(2)

Who is performing this piece?

Herbie Hancock

 Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker

Clifford Brown and Max Roach

Theolnius Monk

Charles Mingus

(3)

What tune do the chords come from?

Struttin' With Some Barbeque 

Sing, Sing, Sing

 I Got Rhythm

 Begin the Beguine

 Take the A Train

(4)

The tempo of this piece makes it 

 too fast for dancing.

 perfect for dancing. 

too slow for dancing.

(5)

This piece is a wonderful example of the ______ style. 

 Cool

 Fusion

 Free 

Mainstream jazz

 Bop

(6)

All of the following contrasts to Swing are true for Bop EXCEPT: 

 Emphasis on individuals

 Use of the saxophone

 Emphasis on improvisation

 Smaller ensemble

 Non-danceable tempos

(7)

What is the title of this piece? 

 Shaw Nuff 

Watermelon Man

 Chameleon 

Salt Peanuts

 Confirmation

(8)

Who is performing this piece? 

 Herbie Hancock 

Dizzy Gillespie

 Louis Armstrong 

Lee Konitz 

Charlie Parker

(9)

What is a straight take? 

 All musicians are straight 

The piece is performed for straight-laced people 

Not recorded in sections and spliced together

 The lead player is playing on a straight horn 

The recording is for a particular purpose

(10)

The form of this piece is 

ABAA

 AABA 

ABCA 

ABA 

ABACA

(11)

The saxophonist

  is still alive

 was a college graduate

 was playing a tenor saxophone

 was Dizzy Gillespie

 made up his solos on the spot

(12)

To honor this performer, some clubs changed their names. Below is a list of those clubs EXCEPT:

Kansas City's Birdcage

 New York's Birdland

 Chicago's Birdhouse

(13

What is the title of this piece? 

 Godchild 

Three to Get Ready

 Take Five 

Vendome 

Django

(14)

Who is performing this piece?

 The Modern Jazz Quartet 

Django Reinhardt

 Dave Brubeck

 Dizzy Gillespie

 Miles Davis

(15)

How many beats are in each measure?

3

 7

 6

 5

 4

(16)

The head of this group played what instrument? 

 Clarinet

 Drums

 Alto Saxophone

 Bass

 Piano

(17)

The composer of the song is 

Miles Davis

 Dizzy Gillespie

 Dave Brubeck

 Eugene Wright

 Paul Desmond

(18)

This piece is

 a tribute to Louis Armstrong. 

for dancing. 

the first ever million-selling jazz tune.

 features a mellophone. 

an example of the Bop style.

(19)

What is the title of this piece?

 Godchild 

A Night in Tunisia

 April in Paris

 Take 5

 Koko

(20)

Who is performing this piece? 

Dizzy Gillespie 

Herbie Hancock 

Lee Konitz 

Miles Davis

 Charlie Parker

(21)

What interesting instrument is present in this piece?

 Flugelhorn 

French Horn 

Bassoon 

Vibraphone 

Tuba

(22)

This trumpet performer's sound is considered

 strained. 

straight tone. 

vibrato-based. 

buzzed. muddy.

(23)

This performer apprenticed under

 Louis Armstrong 

Dizzy Gillespie

 Max Roach

 Miles Davis

 Charlie Parker

(24)

This perfomer attended

 the Grammy's in 1995

 a "whites only" church

 college at Julliard

 the funeral of Teddy Roosevelt

 gradeschool with Louis Armstrong

(25)

What is the title of this piece?

 Stormy Weather

 Birdland 

Watermelon Man 

Weather Report

 Chameleon

(26)

Who is performing this piece? 

 Blood Sweat and Tears 

James Brown

 Weather Report 

Tower of Power

 Chicago

(27)

How many themes are present? 

 7

 9

 6

 5

 8

(28)

Which theme is the hook?

 8 

5 

6

 7 

4

(29)

This piece is a great example of

 Cool

 Fusion 

Mainstream 

Free

 Bop

(30)

Jazz rock falls into two categories. This piece is from a more jazz influenced group while Tower of Power is 

guitar influenced.

 funk and soul influenced.

 influenced by classical music. 

jazz influenced, too. 

Spanish influenced.