REVIEW SHEET FOR TEST 1 JAZZ: HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT

Test 1 will cover all lectures and listening assignments including the Introduction, Blues, Ragtime, American
Popular Song, Early Jazz in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and Kansas City/Missouri. Be sure you have
detailed notes from all lectures and audio tracks to study from. This test will be divided into 4 sections in a total of
37 questions. Listening examples are from the class audio list.

Section 1: Listening 10 examples worth 3 points each. 10 examples will be played from this list of 18.
Know the ARTIST, GENE, and DATE for each listening example as listed below.

2. Son House, Country Blues: Delta Blues (style established 1880-1890s)

3. Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Country Blues: Piedmont Blues (style established 1915-1920s)
4. Blind Lemmon Jefferson, Country Blues: Texas Blues (1927)
5. Bessie Smith, Urban Blues: Classic Blues (1928)
6. Champion Jack Dupree, Urban Blues: Barrelhouse Piano (1944)
7. Muddy Waters, Urban Blues: Electric Blues (style established in late-1940s)
8. Bert Williams, Ragtime: Ragtime Song (1906)
9. Scott Joplin, Ragtime: Classic Ragtime (1907)
10. George Cobb, Ragtime: Novelty Ragtime (1918)
11. Art Tatum, Stride (1933)
13. Irving Berlin, American Popular Song (1927)
14. George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin, American Popular Song (1930)
15. Cole Porter, American Popular Song (1932)
16. The Original Dixieland Jass Band, Dixieland (1917)
17. Jelly Roll Mortons Red Hot Peppers, New Orleans Jazz (1926)
18. Louis Armstrong, Chicago Jazz (1928)
19. Bennie Motens Kansas City Orchestra, Kansas City Jazz (1929)
20. Duke Ellington, New York Jazz (1927)

Section 2: Matching 10 questions worth 2 points each.

Section 3: Multiple Choice 15 questions worth 2 points each.
Section 4: W ritten Answer/Blues Map 2 questions worth 10 points each.

Be able to label the 6 Blues styles in their respective regions on a blank USA map.

What musical elements from Blues and Ragtime became part of early jazz explain?

Artists: What instruments did these artists play? Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum, Bessie Smith, Scott Joplin, Bix
Beiderbecke, Sidney Bechet, Bert Williams.

What styles of music were these artists associated with? Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, Louis Armstrong, Duke
Ellington, Bert Williams, Bessie Smith, Art Tatum, Bennie Moten.

What artists were associated with: American Popular Song, Delta Blues, Piedmont Blues, Texas Blues, Ragtime
Song, Stride, Classic Ragtime, Novelty Ragtime, Dixieland, New Orleans Jazz, Chicago Jazz, New York Jazz,
Kansas City Jazz.

Musical characteristics of Country Blues & urban Blues styles? Where did Jazz begin? Where did Blues begin?

Musical Characteristics of Ragtime Song, Classic Ragtime, Novelty Ragtime, and Stride?

Musical characteristics of Dixieland, Chicago Jazz, New York Jazz, Kansas City Jazz?

How many bars in a Blues Form? How many bars in a standard Jazz AABA form? What is Tin Pan Alley?