AFRO 132 FINAL UIUC EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWERS
1945 - ANSWER end of ww2
jazz - ANSWER started out as lower class popular music, now mainstream pop music
bebop - ANSWER afro-cuban influence
Charlie Parker- "Koko"
can't dance or tap foot easily to music- syncopation
active drumming
Dizzy Gillespie (leader) and Chano Pozo- "Manteca"
modern jazz - ANSWER basic repeating structure, with variation on top
James Brown, The Blues
take existing song, add own contribution
Ella Fitzgerald, "How High the Moon"
Charlie Parker- melody, solos, melody
consonance - ANSWER two notes together sound good
, dissonance - ANSWER two notes together sound bad
bebop vs. swing - ANSWER increased virtuosity- harder to play
louder, higher, faster, more difficult chords, more solos
more dissonance
jazz musicians - ANSWER 32-measure, aaba form
improvise solos while piano, bass, drums repeat 32-bar chord structure
play melody, either old or new one
Scott Deveaux - ANSWER jass musician
"Bebop is the point at which our contemporary ideas of jazz come into focus."
ideas of jazz - ANSWER well dressed, beard, go-tee, hip, cool, artistic
elevator/airport music
upbeat, until smooth jazz (1980s)
bebop - ANSWER changes jazz from popular to art music
double V - ANSWER victory abroad, victory at home
COMPLETE ANSWERS
1945 - ANSWER end of ww2
jazz - ANSWER started out as lower class popular music, now mainstream pop music
bebop - ANSWER afro-cuban influence
Charlie Parker- "Koko"
can't dance or tap foot easily to music- syncopation
active drumming
Dizzy Gillespie (leader) and Chano Pozo- "Manteca"
modern jazz - ANSWER basic repeating structure, with variation on top
James Brown, The Blues
take existing song, add own contribution
Ella Fitzgerald, "How High the Moon"
Charlie Parker- melody, solos, melody
consonance - ANSWER two notes together sound good
, dissonance - ANSWER two notes together sound bad
bebop vs. swing - ANSWER increased virtuosity- harder to play
louder, higher, faster, more difficult chords, more solos
more dissonance
jazz musicians - ANSWER 32-measure, aaba form
improvise solos while piano, bass, drums repeat 32-bar chord structure
play melody, either old or new one
Scott Deveaux - ANSWER jass musician
"Bebop is the point at which our contemporary ideas of jazz come into focus."
ideas of jazz - ANSWER well dressed, beard, go-tee, hip, cool, artistic
elevator/airport music
upbeat, until smooth jazz (1980s)
bebop - ANSWER changes jazz from popular to art music
double V - ANSWER victory abroad, victory at home
