MUNM 387 UNL EXAM 2 QUESTIONS
WELL ANSWERED PASSED
Arrangement - correct answer ✔✔notated rendition of a song or composition
Arranger - correct answer ✔✔Jelly Roll Morton was the first jazz arranger, a person who plans
and notates the arrangement
Battles of the Bands - correct answer ✔✔where the winner was determined by the vote of the
dancers
Block Chord Writing - correct answer ✔✔Harmonizing melodies into two or three parts for each
section to make them thicker and fuller
Chart - correct answer ✔✔arranger must write music down in the form of a chart that gives
each player a specific role to play in the piece
Concerto - correct answer ✔✔musical composition for an ensemble (orchestra) that features
one solo instrument
Ensemble Swing - correct answer ✔✔writing parts for the band that were made to sound like
improvisations, incorporating freer rhythms and jazz inflections, just as a soloist would
Harlem Renaissance - correct answer ✔✔focused on the arts, theatre, literature, art, poetry,
and music
,Head Arrangements - correct answer ✔✔melodies constructed on the spot from riffs that can
be embellished and other answering riffs in call and response fashion
Jam Session - correct answer ✔✔informal improvisational playing sessions where musicians
play for fun, no pay
Jitney Dance - correct answer ✔✔pop. in the territories, 25 cent ticket would get a young man a
dance with a girl
Lindy Hop - correct answer ✔✔(1927) tribute to Charles Lindbergh's famous solo "hop" across
the Atlantic
exciting and athletic dance in which dancers threw their partners in the air and caught them
Radio - correct answer ✔✔Changed the entertainment business (late 20s, early 30s)
Helped feed an ever-expanding music business, increasingly controlled who would make it and
what they would play
Rhapsody in Blue - correct answer ✔✔a symphonic piece (concerto) written by George
Gershwin
Sectionalization - correct answer ✔✔Brass vs. Woodwinds in call and response
Shouters - correct answer ✔✔Kansas City blues singers whose robust and powerful delivery,
sometimes assisted by the use of megaphones, helped project their voices over the volume of
the band
Smearing - correct answer ✔✔sliding from one note to another often used by vocalists or wings
(glissando)
, Solos - correct answer ✔✔incorporating improvised solos throughout as an essential element of
the arrangement
Song Plugger - correct answer ✔✔someone who performed a song, usually at a music store, to
encourage people to buy the sheet music
some would sell songs to Vaudeville or Broadway
Standard Song Form - correct answer ✔✔Tin Pan Alley composers and lyricists used as structure
Sweet Bands - correct answer ✔✔mild, syncopated dance music- downtown nightclubs (white
commercial)
Taxi-dance halls - correct answer ✔✔Dance halls where 'taxi-dancers' charged their male dance
partners a small fee for one dance
Territory Bands - correct answer ✔✔A big band that was popular in a local area or region but
never achieved national prominence
-contained players whose talent was not quite national ready, however, some players would be
and some bands had big breaks becoming national bands
Tin Pan Alley - correct answer ✔✔entire publishing industry in NY
org. used to describe sound of piano melodies- dishpans
two-beat rhythm - correct answer ✔✔the rhythmic style of ragtime and much early jazz in
which the bass plays on beats one and three, producing and boom-chuck feel
Wordless Vocal - correct answer ✔✔A written vocal line sung without words, using instead
simple monosyllabic "oohs" or "aahs"
WELL ANSWERED PASSED
Arrangement - correct answer ✔✔notated rendition of a song or composition
Arranger - correct answer ✔✔Jelly Roll Morton was the first jazz arranger, a person who plans
and notates the arrangement
Battles of the Bands - correct answer ✔✔where the winner was determined by the vote of the
dancers
Block Chord Writing - correct answer ✔✔Harmonizing melodies into two or three parts for each
section to make them thicker and fuller
Chart - correct answer ✔✔arranger must write music down in the form of a chart that gives
each player a specific role to play in the piece
Concerto - correct answer ✔✔musical composition for an ensemble (orchestra) that features
one solo instrument
Ensemble Swing - correct answer ✔✔writing parts for the band that were made to sound like
improvisations, incorporating freer rhythms and jazz inflections, just as a soloist would
Harlem Renaissance - correct answer ✔✔focused on the arts, theatre, literature, art, poetry,
and music
,Head Arrangements - correct answer ✔✔melodies constructed on the spot from riffs that can
be embellished and other answering riffs in call and response fashion
Jam Session - correct answer ✔✔informal improvisational playing sessions where musicians
play for fun, no pay
Jitney Dance - correct answer ✔✔pop. in the territories, 25 cent ticket would get a young man a
dance with a girl
Lindy Hop - correct answer ✔✔(1927) tribute to Charles Lindbergh's famous solo "hop" across
the Atlantic
exciting and athletic dance in which dancers threw their partners in the air and caught them
Radio - correct answer ✔✔Changed the entertainment business (late 20s, early 30s)
Helped feed an ever-expanding music business, increasingly controlled who would make it and
what they would play
Rhapsody in Blue - correct answer ✔✔a symphonic piece (concerto) written by George
Gershwin
Sectionalization - correct answer ✔✔Brass vs. Woodwinds in call and response
Shouters - correct answer ✔✔Kansas City blues singers whose robust and powerful delivery,
sometimes assisted by the use of megaphones, helped project their voices over the volume of
the band
Smearing - correct answer ✔✔sliding from one note to another often used by vocalists or wings
(glissando)
, Solos - correct answer ✔✔incorporating improvised solos throughout as an essential element of
the arrangement
Song Plugger - correct answer ✔✔someone who performed a song, usually at a music store, to
encourage people to buy the sheet music
some would sell songs to Vaudeville or Broadway
Standard Song Form - correct answer ✔✔Tin Pan Alley composers and lyricists used as structure
Sweet Bands - correct answer ✔✔mild, syncopated dance music- downtown nightclubs (white
commercial)
Taxi-dance halls - correct answer ✔✔Dance halls where 'taxi-dancers' charged their male dance
partners a small fee for one dance
Territory Bands - correct answer ✔✔A big band that was popular in a local area or region but
never achieved national prominence
-contained players whose talent was not quite national ready, however, some players would be
and some bands had big breaks becoming national bands
Tin Pan Alley - correct answer ✔✔entire publishing industry in NY
org. used to describe sound of piano melodies- dishpans
two-beat rhythm - correct answer ✔✔the rhythmic style of ragtime and much early jazz in
which the bass plays on beats one and three, producing and boom-chuck feel
Wordless Vocal - correct answer ✔✔A written vocal line sung without words, using instead
simple monosyllabic "oohs" or "aahs"
