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1

The two leading architects of bebop were
A)Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn
B)Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
C)Lester Young and Count Basie
D)Stan Kenton and Woody Herman
2

A series of higher tones, or upper partials, that, when the fundamental is sounded, make up a complex musical tone is
A)a chord
B)the overtone series
C)a fugue
D)an interval
3

Bebop drummers
A)played in a flat four to keep the beat obvious
B)used the bass and snare drums mainly for accents
C)reverted to the two beat style of Chicago style dixieland
4

Bebop was filled with
A)tonal clashes
B)unusual harmonies
C)fast tempos with complex rhythms
D)all of the above
5

The advent of bebop meant the end of the blues in jazz.
A)true
B)false
6

Bebop musicians built much of the repertoire by creating new, complex melodies based upon the framework and chord changes of standard tunes (i.e., “Donna Lee” based on “Indiana”).
A)true
B)false
7

Like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker had a long and active career spanning much of the “golden age” of jazz.
A)true
B)false
8

Which trombonist proved that it was possible to play in the bebop style on a trombone?
A)Mel Powell
B)Tommy Dorsey
C)J. J. Johnson
D)Fats Navarro
9

Bebop replaced swing as America’s most popular dance music.
A)true
B)false
10

Latin rhythms cycled back into jazz in the big bands of
A)Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey
B)Duke Ellington and Count Basie
C)Dizzie Gillespie and Stan Kenton
D)Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk
11

The bebop style was both an evolutionary and a revolutionary shift in the direction of jazz.
A)true
B)false
12

Which guitarist pioneered both the use of the amplifier and the use of single note melodic lines rather than block chords?
A)Eddie Lang
B)Charlie Christian
C)Johnny St. Cyr
D)George Van Epys
13

Bebop musicians/arrangers continue to use the complex musical format of the Swing Era’s written arrangements.
A)true
B)false
14

Oscar Pettiford, Ray Brown and Charlie Mingus were among jazz and bebop’s premiere
A)bassists
B)drummers
C)trumpeters
D)pianists
15

The beauty of the bebop rhythm section was that individual members were freed from duplicating one another’s roles.
A)true
B)false





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