Question

Match the musical style with its characteristic.

Bebop
Introduced group
improvisation
Cool jazz
Big Band music
New Orleans jazz
Small groups using
complex harmonies
Swing
Relaxed style of jazz
popular around the late
40s and 50s


Somebody help

Answer 1

Bebop is known for complex harmonies by small groups, cool jazz is characterized by a relaxed style, big band music or swing features a large ensemble creating full sounds for dancing, and New Orleans jazz is famous for introducing group improvisation.

Step-by-step explanation:

To match each musical style with its characteristics, we look at the history and evolution of jazz during the Jazz Age, particularly in the 1920s and later.

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• Bebop - Small groups using complex harmonies
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• Cool jazz - Relaxed style of jazz popular around the late 40s and 50s
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• Big Band music - Also known as Swing, characterized by a larger group, often including brass, woodwinds, and a rhythm section, creating a full, rich sound suitable for dancing
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• New Orleans jazz - Introduced group improvisation, a style where a lead instrument plays the melody, while other instruments improvise around it

Each style has its own origins and famous practitioners. For instance, bebop was significantly shaped by musicians like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Cool jazz artists like Miles Davis exemplified the smoother, more relaxed style. New Orleans jazz, with its group improvisation, harkens back to the early days of jazz with its roots in blues and ragtime, influenced by legends such as Louis Armstrong.

Answer 2

Bebop ---- small groups using complex harmonies

Cool jazz ---- relaxed style of jazz popular around the late 40s and 50s

New Orleans jazz ----- introduced group improvisation

Swing ----- big band music

Bebop was born in the mid-1940s and is characterized by small groups that play complex musical structures. Its musicians experiment with faster tempos and complex chord progressions. One reason for its freedom to experiment is that is not a style focused on dancing.

Cool jazz was born in the late 1940s and 1950s. It is a lighter and more romantic style of jazz. It was born from the migration of musicians from California to New York. In the 1950s Miles Davis took an interest in it and produced his album Kind of Blue (1959).

New Orleans jazz is the starting point of the history of jazz. It was born with this name between 1890 and 1910 in black communities from music played by African-Americans.

The swing was a popular style in the 1930s and 1940s for dancing. It was played by big bands (ten or more musicians). It frequently had musicians that would solo on the melody over the arrangement.