Author Question: Why were many swing-era improvisations repeated verbatim each night? a. audiences expected to ... (Read 109 times)

rlane42 · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Why were many swing-era improvisations repeated verbatim each night?

a. audiences expected to hear something new with each performance
b. audiences expected to hear live performances similar to those they had heard on recordings or on the radio
c. jazz musicians at the time were incapable of coming up with new ideas
d. bandleaders demanded it of the performers

Question 2

Which genre of composition appears to have been particularly favored by the wind bands of northern Italy, especially in Venice? Typically a freely composed work, it imitated the lively rhythms and lightly imitative style of the Parisian chanson.

a. ricercar
b. fantasia
c. prelude
d. canzona