Quiz 3 (St Louis Blues, Cross Road Blues)

  1. What is the name of the formal structure shared by "St. Louis Blues" and "Cross Road Blues"?
    12-bar blues
  2. Which musical style best describes “Cross Road Blues”?
    Country Blues
  3. Who composed the music for “St. Louis Blues”?
    W.C. Handy
  4. Robert Johnson used which of following techniques in “Cross Road Blues”?
    slide guitar
  5. Which musical style best describes “St. Louis Blues”?
    Classic Blues
  6. Which term best describes the interaction between Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong in “St. Louis Blues”?
    call and response
  7. Which term describes a pitch that falls between two pitches in the major/minor scale system, like those used by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong in "St. Louis Blues"?
    blue note
  8. Which term did record companies use to refer to recordings by African American musicians that were marketed towards African American listeners in the 1920s?
    race records
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Quiz 3 (St Louis Blues, Cross Road Blues)
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