The blues is a genre of folk song, largely improvised, that originally grew out of the cultural milieu of American blacks. Like ragtime, it was a predecessor of jazz whose styles and forms were quickly taken over by jazz musicians. Unlike ragtime, however, blues continued to develop parallel to jazz, and the two idioms became so closely intertwined as to be inseparable. The history of blues prior to the earliest recordings, made about 1920, is largely conjectural, since it grew from an improvised folk music for which there is virtually no documentation.
–from Simms, The Art of Music, 1993.
The author states which of the following?
A. The blues had no connection to other musical forms and stood on its own merit.
B. Jazz was descended from folk songs.
C. Blues and jazz are closely related musical forms.
D. Ragtime was a predecessor of the blues.
2. What can be said of the beginning (birth) of the blues?
A. Invented in 1920.
B. Not written and did not provide any documentation.
C. Written and is kept in library archives.
D. Written but was lost in the beginning of the century.
3. Blues and ragtime were predecessors of jazz.
A. False.
B. True.
4. The word “blues” was highlighted because the author provided a definition of it.
A. True.
B. False.
5. The author states that the blues were improvised which means what?
A. The music was unrehearsed and spontaneous.
B. The music was accepted by everyone.
C. Musical compositions were followed as written.
D. The blues were played by jazz musicians.
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