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66-70)Jazz has been called “the art of expression set to music”, and “America’s great contribution to music”. It hasfunctioned as popular art and enjoyed periods of fairly widespread public response, in the “jazz age” of the 1920s,in the “swing era” of the late 1930s and in the peak popularity of modern jazz in the late 1950s. The standardlegend about Jazz is that it originated around the end of the 19th century in New Orleans and moved up theMississippi River to Memphis, St. Louis, and finally to Chicago. It welded together the elements of Ragtime,marching band music, and the Blues. However, the influences of what led to those early sounds goes back to tribalAfrican drum beats and European musical structures. Buddy Bolden, a New Orleans barber and cornet player, isgenerally considered to have been the first real Jazz musician, around 1891.What made Jazz significantly different from the other earlier forms of music was the use of improvisation.Jazz displayed a break from traditional music where a composer wrote an entire piece of music on paper, leavingthe musicians to break their backs playing exactly what was written on the score. In a Jazz piece, however, thesong is simply a starting point, or sort of skeletal guide for the Jazz musicians to improvise around. Actually, manyof the early Jazz musicians were bad sight readers and some couldn’t even read music at all. Generally speaking,these early musicians couldn’t make very much money and were stuck working menial jobs to make a living. Thesecond wave of New Orleans Jazz musicians included such memorable players as Joe Oliver, Kid Ory, and JellyRoll Morton. These men formed small bands and took the music of earlier musicians, improved its complexity,and gained greater success. This music is known as “hot Jazz” due to the enormously fast speeds and rhythmicdrive.A young cornet player by the name of Louis Armstrong was discovered by Joe Oliver in New Orleans. Hesoon grew up to become one of the greatest and most successful musicians of all time, and later one of the biggeststars in the world. The impact of Armstrong and other talented early Jazz musicians changed the way we look atmusic.
66. The Passage answers which of the following questions?
(A) Which early Jazz musicians most influenced the development of Blues music?
(B) Why did Ragtime, marching band music, and the Blues lose popularity after about 1900?
(C) What were the origins of Jazz and how did it differ from other forms of music?
(D) Who has been the greatest cornet player to music in the twentieth century?

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答案：C
難度：簡單0.746667
統計：A(4),B(3),C(56),D(9),E(0)

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