Ch 24 Reading Quiz

(Q003) The first symphonic work composed by an American woman was the Gaelic Symphony by

Amy Beach

(Q015) Which songwriter and record producer is known for creating the Motown style?

Berry Gordy Jr.

(Q020) Who was the soloist at the premiere of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue?

George Gershwin

(Q022) Who were the two principal composers of early American musical comedy?

George Gershwin and Jerome Kern

(Q002) In the nineteenth century, concert music in America was mainly

German

(Q016) Who was the leading composer in the ragtime style?

Scott Joplin

(Q023) What is the underlying source material of the musical West Side Story?

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

(Q004) Which nineteenth-century composer wrote popular songs such as "Beautiful Dreamer," "Oh, Susanna!," and "Swanee River"?

Stephen Collins Foster

(Q019) George Gershwin and his brother, Ira, worked in a district of Manhattan known as

Tin Pan Alley

(Q021) "Conga Brava" by Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol draws upon

a dance of Afro-Cuban origin

(Q024) What Baroque organizing principle did Leonard Bernstein use in "Cool" from West Side Story?

a fugue

(Q012) In Bitches Brew, Miles Davis blended jazz with rock in a new style that came to be called

fusion jazz

(Q017) What is one element of jazz that was limited in the emergence of big bands?

improvisation

(Q010) One style feature of big-band jazz was

orchestration based on the contrast between brass and "reed" groups, with soloists cutting in and out of the full band

(Q006) What is the name for the style of piano playing developed by black musicians that involves the left hand playing strictly on the beat while the right hand syncopates the rhythm?

ragtime

(Q013) Which of the following was not a feature of operetta?

recitative

(Q014) What is the name of the earliest rock'n'roll style, which blended white country music with black rhythm and blues?

rockabilly

(Q011) What is common in the bebop style?

small combos and an emphasis on improvisation

(Q018) One of George Gershwin's early jobs was as a

song "plugger."

(Q005) A religious folk song that develops outside an established church is known as a

spiritual

(Q025) Which musical group's arrival in New York marks the beginning of the so-called "British Invasion?"

the Beatles

(Q001) Music that develops naturally outside of the concert tradition can be called

vernacular music.

(Q009) The first important center of jazz was

New Orleans

(Q008) A melody that consists of three four-measure phrases with a stanza in a a b form is typical of

blues

(Q007) Jazz performers elaborate around a song, adding ornaments and newly contrived interludes called

breaks