Music Exam 2
How much did Elvis Presley pay to record his first song?
$3.98 +tax
In what year did the first American tape music concert take place?
1952
Beatlemania started in
1964
When was the magnetic tape recorder perfected?
In the late 1940s
For whom did Stravinsky compose his 1964 elegy?
John F. Kennedy
A bridge between the two countercultures of the folk revivalists and the Beats was
Bob Dylan
In popular music after 1960, perhaps no other single figure would be as profoundly influential as
Bob Dylan
What performer's career inspired a host of singer-songwriters during the 1970s?
Bob Dylan
____________ was the first great zydeco master.
Clifton Chenier
Dr. Dre's second important protégé was
Eminem
Who among the following was a member of Cream?
Eric Clapton
Which among the following is NOT a jazz-rock fusion group?
Fleetwood Mac
Who among the following artists is part of alt.country?
Gillian welch
Who among the following did NOT win a Pulitzer Prize?
Henry Cowell
What act dictated anything created after 1923 that was still copyright protected in 1988 would remain so until at least 2019?
Sonny bono act
What tune rebranded (and popularized) disco with a mainstream, heterosexual audience?
Stayin' Alive
One Pulitzer-prize-winning composer who has successfully bridged the gap between academia and popular styles is ___________, long on the faculty at the University of Michigan.
William bolcom
____________ is perhaps the best-known classical instrumentalist in the world today.
Yo-Yo ma
Which of the following best defines the 1960s "rock virtuoso"?
a new generation of rock musicians who displayed the sort of ferocious instrumental virtuosity previously associated with classical music and jazz
The riot grrrl movement took its name from
a zine
Which artist received the first Grammy award for zydeco music?
queen ida
Stravinsky was particularly interested in
ragtime and jazz
In the years immediately after World War II, a widening gulf stood between the cerebral music of postwar academic composers and the earthy joys of
rock and roll
During the 1950s, ______ became basic to Davis's musical vocabulary.
silence or space
Since the 1990s a highly polished mainstream music, aimed at ________, has shared the media with an array of outsider music.
teens and preteens
Who among the following was NOT a significant jazz figure during the 1960s?
Lukas Foss
The short-lived 1940s phenomenon of the "soundies" most significantly anticipated
MTV
Who released the first African American concept album?
Marvin Gaye
No musician seized more eagerly on the constructive possibilities of twelve-tone technique than
Milton Babbitt
Though artistically negligible, record producer __________ novelty records, like Les Paul's, introduced the idea that a record could deliver a listening experience that could only be constructed bit by bit in the studio.
Mitch Miller's
Perhaps the chief characteristic of musical postmodernism is its questioning of dividing lines between
all of these options
Norteño music is made up of
banda, tejano, and nortec.
Turntablism" refers to
beat matching
What popular Broadway tune did John Coltrane update as a jazz cover?
My favorite things
Who recorded "**** Tha Police"?
N.W.A
Record companies did not see ________ in a benevolent light.
Napster
Today, Tin Pan Alley's model of collaborative songwriting is largely a thing of the past, except in
Nashville, TN
Balfa Brothers played the _________ in the 1960s.
Newport Folk Festival
Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer" reached a mass audience through the hit record made by
Peter, Paul, Mary
With the rise of digital information technology, the technical processes used in the creation of hip-hop raised legal questions about ________ and ownership.
copyright
Patsy Cline's "Crazy," with words and music by Willie Nelson, was a crossover hit on both _________ and __________ charts in 1961.
country; pop
Which of the following characteristics of alternative rock were derived from punk rock?
displays of virtuosity rejected in favor of a deliberately amateurish, do-it-yourself aesthetic
After the drive-by shootings of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. in the 1990s, gangsta rap as a genre was in decline.
false
The unpretentious manner of Merle Haggard was welcomed by upper-class listeners.
false
Which of the following is not a musical score by Stephen Sondheim?
gypsy
With what significant popular music artist did Laurie Anderson collaborate?
lou reed
_____________ marks the start of a larger historical trend toward the reuniting of popular and classical spheres that continues to the present day.
minimalism
Which of the following Broadway shows was written after 1990?
miss Saigon
The Ghost Dance religion swept through the tribes of
the Great Plains
The 1950 mainstream success of a pop version of the tune _________ seemed to indicate that country songwriters' emotional directness could jump barriers of social class and geography.
the Tennessee waltz
The Weavers were the successors to
the almanac singers
Which film does film composer Danny Elfman cite as a particularly strong childhood influence?
the day the earth stood still
Music that brought jazz techniques into the classical sphere or vice versa, through improvisation or written composition, was known as
third stream
Roots music originated in the contact between two or more ethnic groups.
true
Tejanos are Texans of Mexican descent.
true
The 1960s and early 1970s saw the demise of the golden-age film score.
true
The most influential musical émigré was the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
true
The rise of fascism in the postwar era compelled a number of European musicians to emigrate to the United States
true
Thelonious Monk, John Lewis, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis did not emphasize virtuoso technique.
true
Elvis Presley left Sun Records for which label?
RCA Victor
Which of the following are referenced by Bernstein's West Side Story?
Shakespear, race and gang culture
Jazz at Lincoln Center's director since its inception has been
wynton Marsalis
Groups such as Yes, Genesis, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer typified the _________ style.
progressive rock
Chick Corea worked with Miles Davis.
true
Compressed audio files such as MP3s suffer in quality compared with older formats such as CDs and LPs.
true
Disco originated in New York City's gay scene in the early 1970s.
true
Ever since hip-hop's inception in the 1970s, prerecorded music has been an important element in its sound.
true
Formal jazz instruction took hold in the United States during the 1990s.
true
With prosperity growing in the South, the demand for amusement grew with it.
true
Up to ____________ percussionists perform John Luther Adams's Inuksuit.
99
Marilyn Manson was a band that updated the 1970s stage persona of
alice cooper
From the 1970s, hip-hip has been closely tied to
dance
Amateur music making is a thing of popular music's past.
false
Which of the following is a work by Steve Reich?
music for 18 musicians
Who among the following artists was NOT signed to Death Row Records?
Biggie smalls
Which former period or style of rock did the punk rock scene recast?
Early rock and roll
__________ is a bass player included on the first Mosaic Project album.
Esperanza Spalding
A typical album-oriented rock (AOR) group would be
The Eagles
Which group are classified as hardcore punk?
the dead Kennedys
The grunge scene began in
seattle
The primary unit of sale in the popular music industry both before and after the war was the
single
From the start of the textbook's treatment of American music history, the authors have used the conceptual model of __________ spheres of musical activity.
three
Which two jazz figures pioneered free jazz?
Ornette Coleman & Cecil Taylor
Slack key guitar developed in
hawaii
Who recorded "The Message"?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Honor beats show respect for
dancers
Elvis Presley's first guitarist was
B.B. King
________ was the first phase of modern jazz in the postwar period.
Bebop
Groups such as R.E.M. and 10,000 Maniacs are classified as
alternative rock
In a powwow, an ensemble of singers, called a __________, provides the music while seated around a large double-headed bass drum.
drum
Chuck Berry's vocal style was both racially ambiguous and androgynous.
false
Disco de-emphasized the "four-on-the-floor" dance beat pattern.
false
Rage Against the Machine pioneered metal rap in the late 1980s.
false
Rock was eclipsed by the overwhelming popularity of jazz in the 1960s.
false
Schools were the only institutions to embrace jazz in the late twentieth century.
false
Steve Reich composed music for the rock guitarist Chuck Berry.
false
Steve Reich continued to explore his earlier directions in the 1970s and 1980s.
false
The cassette tape breathed new life into the record industry in the early 1980s.
false
The peyote religion is based on a western Jamaican religious practice dating back to pre-Columbian times.
false
Within the academy before 1980, writing music with popular appeal was often regarded as progressive.
false
Which of the following kinds of music making straddle two or more of spheres of musical activity?
jazz, film music, and musical theatre
Popular 1990s acts such as the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, and Britney Spears were considered
mainstream music
The Swing Era witnessed the popularity of the ___________, a fast dance of Cuban origin.
mambo
Film composer Danny Elfman originally fronted a rock group in the __________ style.
new wave
Which of the following groups are considered industrial rock?
nine inch nails
The music derived from the ___________ Plains Indian style features especially tense, nasal singing in the upper register.
northern
What made it possible for critics in the postwar era to be able to treat jazz performances with increasing seriousness?
phonograph records
To what movement were the punk artists reacting in England?
progressive rock
Which style is New Wave said to "dilute"?
punk rock
___________ combined the assaultive instrumental textures of heavy metal with rapped vocals.
rap metal
_______ was a strong encouragement toward pantribalism in the late nineteenth century.
relocation
Like soul jazz in relation to hard bop, soul music differed from R&B primarily in
the greater infusion of black gospel elements
The Ponca Powwow began in
the late 1870s
If one piece of technology were to be singled out as the most responsible for the signature sound of early twenty-first-century popular music, it would be
the mp3
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" straddles the carefree ethos of 1950s rock and roll and the more mature sensibility of 1960s rock.
true
At the turn of the millennium, the record industry was in turmoil.
true
Beginning the early 2000s, reality TV transformed the behind-the-scenes manufacturing of pop stars into a foreground story of competition and victory.
true
Between 1975 and 2015, the number of pop songs credited to a solo writer has fallen precipitously.
true
Bill Monroe established himself on the Grand Ole Opry.
true
By the mid-1980s, MTV took its place alongside radio as an effective way to launch a hit record.
true
Gangsta rap earned greater notoriety with Straight Outta Compton by N.W.A.
true
George Crumb created some of the most distinctive New Romantic music.
true
Heavy metal is perceived by its fans as the true mainstream of rock.
true
In 2006 New York's Metropolitan Opera launched a series of podcasts of live performances.
true
In the 1960s and early 1970s, some films went so far as to limit themselves to diegetic music alone.
true
In the postwar years, jazz was the only popular music then being taken seriously by critics.
true
James Brown admired Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra.
true
James Brown's electrifying stage act was a model for rising soul and funk performers such as the Jackson Five and George Clinton.
true
Jazz in the late twentieth century saw both a proliferation of styles and a shift in the music's cultural position.
true
John Cage was a student of Arnold Schoenberg.
true
John Cage's musical interests extended westward to Asia as well as eastward to Europe.
true
Julia Wolf's Steel Hammer takes its inspiration from the legend of John Henry.
true
Klezmer music was a secular music developed in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires as well as in Romania, and was first associated particularly with wedding celebrations.
true
Like contemporaneous rock musicians, country artists in the 1960s borrowed the advanced production techniques of mainstream popular music to create records that appealed to a broader, more diverse audience.
true
Louis Armstrong displaced the Beatles on the pop charts.
true
Miles Davis emerged in the latter 1940s with a lyrical approach that contradicted the image of modern jazz as virtuoso music.
true
Miles Davis was a pioneer in jazz-rock fusion.
true
Musicals before Leonard Bernstein's time were largely ignored by music critics, who saw the classical and popular spheres as separated by a firm barrier.
true
No social fact about music in the years after World War II is more noteworthy than the growing influence of teenagers in the marketplace.
true
Pete Seeger was a key figure in the urban folk revival.
true
Rather than a repudiation of modernism, postmodernism may be thought of as both a continuation and a questioning of modernist values.
true
Rural French-speaking black Louisianans, or Creoles, adapted Cajun music to their own culture by bringing in African and Caribbean influences, resulting in zydeco.
true
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band emulated many aspects of Pet Sounds.
true
Some of the most significant musical theater of the late twentieth century developed along a path independent of rock and soul.
true
Sondheim's Into the Woods reflects a psychological view that traditional fairy tales enable children to wrestle symbolically with fears of injury, abandonment, and death.
true
The East Coast counterpart to Death Row Records was Big Boy, founded by rapper Puff Daddy (later Diddy).
true
The Ghost Dance religious movement emerged in 1889 under the leadership of Wovoka, a Paiute shaman.
true
The phrase "rock and roll" was a sexual euphemism from African American slang.
true
Traditional folk songs and performance styles mixed with newly composed topical songs were known as protest songs.
true
Who of the following has composed an opera?
All of these composers have composed an opera.
Who of the following was a soul jazz artist?
Cannonball Adderley
Who among the following is not an anti-folk musician?
Carole King
Cajun music centered on fiddle-based dance music that resembles
Celtic dance music
"Believe," by the artist _________, became the first hit song to use Auto-Tune as a special effect.
Cher
Alan Freed operated in which city?
Cleveland
Who among the following is NOT a minimalist composer?
George Rochberg
In 2007 the Los Angeles Philharmonic took the remarkable step of appointing as its music director the twenty-six-year-old conductor of a Venezuelan youth orchestra named
Gustavo dudamel
No honky-tonk singer equaled _________ in popularity and lasting influence.
Hank Williams
One of the most widely performed composers active today is
Jennifer Hidden
What songwriting team authored Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog"?
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stroller
Dolly Parton's first solo hit covered the tune, "Muleskinner Blues" by
Jimmie Rodgers
An important city center for the psychedelic music scene was
San Fransisco
_____________ proclaimed Elliott Carter's Double Concerto for piano, harpsichord, and small orchestra a masterpiece.
Stravinsky
A Broadway show built around preexisting songs, often by a single songwriter or musical group, is known as
a jukebox musical
Which of the following songs references substance abuse?
all of these songs
Which score was composed by Danny Elfman?
all of these were composed by Danny elfman
A Tribe Called Quest is classified as
alternative hip-hop
As the 1970s began, the wave of psychedelia that had fascinated the youth counterculture of the late 1960s was still going strong.
false
At the end of the twentieth century, buyers had divided their music dollars among various formats, such as singles, LPs, and cassettes.
false
Before World War II, the Broadway stage had been the least important venue for the launching of popular songs, outpaced by movies and radio.
false
Ben Johnston was a prominent figure in 1970s musical theater.
false
Between 1880 and 1920, the two largest immigrant groups to the United States were Irish and Eastern European Jews.
false
Bootsy Collins was a trumpet player in the jazz-rock fusion style.
false
By the 1950s Memphis was the undisputed capital of the country music industry.
false
By the 1970s, rock had accommodated itself to the mainstream popular music industry so fully that its listeners began to find it an antiestablishment institution of endless depth.
false
By the 1990s, the cyclic pattern of rock history---rebellion, commodification, and reformation---showed signs of decelerating.
false
By the late 1940s rock and roll enjoyed a prominent place in the youth culture of the United Kingdom as well as the United States.
false
Charlie Parker's contemporaries did not recognize his superior talent and musicianship in his own lifetime.
false
Harry Partch pioneered the technique of metric modulation.
false
In 1950 "The Tennessee Waltz," by the country songwriter and performer Pee Wee King, was turned into a hit record by Les Paul.
false
In the decades after World War II, Hollywood film scores came increasingly to reject the aesthetic stance established by Aaron Copland.
false
Jazz culture from its earliest days has been at the vanguard of racial cooperation and mutual respect.
false
John Harbison composed an opera based upon Herman Melville's classic American novel Moby Dick.
false
One of the most successful post-2000 musicals is The Wizard of Oz.
false
Pantribalism, also called pan-Indianism or intertribalism, led to a decreased exchange of cultural traditions and beliefs among Native peoples.
false
Perhaps no twentieth-century condition did more to fragment the world of classical music than the gap between composer and performer.
false
Perhaps the most influential opera composer living today is Philip Glass.
false
Philip Glass invented phase music and later composed Piano Phase.
false
Popular music record sales topped $214 million in 1947, surpassing the previous peak, set before the World War II.
false
Next to Eminem, the biggest-selling hip-hop artist of the early 2000s was
50 cent
In the early 1950s, a studio was established at ___________ by professors Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, Milton Babbitt, and Roger Sessions.
Columbia university
The Godfather of Soul was
James Brown
Who among the following is (or was) NOT an active contributor to twenty-first-century jazz?
James moody
What earlier country artist(s) had initiated the 1970s singer-songwriter emphasis on intimate self-revelation?
Jimmie Rodgers
Who wrote the opera Nixon in China?
John Adams
The film music of _______________ marked a return to the golden age of film music.
John Williams
Who among the following experimented widely with editing and overdubbing techniques in recording?
Les Paul
