Final Exam (Music App)

In the Confucian view, what does music represent?

symbol of societal order

The birthplace of rap and hip hop music is often considered to be ______.

the Bronx

What instrument, similar to an accordion, is often featured in traditional Celtic music?

Concertina

Select all the features that an electronic music composition would most likely have.

Drum loops Synthesized sounds Processed recordings of audio

Select all the descriptions that apply to Edgard Varése's experimental composition Poème électronique.

It is 80 minutes in length. It was scored for electronic instruments.

In this excerpt by Haitian singer André Toussaint, what American style is present, illustrating the fusion of multiple styles common in Caribbean music?

Jazz

Who was an influential pianist who blended ragtime, blues and developed the New Orleans jazz sound?

Jelly Roll Morton

Who is the composer of this piece?

Jennifer Higdon

Which composer is generally associated with aleatory music?

John Cage

What Japanese instrument, heard in this excerpt, is a chordophone?

Koto

Select all the characteristic of cool jazz.

Laid-back atmosphere Softness

Select all the artists who helped define the early rock and roll sound.

Lead Belly Chuck Berry Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Which American composer of orchestral works and musicals is known for being an influential conductor and educator?

Leonard Bernstein

Select all the common features of Native music in North America that can be heard in this excerpt.

Long vocal phrases Use of vocables

What bluegrass instrument, traditional in Italian music, uses plucked tremolo technique to add a high-range shimmer to the music?

Mandolin

What style of music, featuring an ensemble of guitars, is often considered the national music of Mexico?

Mariachi

Select all the elements common in Islamic music, as heard in this excerpt.

Microtones Melodic ornamentations Melismas

In what musical style is John Adams's work rooted?

Minimalism

Select all the characteristics that are typical of bluegrass music.

Multipart vocal harmonies Improvisation Straight eighth-note rhythms

In what genre is this music from Leonard Bernstein?

Musical

What style of devotional Islamic music features moral songs that are sung a cappella or with only a simple percussion instrument?

Nasheed

With what style is the composer Jennifer Higdon associated?

Neoromantic

What city is considered the birthplace of jazz, as we know it today?

New Orleans

Select all the genres for which Jennifer Higdon has composed.

Orchestral Choral

What ballet by Erik Satie includes experimental sounds, such as car horns, sirens, and mechanical toys?

Parade

What instrument, combining the slide styles of blues guitarists with melodic soloing, became integral to country music?

Pedal Steel

Select all the elements of the blues that can be heard in this excerpt.

Pentatonic scale Steady rhythm Twelve-bar form

The gamelan consists primarily of ______ instruments.

Percussion

What nineteenth-century development encouraged artists to explore less realistic styles of painting?

Photography

What piece helped to catapult the boogie-woogie sound into homes across America?

Pinetop's Boogie

Select all the characteristics of serial music.

Pitch sets Tone row Organized system

Select all the sources of inspiration for symbolist artists and musicians.

Poetry The nature of sounds

New country music is most similar to what other musical style?

Pop rock

Twentieth-century nationalist music can also be described as ______.

Populist

What is the style of the music in this excerpt?

Primitivism

What area of study was influential in expressionist art?

Psychology

An innovation of Arnold Schoenberg was ______, in which a performer delivers a text in a half-speech, half-song style.Multiple choice question.

Sprechstimme

Select all the musical genres that formed spirituals.

Work songs Church hymns

Select all the composers who helped to create a unique Hungarian style of music.

Zoltan KodalyBéla Bartók

Unlike neoclassicism in music, primitivism is characterized by:

its lack of perspective.

Edgard Varése was one of the early pioneers of electronic music, sometimes called ______.

musique concréte

Electronic keyboards that allow a performer to play more than one note at a time are said to be ______.

polyphonic

Select all the characteristics that are associated with Beijing opera.

Colloquial speech Political and military plots

What piece by John Cage emphasizes the essence of chance, or indeterminacy?

4'33"

Select all the aspects of slave music that were elements for blues and early jazz music.

Call-and-response form Pentatonic scale Oral tradition

What difference highlights the changes between fusion music and earlier jazz styles?

Acoustic versus electronic musics

What genre of music, created by Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, features horns, electric guitars, basses, and pianos as well as a powerful section of African percussion instruments?

Afro beat

What style of music leaves significant numbers of decisions to the performer?

Aleatoric

What style best describes this excerpt, which features guitars, charangos, and quena (flute)?

Chimayacha

Eric Whitacre mostly composes for what type of ensemble?

Choir

What category of instruments is featured prominently in this excerpt?

Chordophone

What instruments form the ensemble in a typical Noh performance?

Chorus, flute, and drum

What composer is known for his work in twelve-tone music?

Arnold Schoenberg

What composer is associated with Argentine tango music?

Astor Piazzolla

______ describes music that avoids establishing a clear tonal center.

Atonality

What aspect of music is not a traditional part of sub-Saharan African music?

Audience of listeners

Select all the inspirations for the early development of country music.

Barn dances Bluegrass music

Select all the ways Oceanic musicians demonstrate their vocal skills.

Breath control Intricate rhythms Glissandi

Which group of instruments form the basis of a rock band?

Electric guitar, drums, bass, and vocals

What type of instrumentation was typical in experimental works by Edgard Varése?

Electronic Instruments

Which contemporary American composer is known for his choral and orchestral works as well as virtual choir compositions?

Eric Whitarce

What field of research studies the elements of music, especially as it relates to human behavior and cultural context?

Ethnomusicology

Select all the features that are found in expressionist art.

Few notes Intense dissonance

Select all the instruments commonly found in Celtic music, as heard in this excerpt.

Fiddle Concertina

What instrument is prized in Native music of North America for its melodic capabilities?

Flute

What are the roots of smooth jazz?

Funk and rhythm and blues

What style of Japanese music, played for the royalty and the ruling class, emerged as early as the seventh century B.C.E.?

Gagaku

What is the name of the orchestral ensemble in this excerpt?

Gamelan

What is a primary focal point of fusion music?

Grooves

Select all the cultures that contributed to the New Orleans style of jazz.

Haitian European African

Select all the aspects of cool jazz that were inspired by classical music.

Harmonies Contrapuntal melodies

What musical characteristic is common in Oceanic vocal music?

Harmony in parallel seconds

What feature, similar to jazz, is on display in this excerpt?

Improvisation

What is the primary aspect of free jazz?

Improvisation

Select all the primary features of jazz.

Improvisation Syncopation Swing rhythm

Select all the characteristics of Arnold Schoenberg's expressionist music as presented in this excerpt.

It exaggerates emotional states. It features intense dissonance.

The iconic musician Bob Marley is associated with what Jamaican musical genre?

Reggae

Select all the qualities that are important features of free jazz music.

Rejection of tradition Spontaneity Emotion

What is an ostinato?

Repeated rhythmic pattern

Select all the aspects of John Adams's piece Phrygian Gates.

Repetitive figures Diatonic modes

______ describes the process in which a serial composition's pitch order is reversed.

Retrograde

What is the process for when a tone row combines both flipped pitch intervals and a reversed order?

Retrograde-inversion

Select all the roots of smooth jazz.

Rhythm and blues Funk

Select all the techniques of sound production used in current electronic music.

Samples Remixing with software Loops

Minimalism developed in part, as a reaction against the ______ genre.

Serialist

Select all styles of Cuban music.

Son Salsa Rhumba

Which artist was behind the groundbreaking early rap single "Rapper's Delight?"

Sugar Hill Gang

What feature of jazz is prominent in this excerpt featuring Louis Armstrong?

Syncopation

In Indian classical music, what term describes the rhythmic cycles used in a piece?

Tala

The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who, The Monkees, and The Rolling Stones are part of what phenomenon?

The British Invasion

For what is composer John Cage notable?

The incorporation of chance procedures into the compositional process

Which note is altered in a pentatonic scale to create a blues scale?

Third

In Native culture in North America, what is a function of music?

To communicate with spirits

What is one of the goals of the expressionist movement in the early twentieth century?

To depict the emotions of the composer or artist

Select all the elements that characterize this music as neo-romantic.

Tonality Strong sense of cadence

Select all the characteristics of gospel music.

Turnaround section Call-and-response form

Select all the characteristics that are associated with impressionist music.

Whole tone scale Ambiguity Octatonic scales

A musical instrument whose sound generator is itself is a(n) ______.

idiophone

In serialism, a predetermined order of pitches is called a ______.

tone row