music appreciation exam 3
Military bands began to include brass instruments after significant improvements were made in their construction.
true
Modern day pipers serve the British military in a ceremonial role.
true
Most Gregorian chants are not associated with a specific composer.
true
Music is often used to inspire, energize, and/or coordinate movement.
true
Music obviously influences dancing, but dancing also influences the development of music.
true
Musicians were employed by the military before the founding of the United States.
true
Of the 100+ military bands, the Marine Band is the newest.
true
One way to evaluate the quality of music is to consider whether it achieves the purpose for which it was written.
true
Pipers last appeared on the front line in 1967 in South Arabia.
true
Scottish Highland bagpipes were attached to combat units as far back as 1549.
true
Shaw's Partita inspired discussion about whether it had the necessary characteristics to satisfy the criteria used to evaluate compositional quality.
true
Sleepers, Wake includes love duets, the texts of which were written by an unknown poet and reference the Biblical Song of Solomon.
true
Sousa remained director of the Marine Band until his death.
true
Sousa was a vocal advocate for the recording industry.
true
Sousa was highly protective of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" and never allowed other bands to perform it.
true
Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" never became a hit until after his death.
true
Swing dance developed in Harlem, where African American dancers at clubs and ballrooms interacted with white "slummers."
true
The 1599 chorale "Sleepers, Wake" comments on the parable of the wise and foolish virgins.
true
The 19th century saw the standardization and development of military music.
true
The Cotton Club in Harlem only admitted white patrons, but the musicians, dancers and servers were all black.
true
The Southern gospel group The Inspirations was established in Bryson City, NC, in 1964.
true
The chorale "Sleepers, Wake" has an A A B form, as do the movements of Bach's cantata that incorporate the chorale.
true
The first commercial hip-hop hit was "Rapper's Delight" in 1979.
true
The first pioneers of hip-hop music were jazz musicians.
true
The idea that Pope Gregory was visited regularly by the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove arose after the founding of the Holy Roman Empire in 800.
true
The members of Alarm Will Sound also had an interest in electronic dance music.
true
The most influential shape-note hymnal, The Sacred Harp, was published in Georgia in 1844.
true
The name "breaking" derives from disco breaks.
true
The role of the Marine Band in providing ceremonial music for White House events dates back to 1801.
true
The text of "Amazing Grace" was written by an English clergyman named John Newton (1725-1807).
true
Unlike most chant composers, the Benedictine Abbess Hildegard of Bingen wrote original texts for her chants.
true
Walker set the text "Amazing Grace" to the tune titled "New Britain" in his 1835 hymnal Southern Harmony.
true
While important to the military, Scottish Highland bagpipes were never used in any major war.
true
While music was considered important by the US military, it was never incorporated into the curriculum at military institutions of learning.
true
Sousa published solo and ensemble versions of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" for which of these instruments?
trumpet and percussion
All are true about Aretha's Gospel singing background except for:
At the age of 18, she launched her career in Gospel music
Musical notation was first developed because:
Catholic leaders needed to standardize worship
In 1965, the Pulitzer jury concluded that none of the applications were worthy of the prize, and instead recommended that a special citation be granted to:
Duke Ellington
The form of unaccompanied sacred song that developed in the medieval Catholic Church is called:
Gregorian chant
Differences between the musical notation of Guido of Arezzo and modern day notation include all of the following except for:
He used only sharps, not flats
All of the following are true about Irving Berlin except for:
He wrote the popular song "Blue Skies"
Aaron Copland was originally ridiculed for incorporating jazz into his early works because:
Highbrow critics though he was degrading his art by including jazz
The Catholic Church spread rapidly across Europe after the foundation of the:
Holy Roman Empire
Some of the principal differences between classical music and jazz are:
Instrumentation, harmonic language, and improvisation
All are true about the Sousa band except for:
It gave over 15,000 concerts between 1892 and 1931
Ellington's The Far East Suite is set apart from the classical tradition because:
It was composed by two people
Wynton Marsalis grew up in New Orleans and attended the Juilliard School of Music, but soon decided that his future was in:
Jazz composition
Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring was originally conceived of as a ballet, but is most frequently performed in a version for:
Orchestra
Like The Rite of Spring, the first scene of Appalachian Spring is:
Polytonal
One of the reasons that Appalachian Spring is still significant today is because it has come to be accepted as the sound of:
Rural America
All of the following are true about Hildegard of Bingen except:
She was pledged to marry a nobleman as a child
Yo-Yo Ma's most significant and lasting foray outside of the European concert tradition is:
Silk Road Project
Sleepers, Wake was first performed only once, on November 25, 1731, at Leipzig's St. Nicholas Church. For what reason was it not used again?
The 27th Sunday after Trinity does not occur every year
sousa is attributed with accomplishing which of these for the Marine Band?
a and b
At which important events does the Marine Band perform?
all of the above
Hildegard had a great creative and scholarly mind, and can be credited with the following accomplishments:
all of the above
The Great Depression caused many composers of art music to adopt a more commercial style because:
all of the above
To create music for Blood on the Fields, Marsalis drew from a variety of African American traditions, including:
all of the above
What roles did musicians play during the Civil War?
all of the above
Yo-Yo Ma is unique as a classical cellist because:
all of the above
It is unusual that Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize for Partita (2013) because:
all of the above NOT Her training was principally oriented toward violin performance She was essentially unknown She was only 30 at the time she won the award She only entered a PhD program in composition in 2010
Hildegard's "O Strength of Wisdom" is an example of a(n):
antiphon
The African American arranger Fletcher Henderson joined Goodman's band as a performer in 1939.
false
The Jazz Singer was the last "talking picture."
false
The first chorales were developed by Martin Luther to facilitate virtuosic solo performances during church services.
false
The popularity of quartets established Southern gospel as music strictly for use in church services.
false
When he wrote Appalachian Spring, Copland's primary purpose was to write music that perfectly captured the Appalachian mountains in music.
false
Which of these groups of musicians contributed to victories during the American Revolution?
fifers
All of the following characteristics are typical of disco music except for:
frequent changes in tempo and volume
Who is quoted as saying "music has done its share, and more than its share, in winning this war"?
general Phillip Sheridan
All are true about John Philip Sousa except for:
he eventually pursued a long-term career in theater music
Which of the following was one of Sousa's criticisms of the recording industry?
it might damage concert attendance
Scene two of Appalachian Spring includes an unusual compositional technique that makes it difficult to tap your foot along to the music:
mixed meter
Around 1026, the Italian monk Guido of Arezzo became the first to ever record:
musical notation
Reich's compositions rely upon:
none of the above
The roots of disco dancing can be traced to which of these?
none of the above
The Benedictine monks and nuns withdrew from the world and dedicated themselves to:
prayer
Which system of notation had developed in England and was intended to facilitate sight-reading?
shaped notation
Differences between Hildegard's music and most Gregorian chants include all except for:
she adhered more strictly to rules regarding form and mode
The 1930s saw the rise of an energetic new style of dancing known as:
swing
"Amazing Grace" appeared in Newton's collection of devotional poems, Olney Hymns(1779), published with the intent:
that they be sung to preexisting melodies
According to legend, Pope Gregory received the entire body of a chant from:
the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove
Which of the following was the most influential new dance of the 1930s?
the step hop. Kayla put all above
Which of the following is NOT true about a Sacred Harp "sing"?
there is a single designated conductor
"Blue Skies" became a hit after it was performed by Al Jolson in the 1927 film The Jazz Singer.
true
"Blue Skies" is a jazz standard, the popularity of which can be attributed to Henderson's arrangement.
true
"Scotland the Brave" was written in the 1890s and first appeared in the 1895 Gesto Collection of Highland Music.
true
"Swing" is one of many black colloquialisms adopted by young urban whites during the 1930s.
true
A Love Supreme is an example of modal jazz, in which traditional chords are replaced with harmonies built on scales other than major and minor.
true
A chorale cantata is based on a Lutheran chorale or hymn.
true
Aaron Copland was one of the early champions of music appreciation as a subject of study.
true
Al Jolson was the leading popular singer of the 1920s.
true
Alarm Will Sound focused attention on minimalist composer Steve Reich.
true
All three of the ballets that cemented Copland's reputation as a composer used folk melodies to portray rural America.
true
Although DJs initiated the practice of reciting rhymes over the breaks, dedicated rappers eventually became known as MCs.
true
Although Hildegard only notated the melody, her music would likely have been performed with added parts.
true
Amazing Grace" was first paired with its current melody by William Walker.
true
At a singing school, participants were able to socialize and learn to read shape notes.
true
At a typical concert, the Sousa Band would perform orchestral transcriptions, operatic excerpts, and instrumental solos.
true
Bach's cantatas, which were performed just before the sermon, reflected on the readings and prepared congregants to understand the day's message.
true
Bagpipes are used exclusively for marching
true
Benedictines chant all 150 Psalms every week.
true
Benny Goodman (1909-1986) was the first bandleader to make a hit playing swing music.
true
Black gospel emerged alongside Southern gospel and has its roots in Holiness churches.
true
By the 19th century, shape-note singing came to be viewed as outdated in New England as musicians sought to imitate European models.
true
Coltrane's recovery experience inspired the religious themes of his late work.
true
Congregants would have known the chorale "Sleepers, Wake" very well.
true
DJ Kool Herc is credited with laying much of the groundwork for hip-hop music.
true
Disco music and dance emerged in the early 1970s and by 1975 had become a national craze.
true
Disco parties catered to a gay, mostly black clientele that was harassed at commercial venues.
true
Duke Ellington rose to national prominence as a pianist and band leader, and his band toured internationally while making popular recordings.
true
During the early years of his employment in Leipzig, Bach produced a new Lutheran Church cantata every week that corresponded with the day's Biblical readings and sermon.
true
Each selection on the album The Far East Suiterepresents Ellington's impressions upon visiting a foreign country.
true
For many years, Gospel singers who recorded mainstream popular music were criticized and shunned.
true
Franklin's gospel album Amazing Grace(1972) was the top-selling album of her career.
true
From 1723 to 1750, Bach served as music director for the city of Leipzig.
true
Goodman played "cool" jazz on a late-night radio program.
true
Goodman's style was defined by an African American arranger.
true
Gregorian chant melodies are usually easy to sing due to their small ranges and conjunct motion.
true
Highland bagpipes are audible outdoors because they play in a very high range
true
Highland bagpipes can produce only nine pitches, which means they have to alter some notes in order to adapt repertoire intended for other instruments.
true
Hip-hop DJ's borrowed tools and techniques from disco, but they also used salsa and funk records to provide music for block parties.
true
Hip-hop developed in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1970s.
true
Hip-hop was at first regarded as a performance practice that incorporated pre-existing records.
true
In 1880, Sousa's arrangements won him the directorship of the Marine Band.
true
In 1987, Congress designated Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" as the National March.
true
In 1997, Kendrick Lamar's album DAMN.became the first hip-hop album to win the Pulitzer Prize.
true
In breaking, dancers perform acrobatic move and often compete with one another
true
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) was a prolific and influential composer of American ballads.
true
Coltrane's A Love Supreme is in four parts:
"Acknowledgement," "Resolution," "Pursuance," and "Psalm"
Yo-Yo Ma teamed up with celebrity fiddler Mark O'Connor and bass player Edgar Meyer to record:
Appalachian Waltz and Appalachian Journey
In scene seven of Appalachian Spring, Copland borrowed the melody "The Gift to Be Simple" from:
A collection of Shaker melodies
DAMN. was a revolutionary choice for the Pulitzer Prize because:
All of the above
The cantatas that Bach wrote had these characteristics:
All of the above
Many of Ellington's compositions relied upon:
The extended forms of classical music
In Leipzig, Bach had a variety of responsibilities, including all except for:
Writing operas and directing opera productions
DJ Kool Herc pioneered which of the following techniques?
breaking
The Benedictine day was divided into eight prayer services known as:
canonical hours
A multi-part work for voice(s) and instrumental accompaniment is termed a:
cantata
Which of the following characteristics is never exhibited by Gregorian chant?
chromaticism
Which of the following dance styles developed alongside hip-hop music?
disco. Kayla put all above
Roomful of Teeth employed all of the following except:
emo singing
"Amazing Grace" was reinterpreted only by musicians in the Lutheran tradition.
false
"Scotland the Brave" became famous after a romantic text was added to the tune.
false
Appalachian Spring was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1967.
false
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) was criticized and shunned for recording both Gospel and mainstream popular music.
false
Bach's cantatas are now performed by professional musicians, but only in the context of church services.
false
Bach's job with the city of Leipzig was prestigious, promised a good education for his children, and was one for which he was the city council's first choice.
false
Copland's volume How to Identify and Appreciate Quality Music is an early classic of the music appreciation literature and is still in print.
false
Disenfranchised black youth developed hip-hop music/dance as a means of expression and entertainment.
false
Early DJs and MCs always made recordings.
false
From the outset, hip-hop was regarded as a genre of music.
false
Gregorian chants are based on the major and minor scales.
false
Hildegard of Bingen had numerous visions that inspired her chant texts, but were rejected as church doctrine by Pope Eugene III.
false
In "Work Song," Marsalis strives to imitate the blues tradition by constructing melodies underpinned by 12-bar harmonic progressions.
false
In 1892, Sousa left the military to start his own band and pursue a private career
false
In 1965, the Pulitzer board refused to recommend a citation to Duke Ellington, and he was offended because the board had rejected him after he had composed such a monumental work.
false
Minimalist composers share an interest in developing very small works from a large palate.
false
Newton wrote hymns for his congregation that used simple language in the 3rdperson.
false
One way to evaluate the quality of music is to examine all major criteria: purpose, originality, skill of composer or performer, the impact that music has on listeners and society, and the fame of the composer or performer.
false
Pope Gregory I was instrumental in the development of chant.
false
Scottish Highland bagpipes have long been regarded as a military instrument.
false