Music Final

The style of music first introduced in 1960 by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, featuring collective improvisation, no steady beat, no familiar chord changes, is known as..

Free jazz

"Give My Regards to Broadway" and "Yankee Doodle Boy" were written by...

George M. Cohan

Cajun music evolved in a remote area of ___

Louisiana

Early counrty music was influenced by

Migrant workers seeking jobs laying railroad lines, mining coal, or working for textile mills and people taking temporary jobs in cities where they learned new musical sounds and new subjects for songs

Which of the following is not one of the conditions of American youth and popular music that brought about the beginnings of rock and roll?

More mothers continued to stay at home caring for their families.

The "doo-wop" background vocal group was part of which sound?

Motown

Which of the following was LEAST influential on the development of rap?

Motown

What is the difference between opera and operetta?

Operetta has spoken dialogue

A beautiful melody and showy vocal display will be most appropriate in which of the following?

Aria

Who is credited for coining the term "rock and roll"?

Alan Freed

In the 20th century which of the following composers incorporated folk songs into his music and wrote music for orchestra, films, radio, and several ballets including Rodeo?

Aaron Copeland

Concert music has changed very little the last 50 years compared to the first half of the 20th century. Which of the following is NOT true regarding new devices and ways composers, conductors, and music directors are using to help audiences hear, understand, and appreciate orchestral music concerts?

All composers are writing pieces in western music styles and avoiding combinations with nonwestern music styes

Which statement(s) best describe(s) the Carter family?

All of the above

The most influential artist in reggae, who sang songs of unity, love, and equality with an underlying threat of revolutionary violence was..

Bob Marley

What show used striptease performances inserted between acts and chorus girls who sang and danced?

Burlesque

___ was an early 20th century composer who has a career as an insurance executive, enjoyed juxtaposing musical events that seemed unrelated, and made use of the folk tunes and popular music, being particularly inspired by "unconventional" features, in his music.

Charles Ives

The 20th century composer who invented several instruments in order to produce original timbres and also divided the octave into a 43-tone scale of microtones is?

Harry Partch

Which of the following statements is NOT true of Bob Dylan?

He combined rock and roll with country in a style known as "rockabilly"

Which is not true about Jimmy Rodgers?

He was a trained violinist who turned to the guitar and country music after difficulties in his wor in classical music.

Where did country music originate?

In remote areas of the eastern hills and Appalachian Mountains

Which is NOT true regarding urban folk music?

It originated from European urban musical styles

Which is not true regarding Hawaiian music?

It originated from French Acadians

Which is not true about Cajun music?

It was influenced by early American classical composers.

This composer wrote many compositions for prepared piano where the piano was altered to create sounds of a gamelan and other percussive sounds.

John Cage

Which composer listed below is credited with the return to the full orchestral score in such movies as Star Wars and Jaws?

John Williams

An American opera, composed by George Gershwin, which is based on the lives of people who lived in a black tenement area in Charleston, South Carolina is...

Porgy and Bess

One of the first African Americans to become technically adept with studio recording technology, known as the "father of soul", is ___

Ray Charles

____ comes from black gospel music, includes a steady beat, hand-clapping, percussive accompaniment, and became popular beginning in the '50s. Singers of thi style include Joe Turner and Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton.

Rhythm and Blues

Some early 20th century European composers were influenced by aspects of American music, which included?

Rhythms and timbres of jazz

All of the following are events of the early 1970s that affected American popular music EXCEPT

Riots in Los Angeles following Rodney King polic brutality trial

Reggae is a blend of

Rock and African-Jamaican music

Which well-known duo created the famous Broadway musicals of Oklahoma!, The King and I, and The Sound of Music?

Rodgers and Hammerstein

"West Side Story" was written by Leonard Bernstein and was based on Shakespeare's ___

Romeo and Juliet

Which of the following Latin dance forms, with rhythms derived from African American dance, is also a general term for all African-Latin popular music?

Salsa

in 1936 ___ wrote a famous neo-romantic piece called Adagio for Strings, which was featured in movies The Elephant Man (1980) and Platoon (1986)

Samuel Barber

Which of the following was a movie that heled stimulate the success of disco?

Saturday Night Fever

The earliest American Broadway Musical in 1927 with an unusually serious plot that addressed sensitive social issues was ___, written by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II

Show Boat

Which of the following is not normally included in an opera?

Spoken dialogue

The RCA Mark II was the first ___ in the United States.

Synthesizer

The ___ is a graceful, sensuous Argentinean dance, the first of the Latin rhythms to become popular in the U.S.

Tango

Before movie theaters were wired for sound, music for silent films was provided by..

Theater pianists and organist and chamberr orchestras

Which of the following does NOT describe Motown?

Their music reflected an easy California lifestyle of sun, fun, and surfing.

Which is not true of mariachis?

They blend together Latin forms with Bebop.

Twentieth century music experimentalists are particularly interested in exploring rhythm and

Timbre

Early country music singers used all of the following except?

Trumpets

What kind of music theatre was a show with acts of every variety, including blackface scenes, dogs, circus stunts, songs, and dance?

Vaudeville

Afro-American Symphony, composed by _____, was the first composition by a black composer to be performed by a major American symphony orchestra.

William Grant Still

____ was considered America's greatest folk poet and is renowned for having written the song "This Land is Your Land", among other modern folk tunes.

Woody Guthrie

Who is the well-known musician, trumpet virtuoso who continued the "neoconservative trend in jazz"?

Wynton Marsails

A style of music which combines rock rhythms and electronic instrumentation with collective and solo improvisation as well as extreme ranges of volume, rapid meter shifts, and shifts in tempo and mood is known as..

jazz-rock fusion