MUSIC351 Final Quizzes

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Which if the following songs inspired Sam Cooke to write "A Change is Gonna Come?"

"Blowin' in the Wind"

Which of the Beatles studied with Ravi Shankar?

George Harrison

Which of the following people was NOT a member of the Corporation?

Smokey Robinson

Which label did Sam and Dave record for?

Stax

Which of the following artists stayed the longest with the Motown label?

Stevie Wonder

_____________is the acronym for a collection of synthesizers used by Stevie Wonder to record four albums in the early 1970s.

TONTO

"Brick House" is a song by:

The Commodores

Which group (whose member wrote "What's Going On") did NOT want to record it?

The Four Tops

Which group did Marvin Gaye produce before he produced his own album?

The Originals

Choose the answer that best describes the relationship between Gladys Knight and the Pips.

The Pips are Gladys Knight's brother and cousins.

Which group recorded "War" before Edwin Starr?

The Temptations

Which conflict was raging when the song "War" came out?

The Vietnam War

What do the following groups have in common? The Five Stairsteps The Osmonds The Jackson 5 Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers

They were all teen/pre-teen groups.

After moving Motown to Los Angeles, Berry Gordy was focused on making films and television shows.

True

Malcom Cecil and Robert Margouleff co-produced Stevie Wonder's albums Innervisions and Talking Book.

True

Norman Whitfield often "recycled" songs, having more than one artist record the same songs.

True

Psychedelic means mind-manifesting.

True

The Funk Brothers were credited by name for the first time on What's Going On.

True

The album What's Going On is unified musically and lyrically.

True

The name of Stax Records is a conjunction of the two owners' names.

True

A sustained note or chord that underlies an entire work is called:

A drone

Pippin is:

A musical co-produced by Motown

A characteristic of funk is an emphasis on melody.

False

According to Norman Whitfield and The Temptations, "Cloud Nine" is about drugs.

False

Berry Gordy loved the single "What's Going On" and released it right away.

False

Bubblegum Pop is music about candy.

False

Guitarist Jeff Beck recorded "Superstition" before Stevie Wonder.

False

Like Motown, Chess Records was a black-owned business.

False

Marvin Gaye had a lot of material ready to be recorded for a full album after the song "What's Going On" came out.

False

Norman Whitfield embraced the psychedelic sound of such groups as Sly and the Family Stone right away.

False

The Gladys Knight and the Pips version of "I Heard it Through the Grapevine" was recorded first.

False

The first recordings the Jackson 5 released were on the Motown label.

False

The mellotron is a string instrument.

False

Which of the following styles is NOT an element of funk?

classical

Which group sings backing vocals on the song "You Haven't Done Nothing"?

Jackson 5

Which of the following artists was NOT associated with Chess Records?

Otis Redding

David Van de Pitte's function on the recording of What's Going On was?

arranger

Which of the following was NOT an immediate concern of the counterculture movement?

employment

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of psychedelic rock?

orchestral accompaniment

The instrument that Ravi Shankar plays is

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