MU 3100 Final Exam 2021 - HB Quizlet PDF

54. Ultimately, why was the sound of popular music changed with the reconceptualization of distortion in electric guitars?

The power of this modern sound accurately articulated the experience of society's marginalized people.

68. What makes the technological development of the electric guitar unique compared to the typical trajectory other technological systems?

The reverse salient of noise was redefined as a forward salient (music).

25. When cheaper forms of musical production were pushing self-playing instruments into oblivion, Conlon Nancarrow started writing his Player Piano Studies for mainly what reason?

The unreliability of performers to execute the music given to them

3. Rakan Almomani stated in his lecture that using discs in music boxes allowed for quicker reproduction.

True

60. True or False: During the 50s and 60s, only studios and wealthy individuals could afford to purchase electronic music equipment like the Moog synthesizer or Mellotron.

True

61. True or False: Based on his background and in his own words, Clint Mansell would not be able to create film music without computer technology.

True

8. True or False: Moog promoted his new synthesizer with images of a keyboard controller in order to capture the fact that the machine plays music and to make it seem accessible for every musician.

True

21. When TV took over the dramas and shows that once filled radio's broadcast time after World War 2, what kind of foregrounded music shows dominated the earliest decades of TV?

Variety shows based in vaudeville and "high culture" music specials.

11. This machine released in November of 2001 promised "movielike" sound, and with its new technology sound designers were given an enormous amount of power to work with:

Xbox

28. Define "leitmotif":

a theme associated with a particular person, idea, or situation that recurrs throughout a work.

52. How was sound captured (not stored) for recording from 1901 to the mid-1920s?

acoustic horn

55. How was sound captured (not stored) for recording after the mid-20s?

electric microphones

63. German engineers perfected this technology during the Second World War:

magnetic tape recording

10. What music distribution technology did the automobile help establish starting in the 50s?

music radio

36. This device created in 1857 traced sound waves onto soot-covered paper for the purpose of studying acoustics:

phonautograph

30. In 1894, George Thomas was the first to do this:

project a series of images to accompany the live performance of a song

41. By the early 1920s, radio became the recording industry's first real competition with superior sound quality. The engineers at Bell Telephone Laboratories were charged with developing a new phonograph recording system, which included the invention of the condenser microphone and led to this improved system:

the Westrex system

34. What was a defining element of the Moog and Buchla synthesizers?

voltage controlled modular units

9. What did Marconi introduce in the last years of the 19th century to improve prior telegraph technology?

wireless telegraphy

65. For what 1971 film did Wendy Carlos use a Moog synthesizer to create both new music as well as synthesized performances of old classics like Purcell and Beethoven?

"A Clockwork Orange"

38. Which of the following was the first film with an all-jazz score?

"A Streetcar Named Desire" in 1951

46. Which of the following was the first full-length feature film with pre-recorded sound and music (but not dialogue)?

"Don Juan" in 1926

37. Which of the following is the best example of what Mark Katz calls "Performative Quotation"?

"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy

4. Which of the following was the first film to use a fully electronic score?

"Forbidden Planet" in 1956

24. Which of the following was the first film with a full music soundtrack made up of an original, thematic underscore, synced up to the film with optical sound and using an early click track?

"King Kong" in 1933

14. Which of the following is NOT an influence that dictated the type of music used on TV in the earliest years?

"The Lawrence Welk Show" was universally criticized and did not dictate the programming of other variety shows.

35. Elements of musical borrowing can be found in all EXCEPT which of the following works?

"The Unnameable" by Samuel Beckett

15. The three subcategories of electrophone are electroacoustic, ________1._______ , and electronic.

1. electromechanical

70. The three main factors of Yamaha's initial success were: location, interacting with businesses small and large, and _______1.________.

1. marketing to schools by providing free books and instruments

51. Which of the following is the best definition of the Music Industry Value Chain?

A cluster of groups concerned with the exploitation of music, which can be subdivided into three interconnected branches consisting of music performance, rights, and recording.

7. Which of the following is NOT an aspect of the "Top 40 music machine" today?

A focus on producing albums.

48. Why was the original printing process for music called a "two-impression process"?

A staff of horizontal lines was printed in a first impression; then, the musical designs (cast in type so that they could be printed at any position on the staff), were printed in a separate impression

22. True or False: A majority of "Top 40" hits are currently the product of a single artist working independently.

False

66. This early 20th century Futurist built the intonarumori as a way to control everyday sounds, in the way traditional music instruments are controlled.

Luigi Russolo

33. Which of the following is NOT an industry-wide change brought about by streaming?

More artists than before are breaking through to worldwide success.

67. During the mid-1970s, television in the UK and Australia was busy popularizing this genre of entertainment, which opened the way for MTV in 1981:

Music video

59. Why are businesses in the music industry considered "high-risk"?

Products demand a high up-front investment with high uncertainty about returns on that investment.

73. Which of the following was NOT a consideration for RCA Victor when deciding to release the 45 format right after Columbia released their new LP?

RCA envisioned a 45 format with small enough grooves that an entire album's worth of music would be able to fit on one smaller disc.

69. Between 1930 and 1931, Warner Brothers produced this series of five musical shorts:

Spooney Melodies

58. The music and sound design in this 1985 video game constantly shifted to match the action onscreen, achieving a new kind of synthesis of music with gameplay.

Super Mario Bros.

23. Why are Yamaha pianos considered by some to be of a "lesser quality" than European pianos?

The builders Yamaha employed did not take pride in their work.

71. This discovery in 2008 indicates that humans had a musical, "harmonic" tradition that could have contributed to the maintenance of larger social networks, which may have helped facilitate the territorial expansion of modern humans.

The cave bone flute

20. Which of the following was NOT an advantage of using tape for recording and production?

The short playing times brought back the popularity of the single.

26. Regarding his scores for "Chariots of Fire" in 1981 and "Blade Runner" in 1982, what did Vangelis say his intent was when using electronics?

To use electronics to take music further than a standard orchestra could go.

1. In Cesar Diaz's lecture, he stated that the origins of mariachi stem from cities in the South-Eastern region of Mexico.

True - Wrong Answer False

56. In 1872, after the national military band was established in Japan, what followed that would open the way for Yamaha's success?

Western school curricula that included the teaching of Western music.

72. During the late fifteenth century, moveable-type printing was combined with which other printing method to provide the elaborate letter design in liturgical collections?

Woodcut printing

64. Which of the following was NOT a way that vibrato helped violinists overcome the limitations of early recording technology?

relaxed standards for executing technical passages

62. What music distribution technology became popular in the automobile starting in the mid-60s?

tape cassettes and cartridges

12. What machine did RCA's acoustic lab develop, hoping to someday replace live musicians?

the Mark I and II.

18. What was the name of the machine that produced the score for Hitchcock's "The Birds"?

the Trautonium

32. Which of the following is NOT an important development for the music video that was brought about by Michael Jackson's "Thriller"?

Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style music selection

44. Which of the following underground genres were new formats (radio, TV, disc, and tape) NOT instrumental in spreading?

Classical

13. The first successful opera was L'Orfeo, premiered in 1607 and written by this Italian composer:

Claudio Monteverdi

42. Which of the following is the best description for what lesson we learned in both Bill Fontana's sound installations and Fatboy Slim's "Praise You"?

The meaning of a sample results from a network of relationships with other samples and sounds.

6. Elements of sound collage or "found sound" can be heard in all EXCEPT which of the following works?

"Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky

57. We probably would have never heard of Moog if it had not been for this recording sensation of 1968 by Wendy Carlos:

"Switched-On Bach"

16. Which of the following was the first feature film with pre-recorded music and spoken dialog, synced up to the film using the Vitaphone system?

"The Jazz Singer" in 1927

2. In his lecture on the effects of social media on the music industry, Duc Phan described the "Goldfish Effect" as that of people losing concentration after _______1.________ seconds.

1. 34 - Wrong Answer 8 15 3

45. Around 1973, when DJs played music for the disco scene, Kool Herc played the break from the middle of one of his hard funk records, and, using two copies of the same record, he'd elongate that break to allow for dance breaks. For this reason, he's known as the Father of __________1.______ .

1. Hip-hop

27. Developed in 1887, Berliner refined Edison, Bell, and Tainter's designs to create the _______1.________ , which used wax discs in place of the wax cylinder.

1. gramophone

47. Which of the following was NOT a format or disc rpm used at one time or another?

24

50. Why did Freeman seek an alternative way to create the string sounds of the Mellotron?

An early Mellotron cost more than a house and needed four people to move it.

19. Serviceman Jack Mullin brought the German Magnetophone back to the US after the War and introduced it to this iconic singer, who used it to tape his broadcasts in advance, helping to establish the technology required for studio art:

Bing Crosby

75. According to Savanna Saikali's lecture on Synthwave Music, there is no connection whatsoever between Daft Punk's music in "Tron: Legacy" and the music for the original "Tron" movie by Wendy Carlos.

False

29. Madrigal composers began in the late sixteenth century to write works explicitly for a soloist with accompaniment and led to which notational development?

Figured bass

43. Which of the following was one way that radio broadcast assisted in the development of the electronic music scene during the mid-20th century?

Government or university owned broadcast studios could afford the latest in electronic equipment and granted composers regular access to it.

17. This style of notation includes a collection of attempts at conveying musical concepts or performance instructions that are beyond the capabilities of standard notation.

Graphic notation

53. What did Reginald Fessenden do in 1906 that was so ground-breaking for mass media's future?

He broadcast a short program of his voice as well as both recorded and live music on Christmas Eve that was heard as far down the Atlantic seaboard as Norfolk, Virginia.

40. This instrument was invented in the third century BCE by Ctesibius of Alexandria; never meant to be an expressive instrument, it was used in theaters, state ceremonials, weddings, and the Roman circus accompanying gladiatorial combats.

Hydraulis

49. Which of the following was NOT a change brought about by the new print culture of the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries?

Ideas kept secret under lock and key

39. This important compositional form was developed in 1265; it layered new secular, popular texts on top of old sacred chants:

Motet

31. How did Freeman achieve a convincing string ensemble sound?

Multiple sound generators were each modulated by a different vibrato oscillator, so that each had a different depth and speed, simulating the vibrato of multiple players.

74. Which of the following was NOT a form of voice alteration that Jairus Martinez mentioned as a main method in his lecture?

Phonautograph

5. Overall, the changes made to orchestral instruments during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries centered on improving which characteristics of performance?

Power, consistency, and control