Quiz 1

The onset of quarantining in response to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020-2021 led to a dramatic decline in creativity and an accompanying decline in the purchase of music creation software such as Apple's GarageBand, as well as musical instrument sales by online vendors such as Sweetwater, Guitar Center, Reverb, and other retailers.

false

Until the mid-1990s, the stylistic mainstream of American popular music was largely oriented toward the tastes of white, middle- or upper-class, Protestant, urban people.

false

Originally an oral tradition passed down in unwritten form; ballads were eventually circulated on large sheets of paper called handbills, the ancestors of today's sheet music.

false- they were called broadsides

From which stream fo influence does the "high lonesome sound" commonly heard in country music hail?

Anglo-American stream

Which legendary French-born superstar of tango was inspired by operatic bel canto singing and the criollo songs of the Argentine gauchos?

Carlos Gardel

Which of the following is true about the Afro-Cuban rumba?

It accompanied dances featuring sexual role-playing and was originally suppressed by Cuban authorities.

Which is true about Brazilian bossa nova music?

It was popularized in the United States by songs like "The Girl form Ipanema"

A repeated pattern designed to generate rhythmic momentum is called what?

Riff

Which Latin dance style did Irene and Vernon Castle and movie star Rudolph Valentino help popularize in the early twentieth century?

Tango

What role did song pluggers play in the music industry from the nineteenth century until the 1920s?

They promoted songs and convinced big stars to perform them.

In rock music, the accenting of the second and fourth beat of a four-beat bar as the .....

backbeat

A...... is a type of song consisting usually of verses set to a repeating melody in which a story-often romantic, historic, or tragic- is sung in narrative fashion.

ballad

"Stagolee" by Mississippi John Hurt uses alternating patterns with his thumb and forefingers on the guitar's strings to create what kind of rhythmic texture?

polyrhythmic

Critical listening is listening that consciously seeks out meaning in music by drawing on knowledge of how music is put together, its cultural significance, and its historical development

true

Informal worship spaces organized by enslaved people were referred to as "hush quarters".

true

The arranger of a song decides which instruments to sue as accompaniment and what key the song should be in

true

The type of music most closely associated with the mid-19th century's "Great Awakening" was a body fo sacred songs called spirituals.

true