Survey of Music Final

George Gershwin's first big song hit was recorded in 1920 by _____________.

Al Jolson

Which piece did Gershwin write during his brief stay in France?

An American in Paris

Harry T. Burleigh worked with the European composer ___________________ while he was teaching in the United States.

Antonin Dvorak

In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon composer Tan Dun masterfully blends Western and ____________ musical traditions.

Asian

American brass bands were originally an outgrowth of the ____________ military band.

British

Spirituals gained a broader presence in the United States after the - War largely due to the work of a touring - group from - University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Civil choral Fisk

The most important French Impressionist composer was Claude _____________.

Debussy

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is considered to reflect a combination of which cultures?

European American African American Native America

Bernstein showed no interest in writing film music.

False

George Gershwin avoided references to jazz and ragtime in his music.

False

George Gershwin was encouraged by Nadia Boulanger to perfect his classical training.

False

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.

False

Louis Armstrong was a famous New Orleans pianist.

False

Programmatic music was discontinued in the Impressionist period.

False

Scott Joplin is considered the "March King."

False

Spirituals fell out of circulation after the Civil War in the United States.

False

The style and structure of African American spirituals were in strict imitation of European models.

False

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a favorite tune of which college-level performing group?

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Which of the following describes Harry T. Burleigh's career?

He arranged spirituals for voice and piano He worked for Dvorak He became an editor for a music publisher

Which of the following statements describe George Gershwin's career?

He sought to integrate jazz into "cultivated" music. He became a successful musician in his early twenties. Some people were suspicious of his utilizing a jazz style in largely European genres.

Which of the following is true of the origins of Impressionism?

It was rebuffed by the academic salons of Paris It was initially a term denoting scorn of the new style

Which composer wrote the scores to the first three Harry Potter films?

John Williams

_________________ is credited as having revived the grand symphonic film score.

John Williams

Which is the contemporary rock opera inspired by Puccini's La bohème?

Jonathan Larsen's Rent

Billie Holiday sang with which of the following jazz "greats"?

Louis Armstrong Benny Goodman

The fast-paced Afro-Cuban dance with a syncopated beat heard in The Dance at the Gym in Bernstein's West Side Story is called:

Mambo

Which French artist is credited with starting the Impressionistic movement with his painting?

Monet

__________ is where the fusion of ragtime, blues, and other musics resulted in the development of jazz.

New Orleans

Which are Broadway musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein?

Oklahoma! The Sound of Music South Pacific

The movie __________ is an example of a soundtrack that uses only source music.

Rear Window

Gershwin was inspired by the goals of the Harlem _________________.

Renaissance

_________ and Hammerstein are considered a great composer/lyricist team.

Rodgers

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" was later choreographed by the great _____________ dancer Vaslav Nijinksy.

Russian

What is the literary basis for West Side Story?

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

____________ was a popular Jerome Kern musical from the 1920s with a serious plot.

Show Boat

Who wrote the lyrics for the musical West Side Story?

Stephen Sondheim

Which French Symbolist poets were highly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, a poet from the United States?

Stéphane Mallarmé Paul Verlaine

Which song opens Gershwin's Porgy and Bess?

Summertime

Which of the following movies includes a famous musical/visual contradiction scene?

The Godfather

Which of the following characterize the premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in 1924?

The work was conducted by Paul Whiteman The concert was billed as "An Experiment in Modern Music"

Which of the following describes the Fisk Jubilee Singers?

They were a part of Fisk University They toured in the US They raised enough money to construct a major building on the Fisk Campus They toured in Europe

Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for:

Treemonisha

Adolphe Sax was a famous musical instrument inventor who positively affected bands in the United States.

True

America's vernacular traditions also included music for brass bands.

True

As a white musician, George Gershwin's social status allowed him opportunities that black musicians could not enjoy in the 1920s.

True

At the turn of the 1800s, camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background.

True

Bernstein's work shows a real feeling for the New York urban scene.

True

George Gershwin is known for songs that draw on ragtime, blues, and jazz.

True

George Gershwin sold sheet music on New York's Tin Pan Alley.

True

George Gershwin's instrumental works reflect a merger of jazz elements and the European concert tradition.

True

Impressionist composers used various non-Western scale patterns in their works.

True

In the movie Jaws, the shark is represented by a two-note oscillating motive.

True

Jazz developed from a blending of African music with art and popular traditions of the West.

True

Leonard Bernstein achieved fame as the first American-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

True

Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of scat singing.

True

Recent trends in musical theater include shows based on dancing.

True

Sondheim's musicals are typically more sophisticated than those of his predecessors.

True

Source music refers to music that functions as part of the drama itself, such as a character turning on a radio.

True

Take the A Train is characterized by frequent call-and-response between instruments.

True

The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world.

True

The United States Marine Band has a history dating back to the eighteenth century.

True

The composer of the soundtrack for the end of E.T. uses music to establish a sorrowful mood.

True

The singing of spirituals offered the slave community a sense of solidarity.

True

The whole-tone scale was a favored device of Impressionist composers.

True

Debussy was highly influenced by non-- and traditional music styles heard at the - World Exhibition of 1889.

Western Paris

Summertime, from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, is best described as a(n):

aria

The music of Tan Dun was - by the - government, who called it "spiritual pollution." Because of this, Tan Dun left China and moved to New York, where he studied - at Columbia University.

banned Chinese composition

In the West Side Story collaboration, - Jerome Robbins was eager to depict the setting's "gritty realism," and encouraged the composer, Bernstein, to incorporate jazz, rock-and-roll, and - music like the mambo.

choreographer Latin

Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

chromatic and with a free rhythm

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" features:

chromaticism antique cymbals homophonic texture "blue chords"

Some contemporary musicals look back to the ____________ for their source of narrative material.

classics

The musical West Side Story is the result of collaboration between - Leonard Bernstein, - Stephen Sondheim, and - Jerome Robbins.

composer lyricist choreographer

In the last section of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" antique _______________ are introduced.

cymbals

Which best describes the musical characteristics of the opening theme of John Williams's Imperial March from Star Wars?

disjunct melody minor tonality incessant rhythm

In Farewell from the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the main melodies are played by the cello and _____________ .

erhu

Which verse of Billie's Blues has a typical blues text?

first

Which instrument is featured in the opening melody of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

flute

Match the description to the musical element found in Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag that it best matches.

harmony-major melodic contour-disjunct rhythm-syncopation form-AABBACCDD texture-homophonic

Which of the following describes the style of ragtime?

highly syncopated melodies clear-cut sections balanced phrasing

Bernstein's union of _________ and musical theatre resulted in West Side Story.

jazz

George Gershwin's fame is largely attributed to his incorporating ______________ styles in his music.

jazz

Which of the following helps create a frenetic pulse in Mambo from West Side Story?

jazzy riffs in woodwinds and brass bongos cowbells

Which of the following are characteristics of big-band jazz?

large ensemble ensemble that includes brass, reeds, and rhythm instruments

In order to associate the music with a character, John Williams utilizes ______________.

leitmotifs

The texture of African American spirituals is best described as:

monophonic with some heterophonic elaboration

The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns a:

mythological creature in a dream like state

George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess falls between the genres of - and musical -. Gershwin himself called it a - opera.

opera theater folk

From which European stage genre did American musical theater develop?

operetta

What scale is utilized in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

pentatonic

Which of the following is a characteristic of Impressionist music?

pentatonic scales unresolved dissonances rich orchestral color modal scales

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" draws its program from a Symbolist ____________.

poem

Which of the following were popular musical styles in the United States in the late nineteenth century?

ragtime marches for wind band

Which of the following were common forms of musical expression amongst African American communities in the nineteenth century?

ring shouts spirituals work songs

When the mood of the music contradicts what is being shown on the screen, it is called:

running counter to the action

The most important function of music in film is to:

set the mood

Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?

solo piano

Strayhorn's Take the A Train is in 32-bar ___________ form.

song

Although it was quite popular, West Side Story was also criticized for its _____________ portrayal of Latino characters.

stereotypical

Which genre best describes the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

symphonic poem

The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as:

ternary (A-B-A')

Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?

the Harlem Renaissance

John Williams has written music for:

the Olympics Barack Obama's inauguration film scores

Which best describes the form of a typical blues text?

three-line stanza, with the first two lines the same

Which two instruments have featured solos in Billie's Blues:

trumpet clarinet

- games have long employed source music to help give more satisfying feedback to a player's - and underscoring to add intensity and meaning to a flow of action in a --playing game.

video actions role