Exam 4 MUS APR
During his brief stay in France, Gershwin wrote _____.
An American in Paris
Billie Holiday's first break came when she recorded with white clarinetist
Benny Goodman
Which European composer was an early supporter of African American musical styles like the spiritual?
Dvořák
Which best describes the form of the choruses in Billie's Blues?
Each chorus is 12 bars long.
George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess reflects the music of:
European art traditions and folk traditions of the United States.
A chorus in the blues usually is usually 19 bars long.
False
By the turn of the twentieth century, Los Angeles had become the center of music publishing in the United States.
False
Debussy primarily utilized sonata-allegro form in his large works.
False
Debussy used conventional orchestration.
False
Debussy's music rarely looks to influences from other cultures.
False
George Gershwin lived a long life.
False
George Gershwin was encouraged by Nadia Boulanger to perfect his classical training.
False
Gershwin's Porgy and Bess does not comment on race relations.
False
Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.
False
Irving Berlin was the least successful Tin Pan Alley composer.
False
Louis Armstrong was a famous New Orleans pianist.
False
Spirituals fell out of circulation after the Civil War in the United States.
False
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was originally composed in the first decade of the twentieth century.
False
The Washington Post has a military theme.
False
The Washington Post was never recorded.
False
The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small.
False
The premiere of The Rite of Spring was uneventful in Paris.
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
Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?
Harlem Renaissance
Who of the following arranged spirituals for solo voice and piano?
Harry T. Burleigh
To where did Stravinsky move at the onset of World War II?
Los Angeles
Who was one of the principal performers of cool jazz?
Miles Davis
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects which of the following traditions?
Native, African, and European Americans
Which of the following is an opera by Debussy?
Pelléas et Mélisande
Summertime is from the Gershwin stage work:
Porgy and Bess.
In the creation of The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky worked with other artists from his native country of:
Russia.
Billie Holiday's most famous song was:
Strange Fruit
The Firebird, Petrushka, and Rite of Spring are ballets by:
Stravinsky.
Who gave the Marine Band its informal title, "The President's Own?"
Thomas Jefferson
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
At the turn of the 1800s, camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background.
True
Billie Holiday was one of the first African American singers to sing in public with a white orchestra.
True
Burleigh's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot calls upon jazz and blues traditions.
True
Congo Square in New Orleans historically was a place where African American music was experienced.
True
Debussy is considered to be an Impressionist composer.
True
Early jazz developed from a blending of African music with art and popular traditions of the West.
True
Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, was established as a college for freed slaves.
True
George Gershwin wrote a concerto.
True
Gershwin is known for his songs that draw on ragtime, blues, and jazz.
True
Gershwin's works reflect a merger of jazz elements and classical genres.
True
Harry T. Burleigh was an editor for a music publisher.
True
Impressionist artists and composers looked to mythological themes for inspiration.
True
Impressionist composers used various non-Western scale patterns in their works.
True
In the middle of the twentieth century, Brazilian and Cuban musical influences could be heard in jazz.
True
James Reese Europe introduced jazz and ragtime to France during World War I
True
Leonard Bernstein was inspired to incorporate jazz into his music because of Gershwin's efforts.
True
Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of scat singing.
True
Many composers in the early twentieth century continued to be influenced by non-Western music.
True
Programmatic music continued in the Impressionist period.
True
Ragtime was originally a dance style that featured highly syncopated melodies.
True
Sousa apprenticed in the U.S. Marine Band and then later became its director.
True
Sousa championed composers' rights regarding copyright law and profits.
True
Sousa died of a heart attack after conducting The Stars and Stripes Forever.
True
Sousa's The Washington Post gave rise to a dance craze.
True
Storytelling was common in the music of black slaves in nineteenth-century America.
True
Stravinsky did not include authentic French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring.
True
Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic.
True
Symbolism was the literary equivalent of Impressionism.
True
The Fisk arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is strophic.
True
The Paris World Exhibition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world.
True
The Rite of Spring can be performed as a concert work.
True
The United States Marine Band has a history dating back to the eighteenth century.
True
The singing of spirituals offered the slave community a sense of solidarity.
True
While initially suspicious of recording technology, Sousa eventually came around to the mass-marketing possibilities it provided.
True
The program for Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns:
a mythological creature in a dreamlike state.
The United States Marine Band was established by
an act of Congress.
Which instrument, playing in its highest register, begins The Rite of Spring,?
bassoon
Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk were figureheads of what jazz style?
bebop
What elements of Latin American music had an influence on jazz?
both dance rhythms and percussion instruments
Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
chromatic and languorous
The two instrumental solos in Billie's Blues feature:
clarinet and trumpet
When was the Harlem Renaissance?
during the early part of the twentieth century
Which verse of Billie's Blues has a typical blues text?
first
Which melodic instrument is featured in the opening melody of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
flute
John Philip Sousa was famous for:
his operettas and his marches
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?
large-scale forms
Sousa's The Washington Post is a(n):
march for wind band.
The texture of African American spirituals is best described as _____.
monophonic with some elaboration
Which of the following does Stravinsky use to minimize harmonic changes?
ostinatos, pedal points, and melodic repetition
What scale is utilized in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?
pentatonic
The ideals of which movement best describes the music of The Rite of Spring?
primitivism
Stravinsky's revitalization of rhythm in The Rite of Spring is closely associated with:
primitivism.
Stravinsky is largely recognized for his revitalizing of which musical element?
rhythm
What is the basis of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?
scenes of pagan Russia
What are the repeated sections in a march called?
strains
Which genre best describes 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').
The text of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on a story from what source?
the Holy Bible
When did wind bands get their start in the United States?
the Revolutionary War
Where was John Philip Sousa born?
the United States
Where did Stravinsky live in the last years of his life?
the United States of America
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?
use of chamber orchestra
The 1910 recording of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by the Fisk Jubilee Singers is stored on what type of recording technology?
wax cylinder
