HST Music Unit 7

What is so unique about the music in Bullitt during the epic car-chase scene?

The underscore drops out and only the noise of the chase is heard

Regarding his score for 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

Based on his own words, Clint Mansell would not be able to create film music without computer technology.

True

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

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

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

Elements of sound collage (or, found sound) can be found in all EXCEPT which of the following musical works?

"Rite of Spring" by Stravinsky

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

"Shadow Soundings" by Bill Fontana

We probably would have never heard of Moog if it had not been for this recording sensation of 1969 by Wendy Carlos:

"Switched-On Bach"

The Internet has allowed creative and performative collaborations to take place between people at opposite sides of the world in real time.

True

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

Which of the following was the first film with a functional jazz score?

A Streetcar Named Desire in 1951

Which of the following genres were the new formats of radio, TV, and tape NOT instrumental in spreading?

Classical

Which of the following was the first feature-length film with prerecorded sound and music (but not dialogue)?

Don Juan in 1926

For new art forms to exist, no element of prior technology can be in use.

False

There is no practical, real-world divide between "artistic" music and "functional" music.

False

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

Forbidden Planet in 1956

In 1973, while DJs played music for the disco scene and block parties, 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 dancing. For this reason, he's known as the Father of _________.

Hip-hop

Which of the following was the first film with a full music soundtrack, including an original thematic underscore?

King Kong in 1933

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

Luigi Russolo

German engineers perfected this technology during the World War II:

Magnetic tape recording

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

More artists than before are breaking through to global success

How was sound captured (not stored) for radio and recording after the mid-1920s?

P2P networks is the wrong answer

Lee Paul's goals for producing a solid-body wood guitar included

Producing a more brilliant tone that a hollowbody

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

This method of information transfer was vital to both Yamaha and Freeman's methods of creation.

Reverse engineering

Postwar reforms in Western music education put more emphasis on instrumental performance and music theory than _____________, and so extended the market for those instruments.

Singing

What is it that separates digital sampling from traditional musical borrowing?

Sound, once rendered into data, can be manipulated in a variety of ways down to the smallest details, including the ambience of the room in which it was originally recorded

What music distribution technology became popular in the automobile starting in the mid-1960s?

Tape cartridges and cassettes

Which of the following was the first feature-length film with prerecorded music and spoken dialogue?

The Jazz Singer in 1927

What machine did Radio Corporation of America acoustics lab develop, hoping to someday replace live musicians?

The Mark I and II

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

The Theremin is the wrong answer

What was considered the most important means of expression for violinists before the twentieth century?

The bow

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

The reverse salient of noise was defined as a forward salient

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.

There is already at least one AI composer earning royalties on music they have composed.

True

What was the defining elements of the Moog and Buchla synthesizers?

Voltage-controlled modular units

Which of the following did NOT help generate interest in the player piano during the early twentieth century?

World War II

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

Yamaha cared more about quality than mass production is the wrong answer

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 keep in constant touch with each other via chain letters is the wrong answer

In 1853, United States Navy Commodore Matthew Perry was sent with a fleet of warships to force the opening of Japanese ports to American trade and brought with him ____________.

A military brass band

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

Acoustic horn

Which of the following is the best definition of a "sampler"?

An electronic or digital musical instrument that uses sound recordings of real instrument (or other) sounds or excerpts from prerecorded songs

Which of the following is NOT an example of early self-playing instruments?

Autoharp

Serviceman Jack Mullin brought the German Magnetophon back to the United States after the war and introduced it to this iconic singer, who used it to tape his broadcasts in advance:

Bing Crosby

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

"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy

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

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