MHL Chapter 7-11

The famous song "Ol' Man River" was written for

Show Boat.

Which is not true regarding William Schuman's New England Triptych?

it is a choral work.

Which of the following is not true regarding the "twelve bar" blues?

it is broken down into four, three-measure lines.

Blues harmony is distinctive because

it utilizes unusual chord patterns.

"Sweet jazz" added significantly to the art of

jazz arranging.

"Stride" and "boogie-woogie" are terms that are both related to

jazz piano.

The classical Hollywood film score usually featured

lavish sounds of orchestral instruments.

Pop music scores became popular in which decade?

1950s

The classical blues contains how many lines of text?

3

Which of the following composers worked very diligently to promote the music of American composers to the American public?

Aaron Copland.

William Grant Still identified most closely with the experience of the

African American.

Which of the following most significantly impacted the development of jazz?

African rhythms.

_______________ was an influential early jazz soloist whose lyrical, introspective improvisations on the cornet could be said to be the model for the cool jazz of later years.

Bix Beiderbecke

Musical quotations are an inherent part of the compositions of

Charles Ives.

Which of the following became a center for jazz immediately following the exodus of jazz musicians from New Orleans?

Chicago.

Noted film composer Bernard Hermann made a name for himself with his score for the film

Citizen Kane.

Of the following composers, which is best remembered for his film scores?

Erich Korngold.

Which of the following was not a famous lyricist?

Eubie Blake.

The first outstanding composers of operettas performed in America were from

Europe

A "book show" is a musical based on a famous popular novel.

False

A recitative is a dramatic soliloquy in song.

False

Early film music used authentic Native American music to depict Indians in the movies.

False

In the 1930s, most of the composers working on film scores were American.

False

Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith are considered pioneer jazz instrumentalists.

False

Silent films involved no music at all.

False

The first movie to use sound was The Jazz Singer.

False

In the 1920s, many young American composers traveled to _________ to study music.

France

The composer of Porgy and Bess was

George Gershwin.

Give My Regards to Broadway and Yankee Doodle Boy were written by

George M. Cohan.

The first significant American composer to turn to the East for inspiration was

Henry Cowell.

The "father of stride piano" was

James P. Johnson

Which composer considered silence non-existent, and created an entire work of "silence" to prove the point?

John Cage.

Which composer listed below is credited with the return to the full orchestral score in such movies as Star Wars and Jaws?

John Williams.

Which American opera is based on the lives of people who lived in a black tenement area in Charleston, South Carolina?

Porgy and Bess.

The landmark show of the 1920s was

Show Boat.

Which of these Broadway musicals preceded the others?

Show Boat.

Which of the following is a current American composer who is sometimes considered America's premiere composer for the musical stage?

Stephen Sondheim.

A soundtrack includes dialogue and sound effects as well as film music.

True

Current film scores are sometimes "packaged" by Hollywood for an MTV-inspired audience.

True

Jazz roots are partially found in European marches and dances.

True

John Williams was a film composer who made the romantic sound of the classical film score popular again.

True

Samuel Barber's attraction to singing and song is evident in his instrumental works.

True

The music heard by the movie goers but not the characters in the film is known as functional music.

True

The orchestra sometimes assumes a psychological role in opera, making references to ideas.

True

The roots of the jazz combo are in New Orleans.

True

The tendency to revive old musicals in the 1990s was largely associated with rising production costs.

True

Unrequited love is a typical blues topic.

True

Urban blues had a strong association with jazz.

True

West Side Story is a retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

True

Which of the following was a strong influence on American musical comedy?

Viennese operettas.

The "father of the blues" was

W. C. Handy.

Which of the following is not a rock musical?

West Side Story.

An early African American composer of musical shows was

Will Marion Cook.

Which of the following composers is not a minimalist composer?

William Schuman.

The Crash of 1929 and the availability of home radios led to which of the following?

a decrease in the sale of sheet music.

Lerner and Lowe were

a famous Broadway team.

A song cycle is

a set of songs that are connected by theme.

A combo is

a small band.

Abstract expressionist painters share many ideals with the composers of ______ music.

aleatoric.

Modern melodies are often more __________ than melodies of the nineteenth century.

angular

Showy vocal display is most appropriate in which of the following?

aria

"Saturday Night Live" follows in which of the following traditions?

burlesque.

Which of the following began as a kind of variety show that ridicules something important, such as political situations?

burlesque.

Which of the following requires that the performer capture a live sound before it is electronically manipulated?

concrete music.

Blues form provides spaces for performers to

create impromptu musical responses.

Which of the following best describes the Harlem Renaissance?

cultural movement in 1920s Harlem focusing on "high art" in various art forms.

Most of Ives' music was written in the _________ century.

early twentieth

The theremin was the earliest

electronic instrument used in films.

Classic blues singers were primarily men.

false

Combining two or more rhythmic patterns creates polyphony.

false

It is possible to perform microtones on a traditional piano.

false

The symphony orchestra has undergone major instrumentation changes in the last thirty years.

false

New Orleans jazz musicians improvised upon

familiar tunes.

Which of the following describes diegetic music?

film music that emanates from a source on screen, such as a radio.

Oscar Hammerstein II was best known as a

lyricist.

Copland's Rodeo and Appalachian Spring both represent which genre?

modern dance music.

Which of the following strongly integrates songs, dances and instrumental pieces with a story?

operetta

The musical comedy blended elements of

operetta and vaudeville.

Which of the following opera components is strictly instrumental?

overture

The instrument on which Henry Cowell performed most of his experiments was the

piano

The Banshee utilizes which of the following techniques?

prepared piano.

Most of Ive's music is considered

programmatic.

Classical music in the second half of the 20th Century has

remained relatively stable with few dramatic changes.

A musical variety show with a common theme is called a

revue

The RCA Mark II was the first __________ in the United States.

synthesizer

New Orleans became an important center for jazz in part because

the "Storyville" district provided job opportunities for musicians.

Jazz instrumentation that evolved in New Orleans can be most directly traced to

the availability of recently used Civil War band instruments.

Irene and Vernon Castle were pioneers in which of the following traditions?

the dancing couple on stage.

The "book" in a musical comedy relates to

the libretto in an opera.

The basic harmonic pattern of the blues is limited to which of the following chords?

tonic, dominant, and subdominant.

Aaron Copland wrote scores for film and radio as well as orchestral literature.

true

Classic blues was conceived primarily as entertainment.

true

Duke Ellington and William Grant Still were both involved in the Harlem Renaissance.

true

Experimental music sometimes used the human voice as an "instrument."

true

Minimalist music is rooted in the principle of repetition.

true

Prepared piano requires that the performer physically modify the piano.

true

Some American composers invented entirely new scales as well as instruments.

true

The roots of rural blues are found in the field holler.

true

Louis Armstrong was a virtuoso performer on the

trumpet

Which of the following resembles a minstrel show, but added a wider variety of entertainment such as circus stunts and comedy teams?

vaudeville shows.