MUS CH 14 REVIEW QUIZ

Like Tin Pan Alley, Broadway embraced ragtime and, from the 1920s until well after World War II, many popular songs would display some degree of _______ influence.

BLUES

Who among the following possessed an especially strong gift for melodic improvisation?

Billie Holiday

An example of a new up-to-date musical comedy of the 1920s was The Student Prince with songs by George and Ira Gershwin.

False

Composer Jerome Kern got his start in America.

False

Erich Wolfgang Korngold scored the soundtrack for Gone with the Wind.

False

Richard Rodgers had a troubled partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II.

False

Which jazz artist had the most significant influence on vocalists?

Louis Armstrong

The film scores of _________ set the tone for what has been called Hollywood's "golden age."

Max Steiner

With whom did Fred Astaire NOT collaborate?

Richard Rodgers

Which animation film did Walt Disney produce in 1928?

Steamboat Willie

Most classic American popular songs began life in a musical comedy.

True

Most show songs that won popularity in the years between the two world wars were about romantic love.

True

The Birth of a Nation makes uses of leitmotif technique.

True

The Jazz Singer was the first film to demonstrate that a spoken soundtrack was marketable.

True

Which of the following film genres used popular music prominently and in pathbreaking ways?

all of these options

The rise of ______________ as a popular medium of art and entertainment was one of the most important cultural developments in the years between the world wars.

motion pictures

Show Boat significantly fused which two dramatic genres?

musical comedy and operetta

Of the following, which is NOT an explicitly successful ingredient for an independent show tune?

sentimentality