Music 309

The term Euro-African refers to:

A hybrid of European and African culture

What is not a characteristic of Chicago blues style.

Acoustic 12 string guitar

Metallica recieved its first Grammy nomination for which of the following albums?

And' Justice for All

Which of the following is not a West African music characteristic.

Bel Canto singing

Which of the following is not an early country music star.

Bill Monroe

Who was the first white jazz musician whose work can be taken seriously?

Bix Beiderbeck

Bill Monroe represents which style of country music.

Bluegrass

The following musicians were Stax Record's house rhythm section

Booker T. Jones Steve Cropper and Donald Dunn

On the album Abbey Road, George Harrison is established as a significant song writer. He wrote which of the following songs.

Both, Something and Here Comes the Sun

Which of the following producers is credited with "Glamorizing and smothing out Presley's sound."

Chet Atkins and Steve Sholes

Robert Pittman is which of the following?

Created MTV.

He is a jazz musician associated with the west coast cool style. He wrote tunes in odd time signatures such as 5/4 and 9/8 and was featured on the cover of Time magazine in November 1954.

Dave Brubeck

The first significant recording by a black jazz band:

Dippermouth Blues

Which of the following composition represents the first generation of jazz:

Dippermouth Blues

What is not a characteristic of Delta blues style:

Distinct pronuciation of the lyrics.

Which of the following recordings used a cast of accomplish jazz musicians such as Branford Marsalis ans Kenny Kirkland?

Dream of the Blue Turtles

Because he combined instruments in unusual ways the following composer is known as one of the great orchestral "colorist."

Duke Ellington

Which of the following musicians/composers pattered his compositions after the personal in the band

Duke Ellington

Count Basie's arrangements were more complicated than Fletcher Henderson's arrangements:

False

Fiddlin' John Carson is considered "the Father of Country Music."

False

Hokum blues were sung primarily in churches.

False

Louis Jordon influenced the Memphis rockabilly style of early rock and roll.

False

Miles Davis recording "Bitches Brew" repesents the cool school style of jazz.

False

Rhythm is a sound of well-defined pitch.

False

Scott joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" is not in the form of most Ragtime tunes because it is monothematic.

False

There generally was little room for solos or improvizaationin Count Basie's arrangements.

False

He was an American progressive rock musician who was influenced by rhythm and blues and 20th century classical musicians such as Karlheinz Stockhausen and Igor Stravinsky.

Frank Zappa

He was an American Academy Award-winning film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor.

Fred Astaire

The folowing progressive rock band is among the top 30 highest-selling recording artists of all time. In 1988 the band won a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video.

Genesis

Which of the following compositions was written originally as a piano rag?

Grandpa Spells

Who was the most legendary figure to come out of Acuff-Rose, and the most influential country musician since Jimmy Rodgers?

Hank Williams

Metallica is which of the following.

Heavy Metal

Ernest Tubb represents which style of country music?

Honky Tonk

This is considered the first jazz-rock fusion album.

In a silent Way

The song "Puttin' on the Ritz" was composed by:

Irving berlin

The following song writing teams productions helped to ensure the early popularity of rock and roll, and set the standard for a subgenre of rock music, novelty doo-wop:

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Miles Davis's first great quintet featured which famous saxophonist?

John Coltrane

This work is by the progressive rock group Emerson, Lake and Palmer (ELP).There are three movements called impressions, which depict a futuristic tale.

Karn Evil 9

This band was formed in 1968 by ex-Yardbird guitarist Jimmy Page, and it was this group that turned the corner from the blues-based rock bands of the late sixties to the heavy metal bands of the seventies.

Led Zeppelin

In the 1925 recording of "St. Louis Blues" the vocalist is accompanied by a soon to be famous instrumentalist named:

Louis Armstrong

Which of the following musicians was the first to use "Scat Singing" in a practical manner:

Louis Armstrong

The retro swing movement brought about a great reissue effort of which of the following artists?

Louis Prima and Louis Jordon

This was Hank Williams's first successful recording for the new MGM label, and it earned him his invitiation to perform on the Grand Ole Opry.

Lovesick Blues

What does the acronym MIDI stand for

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DIGITAL INTERFACE

Chuck Berry's first big hit was:

Maybellene

This instrument was used by progressive rock bands because it captured the sound of an orchestra or a choir before synthesizers could accurately re-create these sounds.

Mellatron

Buddy Holly represents which style of rock and roll?

Memphis Rockabilly

Which of the following artist broke the racial barrier that MTV had set in its programing.

Michael Jackson

This song by the Moody Blues was #2 on the USA charts when it was reissued in 1972.

Nights in White Satin

Who was the first modern female country music star?

Patsy Cline

Before pursueing a solo career, he was one of the founding members of the Grammy award winning progressive rock band Genesis.

Peter Gabriel

Which of the following companies developed the first viable digital medium at the consumer level with the compact disk.

Phillips Corp.

The Moody Blues shared a similar style to which of the following bands?

Procol Harum

Bill Haley in 1954 recorded what hit song?

Rock Around the Clock

What in not a characteristic of Atlanta blues style:

Rough vocal style with slurred words

In 1938 the dobro was introduced to America by:

Roy Acuff

Which of the following producers discovered Elvis Presley?

Sam Phillips

Bix Beiderbecke wrote and performed the following composition;

Singin' the Blues

Parlor Songs were:

Specifically tailored for the amateur market.

Which style of jazz is Miles davis not associated with?

Swing

ASCAP stands for:

The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers.

The first performers on MTV were:

The Buggles

George D. Hay started a barn-dance show in the 1920's. The show eventually became not only a radio show but a booking agency which launched the careers of many counry music stars. The name of the show is:

The Grand Ole Opry

The earlist known blues musicians came from:

The Mississippi Delta

Chet Atkins represents which style of country music.

The Nashville Sound

Which of the following songs represents the greatest single event leading to the establishment of Nashville as a world music center?

The Tennessee Waltz

He was a blues composer and American gospel pioneer who combined Baptist lyrics and Sanctified beat with the stylized delivery of blues and jazz.

Thomas A. Dorsey

The phonograph was invented by:

Thomas Edison

Blind Lemon Jefferson was the most famous texas blues guitarist.

True

Charlie Parker and John "Dizzy" gillespie pioneered the style of jazz called bebop:

True

Count Basie was associated with the "Kansas City" style of swing jazz:

True

Electric microphones were originally developes for radio

True

Elvis Presely's stle is Memphis rockabilly.

True

Ethnocentrism is the unconscious assumption that one's own cultural background is "normal" while others are "strange."

True

Form is the structure of the composition.

True

Grunge music came from the Pacific Northwest.

True

Pitch is the high or lowness of sound.

True

Progressive rock is a fusion of rock and classical music.

True

Scott Joplin was the most famous ragtime pianist.

True

The "Swing Era" was the most popular period for jazz:

True

The automatic player piano was very popular before the wide spread use of the phonograph.

True

The basic repertoire for bebop musicians was the body of Tin Pan Alley popular songs:

True

The earliest country music recordings were conducted by Ralph Peer, a producer for GPC.

True

The first sythesizers were monophonic (they only played one note at a time).

True

The progressive rock music movement which emerged in the late 1960s was primarily British.

True

Which is not a characteristic of African-American music:

Un-steady rhythm

This type of American entertainment, grew out of the culture of incorporation that defined American life after the Civil War and marked the beginning of popular entertainment as big business.

Vaudeville

Stephen Foster

Was the greatest American song composer of the 19th century.

Bob Wills and His Texas playboys represent which style of country music.

Western Swing

This art rock song is based on " Air on a G String" by J.S Bach.

Whiter Shade of Pale

This art rock band released the album "Fragil" in 1971 which included the hit song "Roundabout".

Yes

The term "crooner" refers to:

a mellow alto or baritone singer

The use of the microphone in electric recording after the mid 1920s allowed performers to:

all of the answers(allowed for a more intimate presentation of the song,Introduce music more suited for the living room instead of the theater.,pile up nuances and be more expressive.)

Tin Pan Alley

all of the answers(appealed to the broadest possible audience,set the standard for commercial success,was the music establishment)

Which is not a characteristic of cool jazz?

both 2 and 4 Fast tempos/Less emphasis on the arrangement

Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Nat King Cole are all:

crooners

King's X is considered a:

hard rock band.

Phil Spector is known for:

the Wall of Sound