American Popular Music Midterm

The first sound film was ___________________________ .

"The Jazz Singer" (1927)

The basic features of the blues form include which of the following?

1. A twelve-bar structure made up of three phrases of four bars each 2. A basic three-chord pattern 3. A three-line AAB text

The Fibonacci Sequence plays into art, math, nature, and music. What is it?

A pattern of numbers (1, 1, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 etc.

What is the best definition of a "standard?"

A song that surpasses nostalgia with popularity and covers performances for decades

Which of the follow is NOT considered by our book as a "stream of tradition" influence in the popular music of the United States?

Asian-American Stream

Who was the host of the MTV show "Total Request Live"?

Carson Daly

From which stream of influence does the "high lonesome sound" commonly heard in country music hail?

European-American stream

Which of the following stanzas uses the structure most closely associated with the twelve-bar blues?

Feelin' tomorrow like I feel today Feelin' tomorrow like I feel today I'll pack my grip and make my getaway

Which one is NOT a Broadway/songwriter composer from the 1920s on?

Fred Astaire

The "jazz age" refers to ______________________________ .

From WWI into the Great Depression

Which crooner released the hit "My Blue Heaven" in 1927?

Gene Austin

a composer of multiple genres whose brother often was his lyricist

George Gershwin

who chooses the musical parts and instrumentation

arranger

Which term is common in a tradition stream and means a song that tells a story, usually in strophic form?

ballad

Two main melody chunks, beginning with one and ending with the other

binary

Bessie Smith's genre

blues

Ethel Waters' genre

blues

Ma Rainey's genre

blues

buzz air through a metal bowl mouthpiece

brass

A music chunk that is different than the others (usually other 2)

bridge

Which term is common in a tradition stream and means a song that has a leader sing with a group that sings back a music answer of sorts?

call and response

geographical cities or areas known for their music recording business

centers and peripheries

who writes the music?

composer

Which singing style emerged soon after the invention of the electronic microphone? (use a glossary)

crooning

speech articulating an ethical, cultural, or regional accent

dialect

the volume choices in the music

dynamics

who supervises the recording process?

engineer

How the music is constructed, usually by chunks of melody

form

The underlying beat feel of a piece of popular music can be described as the ____________ .

groove

when two or more pitches occur at the same time

harmony

Carter Family's genre

hillbilly music

music that begins before the "A" section

introduction

choosing to hear music by formal analysis including form, riffs, hooks, etc.

listening

who writes the words to songs?

lyricist

a string of chosen pitches

melody

the role music has played in an individuals life through home, regional, and/or ethnic influences

music and identity

different ways music has been recorded and distributed over the decades

music and technology

who performs the music

musicians

music that ends the piece after the last music chunk

outro

strike, hit, shake, or rub the instrument to make sound

percussions

A box that plays music from a grooved disk

phonograph

who coordinates the process of a performance or recording

producer

What did the music industry call recordings from the 1920's until the late 1940's that were made by African Americans artists and produced mainly for sale to African American listeners?

race records

sound organized over time which includes beat and meter

rhythm

A small, repeated pattern in a piece of popular music can be described as a _____________ .

riff

In which city was Tin Pan Alley located?

New York City

White group from New Orleans led by the cornetist (trumpet) Nick LaRocca. Their music soundtracks like "Tiger Rag", "Livery Stable Blues", and "Dixieland Jass Band One-Step." (March 1917), sparked a national fad for jazz music.

Original Dixieland Jazz

Which group recorded the first jazz record in 1917 and recorded "Tiger Rag" in 1918?

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

A jazz orchestra that had the debut of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"

Paul Whiteman

Bandleader for the most successful dance orghestra of the 1920s. He was known as the "King of Jazz" because he wided the market for jazz-based dance music, and paved away for the Swing Era.

Paul Whiteman

Which country blues artist's guitar playing was so remarkable that stories circulated claiming he sold his soul to the devil?

Robert Johnson

Which 1927 musical featured music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and was a new kind of musical show of unprecedented seriousness and depth?

Show Boat

a vibrating string make the sound

strings

One melody chunk repeated with different lyrics

strophic

the speed of the musical beat

tempo

Two main melody chunks, beginning with one, moving to the other, ending with the first one

ternary

the interaction of melody, rhythm, and harmony

texture

What is "timbre"?

the characteristic sound of a voice or instrument

different individuals play in getting music from talent discovery through recording for distribution

the music business

a variety show that dominated the late 19th & early 20th Century

vaudeville

blow air through a tube or over a reed

woodwinds

Which artist called himself the "Father of the Blues," wrote hits such as "Memphis Blues" and "St. Louis Blues," and was the most influential of the classic blues composers?

William Christopher (W. C.) Handy

Which singer is most associated with the plight of American workers during the Great Depression?

Woody Guthrie

Which ensemble recorded "Dippermouth Blues?"

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

jazz band in which Louis Armstrong got his start

King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

Born in New Orelans; a cornetist and singer. He established certain core features of jazz, particulary its rhythmic drive and its emphasis on solo instrumental virtuosity. He also profoundly influenced the development of mainstream popular singing during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1964, he had a #1 hit with his version, "Hello, Dolly"

Louis Armstrong

Patsy Montana's music

Hillbilly music

Which of the following is true about the country blues?

It emerged in the Mississippi Delta and was first recorded in the 1920s.

Talented African American pianist and conductor. Played Ragtime piano in cabarets and acted as a musical director for several all-black vaudeville revues.

James Reece Europe

pianist and conductor whose orchestra embraces "new" dance rhythms

James Reece Europe

Which of the following is generally true about Tin Pan Alley songs?

They did not deal directly with the troubling issues of the 1920s and 1930s

A place in New York City where sheet music publishers resided

Tin Pan Alley

(T/F) A musician can hold some or all of the follow roles: composer, lyricist, producer, and/or arranger.

True

(T/F) To find the Phi point in a song, we multiply the length of the song (in seconds) by .618, then convert back into minutes and seconds.

True