Music Exam 4

Scott Joplin is considered the king of what?

"King of Ragtime"

The structure of thirty-two-bar song form can best be outlined as:

A-A-B-A

Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring are ballets by:

Aaron Copland

Which composer was blacklisted during the "red scare" of the 1950s and 60s?

Aaron Copland and Leonard Berstein

Much of the music at the original Woodstock festival reflected:

Anti-Vietnam War sentiments

Billie Holiday made history when she performed with _______ since blacks and whites were not allowed to perform together on stage at that time.

Benny Goodman

Silvestre Revueltas was representative of what movement?

Contemporary in Mexico

Strayhorn's Take the A Train was a signature tune for the:

Duke Ellington orchestra

Which musician is NOT known for performing political music in the 1950s and 60s?

Elvis Presley

Which popular artist was paid an unprecedented $50,000 to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s?

Elvis Presley

Impressionist composers often made use of what type of meter

Free flowing meter

William Grant Still was a representative of what Renaissance movement

Harlem Renaissance movement.

From which region of Mexico does the mariachi ensemble originate?

Jalisco

Which composer arranged Copland's Appalachian Spring as a quartet for President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony?

John Williams

The work that catapulted Scott Joplin to fame was:

Maple Leaf Rag

Copland collaborated with who in his work Appalachian Spring?

Martha Graham

The orchestration in Revueltas's Son emulates the sound of:

Mexican mariachi bands

The mariachi ensemble originated in?

Mexico

The music of Silvestre Revueltas reflects the folk songs of his native:

Mexico

William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano has what type of musical qualities?

Musical qualities found in blues

______ is considered the birthplace of jazz.

New Orleans

By the turn of the twentieth century, what city had become the artistic and cultural center of the United States?

New York City

Maurice Ravel is a ______ composer

Post-Impressionist

Which is NOT a ballet by Aaron Copland?

Sensemaya

The melody, Simple Gifts, heard in Appalachian Spring comes from the ________ tradition.

Shaker

The man that Revueltas is honoring in Homenaje was a:

Spanish poet killed by the Fascists

Ravel's music was influenced by...

Spanish, Iberian, and Arabian cultures

Which of these William Grant Still works was in part inspired by the sculpture African Dancer, by Richmond Barthe?

Suite for Violin and Piano

Which of the following was NOT a music-focused TV show in the 1950s?

Tim Pan Alley

Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for:

Treemonisha

As a young person, William Grant Still was hired to write arrangements for:

W.C. Handy

Revueltas's Homenaje is for what type of orchestra

a chamber orchestra with piano, winds, strings, and percussion.

The program for Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns:

a mythological creature in a wine induced sleep

Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring was composed to be a portrayal of?

a pioneer celebration in spring around a newly-built farmhouse in the Pennsylvania hills in the early 19th century

Third stream jazz is a(n):

a style that combines classical and jazz

Fusion can be characterized as a:

a style that combines jazz improvisation with rock amplification

Which best describes the form of a typical blues text?

a three line stanza, with the first tow line the same

Bebop's trademark style is characterized by:

a two-note phrase

Copland cited what type of hymn in his ballet Appalachian Spring?

an American traditional hymn

Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were associated with developing:

bebop

Duke Ellington is associated with:

big band jazz

Take the A Train is characterized by a frequent_________

call-and-response between instruments.

Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

chromatic and freely flowing

Impressionist composers used what type of modes and scale patterns in their works.

church modes of the Middle Ages and various non-Western patterns

The two instrumental solos in Billie's Blues feature:

clarinet and trumpet

Miles Davis is associated with:

cool jazz

The Wall Street crash of 1929 was the catalyst for the creation of what type of entertainments found in musical theater?

escapist entertainments found in musical theater. (T/F)

African-American composer William Grant Still did not write classical music. (T/F)

false

Joplin's opera Treemonisha was an instant success. (T/F)

false

Popular music in the last half of the twentieth century was rarely political. (T/F)

false

Rap music by such artists as Chuck D from Public Enemy were rarely political. (T/F)

false

Ravel's music rarely looks to influences form other cultures. (T/F)

false

Revueltas's music is filled with direct quotations of Mexican folk music. (T/F)

false

The big band phenomenon ended prior to World War II. (T/F)

false

Tin Pan Alley was a street where all the composers of ragtime lived. (T/F)

false

Which verse of Billie's Blues has a typical blues text?

first

Revueltas incorporated what type of rhythms in his music?

folkloric

Ragtime was originally a piano style that featured what type of melodies?

highly syncopated melodies.

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" features:

homophonic texture

George M. Cohan was an important composer of what type of songs?

inspirational patriotic songs.

Gershwin's works reflect a merger of what two forms?

jazz elements and classical forms. (T/F)

Big band jazz is a:

large ensemble style with sections of brass, reeds and rhythm instruments

A guitarrón is a(n):

large guitar

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?

large scale forms

The rhythm of Revueltas's Homage to Federico García Lorca is characteristic of the Mexican________:

mestizo dance music

Revueltas was for a time the assistant conductor of the what national orchestra?

national orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica) in Mexico.

Joplin recorded his own piano rags on what?

on a player piano.

The third movement, Son, can be described as?

rondo-like with its sectional form.

Louis Armstrong was a famous_________

scat singer and trumpeter and the most important single force in the development of early jazz styles

Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of what?

scat singing

The term that refers to metric shifting between duple and triple in Latin American music is:

sesquialtera

Billie's Blues consists of an introduction and _______ choruses.

six

A strain in ragtime music is comprised of how many measures?

sixteen measures

Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?

solo piano

Rags, like marches, are structured in regular, duple-meter sections known as _____, each of which is usually repeated.

strains

The insistent bass in the last movement of William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano resembles which jazz piano style?

stride

Which genre best describes the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

symphonic poem

CH. 34 The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as:

ternary A-B-A'

William Grant Still was an important voice for:

the Harlem renaissance

Which is NOT true of a typical blues progression?

the number of bars for each section varies

A "blue note" implies a slight drop in the pitch of what?

the third, fifth, or seventh tone of the scale.

The third movement, Son, from Homenaje a Federico García Lorca, is based on what type of form?

traditional dance form.

P. T. Barnum brought what type of music shows to New York City?

traveling music shows in New York venues.

Aaron Copland used early American songs in his works. (T/F)

true

Armed Forces Radio played patriotic tunes in their broadcasts. (T/F)

true

Early jazz developed from a blending of African music with art and popular traditions of the West. (T/F)

true

Film and radio did much to transmit music and dance trends. (T/F)

true

Jazz and ragtime were important to the dissemination of patriotic music after World War I. (T/F)

true

Many composers in the early twentieth century continued to be influenced by non-Western music. (T/F)

true

President Obama's 2008 campaign inspired popular musicians to create music with political undertones.

true

Programmatic music continued in the Impressionist period. (T/F)

true

Scott Joplin is one of the first African-American composers to receive wide recognition.

true

Strong feelings of patriotism arose in Mexico after the Revolution in 1910. (T/F)

true

The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world. (T/F)

true

William Grant Still wrote film and TV music as well as operas and symphonies. (T/F)

true

William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony was the first symphony by an African-American composer to be performed by a major American orchestra. (T/F)

true

Which is NOT a characteristic of mariachi music?

use of quarter tones

Immigrant composers were important in the history of what?

vaudeville.

What is the whole-tone scale built off of

whole-note intervals (without half steps)

Which family of instruments is featured in the opening melody of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

woodwinds