Survey of Music Final
George Gershwin's first big song hit was recorded in 1920 by _____________.
Al Jolson
Which piece did Gershwin write during his brief stay in France?
An American in Paris
Harry T. Burleigh worked with the European composer ___________________ while he was teaching in the United States.
Antonin Dvorak
In Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon composer Tan Dun masterfully blends Western and ____________ musical traditions.
Asian
American brass bands were originally an outgrowth of the ____________ military band.
British
Spirituals gained a broader presence in the United States after the - War largely due to the work of a touring - group from - University in Nashville, Tennessee.
Civil choral Fisk
The most important French Impressionist composer was Claude _____________.
Debussy
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is considered to reflect a combination of which cultures?
European American African American Native America
Bernstein showed no interest in writing film music.
False
George Gershwin avoided references to jazz and ragtime in his music.
False
George Gershwin was encouraged by Nadia Boulanger to perfect his classical training.
False
Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.
False
Louis Armstrong was a famous New Orleans pianist.
False
Programmatic music was discontinued in the Impressionist period.
False
Scott Joplin is considered the "March King."
False
Spirituals fell out of circulation after the Civil War in the United States.
False
The style and structure of African American spirituals were in strict imitation of European models.
False
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a favorite tune of which college-level performing group?
Fisk Jubilee Singers
Which of the following describes Harry T. Burleigh's career?
He arranged spirituals for voice and piano He worked for Dvorak He became an editor for a music publisher
Which of the following statements describe George Gershwin's career?
He sought to integrate jazz into "cultivated" music. He became a successful musician in his early twenties. Some people were suspicious of his utilizing a jazz style in largely European genres.
Which of the following is true of the origins of Impressionism?
It was rebuffed by the academic salons of Paris It was initially a term denoting scorn of the new style
Which composer wrote the scores to the first three Harry Potter films?
John Williams
_________________ is credited as having revived the grand symphonic film score.
John Williams
Which is the contemporary rock opera inspired by Puccini's La bohème?
Jonathan Larsen's Rent
Billie Holiday sang with which of the following jazz "greats"?
Louis Armstrong Benny Goodman
The fast-paced Afro-Cuban dance with a syncopated beat heard in The Dance at the Gym in Bernstein's West Side Story is called:
Mambo
Which French artist is credited with starting the Impressionistic movement with his painting?
Monet
__________ is where the fusion of ragtime, blues, and other musics resulted in the development of jazz.
New Orleans
Which are Broadway musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein?
Oklahoma! The Sound of Music South Pacific
The movie __________ is an example of a soundtrack that uses only source music.
Rear Window
Gershwin was inspired by the goals of the Harlem _________________.
Renaissance
_________ and Hammerstein are considered a great composer/lyricist team.
Rodgers
Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" was later choreographed by the great _____________ dancer Vaslav Nijinksy.
Russian
What is the literary basis for West Side Story?
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
____________ was a popular Jerome Kern musical from the 1920s with a serious plot.
Show Boat
Who wrote the lyrics for the musical West Side Story?
Stephen Sondheim
Which French Symbolist poets were highly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, a poet from the United States?
Stéphane Mallarmé Paul Verlaine
Which song opens Gershwin's Porgy and Bess?
Summertime
Which of the following movies includes a famous musical/visual contradiction scene?
The Godfather
Which of the following characterize the premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in 1924?
The work was conducted by Paul Whiteman The concert was billed as "An Experiment in Modern Music"
Which of the following describes the Fisk Jubilee Singers?
They were a part of Fisk University They toured in the US They raised enough money to construct a major building on the Fisk Campus They toured in Europe
Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for:
Treemonisha
Adolphe Sax was a famous musical instrument inventor who positively affected bands in the United States.
True
America's vernacular traditions also included music for brass bands.
True
As a white musician, George Gershwin's social status allowed him opportunities that black musicians could not enjoy in the 1920s.
True
At the turn of the 1800s, camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background.
True
Bernstein's work shows a real feeling for the New York urban scene.
True
George Gershwin is known for songs that draw on ragtime, blues, and jazz.
True
George Gershwin sold sheet music on New York's Tin Pan Alley.
True
George Gershwin's instrumental works reflect a merger of jazz elements and the European concert tradition.
True
Impressionist composers used various non-Western scale patterns in their works.
True
In the movie Jaws, the shark is represented by a two-note oscillating motive.
True
Jazz developed from a blending of African music with art and popular traditions of the West.
True
Leonard Bernstein achieved fame as the first American-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
True
Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of scat singing.
True
Recent trends in musical theater include shows based on dancing.
True
Sondheim's musicals are typically more sophisticated than those of his predecessors.
True
Source music refers to music that functions as part of the drama itself, such as a character turning on a radio.
True
Take the A Train is characterized by frequent call-and-response between instruments.
True
The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world.
True
The United States Marine Band has a history dating back to the eighteenth century.
True
The composer of the soundtrack for the end of E.T. uses music to establish a sorrowful mood.
True
The singing of spirituals offered the slave community a sense of solidarity.
True
The whole-tone scale was a favored device of Impressionist composers.
True
Debussy was highly influenced by non-- and traditional music styles heard at the - World Exhibition of 1889.
Western Paris
Summertime, from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, is best described as a(n):
aria
The music of Tan Dun was - by the - government, who called it "spiritual pollution." Because of this, Tan Dun left China and moved to New York, where he studied - at Columbia University.
banned Chinese composition
In the West Side Story collaboration, - Jerome Robbins was eager to depict the setting's "gritty realism," and encouraged the composer, Bernstein, to incorporate jazz, rock-and-roll, and - music like the mambo.
choreographer Latin
Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
chromatic and with a free rhythm
Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" features:
chromaticism antique cymbals homophonic texture "blue chords"
Some contemporary musicals look back to the ____________ for their source of narrative material.
classics
The musical West Side Story is the result of collaboration between - Leonard Bernstein, - Stephen Sondheim, and - Jerome Robbins.
composer lyricist choreographer
In the last section of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" antique _______________ are introduced.
cymbals
Which best describes the musical characteristics of the opening theme of John Williams's Imperial March from Star Wars?
disjunct melody minor tonality incessant rhythm
In Farewell from the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the main melodies are played by the cello and _____________ .
erhu
Which verse of Billie's Blues has a typical blues text?
first
Which instrument is featured in the opening melody of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
flute
Match the description to the musical element found in Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag that it best matches.
harmony-major melodic contour-disjunct rhythm-syncopation form-AABBACCDD texture-homophonic
Which of the following describes the style of ragtime?
highly syncopated melodies clear-cut sections balanced phrasing
Bernstein's union of _________ and musical theatre resulted in West Side Story.
jazz
George Gershwin's fame is largely attributed to his incorporating ______________ styles in his music.
jazz
Which of the following helps create a frenetic pulse in Mambo from West Side Story?
jazzy riffs in woodwinds and brass bongos cowbells
Which of the following are characteristics of big-band jazz?
large ensemble ensemble that includes brass, reeds, and rhythm instruments
In order to associate the music with a character, John Williams utilizes ______________.
leitmotifs
The texture of African American spirituals is best described as:
monophonic with some heterophonic elaboration
The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns a:
mythological creature in a dream like state
George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess falls between the genres of - and musical -. Gershwin himself called it a - opera.
opera theater folk
From which European stage genre did American musical theater develop?
operetta
What scale is utilized in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?
pentatonic
Which of the following is a characteristic of Impressionist music?
pentatonic scales unresolved dissonances rich orchestral color modal scales
Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" draws its program from a Symbolist ____________.
poem
Which of the following were popular musical styles in the United States in the late nineteenth century?
ragtime marches for wind band
Which of the following were common forms of musical expression amongst African American communities in the nineteenth century?
ring shouts spirituals work songs
When the mood of the music contradicts what is being shown on the screen, it is called:
running counter to the action
The most important function of music in film is to:
set the mood
Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?
solo piano
Strayhorn's Take the A Train is in 32-bar ___________ form.
song
Although it was quite popular, West Side Story was also criticized for its _____________ portrayal of Latino characters.
stereotypical
Which genre best describes the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
symphonic poem
The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as:
ternary (A-B-A')
Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?
the Harlem Renaissance
John Williams has written music for:
the Olympics Barack Obama's inauguration film scores
Which best describes the form of a typical blues text?
three-line stanza, with the first two lines the same
Which two instruments have featured solos in Billie's Blues:
trumpet clarinet
- games have long employed source music to help give more satisfying feedback to a player's - and underscoring to add intensity and meaning to a flow of action in a --playing game.
video actions role
