Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  punk rock

B  rap

C  New Wave

D  grunge

E  Heavy Metal

A  funk

B  New Wave

C  soul

D  Rockabilly

E  Motown

A  doo-wop

B  grunge

C  punk rock

D  New Wave

E  rap

A  Bob Dylan

B  Kurt Cobain

C  The Beatles

D  Jimi Hendrix

E  Run DMC

A  New Wave

B  Motown

C  bebop

D  disco

E  funk

A  a boogie-woogie

B  a guitar riff

C  an instrumental break

D  a head arrangement

E  a waa-waa

A  funk

B  punk rock

C  arena

D  grunge

E  rap

A  John Williams

B  Aaron Copland

C  Leonard Bernstein

D  George Gershwin

E  Steven Sondheim

A  New York City

B  Chicago

C  Detroit

D  Denver

E  New Orleans

A  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

B  Voltaire’s Candide

C  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

D  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

E  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

A  Charlie “Bird” Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk

B  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

C  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G

D  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

E  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

A  Smith

B  Parker

C  Armstrong

D  Davis

E  Joplin

A  fusion

B  bebop

C  cover

D  cool jazz

A  cool jazz

B  bebop

C  cover

D  standard

A  cover

B  standard

C  bebop

D  fusion

A  cool jazz

B  cover

C  fusion

D  standard

A  bebop

B  fusion

C  cool jazz

D  standard

A  an expressive, soulful style of singing that emerged from the African-American spiritual and work song at the end of the nineteenth century

B  an Afro-Cuban dance-song that came to prominence in the nineteenth century, marked by a repeating bass and a repeating, syncopated rhythm

C  all of these

D  a musical style that emerged in the 1890s and characterized by a steady bass and a syncopated, jazzy treble

E  a lively, energetic music with pulsating rhythms and scintillating syncopations, usually played by a small instrumental ensemble

A  bebop

B  ragtime

C  cool

D  swing

E  New Orleans jazz

A  fusion

B  symphonic jazz

C  postmodernism

D  swing

E  ragtime

A  a five-note scale found often in folk music and non-Western music

B  a six-note scale wherein each pitch is a whole tone away from the next

C  a musical process in which all of the scales move in the same direction, and at the same intervals, for a period of time

D  a seven-note scale in which the third, fifth, and seventh pitches are sometimes flat, sometimes natural, and sometimes in between

E  a seven-note scale that suggests melancholy emotions

A  a pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale

B  the smallest musical interval in the Western major or minor scale; the distance between any two adjacent keys on the piano

C  a discordant mingling of sounds

D  the three notes in African-American folk music that are typically altered for expressive purposes

E  a note that conveys the idea lament or mourning in a melody

A  social respectability for a southern drawl

B  increase in young people learning guitar

C  elevation of female vocalists to the primary position of recording artist

D  an increase in dog ownership and the purchase of pickup trucks

E  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

A  Ellington

B  Armstrong

C  Joplin

D  Gershwin

E  Smith

A  Parker

B  Armstrong

C  Smith

D  Basie

E  Joplin

A  Ellington

B  Armstrong

C  Gillespie

D  Parker

E  Joplin