Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  punk rock

B  rap

C  New Wave

D  grunge

E  Heavy Metal

A  funk

B  soul

C  Rockabilly

D  New Wave

E  Motown

A  grunge

B  New Wave

C  doo-wop

D  rap

E  punk rock

A  Bob Dylan

B  Kurt Cobain

C  Run DMC

D  The Beatles

E  Jimi Hendrix

A  New Wave

B  disco

C  bebop

D  Motown

E  funk

A  a guitar riff

B  a waa-waa

C  a boogie-woogie

D  an instrumental break

E  a head arrangement

A  funk

B  punk rock

C  arena

D  rap

E  grunge

A  John Williams

B  George Gershwin

C  Aaron Copland

D  Steven Sondheim

E  Leonard Bernstein

A  New Orleans

B  Chicago

C  New York City

D  Detroit

E  Denver

A  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

B  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

C  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

D  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

E  Voltaire’s Candide

A  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

B  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

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

D  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G

E  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

A  Smith

B  Joplin

C  Armstrong

D  Parker

E  Davis

A  cover

B  fusion

C  cool jazz

D  bebop

A  cool jazz

B  bebop

C  standard

D  cover

A  standard

B  cover

C  bebop

D  fusion

A  standard

B  cool jazz

C  fusion

D  cover

A  standard

B  bebop

C  fusion

D  cool jazz

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

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

C  all of these

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

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

A  New Orleans jazz

B  bebop

C  ragtime

D  cool

E  swing

A  fusion

B  postmodernism

C  symphonic jazz

D  ragtime

E  swing

A  a seven-note scale that suggests melancholy emotions

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

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

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

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

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

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

C  a pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale

D  a discordant mingling of sounds

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

A  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

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

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

D  increase in young people learning guitar

E  social respectability for a southern drawl

A  Armstrong

B  Gershwin

C  Joplin

D  Smith

E  Ellington

A  Parker

B  Smith

C  Joplin

D  Basie

E  Armstrong

A  Parker

B  Ellington

C  Joplin

D  Gillespie

E  Armstrong