Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  punk rock

B  grunge

C  Heavy Metal

D  rap

E  New Wave

A  New Wave

B  soul

C  Rockabilly

D  funk

E  Motown

A  New Wave

B  doo-wop

C  punk rock

D  grunge

E  rap

A  Run DMC

B  Jimi Hendrix

C  Bob Dylan

D  Kurt Cobain

E  The Beatles

A  New Wave

B  Motown

C  bebop

D  disco

E  funk

A  a waa-waa

B  a head arrangement

C  a boogie-woogie

D  an instrumental break

E  a guitar riff

A  funk

B  punk rock

C  rap

D  grunge

E  arena

A  Leonard Bernstein

B  George Gershwin

C  Aaron Copland

D  Steven Sondheim

E  John Williams

A  New York City

B  Denver

C  Chicago

D  Detroit

E  New Orleans

A  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

B  Voltaire’s Candide

C  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

D  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

E  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

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

B  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

C  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

D  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G

E  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

A  Parker

B  Smith

C  Joplin

D  Armstrong

E  Davis

A  bebop

B  cool jazz

C  fusion

D  cover

A  standard

B  cover

C  cool jazz

D  bebop

A  fusion

B  bebop

C  standard

D  cover

A  cool jazz

B  cover

C  standard

D  fusion

A  standard

B  cool jazz

C  bebop

D  fusion

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

D  all of these

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

A  swing

B  New Orleans jazz

C  bebop

D  ragtime

E  cool

A  postmodernism

B  swing

C  ragtime

D  fusion

E  symphonic jazz

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

A  a discordant mingling of sounds

B  a pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale

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

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

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

A  increase in young people learning guitar

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

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

D  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

E  social respectability for a southern drawl

A  Gershwin

B  Joplin

C  Smith

D  Armstrong

E  Ellington

A  Joplin

B  Smith

C  Armstrong

D  Parker

E  Basie

A  Parker

B  Ellington

C  Gillespie

D  Armstrong

E  Joplin