Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  punk rock

B  New Wave

C  rap

D  grunge

E  Heavy Metal

A  New Wave

B  Rockabilly

C  funk

D  Motown

E  soul

A  punk rock

B  doo-wop

C  grunge

D  rap

E  New Wave

A  Run DMC

B  The Beatles

C  Bob Dylan

D  Jimi Hendrix

E  Kurt Cobain

A  funk

B  Motown

C  bebop

D  disco

E  New Wave

A  a waa-waa

B  a guitar riff

C  a head arrangement

D  an instrumental break

E  a boogie-woogie

A  rap

B  funk

C  grunge

D  punk rock

E  arena

A  Aaron Copland

B  John Williams

C  George Gershwin

D  Steven Sondheim

E  Leonard Bernstein

A  Denver

B  Chicago

C  New Orleans

D  New York City

E  Detroit

A  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

B  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

C  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

D  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

E  Voltaire’s Candide

A  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

B  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

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

D  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G

E  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

A  Joplin

B  Armstrong

C  Parker

D  Davis

E  Smith

A  bebop

B  fusion

C  cool jazz

D  cover

A  cool jazz

B  standard

C  cover

D  bebop

A  cover

B  bebop

C  fusion

D  standard

A  cool jazz

B  cover

C  fusion

D  standard

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  bebop

C  cool

D  New Orleans jazz

E  ragtime

A  swing

B  fusion

C  ragtime

D  symphonic jazz

E  postmodernism

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

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

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

D  a seven-note scale that suggests melancholy emotions

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

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

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 pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale

A  increase in young people learning guitar

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

C  social respectability for a southern drawl

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

E  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

A  Joplin

B  Gershwin

C  Smith

D  Ellington

E  Armstrong

A  Armstrong

B  Smith

C  Basie

D  Joplin

E  Parker

A  Gillespie

B  Joplin

C  Parker

D  Ellington

E  Armstrong