Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  Heavy Metal

B  grunge

C  punk rock

D  rap

E  New Wave

A  Rockabilly

B  funk

C  New Wave

D  Motown

E  soul

A  rap

B  grunge

C  punk rock

D  doo-wop

E  New Wave

A  Bob Dylan

B  Jimi Hendrix

C  Run DMC

D  The Beatles

E  Kurt Cobain

A  bebop

B  disco

C  New Wave

D  funk

E  Motown

A  a head arrangement

B  a boogie-woogie

C  a waa-waa

D  a guitar riff

E  an instrumental break

A  funk

B  arena

C  rap

D  punk rock

E  grunge

A  Steven Sondheim

B  George Gershwin

C  John Williams

D  Leonard Bernstein

E  Aaron Copland

A  New Orleans

B  Chicago

C  Detroit

D  New York City

E  Denver

A  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

B  Voltaire’s Candide

C  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

D  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

E  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

A  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

B  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

C  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

D  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G

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

A  Davis

B  Parker

C  Armstrong

D  Joplin

E  Smith

A  cool jazz

B  fusion

C  bebop

D  cover

A  bebop

B  cool jazz

C  cover

D  standard

A  bebop

B  cover

C  standard

D  fusion

A  cool jazz

B  standard

C  fusion

D  cover

A  bebop

B  cool jazz

C  standard

D  fusion

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

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

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

A  bebop

B  swing

C  ragtime

D  cool

E  New Orleans jazz

A  ragtime

B  postmodernism

C  swing

D  symphonic jazz

E  fusion

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

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

C  a seven-note scale that suggests melancholy emotions

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

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 pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale

C  a discordant mingling of sounds

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  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

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

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

E  social respectability for a southern drawl

A  Gershwin

B  Ellington

C  Armstrong

D  Joplin

E  Smith

A  Armstrong

B  Smith

C  Parker

D  Basie

E  Joplin

A  Parker

B  Joplin

C  Armstrong

D  Ellington

E  Gillespie