Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  punk rock

B  New Wave

C  Heavy Metal

D  grunge

E  rap

A  Motown

B  New Wave

C  Rockabilly

D  funk

E  soul

A  doo-wop

B  punk rock

C  New Wave

D  grunge

E  rap

A  Kurt Cobain

B  The Beatles

C  Bob Dylan

D  Jimi Hendrix

E  Run DMC

A  Motown

B  disco

C  funk

D  bebop

E  New Wave

A  a guitar riff

B  an instrumental break

C  a head arrangement

D  a waa-waa

E  a boogie-woogie

A  rap

B  funk

C  punk rock

D  grunge

E  arena

A  Aaron Copland

B  Leonard Bernstein

C  John Williams

D  Steven Sondheim

E  George Gershwin

A  Detroit

B  Denver

C  New York City

D  Chicago

E  New Orleans

A  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

B  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

C  Voltaire’s Candide

D  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

E  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

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

B  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

C  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G

D  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

E  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

A  Smith

B  Davis

C  Parker

D  Joplin

E  Armstrong

A  cover

B  bebop

C  fusion

D  cool jazz

A  cool jazz

B  cover

C  standard

D  bebop

A  fusion

B  bebop

C  standard

D  cover

A  cover

B  fusion

C  cool jazz

D  standard

A  standard

B  bebop

C  fusion

D  cool jazz

A  all of these

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

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

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

A  New Orleans jazz

B  swing

C  bebop

D  cool

E  ragtime

A  swing

B  postmodernism

C  ragtime

D  symphonic jazz

E  fusion

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 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  a discordant mingling of sounds

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

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

D  a pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale

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

A  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

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  increase in young people learning guitar

E  social respectability for a southern drawl

A  Armstrong

B  Smith

C  Ellington

D  Gershwin

E  Joplin

A  Joplin

B  Parker

C  Armstrong

D  Basie

E  Smith

A  Joplin

B  Ellington

C  Armstrong

D  Parker

E  Gillespie