Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  Heavy Metal

B  New Wave

C  punk rock

D  grunge

E  rap

A  New Wave

B  Motown

C  soul

D  Rockabilly

E  funk

A  New Wave

B  rap

C  grunge

D  doo-wop

E  punk rock

A  Bob Dylan

B  Kurt Cobain

C  Jimi Hendrix

D  Run DMC

E  The Beatles

A  funk

B  bebop

C  New Wave

D  disco

E  Motown

A  a guitar riff

B  a head arrangement

C  a boogie-woogie

D  a waa-waa

E  an instrumental break

A  arena

B  grunge

C  rap

D  punk rock

E  funk

A  Leonard Bernstein

B  George Gershwin

C  Steven Sondheim

D  John Williams

E  Aaron Copland

A  Detroit

B  Chicago

C  Denver

D  New Orleans

E  New York City

A  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

B  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

C  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

D  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

E  Voltaire’s Candide

A  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

B  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G

C  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

D  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

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

A  Smith

B  Armstrong

C  Joplin

D  Parker

E  Davis

A  fusion

B  cover

C  cool jazz

D  bebop

A  cool jazz

B  bebop

C  cover

D  standard

A  fusion

B  standard

C  cover

D  bebop

A  standard

B  cover

C  cool jazz

D  fusion

A  standard

B  cool jazz

C  bebop

D  fusion

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

D  all of these

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  bebop

B  New Orleans jazz

C  swing

D  ragtime

E  cool

A  fusion

B  ragtime

C  postmodernism

D  symphonic jazz

E  swing

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

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

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

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

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 discordant mingling of sounds

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

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

B  social respectability for a southern drawl

C  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

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

E  increase in young people learning guitar

A  Joplin

B  Armstrong

C  Gershwin

D  Smith

E  Ellington

A  Basie

B  Joplin

C  Smith

D  Armstrong

E  Parker

A  Joplin

B  Armstrong

C  Parker

D  Gillespie

E  Ellington