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Fresh Grad Lands Job as Real Estate Agent With Help from Professional Writers

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Manush’s story shows the importance of using powerful keywords to his resume in landing the job he wanted.

Quiz 4 American Popular Music

Navigation   » List of Schools  »  California State University, Northridge  »  Music  »  Music 105 – Understanding Music  »  Spring 2023  »  Quiz 4 American Popular Music

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  grunge
B  punk rock
C  Heavy Metal
D  New Wave
E  rap
Question #2
A  soul
B  Rockabilly
C  New Wave
D  funk
E  Motown
Question #3
A  grunge
B  punk rock
C  New Wave
D  rap
E  doo-wop
Question #5
A  New Wave
B  funk
C  disco
D  Motown
E  bebop
Question #6
A  a head arrangement
B  an instrumental break
C  a waa-waa
D  a boogie-woogie
E  a guitar riff
Question #7
A  punk rock
B  funk
C  grunge
D  rap
E  arena
Question #8
A  John Williams
B  Leonard Bernstein
C  George Gershwin
D  Steven Sondheim
E  Aaron Copland
Question #9
A  New Orleans
B  Detroit
C  New York City
D  Denver
E  Chicago
Question #10
A  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities
B  Voltaire’s Candide
C  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
D  Shakespeare’s Hamlet
E  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Question #11
A  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G
B  Charlie “Bird” Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Thelonious Monk
C  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck
D  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman
E  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton
Question #13
A  bebop
B  cover
C  fusion
D  cool jazz
Question #18
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 expressive, soulful style of singing that emerged from the African-American spiritual and work song at the end of the nineteenth century
D  all of these
E  an Afro-Cuban dance-song that came to prominence in the nineteenth century, marked by a repeating bass and a repeating, syncopated rhythm
Question #19
A  New Orleans jazz
B  swing
C  cool
D  ragtime
E  bebop
Question #20
A  postmodernism
B  ragtime
C  fusion
D  symphonic jazz
E  swing
Question #21
A  a six-note scale wherein each pitch is a whole tone away from the next
B  a seven-note scale that suggests melancholy emotions
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
Question #22
A  a note that conveys the idea lament or mourning in a melody
B  the three notes in African-American folk music that are typically altered for expressive purposes
C  a discordant mingling of sounds
D  a pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale
E  the smallest musical interval in the Western major or minor scale; the distance between any two adjacent keys on the piano
Question #23
A  a spike in the number of boys named Garth
B  an increase in dog ownership and the purchase of pickup trucks
C  increase in young people learning guitar
D  social respectability for a southern drawl
E  elevation of female vocalists to the primary position of recording artist