Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  grunge

B  punk rock

C  Heavy Metal

D  New Wave

E  rap

A  soul

B  Rockabilly

C  New Wave

D  funk

E  Motown

A  grunge

B  punk rock

C  New Wave

D  rap

E  doo-wop

A  Run DMC

B  Kurt Cobain

C  Bob Dylan

D  Jimi Hendrix

E  The Beatles

A  New Wave

B  funk

C  disco

D  Motown

E  bebop

A  a head arrangement

B  an instrumental break

C  a waa-waa

D  a boogie-woogie

E  a guitar riff

A  punk rock

B  funk

C  grunge

D  rap

E  arena

A  John Williams

B  Leonard Bernstein

C  George Gershwin

D  Steven Sondheim

E  Aaron Copland

A  New Orleans

B  Detroit

C  New York City

D  Denver

E  Chicago

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

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

A  Joplin

B  Armstrong

C  Smith

D  Davis

E  Parker

A  bebop

B  cover

C  fusion

D  cool jazz

A  cool jazz

B  cover

C  standard

D  bebop

A  fusion

B  cover

C  standard

D  bebop

A  standard

B  cool jazz

C  fusion

D  cover

A  standard

B  bebop

C  fusion

D  cool jazz

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

A  New Orleans jazz

B  swing

C  cool

D  ragtime

E  bebop

A  postmodernism

B  ragtime

C  fusion

D  symphonic jazz

E  swing

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

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

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

A  Armstrong

B  Joplin

C  Ellington

D  Smith

E  Gershwin

A  Basie

B  Armstrong

C  Parker

D  Joplin

E  Smith

A  Ellington

B  Parker

C  Gillespie

D  Joplin

E  Armstrong