Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  rap

B  New Wave

C  Heavy Metal

D  punk rock

E  grunge

A  Rockabilly

B  New Wave

C  Motown

D  funk

E  soul

A  rap

B  doo-wop

C  New Wave

D  punk rock

E  grunge

A  Run DMC

B  The Beatles

C  Bob Dylan

D  Jimi Hendrix

E  Kurt Cobain

A  bebop

B  New Wave

C  disco

D  Motown

E  funk

A  a waa-waa

B  a boogie-woogie

C  a head arrangement

D  a guitar riff

E  an instrumental break

A  funk

B  punk rock

C  arena

D  grunge

E  rap

A  Leonard Bernstein

B  Aaron Copland

C  John Williams

D  Steven Sondheim

E  George Gershwin

A  Detroit

B  Chicago

C  Denver

D  New York City

E  New Orleans

A  Voltaire’s Candide

B  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

C  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

D  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

E  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

A  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

B  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G

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

D  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

E  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

A  Joplin

B  Davis

C  Armstrong

D  Smith

E  Parker

A  fusion

B  cover

C  cool jazz

D  bebop

A  cover

B  cool jazz

C  bebop

D  standard

A  standard

B  cover

C  fusion

D  bebop

A  cool jazz

B  fusion

C  standard

D  cover

A  fusion

B  cool jazz

C  bebop

D  standard

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

B  all of these

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

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  New Orleans jazz

B  cool

C  swing

D  bebop

E  ragtime

A  fusion

B  swing

C  symphonic jazz

D  ragtime

E  postmodernism

A  a seven-note scale in which the third, fifth, and seventh pitches are sometimes flat, sometimes natural, and sometimes in between

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 that suggests melancholy emotions

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 pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale

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

E  a discordant mingling of sounds

A  increase in young people learning guitar

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  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

E  social respectability for a southern drawl

A  Joplin

B  Gershwin

C  Ellington

D  Armstrong

E  Smith

A  Parker

B  Armstrong

C  Joplin

D  Smith

E  Basie

A  Ellington

B  Joplin

C  Parker

D  Gillespie

E  Armstrong