Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  punk rock

B  Heavy Metal

C  rap

D  grunge

E  New Wave

A  funk

B  soul

C  Motown

D  New Wave

E  Rockabilly

A  New Wave

B  rap

C  doo-wop

D  punk rock

E  grunge

A  Kurt Cobain

B  Bob Dylan

C  Run DMC

D  Jimi Hendrix

E  The Beatles

A  disco

B  bebop

C  New Wave

D  Motown

E  funk

A  a waa-waa

B  an instrumental break

C  a head arrangement

D  a boogie-woogie

E  a guitar riff

A  funk

B  grunge

C  arena

D  rap

E  punk rock

A  John Williams

B  Leonard Bernstein

C  Aaron Copland

D  George Gershwin

E  Steven Sondheim

A  Detroit

B  New York City

C  Chicago

D  New Orleans

E  Denver

A  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

B  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

C  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

D  Voltaire’s Candide

E  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

A  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

B  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

C  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G

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

E  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

A  Joplin

B  Parker

C  Smith

D  Armstrong

E  Davis

A  cool jazz

B  cover

C  bebop

D  fusion

A  cool jazz

B  bebop

C  cover

D  standard

A  bebop

B  fusion

C  standard

D  cover

A  cool jazz

B  fusion

C  cover

D  standard

A  bebop

B  fusion

C  standard

D  cool jazz

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

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  an expressive, soulful style of singing that emerged from the African-American spiritual and work song at the end of the nineteenth century

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

A  cool

B  bebop

C  swing

D  New Orleans jazz

E  ragtime

A  swing

B  fusion

C  symphonic jazz

D  ragtime

E  postmodernism

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

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

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 that suggests melancholy emotions

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

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

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

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 pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale

A  social respectability for a southern drawl

B  increase in young people learning guitar

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

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

E  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

A  Joplin

B  Armstrong

C  Ellington

D  Smith

E  Gershwin

A  Joplin

B  Parker

C  Basie

D  Smith

E  Armstrong

A  Gillespie

B  Parker

C  Armstrong

D  Ellington

E  Joplin