Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  New Wave

B  Heavy Metal

C  grunge

D  rap

E  punk rock

A  New Wave

B  Rockabilly

C  soul

D  funk

E  Motown

A  doo-wop

B  New Wave

C  punk rock

D  grunge

E  rap

A  Bob Dylan

B  Jimi Hendrix

C  Run DMC

D  The Beatles

E  Kurt Cobain

A  New Wave

B  funk

C  bebop

D  disco

E  Motown

A  a boogie-woogie

B  a guitar riff

C  a waa-waa

D  an instrumental break

E  a head arrangement

A  arena

B  punk rock

C  rap

D  funk

E  grunge

A  Leonard Bernstein

B  John Williams

C  Aaron Copland

D  Steven Sondheim

E  George Gershwin

A  Detroit

B  Denver

C  Chicago

D  New Orleans

E  New York City

A  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

B  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

C  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

D  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

E  Voltaire’s Candide

A  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

B  Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton

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

D  Lew Soloff, Chuck Mangione, and Kenny G

E  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

A  Joplin

B  Davis

C  Smith

D  Armstrong

E  Parker

A  bebop

B  cover

C  cool jazz

D  fusion

A  bebop

B  cool jazz

C  standard

D  cover

A  fusion

B  standard

C  cover

D  bebop

A  cover

B  standard

C  cool jazz

D  fusion

A  bebop

B  fusion

C  cool jazz

D  standard

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

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

C  all of these

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  swing

B  bebop

C  cool

D  ragtime

E  New Orleans jazz

A  swing

B  postmodernism

C  ragtime

D  symphonic jazz

E  fusion

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

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

C  a seven-note scale that suggests melancholy emotions

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

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

A  a discordant mingling of sounds

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

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

D  a pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale

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

A  social respectability for a southern drawl

B  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

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  increase in young people learning guitar

A  Joplin

B  Armstrong

C  Smith

D  Gershwin

E  Ellington

A  Joplin

B  Armstrong

C  Parker

D  Smith

E  Basie

A  Joplin

B  Ellington

C  Parker

D  Armstrong

E  Gillespie