Quiz 4 American Popular Music

A  New Wave

B  punk rock

C  rap

D  Heavy Metal

E  grunge

A  soul

B  New Wave

C  Rockabilly

D  funk

E  Motown

A  rap

B  grunge

C  doo-wop

D  punk rock

E  New Wave

A  Bob Dylan

B  The Beatles

C  Run DMC

D  Kurt Cobain

E  Jimi Hendrix

A  bebop

B  New Wave

C  disco

D  Motown

E  funk

A  a boogie-woogie

B  a guitar riff

C  an instrumental break

D  a waa-waa

E  a head arrangement

A  funk

B  arena

C  rap

D  grunge

E  punk rock

A  George Gershwin

B  Aaron Copland

C  John Williams

D  Leonard Bernstein

E  Steven Sondheim

A  Denver

B  Detroit

C  New Orleans

D  New York City

E  Chicago

A  Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities

B  Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

C  Shakespeare’s Hamlet

D  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

E  Voltaire’s Candide

A  Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Benny Goodman

B  Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and Dave Brubeck

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  Parker

B  Armstrong

C  Davis

D  Smith

E  Joplin

A  cover

B  cool jazz

C  fusion

D  bebop

A  cool jazz

B  cover

C  bebop

D  standard

A  fusion

B  cover

C  standard

D  bebop

A  fusion

B  cool jazz

C  standard

D  cover

A  fusion

B  cool jazz

C  bebop

D  standard

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

E  all of these

A  bebop

B  New Orleans jazz

C  cool

D  swing

E  ragtime

A  fusion

B  postmodernism

C  ragtime

D  swing

E  symphonic jazz

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

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

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

D  a seven-note scale that suggests melancholy emotions

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

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

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

C  a discordant mingling of sounds

D  a pattern of pitches forming the chromatic scale

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

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

B  a spike in the number of boys named Garth

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

D  social respectability for a southern drawl

E  increase in young people learning guitar

A  Gershwin

B  Joplin

C  Ellington

D  Smith

E  Armstrong

A  Basie

B  Joplin

C  Parker

D  Smith

E  Armstrong

A  Armstrong

B  Parker

C  Gillespie

D  Joplin

E  Ellington