CH. 34
The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as:
ternary A-B-A'
Which family of instruments is featured in the opening melody of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
woodwinds
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?
large scale forms
Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" features:
homophonic texture
The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world.
(T/F)
true
Maurice Ravel is a ______ composer
Post-Impressionist
Impressionist composers used what type of modes and scale patterns in their works.
church modes of the Middle Ages and various non-Western patterns
The program for Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns:
a mythological creature in a wine induced sleep
What is the whole-tone scale built off of
whole-note intervals (without half steps)
Ravel's music was influenced by...
Spanish, Iberian, and Arabian cultures
Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
chromatic and freely flowing
Impressionist composers often made use of what type of meter
Free flowing meter
Ravel's music rarely looks to influences form other cultures.
(T/F)
false
Many composers in the early twentieth century continued to be influenced by non-Western music. (T/F)
true
Programmatic music continued in the Impressionist period.
(T/F)
true
Which genre best describes the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
symphonic poem
Revueltas was for a time the assistant conductor of the what national orchestra?
national orchestra (Orquesta Sinfónica) in Mexico.
William Grant Still was a representative of what Renaissance movement
Harlem Renaissance movement.
The third movement, Son, can be described as?
rondo-like with its sectional form.
Silvestre Revueltas was representative of what movement?
Contemporary in Mexico
From which region of Mexico does the mariachi ensemble originate?
Jalisco
Aaron Copland used early American songs in his works.
(T/F)
true
The rhythm of Revueltas's Homage to Federico García Lorca is characteristic of the Mexican________:
mestizo dance music
The man that Revueltas is honoring in Homenaje was a:
Spanish poet killed by the Fascists
Which composer arranged Copland's Appalachian Spring as a quartet for President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony?
John Williams
The music of Silvestre Revueltas reflects the folk songs of his native:
Mexico
William Grant Still was an important voice for:
the Harlem renaissance
The orchestration in Revueltas's Son emulates the sound of:
Mexican mariachi bands
African-American composer William Grant Still did not write classical music. (T/F)
false
Revueltas's music is filled with direct quotations of Mexican folk music. (T/F)
false
The insistent bass in the last movement of William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano resembles which jazz piano style?
stride
As a young person, William Grant Still was hired to write arrangements for:
W.C. Handy
The mariachi ensemble originated in?
Mexico
Which is NOT a characteristic of mariachi music?
use of quarter tones
Copland's ballet Appalachian Spring was composed to be a portrayal of?
a pioneer celebration in spring around a newly-built farmhouse in the Pennsylvania hills in the early 19th century
Which of these William Grant Still works was in part inspired by the sculpture African Dancer, by Richmond Barthe?
Suite for Violin and Piano
William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano has what type of musical qualities?
Musical qualities found in blues
Revueltas incorporated what type of rhythms in his music?
folkloric
Copland cited what type of hymn in his ballet Appalachian Spring?
an American traditional hymn
The term that refers to metric shifting between duple and triple in Latin American music is:
sesquialtera
Copland collaborated with who in his work Appalachian Spring?
Martha Graham
The melody, Simple Gifts, heard in Appalachian Spring comes from the ________ tradition.
Shaker
Revueltas's Homenaje is for what type of orchestra
a chamber orchestra with piano, winds, strings, and percussion.
Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring are ballets by:
Aaron Copland
William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony was the first symphony by an African-American composer to be performed by a major American orchestra. (T/F)
true
William Grant Still wrote film and TV music as well as operas and symphonies. (T/F)
true
A guitarrón is a(n):
large guitar
Strong feelings of patriotism arose in Mexico after the Revolution in 1910. (T/F)
true
Which is NOT a ballet by Aaron Copland?
Sensemaya
The third movement, Son, from Homenaje a Federico García Lorca, is based on what type of form?
traditional dance form.
President Obama's 2008 campaign inspired popular musicians to create music with political undertones.
true
Armed Forces Radio played patriotic tunes in their broadcasts. (T/F)
true
Immigrant composers were important in the history of what?
vaudeville.
Much of the music at the original Woodstock festival reflected:
Anti-Vietnam War sentiments
Which musician is NOT known for performing political music in the 1950s and 60s?
Elvis Presley
Which popular artist was paid an unprecedented $50,000 to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s?
Elvis Presley
By the turn of the twentieth century, what city had become the artistic and cultural center of the United States?
New York City
Rap music by such artists as Chuck D from Public Enemy were rarely political.
(T/F)
false
Gershwin's works reflect a merger of what two forms?
jazz elements and classical forms.
(T/F)
Which composer was blacklisted during the "red scare" of the 1950s and 60s?
Aaron Copland and Leonard Berstein
Popular music in the last half of the twentieth century was rarely political. (T/F)
false
P. T. Barnum brought what type of music shows to New York City?
traveling music shows in New York venues.
Jazz and ragtime were important to the dissemination of patriotic music after World War I. (T/F)
true
Which of the following was NOT a music-focused TV show in the 1950s?
Tim Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley was a street where all the composers of ragtime lived.
(T/F)
false
The Wall Street crash of 1929 was the catalyst for the creation of what type of entertainments found in musical theater?
escapist entertainments found in musical theater.
(T/F)
Film and radio did much to transmit music and dance trends.
(T/F)
true
The big band phenomenon ended prior to World War II.
(T/F)
false
George M. Cohan was an important composer of what type of songs?
inspirational patriotic songs.
Scott Joplin is considered the king of what?
"King of Ragtime"
A "blue note" implies a slight drop in the pitch of what?
the third, fifth, or seventh tone of the scale.
Louis Armstrong was a famous_________
scat singer and trumpeter and the most important single force in the development of early jazz styles
The two instrumental solos in Billie's Blues feature:
clarinet and trumpet
Billie Holiday made history when she performed with _______ since blacks and whites were not allowed to perform together on stage at that time.
Benny Goodman
Take the A Train is characterized by a frequent_________
call-and-response between instruments.
Third stream jazz is a(n):
a style that combines classical and jazz
Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for:
Treemonisha
A strain in ragtime music is comprised of how many measures?
sixteen measures
Early jazz developed from a blending of African music with art and popular traditions of the West.
(T/F)
true
Rags, like marches, are structured in regular, duple-meter sections known as _____, each of which is usually repeated.
strains
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were associated with developing:
bebop
The structure of thirty-two-bar song form can best be outlined as:
A-A-B-A
Miles Davis is associated with:
cool jazz
The work that catapulted Scott Joplin to fame was:
Maple Leaf Rag
Joplin recorded his own piano rags on what?
on a player piano.
Ragtime was originally a piano style that featured what type of melodies?
highly syncopated melodies.
Joplin's opera Treemonisha was an instant success.
(T/F)
false
Duke Ellington is associated with:
big band jazz
Strayhorn's Take the A Train was a signature tune for the:
Duke Ellington orchestra
Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of what?
scat singing
Scott Joplin is one of the first African-American composers to receive wide recognition.
true
Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?
solo piano
Which best describes the form of a typical blues text?
a three line stanza, with the first tow line the same
Which verse of Billie's Blues has a typical blues text?
first
Billie's Blues consists of an introduction and _______ choruses.
six
Bebop's trademark style is characterized by:
a two-note phrase
Fusion can be characterized as a:
a style that combines jazz improvisation with rock amplification
Big band jazz is a:
large ensemble style with sections of brass, reeds and rhythm instruments
Which is NOT true of a typical blues progression?
the number of bars for each section varies
______ is considered the birthplace of jazz.
New Orleans
What is a Disney-produced musical based on a Verdi opera?
Aida
Recent trends in musical theater include shows based on what?
dancing
Bernstein showed no interest in writing what kind of music
film music
The European stage genre from which American musical theater developed was:
operetta
Jersey Boys is a musical based on the popular performing group:
the Four Seasons
Les Misérables was composed by:
Claude-Michel Schonberg
Which is a Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein?
South Pacific
Bernstein's work shows a real feeling for what urban scene?
New York urban scene
What is the overall structure of the song Tonight?
A-A-B-A
What two men are considered a great composer/lyricist team for musical theater
Rodgers and Hammerstein
The Afro-Cuban dance with a fast, syncopated beat, heard in The Dance at the Gym in West Side Story, is the:
mambo
Who wrote the lyrics for the musical West Side Story?
Stephen Sondheim
Which is NOT a well-known song from West Side Story?
Fernando
In West Side Story, Tony is:
a former member of the Jets
Leonard Bernstein achieved fame as the first American-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
(T/F)
true
Sondheim's musicals are typically more sophisticated than those of his predecessors.
(T/F)
true
Summertime is from the Gershwin stage work:
Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin's "folk opera" was:
Porgy and Bess
Bernstein's union of jazz and musical theatre resulted in:
West Side Story
What gives the dance sequences from West Side Story a Latin-American character?
Syncopated dance rhythms and LAtin American percussion instruments
The literary basis for My Fair Lady was:
George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion
Which is the contemporary rock opera inspired by Puccini's La bohème?
Jonathan Larsen's Rent
Cats was composed by:
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Gershwin's instrumental works reflect a merger of what two forms?
jazz elements and classical forms.
A "jukebox" musical features songs by what?
a popular artist or group.
______ was a popular Jerome Kern musical from the 1920s with a serious plot.
Show Boat
Which famous choreographer is responsible for the electrifying dance sequences in West Side Story?
Jerome Robbins
What is the literary basis for West Side Story?
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Rock musicals first gained popularity in what time period?
late 1960s
Gershwin is known for this songs that draw on what genres?
ragtime, blues, and jazz.
In the movie Jaws, the shark is represented by what kind of motive?
a two-note oscillating motive.
Underscoring in film music refers to music being made where?
behind the actual the scenes of the movie
In addition to film scores, John Williams has written music for the Olympics and:
Barack Obama's inauguration
Which of the following movies includes a musical/visual contradiction scene?
The Godfather
Which best describes the character of the opening theme of The Raider's March?
strong and disjunct
When the mood of the music contradicts what is being shown on the screen, it is called:
running counter to the action
John Williams is known for his scores in what movies/shows?
Gilligan's Island, Jaws, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, Indiana Jones, E.T., Home Alone, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List and Harry Potter
What is the overall form of the The Raider's March?
ternary
Film music can be used to create what?
A sense of place and time
Which is NOT a film score by John Williams?
The Lord of the Rings
Running counter to the action is a technique to supply what?
irony in film music.
Film music is required to mirror every emotion on the screen.
(T/F)
false
The most important function of music in film is to:
set the mood
In The Raider's March, to whom does the first theme relate?
the hero Indiana Jones
Film composers like John Williams often incorporate what?
the leitmotifs.
Source music refers to music that functions as part of the drama itself, such as a character turning on a radio.
(T/F)
true
The composer of the soundtrack for the end of E.T. uses music to establish a sorrowful mood.
true
Which current composer is credited as reviving the grand symphonic film score?
John Williams
For which classic television series did John Williams write theme music?
Gilligan's Island
Besides setting the mood, film music can also:
Help establish the characters and create a sense of time and place
The movie __________ is an example of a soundtrack that uses only source music.
Rear Window
The vocal music in the 2009 film Avatar is sung in what?
Na'vi, a language developed exclusively for the movie
Many modern film composers have incorporated _________ , a technique found in concert works by Wagner.
the leitmotiff
The original Woodstock Festival took place in:
1969
Two groups commonly associated with the "British invasion" in rock were the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
true
Performers such as Madonna were catapulted to fame via what?
MTV
The music video was the most significant popular musical development in the 1990s.
(T/F)
False
The Sex Pistols best represents:
punk rock
In which country did reggae originate?
Jamaica
David Bowie's music in the 1970s best represents:
glitter (or glam) rock
The Beatles's first American performance was in the year:
1964
The Beatles retired from live performance in what year
1966
Motown was a style of music that originated where?
Detroit
The Talking Heads best represent:
new wave rock
Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan pioneered what type of rock
folk rock
The Grateful Dead best represents:
acid rock
Which band released an album in the 1970s that remained in the Top 200 charts for a record 751 weeks?
Pink Floyd
The Beatles first used the Indian sitar in:
Norwegian Wood
Rhythm and blues is predominantly a vocal genre.
(T/F)
true
Carlos Santana is a famous ______ who helped create Latin rock.
guitarist
Led Zeppelin best represents:
heavy metal rock
Motown is a fusion of what three genres?
gospel, pop, and rhythm and blues.
Women rock singers are more popular today than ever.
(T/F)
true
The Beach Boys and The Byrds were _______ bands.
California
Nirvana best represents:
grunge rock
White rock-and-roll singers, such as Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, were influenced by the black style.
(T/F)
true
The reality TV show American Idol has failed to produce any successful artists.
(T/F)
false
Which band won a Grammy in 1987 for The Joshua Tree?
U2
Rock and roll first came on the scene in what year
1950s
The Moody Blues best represents:
art rock
Public Enemy best represents:
rap
Which of the following is NOT true of Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead?
they were from Los Angeles
The concept album was invented by_______
The Beatles
Lady Gaga chose her stage name in homage to which rock legend:
Queen
