Chapter 4 Rhythms that Dance Flashcards | StudBud
  • 4
    A physically strenuous style of classical dance that originated in France in the sixteenth century.
    • Ballet
    • Minuet
    • Waltz
    • Tango
  • 5
  • What are some of the similarities and differences
    • between the waltz and the minuet?
  • 6
    Name this dance
    • Tango
    • Ballet
    • Samba
    • Waltz
  • 7
    • What style of dance is usually associated with the African-American
    choreographer Alvin Ailey?
    • Samba
    • Modern Dance
    • Waltz
    • Tango
  • 8
    Name this dance
    • Samba
    • Waltz
    • Tango
    • Ballet
  • 9
  • What are some of the elements that give reggae music its
    • distinctive style?
  • 10
    A set of instrumental pieces, each in the character of a dance.
    • Reggae
    • Minuet
    • Suite
    • Conjunto
  • 11
    Name this dance.
    • Waltz
    • Samba
    • Minuet
    • Tango
  • 12
    Why are ballets usually broken up into a series of “scenes”?
    • Ballet is very strenous and the dancers need time to catch their breath.
    • The conductor's arms are tired.
    • The musicians need a break.
    • They need to review to see what they are supposed to do next.
  • 13
    Which composer was born in Russia?
    • Bernstein
    • Gottschalk
    • Still
    • Stravinsky
  • 14
    Who wrote West Side Story and the ballet Fancy Free?
    • Leonard Bernstein
    • Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    • Igor Stravinsky
    • William Grant Still
  • 15
    Who wrote "Rite of Spring"?
    • Leonard Bernstein
    • Igor Stravinsky
    • Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    • William Grant Still
  • 16
    A dance created by Texas Americans.
    • Conjunto
    • Samba
    • Waltz
    • Tango
  • 17
    A dance in triple meter, made famous in Vienna in the late 1800s.
    • Waltz
    • Minuet
    • Tango
    • Samba
  • 18
    A Latin-American dance performed at a moderately slow, walklike tempo.
    • Minuet
    • Reggae
    • Tango
    • Waltz
  • 19
  • What instrument is most important in the conjunto music of the Tejano
    • people in Texas?
  • 20
  • What were some of the musical styles borrowed by the composer Louis
    • Moreau Gottschalk for his concert pieces?
  • 21
    How have the Lakota people preserved their traditional music?
    • Passed it down generation to generation
    • Recorded everything
    • Took pictures of the music
  • 22
    Which composer developed a style of classical music that reflected and expressed African-American tradition?
    • Igor Stravinsky
    • Louis Moreau Gottschalk
    • William Grant Still
    • Leonard Bernstein
  • 23
    Jamaican dance music, mixing African and Caribbean rhythms.
    • Conjunto
    • Samba
    • Tango
    • Reggae
  • 24
    The samba and tango originated in what part of the world?
    • China
    • Europe
    • Latin America
    • Africa
  • 25
    Which composition caused a riot at its first performance?
    • Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
    • Beowolf
    • Renegade
    • The Rite of Spring
  • 26
    • Which composer was one of the first composers to incorporate native folk materials into his classical compositions?
    • Leonard Berstein
    • William Grant Still
    • Igor Stravinsky
    • Louis Moreau Gottschalk
  • 27
    Which composer was an accomplished oboist?
    • Stravinsky
    • Leonard Bernstein
    • Gottschalk
    • William Grant Still
  • 28
  • Which composer became the chief conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra?
  • 29
    An old French dance, rather slow and stately, in triple meter.
    • Waltz
    • Minuet
    • Samba
    • Tango