Great jazz artists are often

great improvisers, who can compose as they perform

What is a "break" in Dixieland jazz?

a two- or four- measure section in which soloist is only one

What is Expressionism?

inner feelings were depicted through vivid art

Which of the following is a characteristic of Postmodern music?

quotation, extracts from earlier musical works

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is

mixture of jazz and concert music for piano and orchestra

lived most of his life under the Soviet system

What was Duke Ellington known for?

He was a prolific composer and arranger

Dizzie Gillespie and Thelonius Monk

were pioneers of bebop along with Charlie Parker

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1
Which of the following patterns most closely resembles the form of a typical ragtime piece?
A B C D C D
AA BB CC DD
A B A C A B A
AA BB A CC DD
2
Great jazz artists are often
not heard in the United States
virtuosos on instruments such as the French horn, oboe
overlooked for wards due to their ever-changing literature
great improvisers, who can compose as they perform
3
What is a "break" in Dixieland jazz?
a two- or four- measure section in which soloist is only one
one iteration of a 32-bar AABA structure
a pause in between two pieces of music
a collective term for all of the rhythm and harmony
4
What is Expressionism?
artists attempted ideas by suggestion
inner feelings were depicted through vivid art
outlines are vague and details are left to the imagination
instinctiveness, and exoticism of nonurban cultures
5
Which of the following best represents the standard 12-bar blues form?
AABA
AAB
ABA
ABAB
6
Which of the following is a characteristic of Postmodern music?
the abandonment of tonality
quotation, extracts from earlier musical works
an emphasis on abstraction
the exclusion of non-Western instruments
7
Which of the following is a central characteristic of bebop?
minimal improvisation
complex chord changes
slow tempos
large ensembles
8
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is
one of the most colorful opera productions
mixture of jazz and concert music for piano and orchestra
no longer heard in performance
a tone color poem with focus on blues tones
9
Which of these performers had a weekly big band show on the radio?
Benny Goodman
Louis Armstrong
Charlie Parker
Miles Davis
10
What instrument did Charlie Parker play?
drums
piano
saxophone
bass
11
Dmitri Shostakovich
never learned to spell his name but composed beautiful music
lived most of his life as an invalid
married Clara Schumann's daughter
lived most of his life under the Soviet system
12
The greatest composers during the period of experimentation and excitement were
Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern
Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky
Copland, Ives, and Gershwin
Bartok, Britten, and Copland
13
Serialism was the term first given to
chance music
minimalism
polytonality
twelve-tone music
14
Which of the following scale patterns was new to twentieth-century Western classical music?
ionian scale
chroctatonic scale
do re ri scale
octatonic scale
15
How does John Cage’s 4´33″ challenge the very definition of music?
It uses 12 radios playing on different stations.
twelve-tone row ends up sounding like a jumble of pitches.
The performer may choose music to play at random.
The performer does nothing
16
Who was the most famous composer and performer of ragtime?
Louis Armstrong
Scott Joplin
Wynton Marsalis
Bessie Smith
17
Schoenberg and his students created a new musical system known as
atonality
harmonium perfectum
Schoenberg's theory
nonconformism
18
What was Duke Ellington known for?
He was a prolific composer and arranger
He was an amateur race car driver
He was a virtuoso clarinetist
He was a civil rights activisit
19
Dizzie Gillespie and Thelonius Monk
played in Carnegie Hall with Benny Goodman
were part of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five
were pioneers of bebop along with Charlie Parker
never met each other
20
Berg’s experience of war is reflected in his opera
A Survivor from Warsaw
Aida
Wozzeck
Porgy and Bess

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