America's Music: Part 4

Question 1

"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" straddles the carefree ethos of 1950s rock and roll and the mature sensibility of the 1960s.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

Philip Glass invented phase music and later composed Piano Phase.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

John Cage's musical interests extended westward to Asia as well as eastward to Europe.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

Whose novelty records introduced the idea that a record could deliver an experience only constructed in the studio?

Accepted Answer

Mitch Miller

Question 5

Patsy Cline's "Crazy," with words and music by Willie Nelson, was a crossover hit on both ____ and ____ charts in 1961.

Accepted Answer

country; pop

Question 6

In popular music after 1960, perhaps no other single figure would be as profoundly influential as

Accepted Answer

Bob Dylan.

Question 7

No social fact about music after WWII is more noteworthy than the growing influence of teenagers in the marketplace.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Who among the following is not a minimalist composer?

Accepted Answer

George Rochberg

Question 9

The film music of ____________ marked a return to the golden age of film music.

Accepted Answer

John Williams

Question 10

Which work seemed to indicate that country songwriters' emotional directness could jump barriers of class and geography?

Accepted Answer

"The Tennessee Waltz"

Question 11

Musicals before Leonard Bernstein's time were largely ignored by music critics.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

After WWII, a widening gulf stood between the cerebral music of postwar academic composers and the earthy joys of

Accepted Answer

rock and roll.

Question 13

An important city center for the psychedelic music scene was

Accepted Answer

San Francisco.

Question 14

Music that brought jazz techniques into the classical sphere or vice versa was known as

Accepted Answer

Third Stream.

Question 15

Stravinsky was particularly interested in

Accepted Answer

ragtime and jazz.

Question 16

Harry Partch pioneered the technique of metric modulation.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

Which among the following is not a jazz-rock fusion group?

Accepted Answer

Fleetwood Mac

Question 18

Pete Seeger was a key figure in the urban folk revival.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Chuck Berry's vocal style was both racially ambiguous and androgynous.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band emulated many aspects of Pet Sounds.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Thelonious Monk, John Lewis, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis did not emphasize virtuoso technique.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

Groups such as Yes, Genesis, and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer typified the ______ style.

Accepted Answer

progressive rock

Question 23

The primary unit of sale in the popular music industry both before and after the war was the

Accepted Answer

single.

Question 24

Which style is New Wave said to "dilute?"

Accepted Answer

punk rock

Question 25

What made it possible for critics in the postwar era to be able to treat jazz performances with increasing seriousness?

Accepted Answer

phonograph records

Question 26

No musician seized more eagerly on the constructive possibilities of 12-tone technique than

Accepted Answer

Milton Babbitt.

Question 27

Like soul jazz in relation to hard bop, soul music differed from R&B primarily in

Accepted Answer

the greater infusion of black gospel elements.

Question 28

Disco de-emphasized the "four-on-the-floor" dance beat pattern.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 29

No honky-tonk singer equaled _________ in popularity and lasting influence.

Accepted Answer

Hank Williams

Question 30

Miles Davis was a pioneer in jazz-rock fusion.

Accepted Answer

True

America's Music: Part 4

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America's Music: Part 4

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