FAS Unit 4 Music Quiz 2

Refers to the way chords are constructed and how they follow each other.

Country music origins can be traced back to…

Musical texture that is a simultaneous performance of 2 or more melodic lines.

The relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound.

The ______ transformed rock from its early dependence on piano based instrumentation.  

Music is an art based on the ____ of sounds in time.

What rock genre began as a kind of rhythmically accented poetic recitation in the 1980s ?

The distance between the lowest and highest tones that a voice or instrument can produce is called ______.

Who is the famous American composer who has scored movies like E.T., Star Wars and Jurassic Park?

Motown was a musical movement in the 1960s that started in ____ .

Musical texture that is one main melody accompanied by chords.

What became accessible in the 1950’s that helped spread the popularity of Rock & Roll and the dances it inspired?

The backbone of a jazz ensemble is its ______ section.  

Who is the famous American during early 1920’s that was known as ‘the Empress of the Blues’?

Who wrote the Ragtime jazz classics: 'Maple Leaf Rag' and 'The Entertainer'?

 series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole.

Three types of musical texture are …

Which type of band utilizes mostly wind instruments?

Tone color is the same thing as ____ .

__________ is best remembered as the person who popularized the term “rock and roll”.

During what years was Classical music the preferred style?  

What musical ensemble contains any number of singing voices, from about 15 to several hundred?

Swing Jazz flourished in America from __ - __.  

What music genre is known for the memorable stories that are told within its verses?

Genre that is based on extra-musical subject. It tells a story or describes an event or idea by instrumental means.