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