Music 1010 Modern Quiz Review

Question 1

___________ is a piano technique where the left hand alternates between bass notes and middle-register chords.

Accepted Answer

Stride bass

Question 2

Robert Johnson “composed” “Terraplane Blues” by creating the words, melody, & chords, while also including stock phrases

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

___________ is a complex syncopation that combines patterns of two and three.

Accepted Answer

Hemiola

Question 4

“Tonight” uses additive form to build emotional complexity.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Although he was known as the ___________, Joplin wanted to be respected as a classical composer.

Accepted Answer

King of Ragtime

Question 6

_________ art typically displays a fixation on the gruesome and the stylized.

Accepted Answer

Expressionist

Question 7

Ruth Crawford also arranged folksongs, and was the stepmother of folksinger Pete Seeger.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

_______ is a groove in which the notes alternate between slightly longer and slightly shorter durations

Accepted Answer

Swing

Question 9

Ragtime music was dance music with rhythmic syncopation.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Register changes are used to give a sense of a beginning, a middle, and an end in Piano Study in Mixed Accents.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Historians have some idea of how Joplin played his rags thanks to player piano rolls...

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Which composer and song title is this?

Accepted Answer

Leonard Bernstein: Tonight

Question 13

A _____ note is a note that is performed flatter than in the standard major scale.

Accepted Answer

blue

Question 14

_______ provides the reader with almost no sense of fixed metrical pattern

Accepted Answer

Voiles

Question 15

______ songs were originally transmitted orally, without any formal notation.

Accepted Answer

Blues

Question 16

Melodic line in Piano Study in Mixed Accents lacks a sense of harmony because it projects no sense of any tonal center

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

The soprano uses a singing technique called Sprechstimme in Pierrot Lunaire.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Debussy’s works that are now recognized as masterpieces were initially greeted with indifference or even scorn.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Which composer and song title is this?

Accepted Answer

Claude Debussy: Voiles

Question 20

Because Leonard Bernstein was an accomplished conductor, composer, pianist, & educator, Ned Rorem described Bernstein’s

Accepted Answer

career as "four lives in one"

Question 21

John Williams has written the music for many films, including Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, and Superman.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

Charlie Parker and other bebop musicians wanted jazz to be treated as serious music for listening, rather than _________

Accepted Answer

simple entertainment for dancing.

Question 23

Today, composers of music for video games often use “blended” scores of both prerecorded & synthesized sounds.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

In “The Walls Converge”, John Williams uses low, dark timbres to accompany characters being down in a trash compactor

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

An operetta uses spoken dialogue and is typically more light-hearted than an opera.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

The shuffle groove is a rhythmic pattern in which each beat is subdivided into three pulses.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

The form of the head in “Cotton Tail” is a slightly modified AABA, also known as a 32-Bar Standard Song Form.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

Which composer and song title is this?

Accepted Answer

Robert Johnson: Terraplane Blues

Question 29

Duke Ellington wrote concertos, concert pieces, and hundreds of jazz standards.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

Legend says Robert Johnson made a deal with the Devil to acquire his remarkable talent.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

_________ is music that lacks any sense of a tonal center or harmonic center

Accepted Answer

Atonality

Question 32

Which composer and song title is this?

Accepted Answer

Aaron Copland: Hoe-Down

Question 33

Trumpets and tenor saxophone engage in the call-and-response texture in “Cotton Tail”.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

Chuck Berry developed a distinctive performance gimmick known as _____________.

Accepted Answer

the duck walk

Question 35

Audio tech. innovations in the 20th century meant that listeners could here music when and where they wanted to hear it.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 36

Chuck Berry’s “School Day” uses electric guitar, piano, and bass

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

The whole tone scale, often used by Debussy, undermined any sense of harmonic center.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Charlie Parker was a virtuosic soloist with lightning-fast technique.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

The central point of action in __________ is a young girl dancing herself to death.

Accepted Answer

The Rite of Spring

Question 40

In ________________, the rhythm is organized into irregular groups of notes.

Accepted Answer

Piano Study in Mixed Accents

Question 41

In pursuit of innovation, Modern composers wrote works without a __________ or clear sense of _______

Accepted Answer

tonal center, meter

Question 42

The general purpose of non-diegetic music in films is to support the action and dialogue on screen.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

The music in “Nascence” presents the musical elements that will develop over the course of the game.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 44

Which composer and song title is this?

Accepted Answer

Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag

Question 45

_____ composed _____ in an “open” fashion by leaving sonic space btwn instrumental parts, much like open space of West

Accepted Answer

Aaron Copland composed “Hoe-Down”

Question 46

Debussy’s relationship to an artistic movement, ______,helps give his music quality of “suggesting rather than stating”

Accepted Answer

Impressionism

Question 47

Sergei Diaghilev produced his ballets with Stravinsky in Paris.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

West Side Story retells Romeo & Juliet as rival New York urban gangs. using the song Tonight by Bernstein

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

Duke Ellington’s audiences at the Savoy Ballroom in New York around 1940 were notable for being ________

Accepted Answer

Racially integrated

Question 50

Which composer and song title is this?

Accepted Answer

Chuck Berry: School Day

Question 51

Which composer and song title is this?

Accepted Answer

Ruth Crawford: Piano Study in Mixed Accents

Question 52

___________ is used frequently in commercials and advertisements such as “Beef: It’s What’s For Dinner.”

Accepted Answer

Hoe-Down

Question 53

The polytonality in The Rite of Spring creates extreme dissonance.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 54

In “Nascence”, _______ provides an unfamiliar timbre.

Accepted Answer

bass flute

Question 55

Which composer and song title is this?

Accepted Answer

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Question 56

The orchestra used for The Rite of Spring is ________ then orchestras of the previous generations.

Accepted Answer

larger

Question 57

Hoe-Down’s duple meter suggests American square dancing.

Accepted Answer

True

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