Great jazz artists are often

great improvisers, who can compose as they perform

What was Duke Ellington known for?

He was a prolific composer and arranger

Which of the following is a characteristic of Postmodern music?

quotation, extracts from earlier musical works

What is a "break" in Dixieland jazz?

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

Dizzie Gillespie and Thelonius Monk

were pioneers of bebop along with Charlie Parker

lived most of his life under the Soviet system

What is Expressionism?

inner feelings were depicted through vivid art

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is

mixture of jazz and concert music for piano and orchestra

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

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