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Music Chapter 23 and Chapter 24
Music Chapter 23 and Chapter 24
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Chapters 23 and 24
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1
Simple melodies and harmonies repeated many times and change in small increments over time is
serialism.
expressionism
chance music
minimalism.
2
The two key features of jazz performance style are:
ragging and improvisation.
call and response.
improvisation and breaks.
improvisation and highly developed syncopation
3
What characterizes bebop?
ten to twenty members in the band
combos featuring virtuosic improvisation
origins in black American churches
little opportunity for improvisation
4
The song style developed by Berry Gordy Jr. of Detroit was:
Rockabilly
Gospel
Blues
Motown
5
An example of chance music is:
performer placing hands inside the piano & strumming strings
using a synthesizer to produce sounds
throwing dice to determine the order of a composition
using twelve tones of the chromatic scale in a fixed order.
6
Post–WorldWar II composers were intent on:
discarding serialism in favor of Neoclassicism.
developing possibilities with standard Romantic orchestra
searching for new sound materials.
exploring the modernist music techniques of Debussy
7
Who was the leading composer of ragtime in the early 1900s?
Scott Joplin
Duke Ellington
William Billings
Stephen Foster
8
In a typical early jazz band, the melody instruments included a:
tuba.
banjo.
string bass.
clarinet.
9
Stephen Collins Foster wrote ________, and John Philip Sousa wrote ________.
songs; marches
songs; church music
symphonies; piano sonatas
church music; woodwind chamber music
10
The father of chance music is:
Steve Reich.
John Cage
John Adams.
Philip Glass.
11
Family of the orchestra under went the most growth & innovation in the post–World War II era?
brass
percussion
strings
woodwinds
12
Which cannot
generate
sound?
an electronic sound synthesizer
electronic recording equipment
the human voice
an electric guitar
13
Early rock is described by some as a copy of________ by white musicians.
bebop
rhythm and blues
gospel
blues
14
Ancient Voices of Children
was which composer’s response to the Vietnam War?
Steve Reich
George Crumb
John Adams
Kaija Saariaho
15
Big band jazz is called:
blues
ragtime
bebop
swing
16
One characteristic of postmodern compositions is:
great restraint in emotional expression.
an avoidance of all earlier styles and genres
free mixing of different styles & techniques.
a return to strict Classical forms.
17
The band who led the “British Invasion” of the 1960s was:
The Beach Boys
The Beatles
The Grateful Dead
The Rolling Stones
18
Light operas of the nineteenth century containing dialogue, light tunes, & dancing were called
music dramas.
shows
ragtime
operettas
19
Americans tended to import the classical music of________ in the nineteenth century.
France
England
Germany
Italy
20
What characteristic of African music is still used in African American church music today?
use of the piano
complex rhythmic patterns
the pentatonic scale
call-and-response singing
21
The two leading composers of early American musical comedy were:
Jerome Kern and George Gershwin.
Amy Beach and Steve Reich.
Duke Ellington and Sippie Wallace
Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein
22
What is Louis Armstrong best known for?
the ability to switch from trumpet to saxophone
improvisational skill at the piano
imaginative breaks and variations on the trumpet
prolific compositions for Broadway