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

What was Duke Ellington known for?

He was a prolific composer and arranger

What is Expressionism?

inner feelings were depicted through vivid art

lived most of his life under the Soviet system

Which of the following is a characteristic of Postmodern music?

quotation, extracts from earlier musical works

Great jazz artists are often

great improvisers, who can compose as they perform

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is

mixture of jazz and concert music for piano and orchestra

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

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