America's Music: Part 3

Question 1

A pandiatonic sound means that only a select few notes of the diatonic scale are in use.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

__________ took shape before WWII as mainstream denominations brought Pentecostal musical styles into their worship.

Accepted Answer

Modern black gospel music

Question 3

What A&R man was hired by Okeh Records to comb the rural South in search of new artists for the white Southern market?

Accepted Answer

Ralph Peer

Question 4

Trumpet, clarinet, and trombone comprise what part of a typical New Orleans jazz band?

Accepted Answer

front line

Question 5

Which of the following would not be a part of a musical modernist aesthetic?

Accepted Answer

lyricism

Question 6

Film scores before WWII began leaning toward American-sounding music, often with a traditional slant.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Broadway embraced ragtime, and from the 1920s until after WWII, many popular songs would display a degree of __________.

Accepted Answer

blues influence.

Question 8

The blues would go on to influence nearly every style of music that developed in its wake.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Which of the following is not an explicitly successful ingredient for an independent show tune?

Accepted Answer

sentimentality

Question 10

The Jazz Singer was the first film to demonstrate that a spoken soundtrack was marketable.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Duke Ellington found great success merging

Accepted Answer

jazz and concert music.

Question 12

The ________ was memorized, assembled from the ideas of band members and learned aurally rather than being written down.

Accepted Answer

head arrangement

Question 13

Jazz of the Swing Era tended to place a more equal emphasis on all four beats in a bar.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Between the world wars, the composer was elevated to a standing in the classical sphere once reserved for the performer.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

"The Ellington effect," the use of bluesy riffs, made Ellington's band instantly recognizable and emotionally potent.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Most classic American popular songs began life in a musical comedy.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

The acts who eventually transformed country music from specialty market into a major segment of the music industry were

Accepted Answer

the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers.

Question 18

The film scores of _______ set the tone for what has been called Hollywood's "golden age."

Accepted Answer

Max Steiner

Question 19

Ruth Crawford Seeger's music was often directly connected with

Accepted Answer

politics.

Question 20

The rise of _______ as a popular medium was one of the most important cultural developments between the world wars.

Accepted Answer

motion pictures

Question 21

Rudhyar found in spiritualism compositional inspiration to create a highly dissonant, nontraditional-sounding music.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 22

The premiere of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony marked the first time in history that

Accepted Answer

a major orchestra performed a symphonic work by an African American

Question 23

Which of the following labels were not used by Billboard magazine to classify country music recordings during the 1940s?

Accepted Answer

country records

Question 24

Show Boat significantly fused which two dramatic genres?

Accepted Answer

musical comedy and operetta

Question 25

Between the two world wars, the boundaries between country music and other genres were clearly marked.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

Florence Price carried forward the development of the concert spiritual as begun by Harry T. Burleigh.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

Aaron Copland's modernist interests managed to appeal to conservative tastes.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

Which of the following conductors especially championed the music of new American composers?

Accepted Answer

Serge Koussevitsky

Question 29

The radio proved an important new medium to broadcast a wide variety of music.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

Some hillbilly music fits neatly into the category of ___________, but much of it does not.

Accepted Answer

folk

America's Music: Part 3

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America's Music: Part 3

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