2016 pentathalon music p.2

Question 1

Where did jazz come to prominence?

Accepted Answer

The Storyville District of New Orleans

Question 2

Which period of time did Moten Swing rise to popularity?

Accepted Answer

Great Depression

Question 3

If the piece calls for performing string piano, where does the performer sit?

Accepted Answer

In the crook of the piano

Question 4

All of the following individuals but one broke the stigma of earlier types of jazz

Accepted Answer

Paul Whitman

Question 5

Who was Simon Cowell's protege?

Accepted Answer

Ruth Crawford

Question 6

True/False: African American performers trained to plan jazz performances with sheet music.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Solo piano jazz performances were characterized by all of the

Accepted Answer

Heterophony

Question 8

What was Show Boat inspired by?

Accepted Answer

A novel

Question 9

How did Gershwin come to fame?

Accepted Answer

Collaborating with lyricists for Broadway

Question 10

Musicians enjoyed working under Duke Ellington for all of the following reasons except:

Accepted Answer

They accrued fame and critical acclaim.

Question 11

About how long did it take to recover from the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

10 years

Question 12

Who wrote "Take the A Train?"

Accepted Answer

Billy Strayhorn

Question 13

What did Crawford originally want to do with her life?

Accepted Answer

Become a teacher

Question 14

Henderson introduced all the following hallmarks of big band jazz except:

Accepted Answer

Longer solos

Question 15

True or False: A piano is required to perform jazz.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

In West African tradition, crossroads represent all of the following except:

Accepted Answer

Confusion

Question 17

Why was the great war renamed WWI?

Accepted Answer

20 years after WWI, a second world war takes place.

Question 18

Who wrote "Ol' Man River"?

Accepted Answer

Hammerstein & Kern

Question 19

Which of the following compositions is a character piece?

Accepted Answer

The Banshee

Question 20

What was Ethel Merman known for?

Accepted Answer

Projecting her voice without amplification

Question 21

Which version of Rhapsody in Blue is most well known?

Accepted Answer

Piano concerto

Question 22

How long did the Wall Street Crash last?

Accepted Answer

3 years

Question 23

Who composed The Banshee?

Accepted Answer

Simon Cowell

Question 24

What genre of music was Copland known for composing?

Accepted Answer

Nationalistic music

Question 25

Who was one of the most famous crooners in the first generations?

Accepted Answer

Bing Crosby

Question 26

What was early jazz characterized by all but which of the following:

Accepted Answer

Pleasing lyrics

Question 27

By WWII, about how long were Americans listening to the radio?

Accepted Answer

A sixth of their day

Question 28

Earlier jazz was perceived as all of the following except:

Accepted Answer

America's most celebrated contribution to world music

Question 29

Who was the best-known American composer from the mid-twentieth century?

Accepted Answer

Aaron Copland

Question 30

Who performed "Cross Road Blues"?

Accepted Answer

Robert Johnson

Question 31

Who composed the Afro-American Symphony?

Accepted Answer

William Grant Still

Question 32

Northern jazz differed from southern jazz in all but the following ways:

Accepted Answer

Less expertise on instrumentation

Question 33

What is the name of the best selling record of all time?

Accepted Answer

White Christmas

Question 34

Who wrote 'God Bless America'?

Accepted Answer

Irving Berlin

Question 35

All of the following types of music were popular pre-WWII except:

Accepted Answer

Classical jazz for dancing

Question 36

All of the following were true except:

Accepted Answer

Mild language was appropriate for broadcast.

Question 37

True or false: Rhapsody in Blue is considered to be genuine jazz by jazz musicians.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 38

True or False: Henry Cowell was educated at UC Berkeley after his first recital in 1914.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

What type of music did blues develop from?

Accepted Answer

African American singing

Question 40

Who was known for preserving American folk tunes?

Accepted Answer

Ruth Crawford

Question 41

Where did the blues first come into prominence?

Accepted Answer

In the rural providences of the south

Question 42

Before Johnson's death, how many songs was he able to record?

Accepted Answer

29

Question 43

Swing is a subset of jazz that emphasized all of the following characteristics except:

Accepted Answer

Instrumentation for fuller sounds

Question 44

"I Got Rhythm" blended all of the following elements except:

Accepted Answer

Swing

Question 45

Where was Tin Pan Alley?

Accepted Answer

28th St in NYC

Question 46

True or False: US economy recovered quickly after WWI.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

Girl Crazy featured which Broadway hit?

Accepted Answer

I Got Rhythm

Question 48

True or false: Music flourishes only in prosperous times.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 49

True or False: Swing was popularized more by big band performances than piano solos.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

All of the following reasons prevented blues music from gaining popularity before WWII except:

Accepted Answer

The audience found the style depressing.

Question 51

The epicenter of jazz moved from New Orleans to Chicago for all the following reasons except:

Accepted Answer

Swing, a subset of jazz from Chicago, grew in prominence

Question 52

All but which of the following increased exposure to music after WWI?

Accepted Answer

Movie studios

Question 53

Tin Pan Alley was known for all of the following except:

Accepted Answer

Regularly broadcasting patriotic melodies

Question 54

The Prohibition banned alcohol from all but which of the following:

Accepted Answer

Imbibition

Question 55

True or False: Count Basie was known as the "Father of Big Band Jazz."

Accepted Answer

False

Question 56

Who won a pulitzer Prize in 1945 for his/her work?

Accepted Answer

Aaron Copland

Question 57

True/False: Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie were all based out of New York.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 58

Whinch work was Copland best known for?

Accepted Answer

Appalachian Spring

Question 59

What is experimentalism?

Accepted Answer

Music that is different from anything previously.

Question 60

Who was the first African American to lead a white rdio orchestra in 1933?

Accepted Answer

William Grant Still

2016 pentathalon music p.2

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2016 pentathalon music p.2

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