Collierville General Music Final Review

Playing or singing any major scale from LA to LA instead of DO to DO creates what scale?

An Austrailian instrument that produces a low drone is called?

A Jig uses which time signature?

Who Composed Maple Leaf Rag?

What is the national dance of Tonga?

In Buddhism, it's followers are attempting to achieve what state to shed eartly desires?

Broadway singer and actor Audra McDonald won recognition in a revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.

A twentieth-century musical form that radically changed the course of popular music was __________ music.

A Balinese music ensemble is called a:

Which artist is considered to be the "father of the blues"?

Mexican music was influenced by which cultures?

Who is known as "America's March King"?

A sequence of eight pitches built on the pattern of half steps and whole steps is called?

Sang "I Will Always Love You" with Vince Gill

Is this passage conjunct, disjunct, or both?

The famous composer Leonard Bernstein started his musical career as a(n)?

Which woman was Louis Armstong's wife at the time when she wrote "Hotter Than That"?

What refers to a dance in which foot movements produce audible rhythms emphasized by small metal plates on the shoes?

Who wrote the lyrics for the Star Spangled Banner?

Which dead guy is called the "father of the symphony"?

A dance that features the breakaway.

Motown, one of the most successful and influential music recording and publishing empires, was located in?

Simple solid instruments that produce sound by being struck, scraped, or shaken are categorized as?

Composer Bright Sheng used the pipa, or Chinese ____________________ in his compositions.

Sang the 1972 hit "You are the Sunshine of My Life"

French composers Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil created _________________.

The music for The Rite of Spring was composed by whom?

During which war were the lyrics for the Star Spangled Banner penned?

How old was Benny Goodman when he decided to form his own big band?

What meter would I use this conducting pattern for?

The song "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" is also known as the "Navy Hymn."

Meoldies are almost always built on a(n)?

What type of gear does Imogen Heap use to compose music?

The physicist and engineer who introduced a compact, easier-to-play synthesizer is

Which composer wrote The Nutcracker?

According to the video "The Sound of Silence", where is the quietest naturally occurring location in America?

Kye Kye Kule is a song we listened to in class from which African country?

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov used what in the Procession of Nobles?

Which religion is the most predominant in Indonesia.

A leading Romantic composer whose music embodies the spirit of Russian nationalism was _______________.

Which classically trained artist that we talked about in class was a "crossover" artist?

When a voice or instrument is sung or played individually it is described as being:

What type of meter just contains even groups?

Which Ballet Dancer performed in the "Ballet Russes" and also choreographed "The Rite of Spring".

The blues scale has how many notes including the octave?

Perceptive listening is listening to and appreciating a musical work for its:

During the Romantic period, composers wrote music that _______________.

Johann Sebastian Bach was famous for playing and improvising on the:

Music during the Classical period for small ensembles was known as?

Singer who recorded the song "Strange Fruit"

A dance that became popular during the jazz age of the 1920's was the:

What type of cadence ends on the V chord?

________________ and his music team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created hyperinstruments.

This type of music utilizes a system of chance during the performance

The Fertile Crescent is between which two rivers?

Melodic intervals that jump up or down from the original octave are called octave ________________.

The music selected to be included on the Voyager "time capsules" represented?

A leading musical voice of the antiwar protest against the Vietnam War was ______________.

Who is the singer who made the song "America the Beautiful" famous?

Which famous saxophonist played in Count Basie's band and set the standard for how saxophone should be played?

"Kol Nidrei" is aprayer that is chanted by _____________ on the eve of Yom Kippur.

Which artist wrote "Take 5" as played by Dave Brubeck?

What meter would I use this conducting pattern for?

One of the first composers of Broadway musicals was?

A scholar who studies the music of different cultural groups is called a(n)

Jonathan Larson, lyricist and composer of Rent, died of AIDS before the show opened.  

Which two movies heralded the birth of film as a medium for telling a narrative?

In 1996, Rent won four Tony awards plus the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.  

The Voyager spacecraft contains how many musical selections?

Which member of the Marsalis family plays Saxophone?

Composer and pianist who wrote many pieces with a Polish "flavor".

Ludwig van Beethoven used ___________ for the opening section of the 2nd movement of his Symphony No. 7?

What allows us to direct sounds to a different side of the "sound stage"?

An instrument that was used in sci-fi movies during the 1950s because it produces a haunting, vocal-like sound is called

Riverdance created a renewed interest in:

"Here comes the Bride" is an example of what Interval?

Which Song Uses Contrafactum?

God Save the Queen/King is heard when:

Who wrote the song "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" that we listened to in class?

All music shares the common elements of?

According to the video we watched in class "The Sound of Silence", how quiet can the chamber at Orfield Lab get?

The Housa people of West Africa are predominantly?

Instruments that produce sound by a vibrating column of air are categorized as:

Is this passage conjuct, disjunct, or both?

Archaeologists recovered rattles, flutes, and harp like instruments dating back to which year from Mesopotamia?