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1The term [blank_start]ostinato[blank_end], from Italian (meaning obstinate), is music terminology for repeated pattern
- Aostinato
2The guitar came to America with the [blank_start]Spaniards[blank_end]
- ASpaniards
3The dependent phrase in a single period construction melodic construction is called an [blank_start]antecedent[blank_end]
- Aantecedent
4“[blank_start]Tin Pan Alley[blank_end]” refers to a place in New York where the music publishing business began
- ATin Pan Alley
5The term [blank_start]Ragtime[blank_end], originally a solo piano style in the early 1900’s, comes from the “ragged rhythm” result of stride left hand and syncopated right hand rhythms
- ARagtime
6In [blank_start]Dixieland[blank_end] music, some of the music was written out, some improvised
- ADixieland
7[blank_start]John Hammond[blank_end] was the name of the talent scout, producer, who discovered and produced Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, George Benson, and others:
- AJohn Hammond
8[blank_start]Improvisation[blank_end] in jazz music refers to Extemporaneous invention of material based on the music introduced in the tune or reflecting musical or emotional statements of other improvisers
- AImprovisation
9The “[blank_start]head[blank_end]”, as a jazz term, refers to the tune or the song
- Ahead
10[blank_start]Changes[blank_end], as a jazz term, refers to the chord progression
- AChanges
11The “[blank_start]bridge[blank_end]”, as a jazz term, refers to the contrasting middle section of a song
- Abridge
12The independent phrase in a single period melodic construction is called the [blank_start]consequent[blank_end]
- Aconsequent
13The 1943 Rogers & Hammerstein musical “[blank_start]Oklahoma[blank_end]” proved that American musical theater could deal with serious subject matter
- AOklahoma
14[blank_start]Parallel construction[blank_end] referrs to when the relationship between phrases in a single period melodyis 90% the same material
- AParallel construction
15[blank_start]Timbre[blank_end] is the word used in music to describe the specific sound of an instrument
- ATimbre
16“[blank_start]Pitch[blank_end]” is measured in cycles per second
- APitch
17The “[blank_start]Father of the Blues[blank_end]” is the honor given to W.C. Handy
- AFather of the Blues
18American popular music moves in a linear evolution: [blank_start]Spirituals[blank_end] –[blank_start]gospel[blank_end] –[blank_start]blues[blank_end] –[blank_start]ragtime[blank_end]--[blank_start]big band jazz[blank_end]--[blank_start]small jazz bands[blank_end]—[blank_start]BeBop[blank_end]. Each new style remains even though a new style receives more popularity for awhile
- ASpirituals
- Bgospel
- Cblues
- Dragtime
- Ebig band jazz
- Fsmall jazz bands
- GBeBop
19The foundation chord progression for a blues is
- AI - IV - V
- BIV - I - V
- CV - IV - I
- DI - V - IV
20The first female big band leader, due to the death of the original band leader (her husband Chic Webb), and composer/arranger of the big band hit “A Tisket, A Tasket” was [blank_start]Ella Fitzgerald[blank_end]
- AElla Fitzgerald
21[blank_start]BeBop[blank_end] is the name of the highly virtuosic style of jazz that features often fast playing, high use of complex ornamentation, over complex and a quickly changing chord progression
- ABeBop
22What is the name of the African-American a capella vocal ensemble that first presented authentic black music to the post-civil war North?
- AThe Fisk University Jubilee Singers
- BNorthern University Soul Singers
- CUniversity of Massachusetts Jubilee Singers
23“[blank_start]Trading Fours[blank_end]” is a jazz term that refers to soloing over four bar groups in “conversation” with another member of the band
- ATrading Fours
24“[blank_start]Comping[blank_end]” is a jazz music slang term for accompaniment
- AComping
25The overtone series/ harmonic series refers to the “[blank_start]sound rainbow[blank_end]”: unheard pitches that collectively are silently part of the fundamental and drive the root progression used throughout music is Western Civilization
- Asound rainbow
26Boogie-Woogie is best described as a(n)
- Ablues piano style with a rhythmic ostinato in the left hand
- Bblues piano style with a rhythmic ostinato in the right hand
- Cblues piano style with a semi-rhythmic ostinato in the left hand
- Dnone of the above
27[blank_start]Rhapsody in Blue[blank_end] is a “jazz piano concerto” that was composed by [blank_start]George Gerswhin[blank_end] in 1924. Originally scored for piano and jazz band, it was later scored by American composer [blank_start]Ferde Grofe[blank_end] {“The Grand Canyon Suite”) and remains highly popular throughout the world to this day
- AGeorge Gerswhin
- BFerde Grofe
- CRhapsody in Blue
- DAn America in Paris
28[blank_start]Variety[blank_end] shows, [blank_start]Vaudeville[blank_end] shows, and [blank_start]Burlesque[blank_end] shows merged into musicals
- AVariety
- BVaudeville
- CBurlesque
29A “[blank_start]click-track[blank_end]” is an existing, audible metronome sound played into the headphones of musicians to stabilize rhythm for recording in studios and live performance
- Aclick track
30[blank_start]Scat singing[blank_end] refers to singers using random extemporaneous phonemes instead of actual words to improvise, basically emulating the sounds of wind, brass, and percussion instruments
- AScat singing
31The Dave Brubeck Quartet experimented with jazz songs in irregular meters. The most famous, “[blank_start]Take Five[blank_end]”, was composed by Paul Desmond, the alto sax player
- ATake Five
32Glenn Miller’s big band hit [blank_start]In the Mood[blank_end] was basically a blues
- AIn the Mood
33Who was the now famous arranger for the Benny Goodman Orchestra. His work created the Benny Goodman sound. Arrangers were responsible for ‘branding” a band’s signature?
- AFletcher Henderson
- BGeorge Gershwin
- CPaul Desmond
34The lyrics in Blues follows the form
- AAAB
- BABA
- CABB
- DBAB
35BeBop is a virtuosic style of jazz music, the invention of which is credited to
- AMiles Davis
- BCharlie Parker
- CMiles Davis and Charlie Parker
- DMiles Parker and Charlie Davis
- ENone of the above
36The librettist, lyricist for the musical West Side Story was
- AStephen Sondheim
- BGeorge Gershwin
- CCharlie Parker
- DMiles Davis
37Howard Shore composed the musical score for the film...
- AThe Lord of the Rings
- BThe Hobbit
- CStar Wars
- DSpace Balls
38SHMRF is the acronym (standing for_______, ________, _______, _______, and _______) we’ve been using to afford a comprehensive view of the contents of any piece of music
- ASound, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, and Form
- BSound, Harmony, Meter, Rhythm, and Form
- CSound, Harmony, Match, Rhythm, and Forte
39Duple, triple, and quadruple plus the term simple or compound is music terminology referring to
- Arhythm/meter
- Bpitch/tone
- Cmeasure/repeat
40What term refers to the texture of music with regard to its threads or melodic lines means melody plus accompaniment
- AHomophonic
- BMonophonic
- CBiphonic
- DPneumonic
41What form from classical music terminology has a direct correlate in jazz form approaches because it inovlves exposition / development / recapitulation which equals Head-improv – out chorus?
- ASonata-Allegro
- BMezzo-Piano
- CMelodic
- DHarmonic
42Who is the man referred to as the “March King”? He created many popular marches for the band he conducted: The United States Marine Band
- AJohn Philip Sousa
- BMiles Davis
- CStephen Sondheim
- DJerome Kern
43The first music sung in America by immigrants was mostly pre-existing ____ _____ from their native country, usually in their native languages
- Afolk songs
- Bwork songs
- Clullabies
- Dmarch songs
44With the advent of the Big Band, the most critical, most important contribution to creating the sound print of the band was made by the _________
- Aarranger
- Bcomposer
- Csinger
- Daccompanist
45______________ refers to when a solo singer or solo instrumentalist sings or plays a line that is echoed back by other singers or musicians, reflecting a style born in work songs: railroad gangs, whaling ships, prison road crews, loggers, field hands, etc.
- ACall and Response
- BImprovisation
- CCopy Cat
- DSorrow Singing
46___________ is the name of the now famous composer of many piano rags in the early 1900’s. He was buried in an un-marked grave until his music was made “popular” through its use in the film “The Sting”
- AScott Joplin
- BStephen Sondheim
- CGeorge Gershwin
- DW.C. Handy
47___________ is the man who is credited as being the “founder of American musical theater”
- AJerome Kern
- BGeorge Gershwin
- CGlenn Miller
- DHoward Shore
48____________ was the composer of many beloved, published American songs in the mid-1800s and is now referred to as “The father of American song”
- AStephen Foster
- BStephen Sondheim
- CJohn Williams
- DJerome Kern
49The lawyer _____________ wrote a poem that became the lyrics for the American National Anthem. The four-verse poem speaks about events that happened during the attack on Fort McHenry in 1812. The words were later sung to a preexisting British drinking song “To Anacreon in Heaven”
- AW.C. Handy
- BStephen Sondheim
- CFrancis Scott Key
- DJohn Hammond
50The film score for “Legends of the Fall” was composed by...
- AJohn Williams
- BJames Horner
- CStephen Sondheim
- DHoward Shore
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