Music Appreciation Final Exam (56)

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Which of the following popular American musical styles has its roots in African American music?
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ragtime blues jazz
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Which of the following music genres developed around the turn of the twentieth century and incorporates elements of African music and Western popular and art music
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jazz
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Which of the following is NOT a musical trait of African origin?
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major-minor tonality
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How many lines are in a blues verse?
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three
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Which of the following best describes the form of a blues text?
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A-A-B
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Which region of the United States was the birthplace of a unique style of blues primarily sung by males?
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Mississippi Delta
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What is a bent, or "blue," note?
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a note whose pitch drops slightly
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Which of the following does NOT characterize the blues?
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It is a form of African folk music.
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Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?
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New Orleans
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Which of the following is NOT true of New Orleans jazz?
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It had no set forms or harmonic progressions.
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Louis Armstrong was also known as:
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Satchmo
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Which instrument did Louis Armstrong play?
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trumpet
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Louis Armstrong's instrument-like approach to singing is called:
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scat-singing
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Billie Holiday was one of the first African American singers to:
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break the color barrier by recording and performing with white musicians.
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Billie Holiday's song Billie's Blues is in ________ form
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twelve-bar blues
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Which American jazz composer was also a pianist and a master of big-band orchestration?
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Duke Ellington
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What kind of jazz is Duke Ellington known for?
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big band
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Duke Ellington's great musical collaborator in the 1940s was:
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Billy Strayhorn.
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Take the A Train is a song that refers to
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a New York City subway line
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Take the A Train was composed by
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Billy Strayhorn.
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What was the trademark of bebop?
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a two-note phrase
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Which of the following was NOT a contributor to the 1940s style known as bebop?
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Louis Armstrong
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During the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk developed:
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bebop
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The principal exponent of cool jazz was the trumpeter:
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Miles Davis.
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What element did Xavier Cugat bring to the mainstream?
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Latin dance music
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Jazz is an art form created mainly by African Americans in the early twentieth century that blended elements from African music with traditions of the Wes
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T
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A typical blues text voiced the difficulties of life.
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T
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A stanza of blues is typically four phrases long.
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F
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The blues from the Mississippi Delta usually was sung by black women.
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F
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New Orleans jazz depended on simultaneous improvisations by the players, which resulted in a polyphonic texture.
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T
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Louis Armstrong was an important force in the development of early jazz styles.
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T
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Because she was an African American, Billie Holiday never had a chance to record with white jazz musicians
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F
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Billie Holliday's Billie's Blues retains the standard twelve-bar blues structure
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T
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Big-band swing was the dominant form of American popular music in the 1930s and 1940s.
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T
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Duke Ellington is associated with New Orleans-style jazz.
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F
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Bebop was a complex new style that developed after World War II and was performed by small groups in which each player has an equal voice in the improvisation
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T
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The Gerry Mulligan Quartet is associated with West Coast jazz.
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T