Question 1

Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 2

At the turn of the 1800s, camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 3

Burleigh\'s arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot calls upon jazz and blues traditions.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 4

Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, was established as a college for freed slaves.  Correct!

Accepted Answer

true

Question 5

Harry T. Burleigh was an editor for a music publisher.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 6

Spirituals fell out of circulation after the Civil War in the United States.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 7

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a favorite tune of which college-level performing group?

Accepted Answer

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Question 8

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects which of the following traditions?

Accepted Answer

All of these choices

Question 9

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was originally composed in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 10

Tchaikovsky believed that African American musical traditions were the true root of American music.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 11

The 1910 recording of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by the Fisk Jubilee Singers is stored on what type of recording technology?

Accepted Answer

wax cylinder

Question 12

The Fisk arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is strophic.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 13

The singing of spirituals offered the slave community a sense of solidarity.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 14

The style and structure of African American spirituals were in strict imitation of European models.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 15

The text of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on a story from what source?

Accepted Answer

the Holy Bible

Question 16

The texture of African American spirituals is best described as _____.

Accepted Answer

monophonic with some elaboration

Question 17

What scale is utilized in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

Accepted Answer

pentatonic

Question 18

When was the Harlem Renaissance?

Accepted Answer

during the early part of the twentieth century

Question 19

Which European composer was an early supporter of African American musical styles like the spiritual?

Accepted Answer

DvoÅÃ¡k

Question 20

Who of the following arranged spirituals for solo voice and piano?

Accepted Answer

Harry T. Burleigh

Question 21

Dance is very rare in multimedia today.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 22

In the creation of The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky worked with other artists from his native country of:

Accepted Answer

Russia

Question 23

Stravinsky did not include authentic French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

Stravinsky is largely recognized for his revitalizing of which musical element?

Accepted Answer

rhythm

Question 25

Stravinsky\'s early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 26

Stravinsky\'s revitalization of rhythm in The Rite of Spring is closely associated with:

Accepted Answer

primitivism

Question 27

The Firebird, Petrushka, and Rite of Spring are ballets by:

Accepted Answer

Stravinsky.

Question 28

The Rite of Spring can be performed as a concert work.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 29

The form of the \"Dance of the Youths and Maidens\" from Stravinsky\'s The Rite of Spring is a simple minuet form.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 30

The ideals of which movement best describes the music of The Rite of Spring?

Accepted Answer

primitivism

Question 31

The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 32

The premiere of The Rite of Spring was uneventful in Paris.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 33

The success of the Ballets Russes was largely due to the leadership of Serge Diaghilev.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 34

To where did Stravinsky move at the onset of World War II?

Accepted Answer

Los Angeles

Question 35

What is the basis of Stravinsky\'s The Rite of Spring?

Accepted Answer

scenes of pagan Russia

Question 36

Where did Stravinsky live in the last years of his life?

Accepted Answer

the United States of America

Question 37

Which instrument, playing in its highest register, begins The Rite of Spring,?

Accepted Answer

bassoon

Question 38

Which of the following does Stravinsky use to minimize harmonic changes?

Accepted Answer

all of these choices

Question 39

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Stravinsky\'s The Rite of Spring?

Accepted Answer

use of chamber orchestra

Question 40

Whom of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?

Accepted Answer

Dostoyevsky

Question 41

A blue note implies a slight drop in pitch on the 3rd, 5th, or 7th scale tone.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 42

A chorus in the blues usually is usually 19 bars long.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 43

Billie Holiday\'s first break came when she recorded with white clarinetist _______.

Accepted Answer

Benny Goodman

Question 44

Billie Holiday was one of the first African American singers to sing in public with a white orchestra.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 45

Billie Holiday\'s most famous song was:

Accepted Answer

Strange Fruit

Question 46

Billie\'s Blues consists of an introduction and _______ choruses.

Accepted Answer

six

Question 47

Congo Square in New Orleans historically was a place where African American music was experienced.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 48

Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk were figureheads of what jazz style?

Accepted Answer

bebop

Question 49

Early jazz developed from a blending of African music with art and popular traditions of the West.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 50

In the middle of the twentieth century, Brazilian and Cuban musical influences could be heard in jazz.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 51

Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of scat singing.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 52

Louis Armstrong was a famous New Orleans pianist

Accepted Answer

false

Question 53

Ragtime was originally a dance style that featured highly syncopated melodies.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 54

Storytelling was common in the music of black slaves in nineteenth-century America.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 55

The two instrumental solos in Billie\'s Blues feature:

Accepted Answer

clarinet and trumpet

Question 56

What elements of Latin American music had an influence on jazz?

Accepted Answer

both dance rhythms and percussion instruments

Question 57

Which best describes the form of the choruses in Billie\'s Blues?

Accepted Answer

Each chorus is 12 bars long

Question 58

Which is NOT true of a typical blues progression?

Accepted Answer

the number of bars for each section varies

Question 59

Which verse of Billie\'s Blues has a typical blues text?

Accepted Answer

first

Question 60

Who was one of the principal performers of cool jazz?

Accepted Answer

Miles Davis

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