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Contemporary composers represent a wide range of stylistic approaches that include traditionalists as well as modernists

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True

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Although some modern works are contemporary versions of well-established and long-appreciated music styles, the date of a composition is still the most reliable indication of a composer's stylistic ideals.

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False

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composers share the conviction that Western music should evolve in an orderly and logical manner

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Mainstream

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No single composer leads a specific movement identified as the dominant style of contemporary music

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True

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Modal writing and references to Gregorian chant are just two examples of a renewed interest in __________ music among some twentieth-century composers

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Medieval

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Two works that illustrate the use of Medieval concepts are Benjamin Britten's A Ceremony of Carols and Carl Orff's

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Carmina Burana

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A group of French composers who embraced popular music, jazz, and theater music as an alternative to the "serious" artistic movements of the modern period were called

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Les Six

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The members of "Les Six" included all of the following except

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Carl Orff

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The light, satirical style of __________, who wrote attractive and witty compositions with absurd, surrealistic titles such as Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear, pointed the way for other French composers

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Darius Milhaud

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Like Webern, Milhaud lessened the effect of harsh dissonances by combining voices of unlike timbres and thereby encouraged linear rather than "chordal" listening

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True

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In his search for new musical material upon which to base his compositions, Milhaud traveled widely, exploring the "exotic" sounds of jazz in America and of folk music in

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Brazil

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Milhaud was first introduced to jazz in a Paris cafe, where he heard a traveling French jazz band perform.

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False

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Milhaud wrote a number of pieces based upon jazz; one of the most attractive is his ballet

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La Creation du Monde.

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Although nationalism was an important source of inspiration for Romantic composers in the late nineteenth century, in the modern era it has not been a significant factor in musical style

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False

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The field of __________ is the scientific study of music

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musicology

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The study of music of specific cultures is the science of

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ethnomusicology

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For Bela Bartók, the folk music of __________ provided the most refreshing and provocative stimulus for the composition of art music.

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Eastern Europe

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In addition to his talents as a composer and scholar, Bartók was also an accomplished

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pianist

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Bartók's serious and scientific study of __________ music led him to become one of the first and finest ethnomusicolo

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folk

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One of Bartók's early piano pieces, Allegro barbaro, has the narrow melodies, repetitive motives, and sharp, pounding rhythms associated with

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Primitivism

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Bartók agreed with the Romantic composers who believed that the simple folk-song melodies were accompanied by the simplest chords

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False

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Bartók's harmonic style included all of the following except

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total serialism

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It has been suggested that Bartók was a composer of such stature as to rank with the three great "B's" of Western music; Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.

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True

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Bartók wrote the Mikrokosmos, a set of six __________ of graded difficulty

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piano books

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Bartók's __________ are considered the finest since Beethoven's and are often compared with those of the late Viennese master for their strength and complexity.

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string quartets

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Like many musicians of his day, Bela Bartók was fascinated with the new popular style called jazz, which he incorporated into many of his w

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False

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In the early 1920s, __________ led the first generation of American composers determined to devote their professional lives to writing music

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Aaron Copland

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An enormous influence on several generations of American composers, __________ was a gifted composition teacher who encouraged students to find their own, individual styles

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Nadia Boulanger

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In the mid-1930s, Aaron Copland went through a change of style that included all of the following except

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) incorporating jazz elements into his music

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In 1945, Copland won a Pulitzer Prize for his ballet, Fanfare for the Common Man, which was commissioned by the Martha Graham dance company, and eventually titled "Ballet for Martha

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False

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Although many of George Gershwin's popular songs have become jazz standards, Gershwin himself is not considered a jazz musician or composer

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False

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Gershwin bridged the gap between popular and art music by writing Rhapsody in Blue, which reflected the character of jazz and yet was acceptable to a "cultured" audience

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True

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Gershwin composed the best known opera by an American composer

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Porgy and Bess

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Although Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone music seems far removed from Gershwin's jazz-inspired works, the two composers were good friends and respected each other's work.

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True

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The father of twentieth-century Neoclassicism is

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Igor Stravinsky

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Stravinsky's ballet __________ is often cited as the first work in the Neoclassical style.

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Pulcinella

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During the 1950s and 1960s, Stravinsky wrote several pieces based on Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.

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True

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Political, social, and economic problems during the second decade of the twentieth century led many composers to increase their tendency to use elaborate staging and grandiose conceptions of late Romantic works.

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False

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During the two decades between World Wars I and II, a renewed interest in the music of Bach and Haydn developed, resulting in __________ overshadowing all other styles

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Neoclassism

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Audiences were attracted to all of the following features of Neoclassical music except

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the massive sound of the expanded orchestra

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Russian composers in the communist era were encouraged to write music

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none

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Prokofiev's Symphony no. 1, the Classical, was intended to sound as if ________ had written it in the twentieth century

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Haydn

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approached the composition of music more as a craft than as an art; he played many orchestral instruments well and therefore knew how to write effectively for them

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Paul Hindemith

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The German word for Hindemith's concept of functional or useful music is

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Singspiel

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J. S. Bach's music is often compared with Paul Hindemith's in regard to form, since Hindemith made skillful application of the fugue, the toccata, and the concerto grosso

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True

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Hindemith's ideas about music included all of the following except

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atonality was the inevitable goal of Western music

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Certain dissonances, a free adaptation of tonal principles, and nontraditional combinations of voices and instruments combined with an emotionally expressive style are all features of contemporary

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Neoromaticism

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who was a singer before he became a composer, wrote songlike melody lines for his instrumental and vocal compositions, sensitive text settings, and expressive orchestration, making him one of the most appreciated contemporary composers

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Samuel Barber

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Philip Glass has evolved a style of music which is sometimes referred to as

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Minimalism

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Minimalism is a systematic repetition of short melodic and rhythmic phrases which gradually change over a period of time, evolving into slightly varied patterns

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True

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Like Philip Glass, __________ is often referred to as a minimalist, but he provides exact notation and firm directions in his scores

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Steve Reich

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The first African American composer of Western art music to achieve significant success was

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William Grant Still

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All of the following facts are TRUE regarding William Grant Still except

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he was accepted as a serious composer from the beginning

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Several of William Grant Still's works have specific Afro-American effects such as the use of the banjo in his Afro-American Symphony

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True

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became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

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Music and _______, intimately related in Western culture since the time of the Greeks, beautifully complement each other

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drama

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The best-known of all American operas, Porgy and Bess, is filled with the characteristics sounds of

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folk music

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studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and learned non-western drumming techniques by studying the Balinese gamelan

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Philip Glass

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The five-hour-long, plotless opera, Einstein on the Beach, is unusual in its organization as well as its music

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True

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As American enthusiasm for European products waned during World War I, a new and exciting new genre known as __________ evolved on the Broadway stage.

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musical comedy

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The earliest great musical from Broadway was

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Show Boat

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Leonard Bernstein's musical West Side Story is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's

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Romeo and Juliet

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in which several characters express their individual points of view simultaneously, vividly illustrates the impact of the ensemble in music theater.

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ensemble finale

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was a pianist, conductor, and composer who made significant contributions to the Broadway musical, most notably West Side Story

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Leonard Bernstein

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The American composer of musicals introduced concept musicals, which intentionally leave audiences wondering about their meaning and resolution

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Stephen Sondheim

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Andrew Lloyd Webber dominated the musical stage on Broadway and in London during the _____________.

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1980s and 90s

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The music for a movie, called the ____________, builds a sense of continuity by filling awkward pauses in action or dialogue.

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film score

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music emanates from a source, such as radio or TV within a movie, and is evident to the characters and audience alike.

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Diagetic

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produced some of Hollywood's finest orchestral film scores, to movies such as Casablanca, King Kong, and Gone with the Wind

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Max Steiner

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adapted the symphony orchestra for the modern recording studio in his scores for such disaster films as The Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno, and Jaws.

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John Williams

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During the 1890s, a popular type of music that was based upon black traditions marked particularly important steps in the evolution of jazz. This type of music was

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ragtime

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A pre-jazz style that utilizes a syncopated melody accompanied by a steady beat in the bass is called

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ragtime

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Ragtime has the steady __________ meter of a military march

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duple

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Many Europeans were introduced to ragtime by the traveling United States Marine Band led by

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John Philip Sousa

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Claude Debussy was influenced by American ragtime

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True

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Treemonisha was an opera by the American composer

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Scott Joplin

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is remembered today as the King of Ragtime.

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Scott Joplin

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is often referred to as America's only truly indigenous music, unique to her culture and influential upon others

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Jazz

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Every style of jazz involves some degree of improvisation

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True

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The organizing structure around which jazz musicians improvise is a chart of patterns called

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chord changes

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Jazz harmony is always tonal

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False

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Jazz is the result of a unique blending in America of African harmony and instrumentation with European rhythmic and melodic techniques

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False

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All of the following are true of many jazz styles except

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jazz rhythms are generally regular and are simple to perform

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evolved in the American South sometime after the Civil War, as newly emancipated blacks, struggling in a hostile environment, lamented their hard lot in a new form of solo song.

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the blues

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Blue notes are variable pitches that occur on all of the following notes of the scale except the

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tonic

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The classic form of the blues

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is strophic

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Although it is closely related to its vocal model, the piano blues, also known as __________, is happy in mood and brisk in te

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boogie-woogie

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Boogie-woogie has an improvised, syncopated melody over a distinctive, rhythmic __________ repeated in the bass

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ostinato

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After the Civil War, musical instruments left over from military bands were readily and cheaply available, and black musicians in the New Orleans area began to play them in their own style

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True

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Because its primary function is to provide accompaniment, the rhythm section in a jazz ensemble is the only part of the group that does not improvise

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False

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Since the 1950s, the __________ has been added to the wide variety of solo instruments used in a jazz ensemble

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flute

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The first important center of jazz was in

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New Orleans

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was an important figure in the transition from ragtime to the New Orleans style of jazz

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Jelly Roll Morton

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was an early jazz soloist whose improvisations on trumpet and cornet combined technical brilliance, melodic inventiveness and extraordinary emotional depth

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Louis Armstrong

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It was in __________ in the 1920s that white musicians first formed combos of their own

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Chicago, IL

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In the 1920s, white musicians first imitated the New Orleans style in what became known as __________ jazz

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Dixieland

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jazz is exemplified by George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

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symphonic

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made swing famous in the mid-1930s.

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Benny Goodman

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Highly improvisatory, __________ has a fast tempo and a danceable beat, a "big band" version of what the early jazz musicians had been playing all along.

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swing

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was an outstanding jazz pianist, big band leader, and arranger who also wrote a number of impressive concert works

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Duke Ellington

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Charlie "Bird" Parker and the great jazz trumpet player __________ returned to the early ideals of jazz: improvisation, virtuosity, and close musical interaction within the ensemble

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Dizzie Gillespie

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is considered the first modern jazz

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bebop

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In the 1950s, __________ jazz offered a more subdued style with lyrical melodies, using instruments not commonly associated with jazz

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cool

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Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane were among the leaders of __________ jazz in the 1960s

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free

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music combines the instrumentation of concert music with the improvisation of jazz in a manner that preserves the style and integrity of each.

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third stream

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