Chapter 41 Test Answers – Flashcards
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Recent trends in musical theater include shows based on dancing.
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True
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Leonard Bernstein achieved fame as the first American-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
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True
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Bernstein showed no interest in writing film music.
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False
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Bernstein's work shows a real feeling for the New York urban scene.
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True
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Gershwin is known for this songs that draw on ragtime, blues, and jazz.
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True
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Gershwin's instrumental works reflect a merger of jazz elements and classical forms.
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True
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Hart and Hammerstein are considered a great composer/lyricist team.
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False
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Rock musicals first gained popularity in the late 1960s.
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True
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Sondheim's musicals are typically more sophisticated than those of his predecessors.
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True
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A "jukebox" musical features songs by a popular artist or group.
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True
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The European stage genre from which American musical theater developed was:
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operetta
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______ was a popular Jerome Kern musical from the 1920s with a serious plot.
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Show Boat
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The literary basis for My Fair Lady was:
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George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.
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George Gershwin's "folk opera" was:
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Porgy and Bess.
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Which is a Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein?
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South Pacific
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Les Misérables was composed by:
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Claude-Michel Schonberg.
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Cats was composed by:
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Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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What is a Disney-produced musical based on a Verdi opera?
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Aida
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Which is the contemporary rock opera inspired by Puccini's La bohème?
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Jonathan Larsen's Rent
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Bernstein's union of jazz and musical theatre resulted in:
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West Side Story.
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Who wrote the lyrics for the musical West Side Story?
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Stephen Sondheim
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What is the literary basis for West Side Story?
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Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
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The Afro-Cuban dance with a fast, syncopated beat, heard in The Dance at the Gym in West Side Story, is the:
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mambo
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Which famous choreographer is responsible for the electrifying dance sequences in West Side Story?
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Jerome Robbins
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In West Side Story, Tony is:
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a former member of the Jets.
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What is the overall structure of the song Tonight?
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A-A-B-A
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What gives the dance sequences from West Side Story a Latin-American character?
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syncopated dance rhythms Latin-American percussion instruments both a and b
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Which is NOT a well-known song from West Side Story?
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Fernando
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Summertime is from the Gershwin stage work:
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Porgy and Bess.
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Jersey Boys is a musical based on the popular performing group:
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The Four Seasons.
