MUH3025 Module 3 Quiz – Flashcards
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Tango is a mixture of what musical genres?
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1) European ballroom dance music
2) Ballads of Argentine gauchos
3) Cuban habanera
4) Italian light opera
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Who is famous for creating "jungle music"?
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Duke Ellington
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The Latin country to provide the greatest impact on American popular music in the 1930s was:
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Cuba
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Jazz music in the 1920s was thought to promote bestiality, effeminacy, suicide, insanity, and indigestion.
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True
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The listening example features which of the following traits:
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1) Collective improvisation
2) Stop-time sequences
3) A "shout" chorus
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Europe's Clef Club Orchestra featured which of the following elements:
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1) Distinct timbres
2) Ragtime arrangements
3) Syncopation
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The advent of the microphone in 1925 led to a new style of singing called:
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Crooning
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The job of a Performing Rights Organization (PRO) is:
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To collect royalty payments for composers
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The city that is the birthplace of jazz is:
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New Orleans
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Match the following musicians with these terms:
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Louis Armstrong = Satchmo
Paul Whiteman = The King of Jazz
Duke Ellington = Played at the Cotton Club
Al Jolson = Answer Sang in "talkies"
Moises Simon (Latin Jazz composer) = Wrote a song about a peanut vendor
Original Dixieland Jazz Band = Had the first recordings, sparking the jazz craze
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"Essentialist" qualities in black jazz meant that black musicians were born with talent and innate musical characteristics.
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True
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The rural son in Latin dance music incorporated all of the following EXCEPT:
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Tango rhythms
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During the Jazz Age, white jazz fans would sometimes venture into Harlem to listen to African American jazz artists.
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True
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Paul Whiteman accredited the hybridity of jazz to all of the following groups EXCEPT
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African Americans
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"Sweet" jazz was played by which of the following artists:
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Guy Lombardo
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ASCAP and BMI are music publishing companies.
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False
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The Castles hired which band leader to provide music for their dance engagements:
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Jim Europe
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During the Jazz Age, especially regarding dance music, which of the following was true:
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1) Record companies had segregated catalogs
2) Whites did not believe black musicians could read music
3) Blacks could sit in white sections at theaters
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Who was the artist who had a Top 40 hit in the 1960s?
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Louis Armstrong
