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Which compositional technique did Charles Ives employ in his music?

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polyrhythms, quotations from songs, polytonality, dissonant chords

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Until the twentieth century, the arts in America were largely derived from Europe because:

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there were few wealthy families to support the arts, settling a new land was a consuming interest, Americans seem to assume European culture was superior

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Some of the most advanced American music in the eighteenth century was the product of the:

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Moravian communities in PN and NC

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true or false: many of the melodies for American patriotic songs came from Europe:

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true

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The composer of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" march was

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Sousa

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The most original America composer in America in the late eighteenth century was

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William Billings

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The melody to which we sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" was originally

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an English drinking song

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The first important America women composer in the early part of the twentieth century was

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Amy Cheney Beach

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The song "God Bless America" was composed by

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Irving Berlin

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A nineteenth-century American pianist and composer who achieved some recognition in Europe was

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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True or false: The wind band is an especially American musical tradition

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true

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Concert music in America advanced a great deal after 1920 partly because

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America was physically unscathed by war, of the promotion of the arts by the National Endowment for the Arts and other agencies, the quality of music training in the United States improved greatly, many prominent musicians fled Europe and came to America

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Which composer composed nationalistic America music for orchestra

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Aaron Copeland

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What American song did Copland include in Appalachian Spring?

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simple gifts

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Which is a Neoclassical musical work?

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concerto grosso 1985

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Minimalism is a style of music in which the composer

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uses as few musical ideas as possible

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Nationalism in America music flourished during the years

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1930-1955

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true or false: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Copland's Appalachian Spring are both based on essentially the same story

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false

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Zwilich based her Concerto Grosso 1985 on the music of

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Handel

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Minimalism is sometimes inaccurately referred to as

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trance music

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What is the difference between popular music and folk music? Popular music is:

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a largely commercial enterprise

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The parlor song:

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was a popular type of song sung in homes during the first half of the nineteenth century

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The most successful composer of popular songs in the nineteenth century was

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stephen foster

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The most successful composer of ragtime piano music was

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scott joplin

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Which is the form of a blues song?

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aab

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Which of these is characteristic of traditional jazz?

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much syncopation, certain jazz timbres, improvisation, blue notes

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Which type of jazz is played ONLY on the piano?

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boogie woogie

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The bands during the swing era featured:

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carefully prepared arrangements, some virtuoso performers, ad lib choices, 15 to 19 players

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true or false: stephen foster lived most of his life in alabama

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true

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The popularity of ragtime faded because of

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the development of commercial radio broadcasting, the introduction of sound motion pictures, the increasing number of recordings

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A "blue note" in jazz is

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a third, fifth, or seventh note of a scale that is lowered one half step while the accompanying chord is unchanged

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true or false: Traditional jazz generally uses the same three chords (I, IV, V) that are found in church hymns

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true

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One of the changes that has taken place since 1950 in popular music is

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the increased publicity, both positive and negative, given performers, the change from vinyl to CDs and now to iPod and similar devices, the greatly increased number of companies selling recordings, the greatly increased buying power of teenagers

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Rhythm and blues is the music of

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America's black population

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Country music is strongly associated with

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nashville, tn

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One of the first rock hit songs was "Rock around the Clock,' which was performed by

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Bill haley and the comets

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The term salsa in Latin American music refers to a

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hot, fast style

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An important record company in the growth of rhythm and blues was

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motown records

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Which is a feature of rap music?

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popularity after 1990, violent messages, half spoken words, strong persistent rhythm

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What type of music is the song "Cop Killer" likely to be?

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rap

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A favorite topic of country songs is

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broken love

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true or false: Country music uses the same three chords that traditional jazz uses

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false

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Which is a feature of the rhythm in rock music?

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backbeat

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A leader in the folk rock style was

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Bob Dylan

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An important composer/performer of modern jazz was

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Dave Brubeck

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Minstrel shows were:

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songs, skits, and dances by performers in blackface

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true or false: Musical comedies are humorous versions of operas

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false

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West Side Story is an updated version of:

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Romeo and Juliet

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Operatic musicals like Les Misérables are different from operas in that they

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contain humerous sections, are sung in English, move at a much faster pace, use a more untrained singing style

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In what way does music contribute to a film?

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contributes to the buildup of a scene, creates atmosphere for a particular time and place, provides clues about the thoughts of the characters, provides continuity

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Which composer is especially noted for his film music

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Bernard Hermann

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Which composers wrote music for minstrel shows?

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stephen foster and dan Emmett

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What character(s) is/are NOT included in the "Quintet" from West Side Story?

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bernardo

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Who composed the music for Porgy and Bess?

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George Gershwin

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The first motion picture with sound was

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the jazz singer

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The music of Bernard Hermann and other film composers often shows the influence of the music of

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nineteenth-century Romanticism

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The best years for the American musical comedy are roughly

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1927-1957

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"All folk music is ethnic music, but not all ethnic music is folk music." This statement is:

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true, because ethnic music of a culture may not be the music of the common people

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folk music has influenced:

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concert music, popular music, vocal music, instrumental music

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Which statement is true about folk music?

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Usually the performers of folk music make up some of what they play or sing

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In many parts of the world, music has been preserved over the centuries

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by oral tradition

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Why should you know something about folk/ethnic music

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Elements of it are sometimes incorporated in concert music, It reflects the values and attitudes of a culture, We increasingly encounter other cultures in the twenty-first century

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The scholars who seek to classify and preserve folk/ethnic music are called

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ethnomusicologists

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The pattern of the pentatonic scale is the same as

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the black keys on a piano

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Which is true of a ballad?

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it is sung by one singer, it contains 5 or more verses, the singer sings about something that happens to other people, it has a sense of detachment

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Most American folk songs were derived from

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the british islands

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Which kind of music was NOT traditional African American folk music?

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jazz

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Which is NOT true of European folk music?

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much ornamentation on melodies

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A group that following the Civil War was very influential in promoting African American music was the

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fisk jubilee singers

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A narrative type of Mexican song is the

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corrido

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Which is an important characteristic of African music?

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music related to the tonal patterns of the language, some improvisation, polyrhythms, usually associated with dancing and physical movement

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A feature of form in African music is

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call and response

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The most important instruments in African music are

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membranophones

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The mbira is an African

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thumb piano

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African musicians believe that their instruments

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have almost human qualities

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Middle Eastern music has had a difficult time because:

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music is not allowed in the mosque, of its complex and often confusing theories, many performances take place in cafés and compete with belly dancers for attention, its musicians do not follow the theories

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true or false: An Arab instrument called the rebab is the direct ancestor of the violin:

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true

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The classical music of India is built around tonal patterns called

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ragas

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Indian musicians believe that ragas represent

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colors of the mind

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what instruments are associated with indian music?

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pungi, bamboo flute, sitar, tabla

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The most important instrument in Japanese classical music is the

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koto

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The term "gamelan" refers to a Balinese

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instrumental ensemble

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the rhythm patterns in indian classical music are called

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talas

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If you were to attend a performance of Indian classical music, you would

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see performers sitting on the floor, receive no printed program, notice that the performers have no music to look at, not applaud

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the tablas are:

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drums played with the fingers

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The instrumentation for Indian classical music is

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drone, singer or flute, and table

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Around what scale is Japanese and Balinese music built?

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pentatonics

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