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Music may have been a fundamental building block in the development of culture because

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it provided an early model for social cooperation.

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Music's regenerative powers can be seen in the myth of

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Orpheus and Euridice

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The story of Tawa and the Spider Woman comes from

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the Hopi of the Southwestern United States

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The 19th-century British anthropologist who defined culture as a "complex whole" is

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Edward Tylor

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A feature that unifies Baroque music is the use of basso continuo , which is

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continuous bass line.

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Which of the following is NOT true?

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Culture is fixed and impermeable.

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Music is often categorized into three broad categories. They are

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world music, popular music, and Western art music

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Music scholars divide Western art music into _________ historical periods.

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six

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived during the

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Classical Period

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Which of the following is NOT true?

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Going to a symphony orchestra often damages hearing.

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Dynamics refers to the softness or loudness of sound.

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True

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The texture that is two or more completely different melodies sounding at the same time is called

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Polyphonic

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A pattern of pitches that is repeated at different pitch levels-either ascending or descending-is referred to as a sequence.

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True

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The system in which songs are written down is referred to as music literacy.

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False

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Rhythm was first part of rhythm to be notated on paper.

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False

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The organization of a piece of music is referred to as its

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Form

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Ternary form is represented in which letter combination?

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ABA

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The softest dynamic marking is mezzo-piano.

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False

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The loudest dynamic marking is

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Fortissimo

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All dynamics are written in what language?

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Italian

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The trumpet is a member of what instrument family?

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Brass

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The clarinet is part of what family?

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Woodwinds

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The violin is a part of what family of instruments?

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Strings

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The bass drum is a part of what instrument family?

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Percussion

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The apportioning of musical material among the instruments of the orchestra is referred to as?

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Orchestration

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The _________ is the foundation upon which notes are drawn.

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Staff

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Which note has the longest duration in music?

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Whole note

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This defines the amount of type of notes that each measure contains.

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Time Signature

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Which of the following lowers a note by one half step?

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Flat

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Periods of silence in measure are represented by

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Rests

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Béla Bartók collected and incorporated music from whi ch count ry into his music?

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Hungary

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A jali is a West African storyteller who uses a 21-string chordophone, called a _____, to accompany important cultural stories.

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kora

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An important African-American composer of symphonic music who incorporated elements of the blues into his first symphony was

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William Grant Still

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Béla Bartók's Allegro Barbaro contains examples of

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ostinato

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Which of the following is NOT true of Klezmer music?

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It is played in the temple on High Holy Days

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This composer is thought of as a jazz musician, yet he wrote works for Broadway, theatrical dance, and the concert hall.

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William Grant Still

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The "blues" began

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in the Mississippi delta

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The most common blues form is the _______-bar blues.

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12

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Today, a center for West African popular music, including the blues, is

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Mali

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Which of the following statements is TRUE?

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The habanera is a dance with Cuban, French, and African influences.

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When a woman sings a male role in opera, it is called a

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pants role

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This opera features a 19th-century seductive woman who lived outside conventional gender roles of the time.

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Carmen

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A castrato is a

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male who has been castrated before puberty in order to retain his soprano or alto voice range.

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One of this singer's greatest commercial hits represents the antithesis of "girl group" dependency

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Aretha Franklin

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Which of the following is NOT true?

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Gender roles are dictated by our biology.

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In the 1960's girls were often portrayed as dependent upon and reverential to their boys.

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True

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In the Balinese culture, women have always been the preferred gender to play the gamelan.

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False

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Songs specifically associated with death are called laments.

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True

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Today, castrati roles are exclusively sung by women.

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False

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One of the ways gay musicians have expressed their sexual orientation is through a specific kind of humor known as "camp".

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True

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The Gelug monks of Tibet often use the technique of ___________ singing, where the fundamental tone and overtones sound at the same time.

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harmonic

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This talking drum, which is used by the Yoruba to perform oríkì, is capable of imitating the Yoruba language.

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dundun

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The American folk tradition that uses songbooks with differently shaped note heads is called

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sacred harp or shape note.

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What is the name of the instrument (a ram's horn) used in certain Jewish services?

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shofar

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The _____________ is to the early Lutheran church as plainchant is to the early Catholic church.

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chorale

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The text "Amazing Grace" was written

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for use in a sermon and possibly for a hymn-text competition.

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Which of the following was not a complaint of the Council of Trent?

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The songs were no longer being sung in Latin.

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Which religion has a ritual dance called the Sama which is meant to represent the soul's passage to Allah?

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The Mevlevi Sufi Order

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Which composer was able to meet the demands of The Council of Trent and thereby save the use of polyphony inside Catholic church music?

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Palestrina

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The "Kol Nidre" is sung during the The Day of Atonement also known as

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Yom Kippur

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Which statement is TRUE about the "The Star Spangled Banner"?

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It became the U.S. national anthem in 1931 and was originally a British tune.

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Who wrote the melody of the "The Star Spangled Banner"?

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John Stafford Smith

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A __________ is a Mexican political ballad that tells stories of struggle and identity.

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zapata

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Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, originally written in honor of Napoleon, is called the ___________ Symphony.

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Eroica

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Alexander Borodin was a member of "The Five," a group of composers who can best be described as

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Nationalist

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Which of the following is the name of the French National Anthem?

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"La Marseillaise"

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The central theme of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is

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universal brotherhood

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What is NOT true about the "Ode to Joy"?

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It is a folk tune

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During the Cultural Revolution in China, music was used to

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promote Communist ideals

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"Dilmano Dilbero"

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is a composed Bulgarian "folk" song

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This song deals with the apathy of people in regards to helping one another.

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Another Day in Paradise

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This song was written in response to incident in Derry County, Ireland in which British troops killed unarmed civil protesters and bystanders.

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Sunday, Bloody Sunday

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This song was written in response to the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue

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The lyrics to this song were taken from a speech by President Obama.

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Yes, We Can

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This song was written to help support the African Famine Relief and was recorded by over 40 different celebrities.

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We are the World

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This song was written as a critical response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America."

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This Land is Your Land

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This video for this song shows the faces of people of different races and ethnicities morphing in to one another.

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Black or White

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This song deals with the struggles of being an African-American in a white dominant society. It was originally featured in a musical "Hot Chocolates."

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Black and Blue

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This song was written from the perspective of a person who wanted to affect political change, but didn't feel he could make a difference.

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Waiting for the World to Change

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This song was written as a response to backlash that the group received for making negative remarks about President Bush.

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Not Ready to Make Nice

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This song was once referred to as 'the original angry American' song.

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Fightin' Side of Me

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This song deals partially with censorship and religion.

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Jesus Walks

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This song, which was originally a poem by Abel Meeropol, dealt with the racist practice of lynching African-Americans.

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Strange Fruit

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This song, which was often misunderstood to be patriotic, actually dealt with the negative aspects of the Vietnam War.

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Born in the U.S.A.

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This song was written from the perspective of a soldier that had been in every war since The War of 1812.

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I Ain't Marchin' Anymore

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This composer used unconventional techniques on stringed instruments in one of his works, written for string orchestra.

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Krzystof Penderecki

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Which of the following is NOT true about the Ghost Dance songs?

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They are Native American rain dances.

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Which of the following is TRUE about Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time?

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It was written by a French prisoner of war in WW II; it uses mathematical cycles

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"It Was a Summer's Day" tells the story of massacre

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at Wounded Knee

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The ________ bards are Arab women who now sing for peace in Darfur.

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hakamma

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Barry McGuire and ____________ engaged in a kind of musical duel over the pros and cons of the Vietnam War.

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The Spokesman

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Which of the following statements is true about Janequin's chanson "La Guerre"?

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It incorporates military battle calls.

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Which statement is NOT true about music in the Civil War?

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All Quiet on the Potomac Tonight" was despised by the North.

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The use of three different performing groups to represent (1) tradition, (2) soldiers, and (3) innocence and hope is true of

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Benjamin Britten's War Requiem

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Which of the following statements is TRUE?

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Music and war have been linked since biblical times or earlier.

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What was Irving Berlin's first song?

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My Sweet Marie from Sunny Italy

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In Irving Berlin's era, what was the name of the place (area) where you worked if you wanted to be a successful songwriter?

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Tin Pan Alley

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What style of music did Irving Berlin make safe?

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Ragtime

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Who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musical, Showboat?

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Kern and Hammerstein

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What major political/social issue of the time did Showboat deal with?

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Interracial Relationships

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Who was the biggest star of the Prohibition Era?

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Al Jolson

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Which of Gershwin's songs was picked up by Jolson and eventually became his most famous piece?

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Swanee

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Gershwin's Porgy and Bess was an immediate financial success.

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False

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Why was Oklahoma so important to musical theater history?

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It marked the beginning of the time when the story became the focal point.

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Which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical earned them a Pulitzer Prize?

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South Pacific

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In West Side Story, the dance style was innovative in that it incorporated action in movement.

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True

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West Side Story is based on the Shakespeare play, Hamlet.

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False

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Bob Fosse began choreographing with hats due to the fact that he started losing his hair.

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True

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What was Fosse's most enduring work on Broadway?

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Chicago

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How did Hal Prince and Stephen Sondheim change the Broadway musical?

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They began dealing with darker subject matter.

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Which Disney cartoon musical became the first to transfer to the Broadway stage?

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Beauty and the Beast

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Rent is a modernized retelling of what opera?

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La Boheme

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The musical, Wicked, is built on the story of another Broadway musical, The Wizard of Oz

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True

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Roughly 200 performances of Oklahoma occur in the US each year.

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False

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Showboat is the marriage of European operetta and American musical comedy tradition.

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True

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The first full length "talkie" was The Jazz Singer.

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True

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The composer of the musical score for Cabin in the Sky used his music to push against racial stereotypes of the time.

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False

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This device works by sensing electromagnetic waves in the body.

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Theremin

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Who was the Romantic Era composer who introduced the idea of the leitmotif?

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Wagner

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Which composer followed in the footsteps of Wagner when composing themes for Lord of the Rings?

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Howard Shore

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In a diegetic scene, the characters are aware of and can hear the music within the film score.

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True

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The world's largest film industry resides in India.

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True

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George Lucas' characters C3PO and R2D2 were inspired by characters from what film?

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The Hidden Fortress

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What was the first film to integrate music, dance, and plot?

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The Broadway Melody

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In early film, the music was often improvised on the organ or piano.

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True

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In which city did the tango originate?

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Buenos Aires

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Which of the following is NOT true about the Capoeira dance?

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It started in Lima, Peru.

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The Baamaya is associated with funerals and usually performed before dawn.

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True

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The Baamaya dance resembles what other American dance?

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The Twist

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In the Renaissance, dance was a required social skill for ladies and gentlemen.

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True

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The branle dance in the Renaissance was extremely complicated and often took dancers months to learn.

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False

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Which of the following was NOT one of the arts forms that ballet combined

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Sculpture

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Igor Stravinksy's "Le Sacre Du Printemps" is a model example of the fluid and consonant music required for ballet performances.

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False

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The tango is choreographed seduction.

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True

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The Tango is a unique dance in that the woman leads.

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False

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Which of the following artist wrote a song that dealt with stringent gender restrictions that confine humans as they grow from childhood through adulthood?

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Dar Williams

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Ethnicity is largely based on shared identity and common ancestry.

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True

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Roles that are sung by countertenors today were originally sung by members of the

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Castrati

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This composer sought to compose his symphony free of Caucasian influence. He also hoped to use it to elevate the blues to the highest level.

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William Grant Still

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The word crescendo means

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To grow increasingly louder

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The blues was born in the Ohio River Valley.

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False

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In opera, a pants role or "breeches" role is only allowed to be performed by someone who demonstrates extreme masculinity.

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False

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Which of the following is NOT one of the four ways we experience music?

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tactiley

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Which composer was known for creating a "jungle" sound in his music?

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Duke Ellington

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Composer Jerry Bock drew much of his inspiration for the score of Fiddler on the Roof from traditional music of the jalou.

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False

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In order for something to be considered music, there must be human intent.

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True

question

This term refers to the organization of a piece of music.

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Form

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Gender is sometimes performed through speech.

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True

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Which of the following is NOT one of the ways in which attentive/active listening is good for the brain.

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It increases the production of brain cells.

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One of the ways musical culture is expressed is through genres.

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True

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Arts and morals contribute to a community's culture

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True

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Songs specifically associate with death are called

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laments

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Driving on the road with the car radio playing is a good example of active listening.

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False

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Since its inception, music has been notated.

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False

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There are two basic types of musical form: binary which is represented ABA and ternary which is represented AB.

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False

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Fortissimo means very loud

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True

question

There are 4 instrument families.

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False

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Bela Bartok spent a large portion of his musical career collecting and recording the folk songs of the Hungarian people.

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True

question

Bizet used the rhythms and chromatic (half step moves) melodies in the "Habanera" to represent Carmen's seductive and sensual character

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True

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Notation is the apportioning of musical material among the instruments of the orchestra.

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False

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One of the ways in ethnicity is identified musically is through rhythm.

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True

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The blues is a very complicated form of music that can take years to master.

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False

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B.B. King's "Sweet Little Angel" is an example of a 12-bar blues song.

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True

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The job of the jali is to preserve the history of the Mandinka people.

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True

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Most girl groups of the 1960's were unique in that they shattered the period's gender expectations.

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False

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The musical term for "soft" is

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piano

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Reclamation history refers to restoring women who made significant contributions to art, yet were ignored by historians to the historical narrative.

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True

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Aretha Franklin's song "Respect" was a powerful message of female independence during a time when women were still largely deferential to men.

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True

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Polyphonic texture occurs when multiple melodies are sounding at the same time.

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True

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Maurice Ravel's "Habanera" was a musical masterpiece of what movement?

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Impressionism

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Which of the following pieces has a "stop-time" section in which the rhythm instruments play accents

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Perets-Tants by The Klezmatics

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Music is often categorized into three broad categories. They are:

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world music, popular music, and Western art music.

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Periods of silence in a music are represented by

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Rests

question

The trumpet is a member of what instrument family?

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Brass

question

The _________ is the foundation upon which notes are drawn.

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Staff

question

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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Gender roles are dictated by our biology

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A castrato is

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a male who has been castrated before puberty to retain his soprano or alto vocal range.

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Decrescendo means to gradually get softer.

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True

question

Which of the following was not a complaint of the Council of Trent?

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The songs were being sung in languages other than Latin.

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Which composer was able to meet the demands of the Council of Trent and preserve the use of polyphony in the church?

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Palestrina

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In spiritual music, the primary focus is the text.

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False

question

Tibetan Buddhists use chant as a meditation which acts as a vehicle to spirituality.

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True

question

Drummed music is central to the worship music of the Yoruba of Nigeria.

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True

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In the Mevlevi Sufi Order, the Sama ceremony is representative of what?

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The soul's passage to Allah

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The Yom Kippur service ends with the blowing of the shofar (ram's horn).

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True

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John Newton composed the song, "Amazing Grace".

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False

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Referencing musical terminology used in the Music and Spirituality chapter, what is a passion?

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An oratorio that tells a historical narrative of Christ's suffering.

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In Sufism, they use drums to "speak" by imitating the inflections of their language.

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False

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The "Kol Nidre" is Jewish song of repentance.

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True

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The words to the American National Anthem were penned during the Revolutionary War.

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False

question

During which battle were the words to the Star Spangled Banner penned?

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The Battle of Ft. McHenry

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The French National anthem is played in an important scene in what movie?

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Casablanca

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During the Chinese cultural revolution, characters in opera were revised from the original jingju to help promote communist ideals.

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True

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This song was written from the perspective of a soldier who had served in all of the American wars.

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I Ain't Marchin' Anymore

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This song, which was originally a poem by Abel Meeropol, dealt with the racist practice of lynching African-Americans.

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Strange Fruit

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This song was written as a critical response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America".

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This Land is Your Land

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This song was written to help support the African Famine Relief and was recorded by over 40 different celebrities.

answer

We Are the World

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The _____________ is to the early Lutheran church as plainchant is to the early Catholic church

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chorale

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Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, originally written in honor of Napoleon, is called the ___________ Symphony.

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Eroica

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Which of the following is NOT true about the Ghost Dance songs?

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They are Native American rain dances.

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The ________ bards are Arab women who now sing for peace in Darfur.

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hakamma

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One of the earliest records of music in war was the use of the shofarat in the Battle of Gideon.

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False

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Country music typically endorsed pro-military sentiments.

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True

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The tradition of Ghost Dancing began at the Battle of Wounded Knee.

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False

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Which of the following was NOT one of the ways that music was used as resistance during the Holocaust?

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Songs used as secret messages

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The song "A Survivor from Warsaw" was based partly on the report by one of the few survivors of the Warsaw ghetto.

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True

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