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In music, the terms "popular" and "art" are mutually exclusive and reflect music traditions that rarely influence each other. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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Music that reflects the distinctive style of its creator and has survived the test of time is considered |
| | A) | popular. |
| | B) | beauty. |
| | C) | TRUE. |
| | D) | art. |
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Music that is in the common music language of the people is called |
| | A) | verifiable. |
| | B) | vericulate. |
| | C) | vernacular. |
| | D) | veruculose. |
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Folk music is difficult to define, since it changes from culture to culture and from one period of time to another. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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Folk music may be each of the following except |
| | A) | music that has originated anonymously, or whose origins have been lost or forgotten. |
| | B) | music that expresses certain national characteristics of melody, harmony, rhythms, and performance practice. |
| | C) | music that is transmitted by notation rather than orally. |
| | D) | music that is performed and enjoyed by general audiences and professional musicians alike. |
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Folk music may be |
| | A) | unaccompanied vocal music. |
| | B) | instrumental music without singing. |
| | C) | either secular or religious. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
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Ballads have all of the following features except |
| | A) | they are usually through-composed. |
| | B) | they tell a story. |
| | C) | they often exist in many versions, each varying somewhat from the others. |
| | D) | they are anonymous and cannot be linked to a single author. |
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Ballads that date from the Middle Ages are often based on __________ scales. |
| | A) | whole tone |
| | B) | major |
| | C) | modal |
| | D) | chromatic |
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Many "American" ballads actually came to this country from |
| | A) | Asia. |
| | B) | Africa. |
| | C) | Australia. |
| | D) | the British Isles. |
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"Barbara Allen" is a very old German ballad that has been adopted into the American repertoire with several substantial changes. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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All of the following European composers wrote arrangements of folk songs except |
| | A) | Brahms. |
| | B) | Berlioz. |
| | C) | Haydn. |
| | D) | Schubert. |
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Around the turn of the __________ century, the collection and examination of the world's folk music became a matter of scientific interest. |
| | A) | seventeenth |
| | B) | eighteenth |
| | C) | nineteenth |
| | D) | twentieth |
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Popular music in America has been strongly influenced by two particular strains of folk music: one from the British Isles and one from |
| | A) | Asia. |
| | B) | Africa. |
| | C) | Australia. |
| | D) | South America. |
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Early in this century, the __________ influence was significant in the origin of a new style of American popular music, country-western. |
| | A) | French |
| | B) | German |
| | C) | British |
| | D) | Spanish |
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In the 1950s and 1960s, musicians including Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan, and Pete Seeger composed and performed songs based upon the style of traditional |
| | A) | French and German art songs. |
| | B) | Scotch, English, and Irish folk ballads. |
| | C) | African folk music. |
| | D) | Burl Ives tunes. |
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Burl Ives was |
| | A) | an American composer who reflected the influence of folk music in his works. |
| | B) | an important "hillbilly" singer who helped create country-western music. |
| | C) | a song stylist in the 1950s and 1960s who performed traditional songs. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
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During the 1950s and 1960s, popular groups such as the __________ performed their folklike renditions in concert halls and on college campuses. |
| | A) | Beatles |
| | B) | Beach Boys |
| | C) | Kingston Trio |
| | D) | Dave Clark Five |
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The following are all examples of the contributions Africa made to American music except |
| | A) | a traditional "call and response" pattern of singing. |
| | B) | distinctive vocal techniques, including swoops, slides, and shouts. |
| | C) | equal tempered scales and fixed , inflexible intonation. |
| | D) | syncopated, "hot" rhythms. |
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Black African music has had a profound effect upon American jazz, gospel music, rhythm-and-blues, and rock music. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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Two popular types of music that were based upon black traditions marked particularly important steps in the evolution of jazz. These types of music were |
| | A) | jazz and rock. |
| | B) | gospel and rock. |
| | C) | rhythm-and-blues. |
| | D) | ragtime and blues. |
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A pre-jazz style that utilizes a syncopated melody accompanied by a steady beat in the bass is called |
| | A) | blues. |
| | B) | gospel. |
| | C) | country. |
| | D) | ragtime. |
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Ragtime has the steady __________ meter of a military march. |
| | A) | duple |
| | B) | triple |
| | C) | quadruple |
| | D) | simple |
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Many Europeans were introduced to ragtime by the traveling United States Marine Band led by |
| | A) | W. C. Handy. |
| | B) | Scott Joplin. |
| | C) | Louis Gottschalk. |
| | D) | John Philip Sousa. |
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Claude Debussy was influenced by American ragtime. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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Treemonisha was an opera by the American composer |
| | A) | George Gershwin. |
| | B) | Scott Joplin. |
| | C) | Aaron Copland. |
| | D) | Charles Ives. |
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__________ is remembered today as the King of Ragtime. |
| | A) | W. C. Handy. |
| | B) | Scott Joplin. |
| | C) | Claude Debussy. |
| | D) | Louis Gottschalk. |
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During the late 1940s, a fortuitous melding of two popular styles, one black and one white, produced a brand new popular music which came to be called |
| | A) | blues. |
| | B) | ragtime. |
| | C) | rock 'n' roll. |
| | D) | rhythm-and-blues. |
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During the 1940s, white musicians made recordings called __________ of rhythm-and-blues hits, which were given wide exposure on major radio stations. |
| | A) | 45s |
| | B) | 78s |
| | C) | hits |
| | D) | covers |
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Black rhythm-and-blues records were given wide exposure on major radio stations. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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An English group that revitalized rock 'n' roll and that was tremendously popular on both sides of the Atlantic during the mid-sixties was the |
| | A) | Beatles. |
| | B) | Beach Boys. |
| | C) | Kingston Trio. |
| | D) | Dave Clark Five. |
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Like their jazz counterparts, rock musicians excel at virtuosic interpretations of standard popular songs. |
| | A) | TRUE |
| | B) | FALSE |
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Rap music was influenced by all of the following except |
| | A) | the singing style of James Brown. |
| | B) | the spoken-text "patter songs" of Gilbert and Sullivan. |
| | C) | African chanting. |
| | D) | the poetry of Mohammed Ali. |
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The earliest great musical from Broadway was |
| | A) | Oklahoma! |
| | B) | South Pacific |
| | C) | Show Boat |
| | D) | West Side Story |
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Leonard Bernstein's musical West Side Story is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's |
| | A) | Romeo and Juliet |
| | B) | As You Like It |
| | C) | A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| | D) | Hamlet |
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