Music Test 4

5 Written Questions

1. a style of early rock 'n' roll ca. 1950 characterized by a pounding quadruple meter and a raw, growling style of singing, all set within a twelve-bar blues harmony
2. sounds produced and manipulated by magnetic tape machines, synthesizers, and/or computers
3. when all of the lines or parts move in the same direction, and at the same intervals, for a period of time; the opposite of counterpoint
4. (German for "speech-voice") a singer declaims, rather than sings, a text at only approximate pitch levels
5. music in which some important component—pitch, dynamics, rhythm—comes in a continually repeating series

5 Matching Questions

1. folk music
2. exoticism
3. whole-tone scale
4. polytonality
5. Impressionism

1. a music originating from rural communities and passed from generation to generation by oral tradition rather than written notation
2. b musical effects that seek to convey the impressions of distant places by drawing on sounds from outside the traditional Western European musical experience, such as non-Western scales, harmonies, folk rhythms, or instruments
3. c the simultaneous sounding of two keys or tonalities
4. d a movement originating in France in which artists tried to re-create the elusive sensation that an object produced upon the senses in a single, fleeting moment
5. e a six-note scale in which each pitch is a whole tone away from the next

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. two or more meters sounding simultaneously
   1. blues
   2. polymeter
   3. polychord
   4. polyrhythm
2. extracting a small portion of pre-recorded music and then mechanically repeating it over and over as a musical backdrop to the text of a rap song
   1. swing
   2. Symbolists
   3. ballad
   4. sampling
3. Narrative song in strophic form that told a (usually sad) tale in an unemotional way
   1. bebop
   2. banjo
   3. blues
   4. ballad
4. a full statement of the tune around which the performers improvise
   1. blues
   2. banjo
   3. rock
   4. chorus
5. a complex, hard-driving style of jazz that emerged shortly after World War II; it is played without musical notation by a small ensemble
   1. jazz
   2. bebop
   3. banjo
   4. blues

5 True/False Questions

1. rhythm section → the section within a jazz band, usually consisting of drums, double bass, piano, banjo, and/or guitar, that establishes the harmony and rhythm

   True        False

2. big band → a mid-to large-size dance band that emerged in the 1930s to play the style of jazz called swing

   True        False

3. computer music → Repertoire of songs for solo singer, male or female, with lyrics treating the subject of love and life's disappointments, and accompanied primarily by one or more guitars

   True        False

4. country music → Repertoire of songs for solo singer, male or female, with lyrics treating the subject of love and life's disappointments, and accompanied primarily by one or more guitars

   True        False

5. Expressionism → a movement originating in France in which artists tried to re-create the elusive sensation that an object produced upon the senses in a single, fleeting moment

   True        False