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MUS 3500 Final Exam

Terms in this set (81)

Nirvana
"Smells Like Teen Spirit"
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"Johnny Hit and Run Pauline"
James Rado
"Hair"
Josh Grobin
"You Raise Me Up"
Patti Smith
"Gloria"
The Village People
"YMCA"
Derrick May
"Strings of Life"
Afrika Bambaataa
"Planet Rock"
NWA
"Express Yourself"
Public Enemy
"Fight The Power"
The Beach Boys
"Good Vibrations"
Alice Cooper
"School's Out"
Woody Guthrie
"This Land Is Your Land"
The Talking Heads
"Burning Down the House"
Bob Dylan
"Blowin' In The Wind"
Mahalia Jackson
"Move on Up a Little Higher"
Muddy Waters
"I Got My Mojo Workin'
Gene Autry
"Back in the Saddle Again"
Ray Charles
"I Got A Woman"
Dave Brubeck
"Take Five"
Listening Identification
Examples From Chapter 2 (1900-1929):
- Henry Cowell: The Banshee
- Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein:"Ol' Man River" from Showboat

Examples From Chapter 3 (1930-1949):
- Charlie Parker: Koko
- "Duke" Ellington: It Don't Mean a Thing (If it Ain't Got That Swing)

Examples From Chapter 4 (1950s):
- Mahalia Jackson: "Move On Up a Little Higher"
- Edgard Varèse: Poème électronique

Examples From Chapter 5 (1960s):
- Bob Dylan: "Like a Rolling Stone"
- James Brown: "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag"
- Ornette Coleman: "Free Jazz"

Examples From Chapter 6 (1970s):
- Patti Smith: "Gloria"
- Alice Cooper: "School's Out"
- Barbra Streisand: "The Way We Were"
- Stephen Sondheim: "Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd
- Kenny Rogers: "The Gambler"
- The Village People: "YMCA"

Examples From Chapter 7 (1980s):
- Frank Sinatra: "New York, New York"
- Talking Heads: "Burning Down the House"
- Whitney Houston: "Saving All My Love"
- Derrick May: "Strings of Life"
- Afrika Bambaataa: "Planet Rock"
- Kenny G: "Songbird"
- Public Enemy: "Fight The Power"
- Philip Glass: "Floe" from Glassworks

Examples From Chapter 8 (Since 1990):
- Josh Grobin: "You Raise Me Up"
- John Williams: "Hedwig's Theme" from Harry Potter
Hot Jazz
an early style of Dixieland jazz made famous by trumpeter-singer Louis Armstrong.
Race Music
A term put directly on record labels in the 1920s and '30s by small independent companies marketing black roots and popular music specifically to African-American listeners.
Boogie-Woogie
an "eight-to-the-bar" pounding dance rhythm that was very popular in the 1930s and '40s.
Bebop
a type of high-speed, improvised jazz played by a small group of virtuoso players.
Multi-serialism
the process of controlling multiple aspects of a composition by a pre-ordered numeric series of pitches
Cool Jazz
a smooth, serene style of jazz that began on the West Coast in the 1950s.
Rhythm & Blues (R&B)
a prominent type of up-tempo commercial blues promoted in the 1950s by Howlin' Wolf, Big Joe Turner, and Muddy Waters.
Soul Music
an expressive kind of secular pop singing that came out of the African-American Gospel tradition; early artists in this style during the 1950s were Ray Charles and Sam Cooke
Backbeat
a rhythm that accents off-beats "2" and "4" in 4/4 time; an important feature of Rhythm and Blues and Rock & Roll.
Chance Music
a concept promoted by John Cage in which some or all aspects of a composition are "indeterminant" (unpredictable—not planned in advance).
Free Jazz
an unstructured, virtuosic and highly-improvisatory style of jazz promoted by Ornette Coleman.
Fusion
the term used to describe a combination of rock and jazz elements.
Minimalism
a type of art-music developed in the 1970s by Steve Reich and Phillip Glass which focuses on small, repetitive bits of material that are transformed gradually over time.
MTV
The first 24-hour music network; a joint venture by Warner and American Express launched on August 1, 1981.
Techno
a type of electronic R & B/funk developed in the 1980s by Juan Atkins and Derrick May
Tejano music
a type of Latino music that blends pop, rock, polka, R&B, and Latin influences.
Salsa music
a Latino musical style blending elements from Cuban and Puerto Rican dance music
Sound Art
an artistic endeavor that involves both visual art and experimental music, such as a composition performed on a sculpture that was designed to be played on
"Roots Music"
Various types of "folk" music (in America, these became the basis for later American styles such as such as rock and roll, rhythm and blues, jazz, country-rock, folk-rock,
"Popular Music"
music conceived and performed as a commercial commodity for mainstream audiences.
"Classical Music" aka Art Music
Art-music intended for a concert hall or theatrical performance, or music that is highly experimental.
The Elements of Music
Rhythm, Dynamics, Melody, Harmony, Tone Color, Texture, Form
when it became commonly used in the U.S.

- AM Radio
1920's
when it became commonly used in the U.S.

- electric microphone
1925

1931 Electric "ribbon" Microphone had major improvement
when it became commonly used in the U.S.

movies with sound
...
when it became commonly used in the U.S.

- FM radio
did not impact commercial music until the 1950s

came into common use in the 1960s, as FM stereo became the preferred format for classical music and underground psychedelic music by the late 1960s
when it became commonly used in the U.S.

-Electric guitar
(invented by Les Paul; mass-produced by Leo Fender, 1950)—major impact on music in and after this era
when it became commonly used in the U.S

- 8-track tape players and recorders
came into common use in the late 1960s
when it became commonly used in the U.S

- Music Television Channel MTV
1981—immediately affected the entire music industry
when it became commonly used in the U.S

- IPhone
1980's or later (2009)
when it became commonly used in the U.S

- Youtube
1980's or later (2005)
when it became commonly used in the U.S

- Digital Video Disc [DVD]
(Microsoft, 1995)
when it became commonly used in the U.S

- Compact Disc player (CD)
1980's became common devices in American homes
when it became commonly used in the U.S

- MIDI: ("Musical Instrument Digital Interface")
this was industry-standardized in 1983
when it became commonly used in the U.S

- reel-to-reel tape recording
1951

came into common use as the new standard, opening up the possibility of "overdubbing" by recording and re-recording on multiple tracks
when it became commonly used in the U.S

- "33 1/3 RPM" long-playing ("LP")
[this format was not widely used until the 1950s].

invented 1948
when it became commonly used in the U.S

- "45 RPM" singles
by 1950 become the preferred format for "singles"

(replacing the 78RPM record)
Composed Star Wars Series (1977-1983)
John Williams
Composed "The Sound of Music"
(1959, by Rodgers and Hammerstein)
Composed "West Side Story"
(1957, by Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim)
Composed "Harry Potter"
John Williams (2001-04)
Composed "Titanic"
John Williams (1997)
Composed "Psycho"
Bernhard Hermann (1960)
Composed "Sweeney Todd"
Stephen Sondheim (1979)
Composed "Hair"
Galt MacDermot (1967)
Lisa Coons
Songs From The Wasteland (2007)
Philip Glass
Glassworks, 1981
Charles Ives
The Unanswered Question (1908)
Edgard Varese
Ionization (1931)
John Cage
"prepared piano" (1940)
&
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1948)
James Brown
"Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (1965)
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie: Koko (1945)—Bebop
Kenny G
"Songbird" (1986)— "Smooth Jazz"
Bill Haley
"Rock Around the Clock" (1954)
Louis Armstrong
"Lazy River" (1931)
Henry Cowell (know what a pianist does in The Banshee)
which must be played by the performer directly on the open strings of a grand piano using their hands and fingernails! (1925)
Dolly Parton
"9 to 5" (1981)
Whitney Houston
"Saving All My Love For You" (1985)—R&B
John Williams
Indiana Jones series (1981, 1984, 1989) and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
Milton Babbitt
Ensembles for Synthesizer (1961)—Multi-serialism
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