Deck 6: Music

Question 1

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ medieval sung prayers

Answer 1

19

Question 2

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ a musical form in separate units, or movements

Answer 2

21

Question 3

____ 4. A musical composition by John Cage contains three days of silence.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ "Rock Around the Clock"

Question 5

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ Bach and jazz have this in common

Question 6

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ Liverpool quartet that came to the United States in 1962

Question 7

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ brought jazz to Carnegie Hall

Question 8

____ 3. Beethoven lost his hearing during the peak of his musical career.

Question 9

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ D minor

Question 10

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ minimalist musician

Question 11

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ "Maple Leaf Rag"

Question 12

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ Franz Schubert

Question 13

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ scale with five tones

Question 14

____ 2 The singer Mahalia Jackson sang on the Washington Mall for those who came to hear Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 15

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ a sound that maintains the same frequency regardless of its duration

Question 16

____ 1. A major component of music in the twentieth century has been dissonance.

Question 17

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ alternation between stress and unstress

Question 18

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ rapper

Question 19

Find the matching number from among the choices listed atbottom. You may use choices more than once, and be aware that there are more choices than you will use.
1. The Beatles
2. Philip Glass
3. Bill Haley and the Comets
4. "Ave Maria"
5. music
6. Renaissance
7. Scott Joplin
8. improvisation
9. chorus
10. spirituals
11. Lady Gaga
12. atonality
13. key
14. tone
15. pentatonic
16. baroque
17. Duke Ellington
18. Eminem
19. plainsong
20. rhythm
21. symphony
22. U2
23. "White Christmas"
___ the shaped sound between silences

Question 20

____ 5. There are six half-tones in the standard Western scale.

Question 21

The deep river in the spiritual:

A) Erlanger
B) Shannon
C) Amazon
D) Nile
E) Jordan

Question 22

Strong influence on Elvis Presley:

A) atonal minimalism
B) ragtime
C) opera recitative
D) the accumulation folk song
E) gospel

Question 23

____ 12. To celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, Leonard Bernstein conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphonyat the site.

Question 24

The main theme from Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet overture helped to make thousands more familiar with the composer when it became a popular song called:

A) "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes."
B) "One for My Baby."
C) "Love Is Sweeping the Country."
D) "Our Love."
E) "Now's the Time to Fall in Love."

Question 25

____ 14. "Ode to Billie Joe" is a country song from the late 1960s patterned after the narrative tradition of folk music.

Question 26

____ 11. Baroque music, like its architectural counterpart, is notable for its utter simplicity.

Question 27

Avant-garde composer whose ballet The Rite of Spring provoked a riot:

A) John Cage
B) Igor Stravinsky
C) Arnold Schoenburg
D) Philip Glass
E) Johannes Brahms

Question 28

____ 8. George Gershwin was the first jazz composer to win a Pulitzer Prize for music.

Question 29

____ 10. When composers write songs of heartbreak and despair, they choose major keys, such as C, to express a sad mood.

Question 30

____ 15. The city of New Orleans was heavily involved with the beginnings of jazz and blues.

Question 31

According to the chapter, rock is a fusion of all of these styles except for:

A) gospel
B) country and western
C) rap
D) jazz
E) rhythm and blues

Question 32

Sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit and later immortalized in song:

A) Jelly Roll Morton
B) John Henry
C) Joe Hill
D) Miles Davis
E) Joaquin Rodrigo

Question 33

____ 13. One interpretation of "American Pie" is that it was written to commemorate the deaths of Buddy Holly and Richie Valens.

Question 34

____ 6. Bach's compositions made strong use of counterpoint, or playing one melodic line against another, with both melodic lines being given equal value and dominance.

Question 35

____ 7. Duke Ellington was a wealthy musicpatron of the baroque period.

Question 36

The musical roots of jazz are:

A) French
B) German
C) Chinese
D) African
E) unknown

Question 37

Gershwin's "Fascinatin' Rhythm" offers a prime example of this rhythmic feature:

A) syncopation
B) atonality
C) bolero
D) impressionism
E) ragtime

Question 38

"If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all" is from a blues song made famous by

A) Mahalia Jackson.
B) Bessie Smith.
C) Ella Fitzgerald.
D) Bobbie Gentry.
E) Martina McBride.

Question 39

____ 9. Singer Frank Sinatra had great difficulty getting anyone to compose songs for him to perform.

Question 40

Two melodic lines playing against each other:

A) ragtime
B) sonata
C) fugue
D) adagio
E) rockabilly

Question 41

The rock band The Beatles rocketed to fame in this decade:

A) 2000s
B) 1930s
C) 1990s
D) 1950s
E) 1960s

Question 42

Cornet player obsessed with the desire to find the perfect note:

A) Louis Armstrong
B) Charlie Parker
C) Duke Ellington
D) Bix Beiderbecke
E) Miles Davis

Question 43

When performers sing that they "eat when they're hungry and drink when they're dry," they are singing what type of song?

A) scoundrel song
B) accumulation song
C) commemorative song
D) gospel song
E) protest song

Question 44

A major musical subgenre of hip-hop culture:

A) folk
B) rock
C) gospel
D) rap
E) art song

Question 45

What did Scott Joplin write on the sheet music of his "rags"?

A) "Do not play this piece backwards."
B) "Do not play this piece off key."
C) "Do not play this piece fast."
D) "Do not play this piece slow."
E) His signature.