Music Studies

6 years ago

Generations of composers considered this composition by Palestrina to be the model of clear, serene ...

Generations of composers considered this composition by Palestrina to be the model of clear, serene polyphony.

a. Mass for Pope Marcellus
b. De profundis clamavi
c. Motet Tu es Petrus
d. Or

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cherry426

6 years ago

WWII contributed to the decline of big-band music because

WWII contributed to the decline of big-band music because

a. the usual rations of milk and cheese couldn't support an entire band
b. gasoline rationing and tire shortages made touring too expensive, and many musicians w

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6 years ago

Goodman found his greatest popularity playing whose arrangements?

Goodman found his greatest popularity playing whose arrangements?

a. Bennie Moten
b. Fletcher Henderson
c. Billy Strayhorn
d. Mary Lou Williams

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6 years ago

Which bandleaders were still considered the primary interpreters of swing music in the early 1930s? ...

Which bandleaders were still considered the primary interpreters of swing music in the early 1930s?

a. Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman
b. Duke Ellington and Count Basie
c. Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson

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6 years ago

Who helped define the unique sound of Ellington's Washingtonians with his growling style of ...

Who helped define the unique sound of Ellington's Washingtonians with his growling style of playing?

a. Sonny Greer
b. Johnny Hodges
c. Harry Carney
d. Bubber Miley

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6 years ago

Which definition for soggetto cavato is correct?

Which definition for soggetto cavato is correct?

a. A cantus firmus extracted from the vowels of a name.
b. A genre in which a vernacular text in an upper voice is sung simultaneouslywith a Latin chant in the teno

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6 years ago

What important contribution did Paul Whiteman make to the development of jazz?

What important contribution did Paul Whiteman make to the development of jazz?

a. he hired some of the hottest jazz improvisers from New Orleans and Chicago
b. he broke the race barrier by allowing black musicians in hi

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6 years ago

Heinrich Isaac's La Spagna is an example of a:

Heinrich Isaac's La Spagna is an example of a:

a. basse dance.
b. carole.
c. ballata. d. estampie.

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Pik Bube

6 years ago

Which composer sought to lift black musical idioms to new levels of dignity with his concert music? ...

Which composer sought to lift black musical idioms to new levels of dignity with his concert music?

a. Noble Sissle
b. George Gershwin
c. Art Tatum
d. William Grant Still

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cherry426

6 years ago

Tin Pan Alley in the 1920s was

Tin Pan Alley in the 1920s was

a. a popular nightclub in Harlem
b. a street were popular songs were published and promoted
c. the name of an important Broadway theater company
d. a street where stride pianis

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6 years ago

Identify the correct stylistic feature of the contenance angloise.

Identify the correct stylistic feature of the contenance angloise.

a. homophonic texture
b. pan-consonance
c. syncopation
d. pan-isorhythm

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6 years ago

Bix Beiderbecke's harmonic vocabulary was

Bix Beiderbecke's harmonic vocabulary was

a. rather simple, reflecting the pop tunes of the era
b. quite sophisticated, using upper chord extensions and evoking French classical impressionism
c. rather simple, pri

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6 years ago

Dufay used the numbers 6, 4, 2, 3 as the musical proportions of Nuper rosarum flores in order to ...

Dufay used the numbers 6, 4, 2, 3 as the musical proportions of Nuper rosarum flores in order to symbolize:

a. nothing, it is simply a sequence of numbers used to give variety to themusic. b. the authority of the pope in temp

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6 years ago

Which of the following is not featured in West End Blues by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five?

Which of the following is not featured in West End Blues by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five?

a. a bravura opening cadenza by Armstrong
b. two choruses in which Armstrong trades fours with banjoist Johnny St. Cyr

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6 years ago

Non al suo amante (Not to her lover) is an example of the trecento ________.

Non al suo amante (Not to her lover) is an example of the trecento ________.

a. estampie
b. madrigal
c. ballata
d. caccia

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cherry426

6 years ago

Which of the following New Orleans musicians was not involved with Louis Armstrong's classic Hot ...

Which of the following New Orleans musicians was not involved with Louis Armstrong's classic Hot Five recordings?

a. Johnny St. Cyr on banjo
b. Johnny Dodds on clarinet
c. Kid Ory on trombone
d. Joe King Oli

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6 years ago

Which was not an aspect of Louis Armstrong's playing that established his place in jazz history? ...

Which was not an aspect of Louis Armstrong's playing that established his place in jazz history?

a. he was the first great soloist in jazz history
b. he played the melody precisely as written by the original composer

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6 years ago

Early in life, Louis Armstrong was befriended, mentored, and significantly influenced musically by ...

Early in life, Louis Armstrong was befriended, mentored, and significantly influenced musically by

a. Jelly Roll Morton
b. Kid Ory
c. Joe King Oliver
d. Fletcher Henderson

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6 years ago

Which early jazz musician was a virtuosic clarinet and soprano saxophone player?

Which early jazz musician was a virtuosic clarinet and soprano saxophone player?

a. Bix Beiderbecke
b. Johnny Dodds
c. Jelly Roll Morton
d. Sidney Bechet

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6 years ago

What meaning did the term cappella assume during the fourteenth century?

What meaning did the term cappella assume during the fourteenth century?

a. An organized group of highly trained musicians.
b. Choral singing without accompaniment.
c. The director of a musical establi

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6 years ago

Briefly discuss America's virtuoso cult with particular emphasis on the musical life of Louis ...

Briefly discuss America's virtuoso cult with particular emphasis on the musical life of Louis Moreau Gottschalk.

What will be an ideal response?

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6 years ago

Machaut's Mass is the first cyclic Mass, the first complete polyphonic setting of the Ordinary of ...

Machaut's Mass is the first cyclic Mass, the first complete polyphonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, and is by far the longest polyphonic composition before the fifteenth century.

Indicate whether the statement is true

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6 years ago

Jazz performance in the 1920s shows a shift away from

Jazz performance in the 1920s shows a shift away from

a. collective improvisation to virtuosic individual solos
b. collective improvisation to arrangements for big bands
c. big-band arrangements to collective impr

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6 years ago

Improvisation in performances by New Orleans jazz bands in the 1920s was generally

Improvisation in performances by New Orleans jazz bands in the 1920s was generally

a. entirely spontaneous and original
b. planned or worked out to some degree in advance
c. played exactly the same every time

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6 years ago

When did the search for a distinct American music identity arguably begin?

When did the search for a distinct American music identity arguably begin?

A) early nineteenth century

B) late nineteenth century

C) early twentieth century

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6 years ago

Write a brief essay defining concept music and provide an example.

Write a brief essay defining concept music and provide an example.

What will be an ideal response?

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6 years ago

The vielle is: (Multiple Choice)

The vielle is:

a. a double-reed instrument with a loud penetrating tone.
b. a keyboard instrument that generates sound when a tangent strikes thestring.
c. the ancestor of the modern tambourine.

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6 years ago

What effect did Prohibition have on Chicago's night life?

What effect did Prohibition have on Chicago's night life?

a. there were fewer jobs for musicians and entertainers
b. now sober audiences paid much better attention to the music
c. very little, although nightclubs

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6 years ago

Why might Freddie Keppard, Sidney Bechet, and Jelly Roll Morton have left New Orleans before 1915? ...

Why might Freddie Keppard, Sidney Bechet, and Jelly Roll Morton have left New Orleans before 1915?

a. the allure of the road and job opportunities in bigger cities
b. the closing of Storyville
c. discriminatory la

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6 years ago

Which of the following was a New Orleansstyle pianist who played with King Oliver and Louis ...

Which of the following was a New Orleansstyle pianist who played with King Oliver and Louis Armstrong?

a. Kid Ory
b. Jelly Roll Morton
c. Johnny St. Cyr
d. Lil Hardin

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6 years ago

Which two theorists set forth the musical principles that characterized the Ars nova?

Which two theorists set forth the musical principles that characterized the Ars nova?

a. Jean des Murs and Jacques de Lige
b. Philippe de Vitry and Jean des Murs
c. Philippe de Vitry and Franco of Colo

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6 years ago

Who wrote the music for the film The Plow That Broke the Plains and later arranged it into a suite ...

Who wrote the music for the film The Plow That Broke the Plains and later arranged it into a suite for orchestra?

A) Aaron Copland

B) George Gershwin

C) Leonard Bernstein

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6 years ago

Which composition is, in effect, a sermon and lecture set in music?

Which composition is, in effect, a sermon and lecture set in music?

a. Dic, Christi veritas
b. El mois d'avril/O quam sancta/Et gaudebit
c. On parole de batre/A Paris/Frese nouvele
d. Orien

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6 years ago

Discuss the technological developments in the 1920s and their impact on the popular music industry. ...

Discuss the technological developments in the 1920s and their impact on the popular music industry.

What will be an ideal response?

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6 years ago

Two of the most important New Orleans cornet players were

Two of the most important New Orleans cornet players were

a. Buddy Bolden and Freddie Keppard
b. Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton
c. Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone
d. Zutty Singleton and Baby Dodds

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6 years ago

Stop time in jazz performance refers to a series of

Stop time in jazz performance refers to a series of

a. drum solos
b. intermissions
c. solo breaks
d. blues choruses

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6 years ago

The innovative music of Leoninus and Perotinus spread throughout Western Europe, becoming the first ...

The innovative music of Leoninus and Perotinus spread throughout Western Europe, becoming the first international repertory of polyphonic music.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Pik Bube

6 years ago

The Spanish tinge that Jelly Roll Morton refers to in jazz most likely comes from

The Spanish tinge that Jelly Roll Morton refers to in jazz most likely comes from

a. the Spanish ancestry found throughout New Orleans
b. the Mexican border, not far from the outskirts of New Orleans
c. the Caribb

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