Romantic Period
20th Century
American Music
Rock & Roll
Music Technology
100
A musical style in which a composer makes an expression of specific national identity by using the folk songs, dances, legends, and history of their homelands.
Nationalism
100
A visual art movement that rejected reality and sought to express raw inner emotion through art.
Expressionism
100
TRUE or FALSE: African culture is believed to have contributed melody and harmony while European culture is believed to have contributed rhythm to the style that is uniquely considered American Music.
FALSE: African culture is believed to have contributed rhythm & syncopation while European culture is believed to have contributed melody & harmony.
100
A musical style that features spoken word that rhymes in rhythm. It often features syncopated rhythmic accompaniment and is usually void of melody.
Rap
100
What is the name of the computer coding language that is used to translate digital information into sounds to make electronic music?
MIDI
200
A style of visual art in which the artist sought to give the “impression” of a subject; often categorized by small, thin, yet visible brush strokes.
Impressionism
200
A compositional style that obscures tonal structures by often ignoring conventional harmonies altogether.
Atonal
200
A genre of religious folk song associated with the enslavement of African people in the American South.
African American Spiritual
200
A type of popular dance music characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Features the instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums.
Rock & Roll
200
TRUE or FALSE: Three modern audio recording technologies are: Cassette Tape, Digital Recording (CD), and Digital Device (iPod, PC, Mobile Phone, etc).
TRUE
300
A musical style in which a composer takes material from foreign places to create music inspired by those materials.
Exoticism
300
A visual art movement that embraced the experience and values of modern industrial life.
Modernism
300
A subgenre of jazz known for its syncopated or “ragged” rhythms in which the piano player attempted to imitate the music of marching bands.
300
An electronic musical instrument, typically operated by a keyboard, producing a wide variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies.
Synthesizer
300
What early file-sharing website was sued and eventually shut down for allowing users to download and share music without compensating artists or rightsholders?
Napster
400
TRUE or FALSE: Music during the Romantic period was often inspired by the emotions of JOY, HAPPINESS, and AWE.
FALSE: The emotions were mostly commonly FEAR, HORROR, and AWE.
400
Who were three prominent 20th Century composers?
Stravinsky, Copland, Cage
400
A popular style of jazz that featured large ensembles that often included saxophone, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
Big Band
400
Which World War had a significant influence on the genre of Rock and Roll of the 1950s?
World War I
400
TRUE or FALSE: The three music industries are: Recorded Music, Music Licensing, and Virtual Music.
FALSE: The three recognized music industries are Recorded Music, Music Licensing, and Live Music.
500
Who were three prominent Romantic period composers?
Korsakov, Berlioz, and Wagner
500
TRUE or FALSE: Early 20th Century music rejected tonality and favored atonality (lots of dissonance and chromaticism).
TRUE
500
Who were three prominent American music artists, particularly in Jazz?
Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong
500
What war had an influence on the rise and popularity of folk music and protest songs of the 1960s?
Vietnam War
500
What other online music service emerged in 2006 that challenged Apple's iTunes by providing a music-steaming service that was free, but generated licensing revenues through ads?
Spotify
600
TRUE or FALSE: The rise of a middle class during the 1800's inspired the creation of art for the common man.
TRUE: The Industrial Revolution created a rise in the working middle class. Wealthy, noble, and aristocratic families became less common and therefore music began to cater to the class of the majority (the middle class).
600
12 tone serialism is a compositional technique in which all 12 tones must be used but can be repeated at any time.
FALSE: The tones cannot repeat until all 12 have been used.
600
An intellectual, social, and artistic "REBIRTH" of African American culture in literature, music, and art in the neighborhood of Harlem, New York City.
Harlem Renaissance
600
What musical texture characterized popular music from the 1950s - 1990s?
Homophonic Texture
600
What two "institutions" are no longer relevant regarding music in an age of digital distribution, in which listeners have ubiquitous (universal) access to music? SELECT TWO ANSWERS.
Collection & Ownership