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
A visual art movement that rejected reality and sought to express raw inner emotion through art.
Expressionism
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.
A musical style that features spoken word that rhymes in rhythm. It often features syncopated rhythmic accompaniment and is usually void of melody.
Rap
What is the name of the computer coding language that is used to translate digital information into sounds to make electronic music?
MIDI
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
A compositional style that obscures tonal structures by often ignoring conventional harmonies altogether.
Atonal
A genre of religious folk song associated with the enslavement of African people in the American South.
African American Spiritual
A type of popular dance music characterized by a heavy beat and simple melodies. Features the instrumentation of guitar, bass, and drums.
Rock & Roll
TRUE or FALSE: Three modern audio recording technologies are: Cassette Tape, Digital Recording (CD), and Digital Device (iPod, PC, Mobile Phone, etc).
TRUE
A musical style in which a composer takes material from foreign places to create music inspired by those materials.
Exoticism
A visual art movement that embraced the experience and values of modern industrial life.
Modernism
A subgenre of jazz known for its syncopated or “ragged” rhythms in which the piano player attempted to imitate the music of marching bands.
An electronic musical instrument, typically operated by a keyboard, producing a wide variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies.
Synthesizer
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
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.
Who were three prominent 20th Century composers?
Stravinsky, Copland, Cage
A popular style of jazz that featured large ensembles that often included saxophone, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
Big Band
Which World War had a significant influence on the genre of Rock and Roll of the 1950s?
World War I
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.
Who were three prominent Romantic period composers?
Korsakov, Berlioz, and Wagner
TRUE or FALSE: Early 20th Century music rejected tonality and favored atonality (lots of dissonance and chromaticism).
TRUE
Who were three prominent American music artists, particularly in Jazz?
Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong
What war had an influence on the rise and popularity of folk music and protest songs of the 1960s?
Vietnam War
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
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).
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.
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
What musical texture characterized popular music from the 1950s - 1990s?
Homophonic Texture
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