Music S4 '24-25

Diona and Drew parts combined

What is the beatles top-selling album and how many copies were sold? ?

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and sold a gargantuan of 32 mil copies

What did McCartney turn to during the breakup of Beatles in 1969?

alcohol, his wife Linda got him outta it

What was McCartney's gratitude song to Linda?

Maybe I'm Amazed (1970) put in McCartney album

What was McCartney's first solo album?

McCartney 1970, reached no. 1 in US

What new group did McCartney launch and what did it produce that hit no. 1?

Wings, within 3 years made Live and Let Die (James Bond related) and Band on the Run (1973)

How many albums released by Wings reach platinum?

7 sold at least a million copies

When did Wings disband?

1981

Who played a cameo role in 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales' 2017?

McCartney

Why did McCartney appear at 'concert for Linda' in 1999?

she died in 1998

McCartney donated his performance of 2 numbers during opening ceremony when London hosted 2012 Summer Olympics for how much?

I pound, or $1.57

When McCartney released the album 'Egypt Station,' in 2018, why was it a new milestone?

first album to get no. 1, first album in 36 years to top the Billboard 200 listing (he was 76)

A rolling stone reviewer suggested drawing what to compare McCartney's greatness?

Venn diagram (1958 and 2018)

Where did 'Egypt Station's title come from?

a painting of McCartney in 1988 (serve as basis of album cover)

What does McCartney describe DRW as?

epic multi-movement closer clocking in at 7 minutes relating to his time at beatles and wings and band on the run

What label is DRW?

symphonic rock or progressive rock

What are the three styles DRW shifts into?

a ballad-like opening, faster blues-rock blend, driving rock section

Whos the producer of Egypt Station?

Greg Kurstin

What horn guys helped with brass stuff in DRW?

Muscle Shoals horn

McCartney was inspired to convey a narrative in his song, inspired by what?

a newspaper report

McCartney says 'What Can we do?' is similar to what?

What shall we do with the drunken sailor (and the best crew is his stage crew)

McCartney employs 'chromatic mediant,' in second section, which was what?

substitutes a major triad built on e natural

(DRW) What's the key of the second section and its submediant (6th note)?

G minor, E flat

(DRW) In D sect of 2nd Sect, what meter is it?

quadruple

Who declared "A man can do all things if he will?"

Leon Battista Alberti

Gender neutral term for renaissance man

polymath

Who said Donald Glover is a renaissance man?

Reviewer Ross Horton

What activities does Glover do that make him a renaissance man?

actor, singer, writer, rapper, cultural commentator, father, partner, director, comedian

What are the jobs of Donald Glover's parents?

Donald Glover Sr. postal worker and Beverly Glover a daycare provider at Edwards Air Force Base in Kern Country, California

Where did Glover's family move when he was 4?

stone mountain, Georgia near Atlanta

How many siblings did Glover have?

Brother Stephen, 2 adopted siblings, and many fostered siblings

What religious group was Glover a part of?

Jehovah's witnesses, didn't celebrate birthdays or holidays, only got PBS programming (dad did Bill Murray movies)

What did Glover's dad let them do?

Bill Murray movies, Star Wars prequels

What figure did Glover own?

Lando Calrissian action figure

Mrs. Glover suggested that Glover should go to what school?

DeKalb school of arts

Who was voted Most Likely to write for the Simpsons?

Donald Glover

What Uni did Glover go to and where was he coached?

Tisch School of the Arts at New York University coached from upright citizens brigade

Who called themselves Derrick Comedy on YT?

Glover and 2 classmates making comedy vids

Glover's 1st big break came when he was invited to apply to be a writer for what new show? What did he submit as an application?

30 Rock; a UCB teacher recommended him. His YT vids and his Simpsons script

Who occasionally appeared on the Emmy-winning show?

Glover

what did Glover do during the writers' strike in 2008?

created a rap mixtape under the pseudonym Childish Gambino

Where did the name 'Childish Gambino' come from?

name-generating tool on website of hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan

Glover left 30 Rock in 2009 to pursue comedy, but then was offered what 6 days later?

starring role in NBC series community

What led to Glover's Extended Play record? (not as long as full album)

actors on community encouraged him to keep his music going

Glover got signed by what label in 2011?

Glassnote Records

Glover's first album debuted what on Billboard top 200 list?

11

Glover signed a deal w cable network FX to create what series?

Atlanta in 2016-2022

What role did Glover land in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

Lando Calrissian

In 2023, who hired Glover and his brother Stephen to write for spin-off Lando series for Disney +?

Lucasfilm

When and for what did Glover win his first Grammy award?

2018 Redbone - from his 3rd album AND was in Peele's film Get Out

On 5/5/2018, Glover was the guest host and musical guest on what comedy program? What did he do during its 2nd musical number?

Saturday Night Live, premiered 'This is America'

What made Grammy history by being `1st rap sing to win both Song and Record of the Year awards?

'This is America' Also made his 1st no. 1 billboard song

In 7/11/2018 Glover launched 2 track EP titled Summer Pack which had what kind of style rather than his typical rap?

R&B approach

What was billed as Glover's 1st official single from Gambino's forthcoming debut album?

Summertime Magic

'Summertime Magic' was a reference to Gambino's new contract with who?

RCA Records

(FLS) what mode is it?

minor

what's pre-chorus?

section functioning as transition between verse and the chorus

How does Glover use word-painting?

popular since renaissance era, he uses musical elements to convey "No sound" by having no sound

What lyric of 'Feel like Summer' is almost inaudible?

Oh, I hope we change - emphasizes unlikelihood of his hopes being realized

When the 2 summer pack tracks first dropped, neither song had what?

benefit of a conversation-hijacking music video

Who animated 'Feel like Summer' music video?

Justin Richburg

In a February, who was named MVP in NBA All-Star Celebrity Basketball Game?

Quavo

Who is isolated in a tree due to her controversies that a writer for 'Complex' noted on?

Azealia Banks

What did Nickie Minaj accuse Travis Scott of doing?

using his gf's fame to help his record sales

Which artist has been open abt their anxiety and depression?

Kid Cudi

Why is Kanye West (Ye) crying?

he said submitting to slavery was a choice made by blacks

Michele Obama's pose in hugging Ye is similar to her hugging who?

2016 George W. Bush

Who is Fredo Santana?

upcoming rapper who worked w Glover then died of Overdosing in 2018

Who was running for governor of Florida in 2018

Andrew Gillum

Who does the melting icecream in FLS represent?

Flordian XXXtentacion w his split hair dye who was shot in his car by robbers June 2018

Who are the 3 candidates for the braided women's hair?

Zendaya, Bhad Bharbie, and Kehlani (even tho she has no paper airplane tattoo on her cheek)

Why do writers of Slate think the debated women is Bhad Bhabie?

her tank top, Lil Uzi Vert's side-eye, and her tounge-sticking out

Which artists badmouthed each other in the past?

Lil Yachty and Charlamagne

Why does Gucci Mane sunbathes on a towel?

his turn around since being released from prison

Electric Slides are often performed where?

Black barbecues and other social gatherings

Whose the Rae Sremmurd duo?

Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi

The women on the skateboard may be who (the disputed one)

SZA or tessa Thompson (who dated Monae!)

Why is Chris Brown weeping?

He's violent with women

Who are the singers of OutKast that ended their partnership?

Big Boi and Andre 3000

Whitney Houston stands in a pose referencing what?

a 1987 album cover released yrs before her death

How many weeks did Glover wait before dropping the music video for Feel like Summer?

6 weeks

When Glover published an extended version of FLS as part of his first RCA album, 3.15.20, what did he retitle it as?

42.26 reflecting its time position from the start of recording, without a revised video

(FLS) What instruments participate in the song?

drum taps, keyboard, guitar and bass, drum

(FLS) What form is it in?

verse-chorus form

What are 2 efforts to motivate people to climate action?

Tempo project and ClimateMusic Project

Who leads the Tempo Project and is the voice of US Geological Survey?

seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones, gave interviews when earthquakes struck Southern California and even held her sleeping son in it once

At Brown Uni, what did Dr. Lucy Jones begin to study?

viola da gamba, a baroque-era instrument similar to the cello

What did Dr. Jones do after retiring from USGS in 2016?

founded the Dr. Lucy Jones Center for Science and Society to built more resilient communities

Tempo project (2020) aims to engage 3 groups of people, which are...?

musicians, social scientists, and physical scientists and engineers

How does Lucy Jone's 'In Nomine Terra Calens: In the name of a warming Earth," ideally work? (2019)

she used Earth's average surface temps from 1880-2017 to generate bass line for bass viol (viola da gamda) above 3 other violins play melodies

How does Lucy Jone's 'In Nomine Terra Calens: In the name of a warming Earth," use the years to make a song?

each year is whole note, Jones correlates each difference of 0.03 degrees centigrade to pitches on instrument. 1880 was bflat (lowest pitch on it) and ascended 3 octaves by 2013. Still had to ascend another 5th to accommodate temp since 2013.

How does Lucy Jone's end her 'In Nomine Terra Calens: In the name of a warming Earth?"

one lone high note without direction to represent uncertain future

The ClimateMusic Project (2014) aspires to unite what?

science+music+action

Who founded ClimateMusicProject?

Stephan Crawford, served as director of US Department of Commerce's Commercial Service office

Where did Crawford attend uni?

Tufts University, where he was alerted to environmental issues during a campus climate meeting

Crawford and 2 other musicians made a 20 minute piece mimicking what cycle with data to music?

carbon

Who was the carbon cycle's (Crawford)'s first audience?

30 friends

Each concert of ClimateMusic Project does what?

pairs a work with a visualization of one aspect of climate change. Introduced by a climate scientists then followed by a panel

What was the initial composition of ClimateMusic Project?

Climate (2015) by Erik Ian Walker which tracks historical and projected variations in the climate system over 450 years from 1800-2250

ClimateMusic has sponsored original compositions such as?

Icarus in Flight (2018) by Richard Festinger, What if we...(2019) by Wendy Loomis, and Audyssey (2022) by Eduardo Del Signore

What is Festinger's Icarus in Flight about?

string quartet exploring 3 human drivers of the climate crisis - population growth, carbon emissions, and land-use change over 1880-2080