Rock and Jazz

The First Commercial hip-hip was Rappers Delight in 1979 (TF)

The First Commercial hip-hip was Rappers Delight in 1979 (TF)

True

The Beatles formed in which city in 1957?

Liverpool

The Beatles' music was shaped by producer was who?

George Martin

The most common song structures in rock music are primarily:

Strophic, AABA, and varieties of verse/chorus forms

Hip-hop developed in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1970s (TF)

False

The concept album is defined as a(n):

A collection of songs that are all united by a theme or sound

In the Beatles' concept album Sgt. Pepper, many of the songs relate to childhood memories and feelings of nostalgia (TF)

True

Rock Music is a generic term that applies to all of the various sub-genres of popular music that has evolved from the 50s to the present day. (TF)

True

Hip-hop DJ's borrowed tools and techniques from disco, but they also used salsa and funk records to provide music for block parties (TF)

True

Rhythmically, rock music relies heavily on the emphasis of the __________ supplied by the drummer

backbeat

The first pioneers of hip-hop music were jazz musicians. (TF)

False

All of the following characteristics are typical of disco music except for:

frequent changes in tempo and volume

Rock and Roll refers to a style of popular music that evolved during which period of time

1950s to mid 1960s

Rock music is a male-dominated art form (TF)

True

The standard format or rock groups was established by groups in the 1960s and is still the basic model today is:

lead guitar, rhythm guitar, bass guitar, drums, all or some of the members singing

The roots of disco dancing can be traced to which of these?

underground parties hosted by a New York City DJ

The rhythm of most rock music is in

quadruple meter

Disco parties catered to a gay, mostly black clientele that was harassed at commercial venues (TF))

true

The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is an example of music intended for

domestic listening

The basic harmonic progression used in rock grew from the basic 12-bar-blues patterns and the I-vi-IV-V doo wop progression (TF)

True

Although DJs initiated the practice of reciting rhymes over the breaks, dedicated rappers eventually became known as MCs (TF)

True

The term "fixed composition" refers to works in which the pitches and rhythms are identical between performances (TF)

true

When discussing Jazz, swing has two distinct definitions. One definition refers to _________, the other to __________

the feeling that gives forward momentum to a performance; the style popular type of music from the 1940s

Just as ragtime was becoming a passe, a new style called ______ burst onto the scene

dixieland jazz

"Hot Jazz" was a term used to describe the rhythmically interesting style associated with:

African American musicians

Bebop is style of small-band modern jazz music that originated in the 1940s. Its creation can be traced to a small group of African American musicians who had late-night jam sessions at _________ in Harlem, New York

Minton's playhouse

The earliest examples of jazz and many of its musical elements are traceable back to which American City

New Orleans

Ragtime was a style of music popularized by pianists and featuring steady rhythm with the left hand and ____ with the right

syncopated rhythms

The key elements of Jazz includes blues, _______, swing, and __________

syncopation and creative freedom

The African American arranger Flecher Henderson joined Goodman's band as a performer in 1939. (TF)

True

Which of the following is true about John Coltrane (1926-1967)

He was one of the great jazz innovators of the 20th century

Which of the following was the most influential new dance of the 1930s

The Lindy Hop

Bebop has its roots in Swing music, but despite its experimental nature it retained Swing's danceable tempo (TF)

False

12-bar blues provides the structure for most blues compositions (TF)

True

The 1930s saw the rise of an energetic new style of dancing known as:

swing

A _______ is a music piece consisting of a new melody over a preexisting harmonic structure (or chord progression)

contrafact

The instrumental makeup of the Big Band is essentially and expanded dixie land band (TF)

True

World War II and the accompanying draft of young men into service had little or no effect on the evolution of jazz music in the 1940s (TF)

False

Benny Goodman (1909-1986) was the first bandleader to make a hit playing swing music (TF)

True

"Swing" is one of many black colloquialisms adopted by young urban whites during the 1930s. (TF)

True

A Love Supreme is an example of modal jazz, in which traditional chords are replaced with harmonies built on scales other than major and minor. (TF)

True