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Music App Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A third is an interval that has a distance of ? adjacent pitches | 3 |
| Minor-scale melodies tend to evoke a ? emotional quality | Sad or serious |
| The right hand strings on a piano or ?, which vibrate at a fast rate and which we hear as sounding high in pitch | Short and thin |
| Similar to longer sentences in language, most melodies are made up of ? | more than one phrase |
| A ? melody is one that is easy to sing and remember | Tuneful |
| Major and minor scales are often made up of ? | Half-step and Whole-step intervals |
| The melody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is based on a ? which gives an overall serious tone | minor scale |
| The type of scale used to create melodies and harmonies ? on the emotional character and overall sound of music | can have a big impact |
| Scales are ? | A collection of intervals used to create melodies and harmonies |
| Mr. Carlisle demonstrated the Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" can be cast in a different mode ? to the regular key statement of the melody | adding dramatic contrast |
| In Western music, one whole step is the distance of ? | two half steps |
| Pitch is our perceived ? of a sound, which depends on an objects rate of vibration | Highness or lowness |
| We hear objects that vibrate at a slow rate as sounding ? | Low in pitch |
| Harpist can change the pitch of the strings during a performance by | using foot pedals |
| The harpsichord has keys that are ? | Connected to a plectrum that plucks the strings inside the instrument |
| An organist adjusts the timbre of an organ by ? | pulling out and pushing in stops controlling which pipes get activated |
| Although many modern flutes are made entirely from metal, the flute is considered a woodwind because | early flutes were made of wood |
| A ? is a single-reed woodwind | Clarinet |
| What is the order of string instruments from highest to lowest in pitch range? | Violin, viola, cello, double bass |
| A ? is a double-reed woodwind | Oboe and Bassoon |
| The saxophone is most commonly heard in context of ? | Jazz and popular music |
| Other than drawing the bow across the strings of a stringed instrument, the player can pluck the strings, a technique called ? | pizzicato |
| The ? is unique to the brass family because the player changes the length using a slide | Trombone |
| All brass players ? to activate the sound | Buzz their lips into a mouthpiece |
| Brass players must ? to achieve the correct pitch | Adjust the amount of air flow, adjust the tension of their lips, adjust the length of tubing with either valves or slides |
| ? is the lowest female voice type | Alto |
| ? is the lowest male voice type | Bass |
| The ? have a direct penetrating sound because most of its tubing is the same diameter throughout | Trumpet and Trombone |
| A ? must sit to play his instrument | Cellist |
| Walking into a concert hall in the middle of a music performance is ? | highly disruptive to performers on stage and the audience members |
| Whispering at concerts is | Loud because the consonants carry, and it can disrupt the performers and audience members |
| If you are late to a concert, ? | You must attend another concert to get credit for that concert |
| As audience members, its best to think of movements of a symphony like chapters of a book, where each movement contrasts one another musically, but | They function together as a collective singular artistic expression |
| ? is advantageous for a composer like Mozart, having already preserved the performance of his music for centuries | Music Notation |
| In tonal music, when there is movement away from the tonic triad, the usual trend is to ? | return to the tonic by the end of the composition |
| The bass clef staff is good for notating the ? of a cello, trombone, or a man's voice | Lower-sounding pitches |
| In jazz, brass players often play ? the steady rhythm of the bass | Syncopated rhythms against |
| Jazz rhythms are often played in a ? style | Swung Style |
| What is a swung style? | Instead of all notes played evenly, they notes are played in a long-short, long long short pattern |
| With improvisation in Jazz, players usually improvise | Within the context and framework specific to that style of jazz |
| When jazz musicians improvise, they often emphasize ? which are the pitches from the blues scales | Blue notes |
| One of the quintessential jazz sounds involves the drummer playing a repeated time feel on ?, while left foot closes the hi-hat cymbals on beat 2 and 4 | A snare drum played with brushes and a cymbal played with a stick |
| In the recording of "Hi Hat Blues" trumpeter Clark Terry uses one of the oldest mutes, ?, to get a great wah-wah effect when he plays | A toilet plunger |
| The ? is the predominant woodwind instrument heard in most styles of jazz | Saxophone |
| One quintessential jazz sounds involves the bassist plucking the strings of the bass in a steady stream of pulses, called a | Walking Bass |
| Scott Joplin's career was spent mostly as a | Composer and publisher of piano ragtime music and rag-oriented operas |
| The melodies and harmonies of Blues music comes mostly from | Blues Scales |
| Thousands of blues songs, rock n roll songs, and jazz tunes follow a 12-bar blues form, where the melody made up of ? repeats | 12 bars |
| Blues has origins in ? which were in the field to make the work go more easily and more safely | Work songs and field hollers |
| The earliest jazz from the 1910s and 1920s takes place in ? | New Orleans |
| ? is improvised singing, where the singer sounds like an improvising instrumentalist | Scat singing |
| In the blues song from the video lecture, the singer and trumpeter exchange improvised melodies in a back and forth fashion called | Call and response |
| The trumpeter and singer ? is considered by many to be the inventor of jazz | Louis Armstrong |
| The form of many jazz performances follow this form: | Introduction - improvised solos - ending |
| Styles of music that lead to early jazz are: | Ragtime, blues, and New Orleans street music |
| ? was a major ragtime pianist | Scott Joplin |
| In ragtime music, the players left hand plays a steady "um-chuck" pattern in two, while the right hand plays melodies made up of ? | Syncopated rhythms |
| ? is a solo piano music fro the late 1800s that leads to early jazz | Ragtime |
| Each phrase in a 12-bar blues is made up of | 3 sub phrases: the first line of text is stated, which then repeats, followed by a 3rd line of new text |
| A typical Big Band rhythm section includes | Piano, bass, guitar, and drumset |
| Compared with earlier Big Band melodies, Bebop melodies were | less tuneful and more complex, and therefore harder to sing along to and remember |
| Compared with the # of players in a Big Band, Bebop typically has ? players | 3-5 musicians |
| Bebop musicians improvised ?, compared with the improvised solos heard in earlier Big Band | Longer solos (without the other musicians backing them up with riffs) |
| Compared to earlier Big Band tempos, bebop tempos tended to be ? | Faster, making the music more for listening than dancing |
| ? is a style of jazz performed by a large group of players: 5 saxophonists, 4 trombonists, 4 trumpeters, and a rhythm section | Big Band (aka Swing) |
| What best describes Big Band Music (also known as Swing)? | It was the popular American music from the 1940s performed by a large jazz ensemble of about 18 musicians, featuring a driving beat, riffs, and short improvised solo |
| Short repeated syncopated melodies that add rhythmic intensity to the music | Riff |
| What type of music used riffs? | Big Band |
| In the song "Summertime" from the 1950s album Porgy and Bess, soloist Miles Davis ? | plays direct melodies in a call-and-response fashion with the french horn riff |
| Cool jazz harmonies can be sophisticated, but they change at a ? rate that traditional Bebop harmonies | Slower |
| ? was a main innovator of Cool Jazz | Miles Davis |
| Compared with Bebop tempos, Cool Jazz tends to be ? | slower |
| In the song "Summertime," Miles Davis ? instrument is a nice contrast to the sound of french horns | Bright muted trumpet sound |
| Cool jazz can involve ? timbres, for example french horns | Rich and Dark |
| Overall, Cool Jazz is ? than Bebop | More subdued and less frenetic |
| Which answer best describes that timbres you might hear in free jazz? | Extreme timbres like squeaks, wails and distortions |
| Which answer best describes the rhythmic quality of free jazz? | There is no obvious pulse given from the Bass or drums |
| Other the Jimi Hendrix's famous free jazz version of "The Star Spangled Banner" at Woodstock, was free jazz a mainstream style of music? | No |
| ? was an artist who evolved the jazz style, starting with playing bebop jazz and then creating other styles of music, for example Cool Jazz and Fusion Jazz | Miles Davis |
| ? jazz is a blend of jazz with another style of music | Fusion |
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