midterm

Question 1

What is the genre of the piece “hand clappin’”?

Answer 1

Rhythm and Blues

Question 2

Who performed/wrote “tutti frutti”?

Answer 2

Little richard

Question 2

What genre is “tutti Frutti”?

Answer 2

rock and roll

Question 2

what are the four types of phonic structure?

Answer 2

Monophony, Polyphony, heterophony, homophony

Question 2

what is the difference between monophony and homophony?

Answer 2

monophony is a single unaccompanied melodic line, while homophony includes a single melodic line with accompaniment

Question 3

What is popular music?

Answer 3

popular music is music that is mass produced and disseminated via the mass media, and is listened to by. a large number of people.

Question 4

when was the term popular music first coined?

Answer 4

1855, though the term did not become widespread until the 1930’s

Question 5

who sang “it’s mighty dark to travel”?

Answer 5

Bill Monroe

Question 6

what genre is “it’s mighty dark to travel”?

Answer 6

bluegrass

Question 7

what scale is commonly used in Bluegrass music?

Answer 7

the pentatonic scale

Question 8

who wrote “black and tan fantasy”?

Answer 8

Duke Ellington

Question 9

what is a black and tan club?

Answer 9

a dance/music venue that allowed both Black and White patrons and musicians

Question 10

What genre is “Black and Tan fantasy”?

Answer 10

swing

Question 11

what is the oldest 12-bar blues?

Answer 11

Mamie’s blues

Question 12

what genre is Cecil Taylor’s Willisau concert?

Answer 12

free jazz

Question 13

What is a sorrow song?

Answer 13

a musical composition that spoke of the suffering of enslaved people in the united states. This is a term coined by W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 14

Who sang St. Louis Blues?

Answer 14

Bessie smith

Question 15

who performed “dark was the night”

Answer 15

Blind Willie Johnson

Question 16

what genre is “dark was the night”

Answer 16

blues

Question 17

what are three characteristics of gospel music?

Answer 17

rough vocal timbre, vocal interjections, and improvisation

Question 18

Who sang the version of “Amazing Grace” in the required listenings?

Answer 18

Mahalia Jackson

Question 19

what music area does the walapai funeral song come from?

Answer 19

the Yuman music area of the southwestern united states

Question 20

What are Katadjait songs?

Answer 20

A type of Inuit throat song from canada

Question 21

What is the people group of track 5: Taquara clarinets

Answer 21

the Yawalapiti people of the upper Xingu region of brazil

Question 22

What is Capoeria?

Answer 22

a style of martial art/dance that was developed by escaped enslaved people in the mountains of Brazil.

Question 23

What is event/region is Samba most closely associated with?

Answer 23

Carnival in brazil

Question 24

What is the national instrument of trinidad and tobago?

Answer 24

the steel pan drum

Question 25

Who performed the salsa "las Calaveras"

Answer 25

Elvis Botero

Question 26

How many countries are in the amazon basin?

Answer 26

nine. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, venezuela

Question 27

What is Vallenato?

Answer 27

Vallenato is an accordion-based song and dance form that emerged in the 1930s and 1940s in the mountainous area of Colombia’s Caribbean coast.

Question 28

What is Cumbia?

Answer 28

the Colombian style that became internationally popular in the 1960s and 1970s, jumping on the salsa bandwagon.

Question 29

Who are the Piaora people?

Answer 29

an indigenous people with a population of 15,000, living in Amazonas State, Venezuela.

Question 30

Who are the Kichwa-Otavalenos people?

Answer 30

indigenous people from the Otavalo region of the northern Andes Mountains.

Question 31

what does Pachamama translate to?

Answer 31

mother spacetime

Question 32

What is the Hatun Puncha?

Answer 32

a sun festival celebrated by the Kichwa-Otavalenos people of ecuador, at summer solstice; musician-dancers follow a spiral pattern as they move from house to house.

Question 33

Where did Tango originate?

Answer 33

the poor areas of Buenos Aires in argentina

Question 34

who were the Selk’nam people?

Answer 34

the former inhabitants of the largest island of Tierra del Fuego which is located just south of the Straits of Magellan

Question 35

What social movement inspired bluegrass?

Answer 35

Bluegrass's popularity arose out of a white neo-traditionalist movement in the mid 1900's

Question 36

what are two prominent features of Yuman music

Answer 36

a relaxed and moderately paced vocal quality, and a "rise"

Question 37

what is a "rise" in Yuman music

Answer 37

a rise is a variation on a repeated melodic phrase where one of the repetitions is higher in pitch and contrasting in character