Study Guide

Question 1

Deep Purple

Answer 1

“Concerto for Group and Orchestra” - Art Rock

Question 2

Frank Zappa

Answer 2

“It can’t happen Here” Freak out (1966) - Art Rock

Question 3

The Who

Answer 3

“My Generation”-Art Rock

“Pinball Wizard” - Art Rock

Question 4

Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

Answer 4

“Karn Evil 9”, First Impression Part 2- Art Rock

Brain Salad Surgery (1973)

Question 5

Eric Clapton

Answer 5

461 Ocean Boulevard (1974)

“Layla”- Mainstream Rock

Question 6

Bruce Springsteen

Answer 6

“Dancing in the Dark” Born in the USA (1984) - Mainstream Rock
Born To Run
Greetings from Asbury Park

Question 7

Pink Floyd

Answer 7

The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
The Wall (1979)
“Us an Them” The dark side of the moon - Progressive Rock

Question 8

King Crimson

Answer 8

“Fripper Tronics” Larks: Tongues in Aspic (1973)- Progressive Rock

Question 9

Miles Davis

Answer 9

N

Question 10

Joni Mitchell

Answer 10

“Help Me” Court & Spark (1974) - Progressive Rock

Album w/ Weather Report was Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter

Question 11

Jim Croce

Answer 11

“operator” You don’t mess around with Jim - Progressive Rock

Question 12

Billy Joel

Answer 12

“The Longest Time” Innocent Man - Progressive Rock

Question 13

The Band

Answer 13

“The Weight” Music from Big Pink- Progressive Country

Question 14

Phish

Answer 14

“Fee” Lawn Boy - Jam Band

Question 15

Neil Diamond

Answer 15

“Cracklin Rosie” Top Root Manuscript - Soft Rock

Question 16

Led Zeppelin

Answer 16

“Whole Lotta Love” Led Zeppelin II
“Stairway to Heaven” Led Zeppelin IV
“No Quarter” Houses of the Holy
BRITISH HEAVY METAL BAND

Question 17

Guns N’ Roses

Answer 17

“Reckless Life”
“Move to the City” Live Like a Suicide
Appetite For Destruction
American Heavy Metal

Question 18

Metallica

Answer 18

“Doom & Gloom” Heavy Metal

“Dyers Eve” And Justice For All

Question 19

David Bowie

Answer 19

“Suffragette City” Glitter/Glam Rock

Question 20

The Sex Pistols

Answer 20

“Anarchy in the U.K.” Punk

Question 21

Frank Zappa - What era of Western art music influenced his style and what musical styles influenced his music.

Answer 21

Influenced by R&B and Contemporary Classical
Classical Period (1750-1825)

Question 22

Eric Clapton - what musical styles influenced his music.

Answer 22

Blues Based style

Question 23

Know the six typical approaches to combining classical (or Western art music) elements and rock elements.

Answer 23

• Quote classical excerpt within a rock song
• Use a classical melody as the basis of a rock song
• Rock suite or song cycle
• Adapt a full classical work to a rock-style performance
• Create a work for rock group & classical ensemble
• Using rock musical language, create an extended work modeled after a classical form

Question 24

Most art rock bands began as blues-based rock bands in what country in the 1960s and 1970s?

Answer 24

England

Question 25

Why is Frank Zappa thought of as an “iconoclast”?

Answer 25

His album Freak Out! showed that he fully understood his style.

Question 26

Why was the early 1970s music market so fragmented?

Answer 26

Society fragmented into hundreds of self-interest groups.

Question 27

What was the longest-running chart album in history? Who was the group or artist?

Answer 27

n

Question 28

Led Zeppelin – members and their roles in the group?

Answer 28

Jimmy Page= Guitarist Robert Plant= Lead vocals And harmonica John Bonham= Drums John Paul Jones= Bass and keyboards

Question 29

Which member was part of another famous group? Why did the group disband?

Answer 29

Jimmy page formed a band | Struck to Plant and Bonham died

Question 30

Ozzy Osbourne (his band)

Answer 30

Black Sabbath

Question 31

Style characteristics of early songs of Guns N’ Roses

Answer 31

Heavy metal, hard rock mainstream,

Question 32

Rage Against the Machine (affiliated genre)

Answer 32

Rap subgenre

Question 33

Megadeth (Who formed the group? When?)

Answer 33

Metallicas guitarist Dave Mustaine in 1985

Question 34

The Velvet Underground (Why were they important?)

Answer 34

They were not in any stream. Trained by Lou reed and John Cale

Question 35

Shuffle is

Answer 35

A rhythm derived from the shuffle dance step.

Question 36

Progressive Rock

Answer 36

A term that replaced art rock and refers to the 1970s extension of the late 1960s art rock trend

Question 37

Frippertronics

Answer 37

N

Question 38

Fusion is

Answer 38

N

Question 39

Reggae- Musical style characteristics

Answer 39

1) Dry Stacato ( Seperation between notes, gentle beat) 2) Moderate Tempo 3) Jamaican Dialect

Question 40

Jam- Musical style characteristics

Answer 40

N

Question 41

Nu Metal is

Answer 41

A subgenre of rap, combining the musical elements of heavy metal with the spoken vocal delivery style of rap.

Question 42

Glam/Glitter Rock and David Bowie

Answer 42

Alternative rock that portrayed androgynous characteristics. Bowie was bisexual and he was a rock star in a role.

Question 43

Ziggy Stardust

Answer 43

Bowie created this character and it showed that bowie could switch musical gears.

Question 44

Punk – musical style characteristics are

Answer 44

Simple, repetitive and louder | - Gross lyrics and shocking images cultivated

Question 45

First major British punk group?

Answer 45

Sex Pistols

Question 46

Roots of the American punk mini-movement (bands)?

Answer 46

The Velvet Underground and MC5

Question 47

Grunge – musical style characteristics.

Answer 47

artistic freedom, Dissonant and tolerant lyrics

Question 48

Grunge foundational band?

Answer 48

The Pixies

Question 49

Record label that signed Nirvana first?

Answer 49

Sub Pop