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Quiz 6
Final Review
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Music
Undergraduate 1
04/17/2014

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Piano style generally in duple meter, performed at a moderate march tempo, popular from the 1890's to about 1915
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Ragtime
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Folklike, guitar-based style associated with rural white Americans
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Country and Western
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Style that emerged in the early 1950's that was related to bop but calmer and more relaxed in character
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Cool Jazz
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Style that emerged from 1935 to 1945, characterized by arrangements for about 15 musicians
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Swing
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Dance music of African Americans that fused blues, jazz, and gospel styles
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Rhythm and Blues
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Combination of jazz improvisations with rock rhythms and tone colors
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Fusion
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Blend of rhythm and blues with popular music
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Motown
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Style that emerged in the early 1960's that was not based on regular forms or established chord patterns
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Free Jazz
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Style that evolved in the early 1940's, characterized by complex thrythmic patterns, asymmetrical melodic phrases, solo improvisation, and irregular accents
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Bebop
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Form of vocal music usually characterized by a 12-bar chord progression over a steady 4/4 beat
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Blues
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Style developed in the early 1900's, characterized by collective improvisation of solo performers over a clearly marked beat
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New Orleans Style
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Vocal music with a hard, driving beat, often featuring electric guitar accompaniment and heavily amplified sound
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Rock
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Emphasis on emotionality, gospel roots, and its relationship to the black community
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Soul
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The chord progression usually used in the blues involves only three basic chords: tonic, dominant, and what other chord?
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Subdominant
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Early rock grew mainly out of what, a dance music of African Americans that fused blues, jazz, and gospel styles?
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Rhythm and blues
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Frequently repeated short melodic phrases commonly used in swing
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Riffs
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Charlie "Bird" Parker
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Bebop
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Louis Armstrong
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New Orleans style
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Elvis Presley
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1950's Rock
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Ornette Coleman
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Free Jazz
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Donna Summer
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Disco
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Duke Ellington
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Swing
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Ice Cube
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Rap
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Miles Davis
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Cool Jazz
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Aretha Franklin
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Soul
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Benny Goodman
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Swing
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Diana Ross and the Supremes
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Motown
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Scott Joplin
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Ragtime
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Ella Fitzgerald
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Swing
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Stevie Wonder
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Motown
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Bebop
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Glenn Miller
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Swing
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Chuck Berry
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Rhythm and Blues
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Bessie Smith
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Blues
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Ray Charles
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Soul
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Bob Dylan
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Folk Rock
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Lester Young
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Cool Jazz
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W. C. Handy
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Blues
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Joseph "King" Oliver
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New Orleans style
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Thelonious Monk
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Bebop
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