MUS 101 Final Test Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Musical Styles: - ANSWERS-An Age of Musical Diversity
Characteristics of Twentieth-Century Music - ANSWERS-Tone Color
-Harmony
-Alternatives to the Traditional Tonal System
-Rhythm
-Melody
Roots of Jazz - ANSWERS-Ragtime
-Blues...
Musical Styles: 1900-1945 - ANSWERS-An Age of Musical Diversity
Characteristics of Twentieth-Century Music - ANSWERS-Tone Color
-Harmony
-Alternatives to the Traditional Tonal System
-Rhythm
-Melody
Roots of Jazz - ANSWERS-Ragtime
-Blues
Elements of Jazz - ANSWERS-Tone Color
-Improvisation
-Rhythm, Melody, and Harmony
Jazz Styles - ANSWERS-New Orleans Style
-Swing
-Bebop
-Cool Jazz
Neoclassicism - ANSWERS-Marked by emotional restraint, balance, clarity
-Inspired by eighteenth-century music
-Found in many works 1920-1950
, Rhythm section - ANSWERS-Instruments in a jazz ensemble that maintain the beat, add rhythmic
interest, and provide supporting harmonies
-Usually made up of piano, plucked double bass, percussion, and sometimes banjo or guitar
Ragtime - ANSWERS-Dance hall and saloon music
Piano music
-Usually in duple meter at moderate march tempo
-Right hand part highly syncopated
-Left hand "oom-pa" part keeps steady beat
-"King of ragtime" Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
-Ragtime and blues emerged concurrently in the U.S.
-Popular from 1895-1915
-Both black and white musicians
-William Krell was the first to publish a ragtime composition in 1897 entitled "Mississippi rag"
Swing band - ANSWERS-Popular 1935-45 (Swing era)
Written music
Primarily for dancing
-The music of WWII
-Large bands (usually 15-20 players)
Saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and rhythm section
-Melody usually performed by groups of instruments rather than by soloists
-Other instruments accompany with background riffs
-Theme and variations form common
Cool jazz - ANSWERS-Late-1940'sand early 1950's
-More calm, relaxed than Bebop
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