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1
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What was the song that we listened to in class from the musical “Showboat”?

A

Old Man River

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Who in invented the electric guitar?

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George Beauchamp, (Adolph Rickenbacker)

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Who sung “Ragtime” Jazz?

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Scott Joplin

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Who sung “Blues”?

A

Bessie Smith

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Who sung Dixieland Jazz?

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Louis Armstrong

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Who created the song “Willie The Weeper”?

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Louis Armstrong

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What type of music features syncopation?

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Ragtime

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What type of music features 12 bar blues progression and improvisation?

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Blues

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What type of music features solos and collective improvisation?

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Dixieland

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Blues is thought to come over from where?

A

slaves

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What is it when all the performers play together and improvise simultaneously?

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collective improvisation

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Who was the greatest of the “BEBOP” and was also a saxophone virtuoso?

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Charlie Parker , sometimes called “Bird”

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Who started “Cool Jazz”, was a trumpet player, and featured jazz improvisation?

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Miles Davis

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What was the first true American musical and when did it come out?

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“Showboat” (1927), ( Broadway musical)

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Who wrote “Showboat”?

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Jerome Kern

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What was the first sound film and when did it come out?

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The Jazz Singer (1927)

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When was the Big Bands and the “Swing” era?

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1930s to WW2 (1945)

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What did George Gershwin write?

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“The Man I Love” (broadway song), “Porgy and Bess”, and “Rhapsody Blue”

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Who wrote the musical “West Side Story”?

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Leonard Bernstein

20
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When was “West Side Story” made and when was the movie of it made?

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Created (1956), Movie in (1959)

21
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What was the musical “West Side Story” based on?

A

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

22
Q

Who created the genre of operettas?

A

Offenbach

23
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The operettas of who became the precursors of Broadway?

A

Gilbert and Sullivan

24
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What are the names of the operettas created by Gilbert and Sullivan?

A

“The Pirate of Penzance”, “HMS Pinafore”, and “The Mikado”

25
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What are the names of the works created by Rodgers and Hammerstein?

A

“Oklahoma”, “South Pacific”, “The Sound of Music”, “The King and I”

26
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What are the names of the works created by Lerner and Loewe?

A

“My Fair Lady”, “Brigadoon”, “Camelot”

27
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What are the names of the works created by Andrew Loyd Webber?

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“Jesus Christ Superstar”, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamboat”, “Cats”, “Phantom of the Opera”

28
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What are the names of the works created by Stephen Sondheim?

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“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum”, “A Little Night Music”, “Into the Woods”, “Sweeney Todd”

29
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Who was the trumpet player that played with Charlie Parker?

A

Dizzy Gillespie

30
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Who are the famous musicians that are in our book but we did not listen to an example in class?

A

Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, and Frank Sinatra

31
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What was sometimes cited as the first true example of “Rock and Roll”?

A

“Johnny B. Goode”- by Chuck Berry

32
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Who copied Chuck Berry and became famous because of segregation?

A

Elvis Presley

33
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What type of instrument did Charlie Parker play?

A

saxophone

34
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What type of instrument was Ravi Shankar a virtuoso of?

A

sitar

35
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Who wrote “My Melancholy Baby”?

A

Charlie Parker

36
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Who wrote “Johnny B. Goode”?

A

Chuck Berry

37
Q

What is the song “Somewhere” from West Side Story about?

A

Tony and Maria want to run away so that they can be together.

38
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Who wrote “The Man I Love”

A

George Gershwin (verse, then chorus)

39
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Who wrote “Mambo” and “Somewhere”?

A

Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story)

40
Q

Who wrote “Lost Yo’ Head Blues”?

A

Bessie Smith

41
Q

Who wrote “Get Together” and when?

A

Young Bloods (1969)

42
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Who wrote “Maple Leaf Rag”?

A

Scott Joplin

43
Q

Who wrote “Boplicity”?

A

Miles Davis

44
Q

Who wrote “Indian Raga”?

A

Ravi Shankar

45
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What was an example of “world” music?

A

“Indian Raga” by Ravi Shankar

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