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History of Rock n Roll Final Exam: Questions & Solutions (Well Detailed)
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History of Rock n Roll Final Exam: Questions &Solutions (Well Detailed)
What is the basic Instrumentation for a Rock Quartet? Trio? Right Ans -
guitar, bass, and drums trio.
Define "Stop Timing" (all three points): Right Ans - accompaniment pattern
interrupting/stopping, the normal time and featuring regular accented attacks
on the first beat of each or every other measure, alternating with silence or
instrumental solos.
Define Verse: Right Ans - a section with repeating music and non repeating
lyrics.
Define Refrain: Right Ans - any line or group of lines that repeat several
times in your song lyric.
Define Chorus: Right Ans - part of your song where all of your instruments,
singers or musical elements come together to play and/or sing in unison.
Define Crooning: Right Ans - sing or hum in a soft, soothing voice.
What is "Mersey Beat"? Right Ans - the characteristic pop music of the
Beatles and other groups from Liverpool in the 1960s.
Define Shout Singing: Right Ans - a strongly rhythmic religious song of the
African American folk tradition that is characterized by responsive singing or
shouting between leader and congregation.
Define Field Holler Singing: Right Ans - vocal music sung by enslaved
Africans to accompany their tasked work, to communicate usefully, or to vent
feelings.
Define Scream Singing: Right Ans - low growls and false cords, which can
be beneficial for those who would like to improve their vocal range, especially
in the lower octaves.
,Define Falsetto: Right Ans - a form of singing or speaking by men using an
extremely high voice.
Define Tessitura: Right Ans - general pitch level of a piece of vocal music.
Define Homophonic Harmony: Right Ans - a texture in which a primary
part is supported by one or more additional strands.
Define Polyphonic Harmony: Right Ans - the simultaneous combination of
two or more tones or melodic lines.
Define Dynamics: Right Ans - how loud or how soft the music is performed.
What are the accompanying Italian terms of Dynamics? Right Ans - loud is
Forte (f)
soft is Piano (p)
medium loud (mf)
medium soft (mp)
Define Tempo: Right Ans - a piece of music is the speed of the underlying
beat.
Define Beat: Right Ans - the basic unit of rhythm that divides time into
equal segments.
Define Inner Pulse: Right Ans - the way your mind internalizes the beats of
the music, particularly the smaller, sub-divided parts of beats.
What are the Three Basic Fundamentals of music? Right Ans - Melody,
Rhythm & Harmony.
What is there order of importance in the Three Basic Fundamentals of music?
Right Ans - Rhythm is the long and short values of sounds around a count.
Melody is the long and short values of counts with notes. Harmony is the
sound of 2 or more notes simultaneously.
What are the three Melodic Voices as described in class? Right Ans - Main
Theme Melody: the main tune of a song that the lead singer sings. Bass
, Melody: The lowest sounding instrument, and is most always the Bass
instrument.
Inner Voices: all the background instruments/background singers etc. with
the exception of the Main Theme and the Bass Melodies.
Define Unison: Right Ans - two or more musical parts that sound either the
same pitch or pitches separated by intervals of one or more octaves, usually at
the same time.
Write out the 12 Bar Blues as from the Text Book, and from the class
demonstration. Right Ans -
C///C///C///C///F///F///C///C///G7///F///C///C///
What Rhythm instrument from Rock is frequently used, and is considered a
must for most Rock music? Right Ans -
Define Texture: Right Ans - how thick or thin the music is performed. It is
based on math, the more musicians the thicker the texture. smaller groups to
a single, the thinner the texture.
What is a Pentatonic Scale? Right Ans - contains five pitches per octave.
What is a Diatonic Scale? Right Ans - the set of seven pitches chosen in
Western Tradition organized in ascending order
What is a Chromatic Scale? Right Ans - a musical scale with twelve pitches,
each a semitone above or below its adjacent pitches.
Define Meter: Right Ans - the regularly recurring patterns and accents such
as bars.
Define Syncopation: Right Ans - the accenting of a note which would
usually not be accented.
What, and when are Gospels? Right Ans - in the early 17th century, it was a
composed and performed for many purposes, including aesthetic pleasure,
religious or ceremonial purposes, and as an entertainment product for the
marketplace.
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