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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...

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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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