Music 1520
Final Exam Study Guide
(for the Mon/Wed 6pm on-campus course only)
Note: This is not a review sheet—it is a study guide that tells you
what to focus on for your advance preparation for the final exam
Be sure you have completed the E-Workbook
assignments for Chapters 1-9
(you will not see the link to
the final exam unless all your other work is done and submitted for grading).
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1.
The final exam must be completed in its eLearning quiz assessment by Monday,
April 20.
- It
will be available in eLearning
(under Assessments>Quizzes)
from Monday April 13 (8am Eastern
U.S. Time) through Monday April 20 (11:59pm
Eastern U.S. Time)
2. This final exam is openbook, but it is strictly timed (you have 2
hours to complete it)
- You can use the online textbook chapters, class notes, etc., but do not use Wikipedia/internet sources, and do not work with other people during
the exam. You will not have time to look up all the answers during this
exam, so you need to prepare the material below in advance.
3. You get only one (1) attempt at this
exam (no resets for any reason, no redos to raise
your grade)
4. eLearning does not an cannot lose or change your
answers—"losing your power" or "losing your internet
connection" while taking this exam does not do anything to the questions
you answered.
5. eLearning keeps a permanent non-destructible record
of everything you do: every time you log in, where you logged in from, what
time you logged in, how long you spent, what you worked on, what you answered,
etc.
6. I will not begin calculating grades until the end of final
exam week, so I cannot tell you anything about your grade until final
course grades are posted on Monday, April 27:
7. Do not
contact me asking me to raise your grade or give you additional extra credit
- I do not negotiate grades with students for any reason
- Your final course
grades will be based solely on the number of total points you accumulate
as compared to the grade cutoffs in the syllabus (there is no curve or rounding
up)
Distribution
of Final Course Grades:
A =940-1000 points
BA
= 890-939 points
B = 840-889 points
CB
= 790-839 points
C = 740-789 points
DC
= 690-739 points
D = 600-689 points
E = 599 or below (59.9% or lower)
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This Final Exam is COMPREHENSIVE (it
covers Chapter 1-9 and all video shown in class and posted on eLearning).
The
final exam is worth 360 possible points (72 questions--each correct answer is worth 5 points)
- 8 sets of "matching" questions
(5 questions in each set)
- 32 "Multiple choice" or
"True/False questions
Each student will be given a random selection of questions based on the
material specified below—no two students will get the same exact exam.
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Here are the items you should study:
I. Be able to match any
artist/group/person/place listed below to the style they impacted:
-
'50s Rockabilly
- '50s Doo-Wop
- '60s Folk-Rock
- '60s Soul
- '60s Psychedelic Rock
- Late-'60s punk predecessor
- '60s orchestral "art rock"
- '70s Corporate Rock
- '70 arena rock
- '70s rock theatre
- Punk
- Hardcore
- Grunge
- Disco
- Rap/Hip-hop
- James
Brown, Aretha Franklin,
- Big Brother & The Holding Co., Cream, Jimi Hendrix
- Dion & and The Belmonts
- The Byrds, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan
- Carl Perkins, Sam Phillips
- The Velvet Underground (Lou Reed)
- The Moody Blues
- David Bowie, Alice Cooper
- Elton John
- KISS
- X (also know who their famous producer was)
- The Patti Smith Group, The Sex Pistols (also know who their manager was)
- Nirvana, Pearl Jam
- The Village People; The Bee Gees
- Run-D.M.C., Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Public Enemy
- CBGB
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II. Know the original artist/band who made
each song famous:
-
"I Just Wanna Make Love To You"
- "Rock Around the Clock":
- "Surfin' USA"
- "Can't Buy Me Love"
- "Sunshine of Your Love"
- "Psycho Killer"
- "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline"
- "Get up, Stand Up"
- "Every Breath You Take"
- "Whip It"
- "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"
- "Sweet Dreams Are Made of
This"
- "Justify My Love"
- "Born In the USA"
- "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
- "Walk This Way" (know who collaborated on this famous song)
- "Fight The Power"
- "The Message"
- "School's Out"
- "Bohemian Rhapsody"
- "Fixin'-To-Die-Rag"
- "Piece of My Heart"
- "Paranoid"
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III.
Be able to match each of these to their description:
- Malcolm McLaren
- Alan Freed
- Dick Clark
- Sir George Martin
- Les Paul
- Ruth Brown
- Bob Marley
- George Clinton
- Bill Graham
- Ray Manzurek
- Ahmet Ertegun
- Berry Gordy, Jr.
- Tina Turner (know what her real name is)
- Alice Cooper (know what his real name is)
- Monterey Pop Festival
- Isle of Wight
- Altamont
- Woodstock
- Haight-Ashbury
- The Ramones
- The New York Dolls (know who their manager was)
- Johnny Rotten (know his real name and who his manager was)
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IV. Be
able to match each of these to their band (or to another member of that band):
- Grace Slick
- Janis Joplin
- Eric Clapton
- Jimmy Page
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Anna Mae Bullock
- Chuck D
- Joseph Saddler
- Kurt Cobain
- Boy George
- Darryl McDaniels
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V. Other things to know:
People associated with Atlantic Records:
- Ahmet Ertegun, Aretha,
Franklin, Ray Charles, Leiber & Stoller (songwriters)
People associated with Motown Records:
- Berry Gordy Jr., Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, The Jackson 5, Stevie Wonder,
Marvin Gaye
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Best-selling musical artist from 1955-1984 was Elvis Presley
- Best-selling of just the 1970s was Stevie Wonder
- Best-selling of just the 1980s was Michael Jackson
Important
Rock deaths (know how each dies and in what year)
- Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison
- John Lennon
- Marvin Gaye
Know what
year the Kent State University shootings occurred
Richard Hell (with the band
"Television")-- known for his torn "T-shirt" style
Punk, Disco,
Reggae, Rap all started in the 1970s
Punk began in
New York City at CBGB
Rock-music benefit concerts of the 80s
- Band Aid, Live Aid (Bob Geldof)
- USA For Africa ("We Are The
World"-by Michael Jackson/Lionel Ritchie; Quincy Jones, producer)
- Led Zeppelin [Jimmy Page] ("Stairway
to Heaven"--most requested song in rock radio history)
- Know that
Jim Morrison was heavily influenced by beat poetry (Ginsberg, etc.
- In 1967,
"acid rock" rose on the charts because of underground FM radio (wasn't played on AM
radio—pop stations)