EXAM 2 STUDY GUIDE

Music 3500: Rock & Roll

50 questions--each question is worth 4 points  (for a maximum of 200 possible points toward your final course grade total).

The format of the test will be:
...Matching
...Multiple Choice
...True/False (from text readings, class lectures, YouTube video links) 

General study recommendations:
- Do the online quiz assignments for Chapters 4, 5 and 6

Know the definitions of Important Terms for
- Chapter 4 (textbook, page 39)
- Chapter 5 (textbook, page 49)
- Chapter 6 (textbook, pages 58-59)

Be able to match a person to their musical style, or a brief description of them that includes their musical style:
- Gospel Music: Mahalia Jackson
- Country Music: Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers
- Broadway: Stephen Sondheim
- Tin Pan Alley: Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand
- Urban Folk Music: The Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan, Ritchie Havens
- Early Rock & Roll: Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley
- Psychedelic Rock: Jimi Hendrix, The Doors
- Heavy Metal: Aerosmith
- Arena Rock: Alice Cooper, KISS
- Cool Jazz: Dave Brubeck
- Free Jazz: Ornette Coleman
- Jazz Fusion: Miles Davis
- '50s R & B: Muddy Waters
- Soul Music: Ray Charles, Aretha Frankin, James Brown
- Disco: The Village People, Donna Summer
- Experimental Art-Music: Edgard Varese, Milton Babbitt, George Crumb, Steve Reich

 

Know which decade the following music technologies came from:

1950s: electric guitar invented, 45-RPM singles,

1960s: cassette tapes, 8-track tapes,

1970s: Apple personal computer, MIDI, Compact disc, 12-inch single

Know the dates of these major US events:

1954: Brown v. Board of Education (US Supreme Court rules that segregation is unconstitutional)

1963: President John Kennedy assassinated

1968: Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert Kennedy were assassinated

1969: Woodstock Music & Art Festival

1969: Neil Armstrong steps foot on the moon

1973: President Nixon resigns from office over the Watergate scandal

 

Know the following:
- The 50s: 50 million "baby boomers" were born in the 1950s, and Alaska and Hawaii were added to the union.
- The 60s: (True) Twice as many US soldiers were killed in Vietnam in just 1968, than have been killed in the entire recent wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq combined.
- The 70s: The US inflation rate hit 14%, and gas prices went over $3 for the first time.

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Music Examples to Study: These will be used as the basis for
- Five multiple-choice "Listening Identification" questions, and
- A set of questions for matching a person to a musical work

Examples for Roots music

Gospel Music
Mahalia Jackson: Move On Up A Little Higher (1948)

Examples for Popular Music 1950-79

Tin Pan Alley/Easy Listening
-Frank Sinatra: I Get a Kick Out of You (1954)
-Barbra Streisand: People (1964)
-The Carpenters: Close To You (1970)

Film Music:
-Bernard Hermann: Soundtrack to Psycho (1960)
-John Williams: "Theme" from Jaws (1975)

 

Jazz:
-Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five (1959)—cool Jazz
-Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960)— free jazz
-Miles Davis: "Bitches' Brew" (1970)—jazz fusion

 

Urban Folk Music
-Bob Dylan: "Blowin' in the Wind" (1962)
-Richie Havens: "Handsome Johnny" (1966)

R & B , Soul , Funk and Disco Music
-Muddy Waters: I Got My Mojo Workin' (1956)—'50s R & B
-James Brown: "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (1965)—Soul music
-Parliament-Funkadelic: "Do That Stuff" (1976)—Funk
-The Village People: "YMCA" (1979)—disco

Rock styles
-Bill Haley and His Comets: Rock Around the Clock (1954)—rockabilly
-The Byrds: "Turn, Turn, Turn" (1965)—folk-rock
-The Beach Boys: "Good Vibrations" (1966)—psychedelic rock
-Eagles: "Hotel California" (1976)—'70s pop-rock
-KISS: "Rock and Roll All Nite" (1978)—arena Rock
-Patti Smith: "Gloria" (1975)—punk rock

Country Music
-Hank Williams, Sr. : Hey, Good Lookin' (1951)
-Merle Haggard: "Okie From Muskogee" (1969)
-Kenny Rogers: "The Gambler" (1978)

 

Broadway Musicals
-Leonard Bernstein: "Tonight (ensemble)" from West Side Story (1957)
-James Rado: "Hair" from Hair (1967)
-Stephen Sondheim: "Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd (1979)

 

Examples for Classical Art-Music Music 1950-79

-Edgard Varese: Poeme electronique (1958)—electronic music

-Milton Babbitt: Ensembles for Synthesizer (1961)—Multi-serialism

-George Crumb: Black Angels [start at 10:50] (1970)—Electrified String Quartet

-Steve Reich: Violin Phase (1979)—Minimalism