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1. Question 10.5 Points_______________early Sun and RCA recordings are considered by many critics to be the pioneering sounds of rock and roll.Jimi Hendrix’sJames Brown’sElvis Presley’sBuddy Holly’s
2. Question 20.5 Points_______________was a pioneer of instrumental music which portrays a story or scene, such as his programmatic work The Four Seasons.VivaldiHandelBachPurcell
3. Question 30.5 PointsMusician Ravi Shankar is a master of the _______________.veenasarodsitartabla
4. Question 40.5 PointsThe route of his/her burial procession in Milan was said to have been lined by as many as 200,000 people.Antonio VivaldiClara SchumannGiuseppe VerdiGiacomo Puccini
5. Question 50.5 PointsCompositions such as An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue established _______________________ as a leading figure in the symphonic jazz movement.Dizzy GillespieDuke EllingtonGeorge GershwinAaron Copland
6. Question 60.5 PointsIn 1965, at the Newport Festival the term “folk rock” was created to describe the performance by _________________ .Bob DylanDonovanCrosby Stills Nash and YoungPhil Ochs
7. Question 70.5 Points_________________ regarded all sounds, including noise, as legitimate materials for his compositions.Robert RauschenbergJohn CagePhillip GlassSteve Reich
8. Question 80.5 PointsDuke Ellington is credited with composing approximately __________ songs.1000200040006000
9. Question 90.5 PointsArmstrong’s vocal improvisations using nonsense syllables is known as _________________.scattingmusical texturechantingrapping
10. Question 100.5 PointsThe operas Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro were both written by ________________.HandelMozartBachHaydn
11. Question 110.5 PointsLaurie Anderson is best described as ______________________.a performance artista dancera folk singera classical pianist
12. Question 120.5 PointsAt the premiere of his Ninth Symphony in 1824 ________________ was completely deaf.BachBelliniBeethovenBizet
13. Question 130.5 PointsBorn in Mississippi, _________________ is the most influential bluesman of the 20th C.B.B. KingMiles DavisJimi HendrixJohn Coltrane
14. Question 140.5 PointsIn 1828 Clara Wieck Schumann made her public debut as a pianist at the age of ______.nineeleventhirteensixteen
15. Question 150.5 Points____________________ died just a week after his final performance at Birdland, a club named in his honor.Miles DavisThelonious MonkCharlie ParkerLouis Armstrong
16. Question 160.5 PointsIn the 1920’s __________________was known as the “Empress of the Blues”.Peggy LeeRosemary ClooneyDinah WashingtonBessie Smith
17. Question 170.5 PointsPete Seeger was part of the folk ensemble the _______________.Kingston TrioWeaversRooftop SingersHighwaymen
18. Question 180.5 PointsMiles Davis is primarily associated with what kind of music?ClassicalJazzFolkRock and Roll
19. Question 190.5 PointsBetween 1915 and 1923, __________________ stopped composing, devoting himself to the formulation of his twelve-tone theory of composition.Robert SchumannGiacomo PucciniAstor PiazzollaArnold Schoenberg
20. Question 200.5 PointsOne section of Fantasia, the pioneering 1940 animated film from the Disney Studios, is based on the score of The Rite of Spring by _______________.BizetStravinskySchubertRachmaninoff

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