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FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

Music 3500: American Music

This final exam is comprehensive —it covers the entire course

Exam Format: 70 questions (each question is worth 4 points), plus a 20-point essay question (these two things total a maximum of 300 possible points toward your final course grade total).

The topic of the 20-point essay questions is: - What do you think the most important piece of American Music since 1900 is that we studied in class/in the textbook? Why? (This essay needs to be at least three paragraphs long)

The format of the 70-question 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 1-9 (these must be completed by Monday Dec. 8)

Know the definitions of Important Terms at the ends of Chapters 2-8 - Chapter 2 (textbook, pages 17-18) - Chapter 3 (textbook, pages 28-29) - Chapter 4 (textbook, page 39) - Chapter 5 (textbook, page 49) - Chapter 6 (textbook, pages 58-59) - Chapter 7 (textbook, pages 69-70) - Chapter 8 (textbook, page 81) Also, review the chronological order of music technologies at the end of Chapter 9 (textbook, page 83)

Know which decade the following music technologies came from:

1920s: AM radio, electric microphone, 78-RPM records, movies with sound

1930s: Stereo (2-channel) recording and playback : FM radio, 33-RPM stereo LP records, commercial TV, reel-to-reel tape recording

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

1960s: 8-track tapes, cassette tapes

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

1980s: MTV, Internet/World Wide Web

1990s: DVDs, Amazon, Google, eBay

2000s: iPod, iTunes, iPhone, YouTube

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Music Examples to Study: This is a selection of some of the important musical works we have covered this semester. They will be used as the basis for:

- 10 multiple-choice "Listening Identification" questions (identify the name of the musician/composer of each of the 10 examples)

- several sets of questions for matching a person/group to a musical work, or their style category, or to a brief description of them that includes their musical style and time era.

Examples for Roots music

"Delta" Robert Johnson: "Cross Road Blues" (1936)—see lyrics Early "Country & Western" Music Jimmie Rodgers: "Blue Yodel No. 8--Muleskinner Blues" (1930)—see lyrics Traditional Folk Music Woody Guthrie: This Land is Your Land (1940) Mahalia Jackson: Move On Up A Little Higher (1948)

Examples for Popular Music

Ragtime piano music Scott Joplin: The Entertainer (1902) (2 of these are on the listening ID section) -: Hotter Than That (1927)—hot jazz (Dixieland) -: It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing (1931)—big band "swing" -Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie: Koko (1945)—bebop -Dave Brubeck Quartet: Take Five (1959)—cool jazz -Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960)— free jazz -Kenny G: "Songbird" (1986)—smooth jazz

Broadway Musicals (2 of these are on the listening ID section) -Kern and Hammerstein: "Ol' Man River" from Showboat (1927)—see lyrics -: "Tonight (ensemble)" from West Side Story (1957) -James Rado: "Hair" from Hair (1967) -Stephen Sondheim: "Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd (1979)

Tin Pan Alley/Easy Listening/Adult Contemporary -: White Christmas (1942) -: The Way We Were (1974) -The Carpenters: Close To You (1970) -: New York, New York (1980) -Josh Grobin: You Raise Me Up (2003)

Film Music: -Bernard Hermann: soundtrack to Psycho (1960) -John Williams: soundtrack "Theme" from Harry Potter series, films 1-3 (2001-04) -James Horner: "My Heart Will Go On And On" from Titanic (1997)

Country & Western Music -Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys: New San Antonio Rose (1944)--"Western Swing" -Gene Autry: Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1949)

Country Music -Hank Williams, Sr.: Hey, Good Lookin' (1951) -: I Walk The Line (1956) -Merle Haggard: "Okie From Muskogee" (1969) -Kenny Rogers: "The Gambler" (1978) -Garth Brooks: "Friends in Low Places" (1990) Urban Folk Music -: "Blowin' in the Wind" (1962) -Richie Havens: "Handsome Johnny" (1966)

R & B , Soul , , Disco, Techno Music, and Electronic Dance Music (2 of these are on the listening ID section) -: "I Got a Woman" (1955)—'50s -Muddy Waters: "I Got My Mojo Workin'" (1956)—'50s R & B -: "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (1965)—'60s Soul music -Parliament-: "Do That Stuff" (1976)—Funk -The Village People: "YMCA" (1979)—disco -Whitney Houston: "Saving All My Love For You" (1985)—'80s R & B -Derrick May: "Strings of Life" (1987)—Techno -Beyoncé: "Single Ladies [Put a Ring On It]" (2008)—R&B Electronic Dance Music

Rock styles -Bill Haley and His Comets: Rock Around the Clock (1954)— rockabilly -Bob Dylan: "Like a " (1965)—folk-rock -The Beach Boys: "Good Vibrations" (1966)—psychedelic rock -Alice Cooper: "School's Out" (1972)—arena rock -Patti Smith: "Gloria" (1975)—punk rock -The : "Burning Down The House" (1983)—new wave -Metallica: "Master of Puppets" (1981)—heavy metal -Nirvana: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991)—grunge Rap styles (1 of these is on the listening ID section) -Afrika Bambataa: "Planet Rock" (1984)—rap/electro-funk -N.W.A.: "Express Yourself" (1988)—gangsta rap -Public Enemy: "Fight The Power" (1989)—enlightenment rap -Outkast: "Hey Ya!" (2003)—southern hip-hop (Dirty South)

Examples for Classical Art-Music (3 of these are on the listening ID section)

Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question (1908)—experimental symphonic music Henry Cowell: The Banshee (1925)—experimental piano music John Cage: The Perilous Night [from Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano] (1948)—prepared piano Edgard Varese: Poeme electronique (1958)—electronic music/musique concrete Philip Glass: "Floe" from Glassworks (1981)—minimalism Lisa Coons: Songs from the Wasteland (2007)—sound art (musical sculptures designed for music to be played on)