FINAL LISTENING EXAM STUDY GUIDE (Bring a No. 2 pencil)
Music 3500: American Music
The Final Listening Exam is in class on Wednesday December 4 starting at 4pm in Knauss Rm. 2452 - This exam is worth 80 total possible points [8% of your final course grade]
Format: - There will be 20 multiple-choice listening identification examples in four sets of 5 questions (Each example is worth 4 points) - For each example, choose the only the composer or performer of the work from a list of possible answers - This exam is comprehensive (it will cover the entire range of the class)
-Listening Identification examples to study (the dates/categories/work titles are given for reference; you will NOT be asked to identify dates/categories/work titles on this listening exam)
(If a link below does not work, go to YouTube.com and type in the artist/title of the work and find a working link for that piece)
Folk/Country/Tin Pan Alley/Adult Contemporary/Rock/Rap - Woody Guthrie: This Land is Your Land (1940) - Bing Crosby: White Christmas (1942) - Hank Williams, Sr.: "Hey, Good Lookin' " (1951) - Bob Dylan: "Like a Rolling Stone" (1965) - Alice Cooper: "School's Out" (1972) - Patti Smith: "Gloria" (1975) - Kenny Rogers: "The Gambler" (1978) - Barbra Streisand: The Way We Were (1974) - Frank Sinatra: New York, New York (1980) - Afrika Bambataa: "Planet Rock" (1984) - Metallica: "Master of Puppets" (1986) - Derrick May: "Strings of Life" (1987) - Public Enemy: "Fight The Power" (1989) - Josh Grobin: You Raise Me Up (2003)
Blues/R & B/Gospel/Jazz - Louis Armstrong: "Hotter Than That" (1927) - Robert Johnson: "Cross Road Blues" (1936) - Mahalia Jackson: "Move On Up A Little Higher" (1948) - Ray Charles: "I Got a Woman" (1955) - Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960) - James Brown: "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" (1965) - The Village People: "YMCA" (1979) - Whitney Houston: "Saving All My Love For You" (1985) - Kenny G: "Songbird" (1986)
Broadway/Film/Art-Music - Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question (1908) - Henry Cowell: The Banshee (1925) - Oscar Hammerstein/Jerome Kern: "Ol' Man River" from Showboat (1927) - Leonard Bernstein: "Tonight (ensemble)" from West Side Story (1957) - Bernard Hermann: soundtrack to Psycho (1960) - James Rado: "Hair" from Hair (1967) - Stephen Sondheim: "Epiphany" from Sweeney Todd (1979) - Philip Glass: "Floe" from Glassworks (1982) - 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)