Guidelines for the midterm exam -
Music 109 - Fall 2001
Part One - Listening Identification.
In the first part of the exam you will need to be familiar with the selections
1-26 on collection
one, and selections 1-9, 13, 16, 21, 23, 24, and 26 on collection
two. Know the following information for each of the selections:
- title
- main performer(s)
- composer
- style and genre
- date
- identifying instrumentation
The listening section of the test will be multiple choice.
Part Two -Terms/Concepts/Names
- conventional views of the differences between popular, folk, and high
culture
- mainstrem
- Marshall McLuhan
- Theodore Adorno
- Walter Benjamin
- crossover
- music industry versus the recording industry
- Irving Berlin
- song pluggers
- Edison Speaking Phonograph Company
- Emile Berliner
- Tin Pan Alley
- Jerome Kern
- George Gershwin
- vaudeville years
- brass bands
- graphophone
- listening tubes
- John Philip Sousa
- Columbia Phonograph Co.
- role of the piano in music promotion
- Emile Berliner
- A & R man
- The Cleg Club
- James Reese Europe
- call and response style
- flatted thirds and sevenths
- blue notes
- twelve-bar blues
- ASCAP
- BMI
- Heinrich Hertz
- American Marconi
- Okeh Records
- banjo (history)
- minstrel music (shows)
- W.C. Handy
- Ma Rainey
- boogie-woogie
- Bessie Smith
- vaudeville blues (names of representative artists)
- downhome blues (names of representative artists)
- Ralph Peer
- hillbilly music
- the singing brakeman
- the singing cowboy
- Cotton Club
- Grand Ole Opry
- David Sarnoff
- Wurlitzer, Rockola, Seburg
- John Hammond
- blanket license
- radio resistence to canned music
- rhythmic feature that determines swing
- multicultural influences in country music
- "talkies"
- jukebox
- "race" music
- Bluebird
- OKeh records
- Gennet
- Lindy Hop
- radio as a live performance medium
- Big Bands (names of representative leaders)
- sweet swing
- hot swing
- Hank Williams
- rhythm and blues
- Louis Jordan
- jump band jazz
- cover
- King records
- Chess Records
- Ahmet Ertegun
- Frank Sinatra
- Joe Turner
- Ruth Brown
- transistor radio (date of appearance, significance)
- Alan Freed
- connotations of rock 'n' roll
- mojo
- Your Hit Parade
- important early rock cities
- Cosimo Matassa
- Fats DOmino
- Dave Bartholomew
- Ace Records
- Johnny Otis
- Ritchie Valens
- Bo Diddley
- Rock 'n' Roll Cities
- representative gospel artists
- Doo Wop
- Italian doo wop groups
- rockabilly
- Sam Phillips
- Sun Records
- Lieber and Stoller
- Carl Perkins
- Buddy Holly
- Roy Orbison
- payola
- building
- Pat Boone
- "schlock " rock
- rock and roll contrasted with Eisenhower
- Dick Clark
- Mitch Miller
- calypso as rock alternative
- Surf music
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- Congo Square
- Charleston
- Cakewalk
- Foxtrot
- Lindy Hop
- payola
- copyright priviledges (exemptions)
- Buck Owens
- rock influence on country music
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Guidelines for the midterm exam -
Music 109 - Fall 2000
Part One - Listening Identification.
In the first part of the exam you will need to be familiar with the selections
1-26 on collection
one, and selections 1-9, 13, 16, 21, 23, 24, and 26 on collection
two. Know the following information for each of the selections:
- title
- main performer(s)
- composer
- style and genre
- date
- identifying instrumentation
The listening section of the test will be multiple choice.
Part Two -Terms/Concepts/Names
- conventional views of the differences between popular, folk, and high
culture
- crossover
- music industry versus the recording industry
- Irving Berlin
- song pluggers
- Edison Speaking Phonograph Company
- Emile Berliner
- Tin Pan Alley
- Jerome Kern
- George Gershwin
- vaudeville years
- brass bands
- graphophone
- listening tubes
- John Philip Sousa
- Columbia Phonograph Co.
- role of the piano in music promotion
- Emile Berliner
- A & R man
- The Cleg Club
- James Reese Europe
- call and response style
- flatted thirds and sevenths
- blue notes
- twelve-bar blues
- ASCAP
- BMI
- Heinrich Hertz
- American Marconi
- Okeh Records
- banjo (history)
- boogie-woogie
- Bessie Smith
- vaudeville blues (names of representative artists)
- downhome blues (names of representative artists)
- Ralph Peer
- hillbilly music
- the singing brakeman
- the singing cowboy
- Cotton Club
- Grand Ole Opry
- David Sarnoff
- Wurlitzer, Rockola, Seburg
- John Hammond
- blanket license
- radio resistence to canned music
- rhythmic feature that determines swing
- multicultural influences in country music
- "talkies"
- jukebox
- "race" music
- Bluebird
- OKeh records
- Gennet
- radio as a live performance medium
- Big Bands (names of representative leaders)
- sweet swing
- hot swing
- Hank Williams
- rhythm and blues
- Louis Jordan
- cover
- King records
- Chess Records
- Ahmet Ertegun
- Frank Sinatra
- Joe Turner
- Ruth Brown
- transistor radio (date of appearance, significance)
- Alan Freed
- connotations of rock 'n' roll
- mojo
- Your Hit Parade
- important early rock cities
- Cosimo Matassa
- Fats DOmino
- Dave Bartholomew
- Ace Records
- Johnny Otis
- Ritchie Valens
- Bo Diddley
- Rock 'n' Roll Cities
- representative gospel artists
- Doo Wop
- Italian doo wop groups
- rockabilly
- Sam Phillips
- Sun Records
- Lieber and Stoller
- Carl Perkins
- Buddy Holly
- Roy Orbison
- payola
- building
- Pat Boone
- "schlock " rock
- rock and roll contrasted with Eisenhower
- Dick Clark
- Mitch Miller
- calypso as rock alternative
- Surf music