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STUDY GUIDES   Unit 1    Unit 2    Unit 3    Listening List You will need to print this page to use for each exam.   The chapter summaries at the end of each chapter in your textbook are very helpful   You also have access to the music inside "Web Links" under "Course Tools" in Blackboard     ABOUT THE UNIT EXAMS   Each exam will include 50 questions -  35 will be multiple choice questions based upon the lecture material and your reading and15 questions will be listening.  On listening questions, you will click on a link, listen to the song, and identify it from the Listening List (link above).  Be sure to print it out before beginning the test! The questions will be randomized from a question set.  In other words, no two students will get the same questions in the same order. There are a few questions that have more than one answer.  For example, if asked which of the songs listed is written by a certain composer, the answer might be both "A" and "C".      UNIT 1 Study Guide     Identify or define     27 Club bebop blues bossa nova cabaret call and response cool jazz free jazz funky jazz hot jazz jazz-rock fusion minstrel shows musical review musical theater (origin or history) New Orleans jazz Porgy and Bess ragtime riff Showboat shuffle strophic swing syncopation Swing Era Tin Pan Alley Vaudeville       People     Louis Armstrong Count Basie Bix Beiderbecke Irving Berlin Leonard Bernstein Buddy Bolden Duke Ellington Stephen Foster Gershwin & Gershwin Bennie Goodman Charles K. Harris Blind Lemon Jefferson Rodgers & Hammerstein Robert Johnson Scott Joplin Jerome Kern Jelly Roll Morton King Oliver Charley Patton Bessie Smith Mamie Smith Miles Davis John Phillip Sousa Muddy Waters Andrew Lloyd Webber         Music     1917 (Original Dixieland Jazz Band) listen After the Ball (Charles K. Harris) listen Alexander's Ragtime Band (Bessie Smith) listen Black Bottom Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton) listen Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman) listen Hellhound on My Trail (Robert Johnson) listen In the Mood (Glen Miller Band) listen KoKo (Charlie Parker) listen Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin) listen Old Folks at Home (Paul Robeson) listen Puttin' on the Ritz (Fred Astaire) listen Rolling Stone (Muddy Waters) listen Singin' the Blues (Bix Beiderbecke)  listen St. Louis Blues (Bessie Smith) listen Summertime (Billie Holliday) listen Swanee (Al Jolsen) listen Take Five (Dave Brubeck) listen Tonight (from West Side Story) listen Under My Skin (Frank Sinatra) listen Watermelon Man (Herbie Hancock) listen West End Blues (Louis Armstrong) listen       UNIT 2 Study Guide     Identify or define   Acuff-Rose Bluegrass BMI border radio stations breakdown "cry in the voice" Decca records Grande Ole Opry hillbilly Honky-Tonk The Nashville sound Newgrass Outlaw Country Sons of the Pioneers Texas Playboys Western Swing yodel     Identify by sight:   autoharp banjo Dobro fiddle guitar mandolin string bass   People   Roy Acuff Eddie Arnold Chet Atkins Gene Autry Garth Brooks Fiddlin' John Carson The Carter Family Patsy Cline Floyd Cramer Vernon Dalhart Lefty Frizzell Merle Haggard Waylon Jennings Patsy Montana Bill Monroe Willie Nelson Buck Owens Ralph Peer Jimmie Rodgers Roy Rogers Fred Rose Earl Scruggs Ernest Tubb Jerry Jeff Walker Kitty Wells Hank Williams Bob Wills   Music   Orange Blossom Special (Bill Monroe)  listen Country Gentleman (Chet Atkins)  listen Earl’s Breakdown (Earl Scruggs)  listen Faded Love (Patsy Cline)  listen Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Flatt and Scruggs)  listen Friends in Low Places (Garth Brooks)  listen I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart (Patsy Montana)  listen Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane (Fiddlin’ John Carson)  listen Lovesick Blues (Hank Williams)  listen New San Antonio Rose (Bob Wills)  listen Ode to a Butterfly (Nickel Creek)  listen Silver Haired Daddy of Mine (Gene Autry)  listen Soldier’s Joy (Gid Tanner and his Skiller Lickers)  listen Tennessee Waltz (Percy King)  listen There’s Your Trouble (Dixie Chicks)  listen Tumbling Tumbleweeds (Sons of the Pioneers)  listen Wabash Cannonball (Roy Acuff)  listen Waiting for a Train (Jimmy Rodgers)  listen Walking the Floor Over You (Ernest Tubb)  listen Wildwood Flower (Carter Family)  listen         UNIT 3 Study Guide   Note:  Be sure and read the chapters about rock music from the 80's to the present as there is no lecture page associated with these chapters.  Also, be sure to follow all links on the lecture pages as some of the test material will be there as well.  Otherwise, use your study guide below and review the chapter summaries.     Identify or define     the 27 Club Beatlemania British Invasion cover "the day the music died" Doo-wop gospel Haight-Ashbury Motown multiphonics payola Psychedelic rock rockabilly skiffle soul Stax Records teen idol the Twist "wall of sound" Woodstock   People     The Beach Boys Beatles Chuck Berry Pat Boone Big Brother and the Holding Company James Brown Ray Charles Dick Clark Fats Domino Lonnie Donegan The Doors Thomas A. Dorsey Bob Dylan Aretha Franklin Alan Freed The Grateful Dead Bill Haley Jefferson Airplane Jimi Hendrix Buddy Holley Janis Joplin Jerry Lee Lewis Little Richard Carl Perkins Sam Phillips Elvis Presley Rolling Stones Grace Slick Phil Spector The Supremes The Temptations Stevie Wonder   Music     Ball & Chain (Janis Joplin)  listen Billie Jean (Michael Jackson)  listen Blowing in the Wind (Peter, Paul & Mary)  listen Born to Be Wild (Steppenwolf)  listen California Girls (Beach Boys)  listen Disco Inferno (The Trammps)  listen Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley)  listen I Got You (James Brown)  listen I Want to Hold Your Hand (Beatles)  listen Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)  listen Like a Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)  listen Master of the Puppets (Metallica)  listen Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)  listen Rock Around the Clock (Bill Haley and the Comets)  listen Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)  listen Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)  listen Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)  listen U Can’t Touch This (MC Hammer)  listen Where Did Our Love Go (Diana Ross & the Supremes)  listen White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)  listen       Syllabus    Links    Created and maintained by Vicky V. Johnson