Sound and Music Quiz

When producing War of the Worlds for the radio, Orson Welles wanted to increase the tension by using the names of real towns for his radio play. Why was this a problem?

• Few people knew the names of towns in their regions.

• Radio plays were meant to be realistic and fool audiences.

• Welles did not want to have to create fictional names for the towns.

• It made it more like a news broadcast, so people interpreted it as real.

Which BEST describes the music of Elvis Presley?

• It incorporated many trends of the era.

• It was a style that no one else could replicate.

• It only appealed to a small segment of the public.

• It was a new, original form of music that he invented.

Marisa is interested in the history of rap music. She is working through the music of the 1980s and 1990s to trace its origins. Would any music with a strong beat qualify as rap?

• No, that is one of several qualities that define rap.

• Yes, rap it often defined by a strong, constant beat.

• No, the purpose of rap is to defy musical convention.

• Yes, rap is a broad category that includes anything with rhythm.

True or False: Jazz brought together a lot of cultural and musical influences to create a new genre.

• True

• False

True or False: The fact that all music reflects the era that created it means that it will all sound the same.

• True

• False

Why would a musician choose to use a beatbox over traditional percussion instruments?

• There are very few musicians who play percussion instruments.

• The beatbox can create the sounds of many percussion instruments.

• Percussion instruments were rarely used in recording music before the beatbox.

• Sounds made by a beatbox cannot be created with traditional instruments.

Music depended heavily on strong beats and rapid, slang-filled speech

• Rock and Roll

• Rap Music

• Jazz

• Blues

Which is an example of a sound without rhythm?

• a thunder clap

• rain on a roof

• the beating of a drum

• horse hooves on a road

What defines a capella?

• Making music using nothing other than your voice

• Music depended heavily on strong beats and rapid, slang-filled speech

• A style of music created by African Americans, emerged in the late 1800s

• Music with strong rhythms and beats that vary

Strong, regular, repeated patterns of sound

• Jazz

• Rhythm

• Beatbox

• Percussion