STORY OF MUSIC 5B

Who is credited with the invention of recorded sound in 1877?

• Sergei Diaghilev

• Edouard Leon Scott D'Amato V

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

• Thomas Edison

What was the first-ever recording made on?

• Gramophone

• Phone autograph

• Cassette tape

• Vinyl record

Which musician made a sensation in the USA conducting his own compositions and provided early evidence of the melodic style of the blues?

• Scott Joplin

• John Philip Sousa

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

• Jelly Roll Morton

What was the form of religious song developed by African American slaves and their descendants?

• Spiritual

• Ragtime

• Jazz

• Blues

Which composer created a new soundscape for the piano by allowing the cords to hang over each other and overlapping?

• John Philip Sousa

• Claude Debussy

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

• Igor Stravinsky

What was the high-water mark of musical modernism in 1913?

• The Firebird

• The Rite of Spring

• Petrushka

• The Ballad of John Henry

Which composer wanted to tell his ballet stories through a montage of aural jigsaw?

• Igor Stravinsky

• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

• Claude Debussy

• John Philip Sousa

What was the form of piano and band playing that originated in the storyville district of New Orleans?

• Cakewalk

• Ragtime

• Jazz

• Blues

What did the Fisk Jubilee singers sing during their fundraising tours?

• Jazz

• Blues

• Ragtime

• Negro spirituals

What was the technique used in ragtime music that involved playful jumping ahead of the tune?

• Octatonic scale

• Harmonics

• Syncopation

• Polyrhythm