MUCO 120 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026

MUCO 120 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2026 Rhythm - Answers strong regular patterned movement of sound tempo - Answers speed of music meter - Answers division of beat (1234) or (121212) melody - Answers series of notes or pitches pitch - Answers how high or low the note is riff - Answers short musical phrase scales - Answers major, minor major/minor - Answers chords with different sounds used to build songs. minor chords--sad dramatic songs harmony - Answers two or more pitches or notes playing at the same time consonance - Answers harmony where notes go well together dissonance - Answers harmony where notes clash create tension chords - Answers three or more notes played simultaneously dynamics - Answers varying volume levels in a song tone color - Answers quality of the sound (bright, dark) instrumentation - Answers electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and drums (what instruments are used in song) simple verse form - Answers basic pattern. verse,verse, verse (early rock and blues) simple verse chorus - Answers Music is the same as verse (melody and chord progressions don't change) contrasting verse form - Answers music different in verse and chorus (borrowed from country) AABA - Answers borrowed from pop for early rock. Same,same,diff,same. lucinda wiliams - Answers born January 26, 1953; an American rock, folk, blues, and country music singer and songwriter. Known for working slowly, Williams recorded and released only one other album in the next several years (Sweet Old World in 1992) before her greatest success came in 1998 with Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, an album presenting a broader scope of songs that fused rock, blues, country, and Americana into a more distinctive style that still managed to remain consistent and commercial in sound. John Mayer - Answers Born in Conn. Played in Atlanta, but noticed in Texas. His style was similar to Steve Ray Vaughn (guitar riffs), his album Heavier Things reached number one and got him a lot of attention James Taylor - Answers first album was actually on Apple Records (the Beatles' record label) Sweet Baby James was his first BIG album; this album was written when he was going through rehab recovering from a heroin overdose, etc. Known for using a lot of distortions. Stevie Ray Vaughn - Answers influential electric guitarists in blues, helped revamp blues in the 1980's Uncle Tupelo - Answers alternative country band that drew from pop, turned into Wilco Wilco - Answers Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, focused on album as a piece of art, not just singles. Had problems with record label (America's Radiohead) but album got leaked. The song strong places-- The group was one of the only experimental groups that the song can stand on its own outside of the context. Edgar Varese - Answers father of electric sound/noise. Coined the term "organized sound" Outkast - Answers Hiphop culture. They were based out of Atlanta. Their style of music was funk with blues used as a hook. George Clinton was a major influencer. Their Hey Ya Video was similar to a Beatles video but updated. Prince - Answers Created "Minneapolis Sound" which is a mixture of funk, rock, pop, R&B. Has a wide vocal range and flamboyant stage presence. Influenced the music of Outkast Pop, R&B, Country - Answers rock grew out of three main styles Ballad tradition - Answers a song that tells a story, unaccompanied music Fiddle tradition - Answers oldest, southern tradition, Square dancing! blackface minstrel - Answers Musical genre was a mix of country and pop. White people would play fiddles, paint their faces with black paint, and would make racist remarks and jokes throughout their performance. Jim Crow (1840s) was a minstrel character created by Daddy Vice. stephen foster - Answers Famous for both minstrel and non-minstrel songs, such as Oh Susanna. First great composer of American Music (minstrel and ballad writer) string bands - Answers Minstrel oriented. The record companies usually chose the names for these bands. Their music style and name were often based on stereotypes and jokes for hillbillies. Big Bang of country music - Answers Bristol sessions in Bristol, TN in 1927. Ralph Peer was the recording session guy for Victrola Record Company. Important because they discovered two main stars: The Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers Carter Family - Answers First family of country music." A traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians as well as on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s. Jimmie Rogers "father of country music" - Answers "the traveling brakeman"; he came down with TB and died young, thus having a short music career; however, coming down with TB allowed him to quit his job on the railroad to become a singer. He pointed us more toward the hard Rock and Roll. Rogers was from Mississippi, which was a place we associate largely with the Blues. Rogers sang about adventure, hobos, trains, etc. He became known as the father of country music, similar to Elvis becoming known as the king of rock n roll. He yodeled in his music, randomly. Pier discovered him and took him to New York. Because he was a white, southern singer, they marketed him as a hillbilly singer, even though his music very much embodied the Blues genre. Hank Williams - Answers in many minds, he is the beginning of country music, though he is almost a decade and a half after Jimmie Rodgers. He was from Alabama. He had back problems and abused alcohol and drugs. He is believed to die in Knoxville or in West Virginia while on tour. Williams brings us right up to the edge of the birth of Rock and Roll Radio - Answers helped make music become popular tin pan alley pop - Answers Called this because people would be banging pots and pans. Judy Garland was a big artist in this style of music Brill building pop - Answers place in New York that produced pop in the early 1900's, they made most of the popular music during their time (producers did) the Shirelles. Professional songwriters and crooners - Answers A Crooner is a male singer who sings slow romantic soft songs. Bing Crosby. Irving Berlin was a professional songwriter famous for writing songs such as White Christmas, which is one of the songs that has made the most money from royalties African american musical elements - Answers rattle and buzz, improv, call and response, polyrhythms muddy waters - Answers Father of modern Chicago blues (also influenced rock, rock n roll, pop, folk, jazz, and country) country blues - Answers music that grew out of rural areas. Mississippi Delta Blues- popular style of this type of Blues robert johnson - Answers King of the Delta Blues" Largely made famous by other rockers of his time. There were arguably better blues musicians during his time.He had twenty songs and was mentioned in a Lucinda Williams song (sold his soul to the devil so he could play guitar) He was known for call and response with his guitar. The forms of his songs were usually 12 bars with four beats each. His lyrical format was AAB. black string band - Answers The Tennessee Chocolate Drops, Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong Carl Martin - Answers Recorded Records with the Tennessee Chocolate Drops Birth of jazz - Answers Louis Armstrong Classic blues - Answers bessie smith, wc handy wc handy - Answers father of blues patti page - Answers Number one song on the pop charts in 1953: Patti Page's "How Much is that Dog in the Window" jump blues - Answers safe music. louis jordan was signed to a major label in this genre Big Mama Thornton - Answers Number one song on the R&B charts in 1953: Big Mama Thornton's "You Aint Nothing but a Hound Dog" Renegade Disc Jockeys - Answers started playing music on stations that they "shouldn't" have been. This was started late into the night on radios with a primarily white audience. Alan Freed was one DJ that was fired for this (Payola). This is how black music started to become popular to white people because teenagers would be listening to the radio at night and hear these songs played. independent record labels - Answers these are the labels that would sign/record black musicians they are also the ones that helped create the genre of rock and roll because they would sign these artist with this new sound. doo wop - Answers a safer form of black music. There is no instrumental accompaniment. · Name comes from where this music was born (street singers) and they made their own sounds in replacement of instruments. The singers ARE the band. It was a safe entre for white teenagers to