This assignment is worth 20 points toward your final grade.
Please complete both parts before submitting the assignment.
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PART I
Fill in the Blank Questions .5 points each (total of 10 points)
PLEASE number your answers (do not re-write the sentence.)
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1. When musicians talk about being “in tune” and “out of tune,” they are talking about ___________.
2.The word “ensemble” comes from the French meaning__________.
3. Examples of ___________ _____________ are New York Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, and those of the New York City Opera and Metropolitan Opera.
4. ___________is a drama set to music for singers and instruments and acted on the stage with sets and costumes.
5. Louis Armstrong was American ________composer and performer. (39)
6. With the advent of portable recording technology in the 1930s, folklorists like ___________ began the task of documenting America’s folk music
7. ___________music spilled into the popular arena with artists like the Kingston Trio; Burl Ives; Peter, Paul & Mary and Bob Dylan.
8. __________________ or creating new music on the spot, is a vital part of almost all jazz traditions.
9. Made popular by jazz musician Louie Armstrong, _____________is vocal improvisations that use nonsense syllables.
10.________________ served as the first American-born music director of the New York Philharmonic.
11. _________________ regarded all sounds, including noise, as legitimate materials for his compositions, so in addition to “normal” musical sounds he employed such untraditional sources as automobile brake drums, thunder sheets, and radios.
12. _____________, a pianist and composer, was one of the few women to forge a long and successful career in the male-dominated world of early jazz and in a segregated America.
13. _________ was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota.
14. Although___________ lyrics are strictly religious in nature, gospel music derives much of its sound from blues and jazz. (42)
15. It is the job of the ______________ to the establish time and place on stage.
16. Stanislavsky would ask actors to practice what he called ________________.
17. _______________ create the entire visual identity of each character through hair, makeup, accessories, and clothing,
18. Some times an actor’s _____________can provide insight into relationships between characters and their psychological or emotional states.
19. A lighting designer may use ______________ to reveal what the audience needs to see and the manner in which they need to see it.
20. Playwright ____________ wrote Waiting for Godot, arguably the most well- known example of absurdist drama.
PART II
Answers to the following may be found in your text and/or on the internet
Each answer is worth one point.
PLEASE NUMBER YOUR ANSWERS 1 to 10.
Choose one musician from the list below and answer the following four questions:
Phillip Glass
Scott Joplin
Thelonious Monk
Pete Seeger
1. NAME, Date and place of birth
2. What is the style of music
3. 2 songs /compositions that they wrote (title & year)
Choose one from the list below and answer the following question:
Chekhov
Alfred Hitchcock
Stephen Sondheim
Andrew Lloyd Webber
4. NAME, Date and place of birth
5. What is their role in the production (i.e writer, director, composer…..)
6. List 2 productions / movies (title and year)
Answer the following:
Selection must be different from your selection in the previous section.
(each answer is worth 2 points)
7. Who is your favorite songwriter and WHY.
(Please include style of music and one song title- along with the year it was written)
8. What is your favorite play or movie and WHY.
(Please include the writer & year written or produced and style i.e drama, musical….)
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