Explain how the term billing is used in the entertainment industry.
What will be an ideal response?
Billing refers to the size, emphasis, and position of names in print ads, billboards, and screen credits.
In a performance with more than one act, the bigger star receives more prominent billing.
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How are Wagner's Leitmotif ideas developed in musical ways?
a. in similar ways to the themes of a sonata-form movement b. using ritornello principle c. through declamatory recitative d. using pervading heterophony
Thomas Mapfumo?
a. ?became popular when he sang his songs in English. b. ?uses the traditional African feature of no real meter. c. ?uses intricate, mbira-influenced guitar and bass parts. d. ?avoids Euro-American harmony in his music.
Which of the following statements is not true?
A. African American bands in New Orleans often played jazz during funeral processions. B. Most early jazz performers in New Orleans were untrained musicians who played by ear and relied on improvisation. C. The style of Dixieland in Chicago in the 1920s was basically the same as it had been in New Orleans. D. "Scat singing," which Louis Armstrong introduced into jazz, refers to the vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables.
The emergence of bebop coincided with the trend toward
a) dancing to music. b) smaller groups. c) classical orchestration. d) free jazz.