Where is the syncopations found in early jazz thought to be derived from?

a. European music
b. African American banjo music and ragtime
c. Military marching bands
d. Native American music


b. African American banjo music and ragtime

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What musical texture is most often used when a solo performer sings the American national anthem prior to a sporting event?

a. homophony b. polyphony c. heterophony d. monophony

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Which of the following is NOT an aerophone commonly used in Irish music?

A. hornpipe. B. tinwhistle. C. uillean pipes. D. Irish wooden flute.

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What was the typical size of the late nineteenth-century orchestra?

a. 50 musicians b. 75 musicians c. 100 musicians d. 150 musicians e. 347 musicians

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Where did Gauguin see images he called "honest exoticism," images that inspired him to move to Tahiti?

A. At the French World Exhibition of 1889 B. In impressionistic art C. In Mozart's works D. At the German World Fair in 1890

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