What common blues techniques do “Poor Boy Blues,” “She Got Me Walkin’,” “Kokomo” and “From Dark till Dawn” share?

What will be an ideal response?


• Same 12-bar stanza structure
• Blue notes prominent in all the examples
• Polyrhythms between singer and accompanying instruments
• Syncopations
• Driving, rhythmic beat
• Emotional, truthful lyrics
• Simple, predictable chord progressions typically used in blues (I or I b7, IV or IV b7, V or V7) except for "I Need $100" which uses a one-string, non-chord instrument, the diddly bow

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A. Make no changes. B. Add a flat to the fifth of the triad. C. Add a flat to the third and fifth of the triad. D. Add a flat to the third of the triad. E. Add a sharp to the fifth of the triad.

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Identify the Baroque term describing an agitated war-like music that sought to recreate a style described by Plato in his Republic

A) stile rappresentativo B) stile concertato C) stile concitato D) stile recitative

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The Theater complex of Pompey (7.7) was unlike its Greek forebears due to the use of _________

a. marble b. concrete c. tufa d. wood

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Christian holiness is the only acceptable goal and result where perfection is concerned.

a. true b. false

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