Summertime is a lively song that suggests the excitement of summer. |
False |
Who wrote the lyrics for West Side Story? |
Stephen Sondheim |
Which of the following musicals was written and produced by the Disney studios? |
The Lion King |
Victor Herbert revamped the operetta to American tastes with works like: |
Babes in Toyland |
The plot of Porgy and Bess takes place in Chicago. |
False |
Of the following, which does NOT describe Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess? |
The music combines jazz with the modern techniques of Schoenberg. |
Bernstein’s West Side Story deals with rival youth gangs in Los Angeles. |
False |
Which of the following was NOT a composer of American musicals? |
Jacques Offenbach |
The form of Gershwin’s Summertime is: |
strophic |
Which of the following is NOT true of Bernstein’s West Side Story? |
It has a happy ending. |
Leonard Bernstein has written both popular and art music. |
True |
Which of the following musicals was NOT a collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein? |
Phantom of the Opera |
What are the ethnic origins of the mambo? |
Afro-Cuban |
Of the following, who did not write operetta? |
Georges Bizet |
What American folk opera by George Gershwin was far ahead of its time? |
Porgy and Bess |
Of the following, which work is NOT by Gershwin? |
Afro-American Symphony |
Which of the following is NOT a musical by the British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber? |
Les Misérables |
What is considered to be America’s unique contribution to theater? |
the musical |
West Side Story is a modern-day musical setting of Shakespeare’s: |
Romeo and Juliet. |
Bernstein’s West Side Story draws on Afro-Cuban dance rhythms. |
True |
Rodgers and Hart helped to elevate the level of lyrics in musical comedy from clichés to serious poetry. |
True |
Jonathan Larsen’s rock opera Rent is inspired by which opera? |
La Bohème |
The musical has remained exclusively an American art form, not attempted by composers from other countries. |
False |
The recent "jukebox" musical based on songs of ABBA is: |
Mamma Mia! |
Which of the following is an example of a rock musical? |
Hair |
George Gershwin is recognized as being one of the first American composers to: |
incorporate African-American blues and jazz styles into his compositions. |
Bernstein’s West Side Story updates the feud of the Capulets and the Montagues to that between: |
the Jets and the Sharks. |
Leonard Bernstein was the first American-born musician to be appointed conductor of the New York Philharmonic. |
True |
The American musical theater developed out of the European comic opera or operetta tradition. |
True |
Of the following, which is NOT composed by Leonard Bernstein? |
An American in Paris |
Gershwin’s Summertime suggests: |
an African-American spiritual. |
Summertime is sung multiple times during Porgy and Bess. |
True |
The use of preexisting literary sources such as books and plays for the plots of musicals helped the new genre to gain maturity and permanence. |
True |
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