Author Question: Which trait is not characteristic of country music? a. melodies mostly folk ballades b. ... (Read 41 times)

torybrooks · **on:** Jul 25, 2018

Which trait is not characteristic of country music?

a. melodies mostly folk ballades
b. originally sung by a solo voice or voice accompanied by a fiddle, dulcimer, or banjo
c. texts tend to emphasize love and the disappointments of life
d. singing style slides between pitches in a manner evocative of a southern drawl
e. a rich variety of chromatic chords provide colorful accompaniment to the mournful texts

Question 2

Which statement is the correct definition for country music?

a. an expressive, soulful style of singing that emerged from the African-American spiritual and work song at the
end of the nineteenth century

b. a mixture of jazz and rock cultivated early twentieth-century pianists
c. a lively, energetic music with pulsating rhythms and scintillating syncopations, usually played by a small
instrumental ensemble
d. a repertoire of songs about love and lifes disappointments that emerged from the music of Anglo-Irish settlers
in the Appalachia region of the United States
e. a musical style that emerged in the 1890s and characterized by a steady bass and a syncopated, jazzy treble