Exam #1 - TSEM

Question 1

What is Musicology?

Answer 1

The Study of Music

Question 2

What is Critical Thinking?

Answer 2

Objective, Contextualized, Nuanced, and Well Supported

Question 3

What is Active Listening?

Answer 3

A communication technique that requires the listener to understand, interpret, recount and evaluate what they hear.

Question 4

What are the Four Characteristics of Sound?

Answer 4

1. Quality
2. Intensity
3. Pitch
4. Duration

Question 5

What are Primary Sources?

Answer 5

Immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from
people who had a direct connection to the topic

Question 6

How should you evaluate primary sources?

Answer 6

• Check date and location of publication
• Evaluate author, credentials, and motivations/biases

Question 7

What is an Argument?

Answer 7

Your stance on a topic

Question 8

What are the key features of an argument?

Answer 8

• Claim/thesis
• Evidence
• Counterargument
• Rebuttal

Question 9

Who is Scott Joplin?

Answer 9

King of Ragtime

Question 10

What were key influential features in Ellington’s Childhood?

Answer 10

1. Family
2. Location
3. Class
4. Race
5. Musical Training

Question 11

Plessy vs Ferguson

Answer 11

Happened in 1896
“Separate but Equal”
Jim Crow Laws

Question 12

NAACP

Answer 12

Happened in 1909
Limited professional opportunities for Black Americans

Question 13

New Negro Ideology

Answer 13

A movement toward the idea of racial uplift for African Americans.

Question 14

The late 19th-century technology/transformations

Answer 14

Railroads, Industrialization, Phonograph, Piano Rolls

Question 15

“Spirit” of Ragtime

Answer 15

Extremely popular during the 1920s
Initiated dance craze

Question 16

Who are Vernon and Irene Castle

Answer 16

Ballroom dancers and dance teachers

Question 17

What was Vernon and Irene’s Significance

Answer 17

They created new ragtime dances in Paris which became a sensation

Question 18

New York in the 1920s

Answer 18

Musical Hub
Vibrant entertainment culture/nightlife
Music, dance, theatre

Question 19

Technology Transformations in the 1920s

Answer 19

Radio
Sound Cinema
Electrical recording

Question 20

Daisy Kennedy Ellington

Answer 20

Duke Ellington’s Mother

Question 21

Fletcher Henderson

Answer 21

African-American bandleader

Question 22

Will Marion Cook

Answer 22

African-American Composer and Conductor

Question 23

Irving Mills

Answer 23

Ellington’s Producer
Jewish Music Publisher

Question 24

James “Bubber” Miley

Answer 24

Played the trumpet

Question 25

Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton

Answer 25

Played the Trombone

Question 26

Barney Bigard

Answer 26

Played the Clarinet

Question 27

Ellington’s Musical Influences

Answer 27

African-American Folk styles
Popular Song (Broadway)
Ragtime
Blues