Exam 2

Question 1

The term ‘acculturated’ basically means a blending of cultures.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

In the 1800’s there were many famous singing families. One family famous for its Reform Songs was the…

Answer 2

Hutchinsons

Question 3

Which of the following is an example of a cowboy song?

1. Amazing Grace
2. Oh Susannah!
3. Home on the Range
4. Yankee Doodle

Answer 3

Home on the Range

Question 4

The ‘father of music education’ and the first American to really profit from music in America was…

Answer 4

Lowell Mason

Question 5

Which of the following is an example of a minstrel show tune?

1. I wish I was in dixie
2. The yellow rose of Texas
3. Battle Hymn of the Repub.
4. Oh Susannah

Answer 5

1. 2. 4.

Question 6

The Fisk Jubilee Singers started out singing what?

Answer 6

Light classical music

Question 7

A song by Daniel Emmet that was popular during the civil war was called Oh Susannah

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Minstrel shows united America in their own way, like TV today

Answer 8

True

Question 9

PT Barnum made a clever marketing scheme for Jenny Lind’s American Tour.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Gottschalk’s pieces The Banjo, Le bananier, and Bamboula are all examples of

Answer 10

Virtuosic pieces
Character pieces
Pieces built from American folk songs

Question 11

Which of the following composers was not trained in Europe, but in America?

Answer 11

Beach

Question 12

Theodore Thomas founded the New York Philharmonic Society

Answer 12

False

Question 13

The MacDowell company served to be a place where artists of all kinds could spend uninterrupted summers working on their art

Answer 13

True

Question 14

Louis Moreau Gottschalk was the first American born and American trained concert pianist

Answer 14

False

Question 15

Whom of the following was not a Tin Pan Alley composer?

Answer 15

Fred Astaire

Question 16

Eventually, any light, happy, bouncy music with syncopation was called ragtime

Answer 16

True

Question 17

Song pluggers worked in Tin Alan Alley by…

Answer 17

Performing songs for potential customers

Question 18

Who was known as the King of Ragtime

Answer 18

Scott Joplin

Question 19

Ragtime was originally…

Answer 19

Improvised music

Question 20

Which composer was not a member of the Second New England school of composers?

Answer 20

Gottschalk

Question 22

Irving Berlin wrote strictly Jewish songs that appealed only to Jewish audiences

Answer 22

False

Question 23

Which was not a characteristic of shape-note singing?

Answer 23

Meant to be performed for an audience

Question 24

Sousa’s main goal was to educate his audiences.

Answer 24

False

Question 25

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of Gershwin’s songs?

Answer 25

Overly suggestive lyrics

Question 26

Which of the following is a characteristic of ragtime?

Answer 26

Acculturated music Structured form similar to marches Hot rhythms. Syncopated

Question 27

Tin Pan Alley music developed a uniform style that included characteristics such as

Answer 27

Piano prelude and postlude Catchy chorus Chorus verse/format

Question 28

The cultural combination of the Free People of Color and the lower classes was an extremely important in the development of jazz

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Which of the following was not a characteristic of Classic Blues?

Answer 29

Generally accompanied by a guitar

Question 30

``` Out of the instruments listed below, which instruments were part of a New Orleans Jazz Band? Banjo Guitar Clarinet Trombone Trumpet ```

Answer 30

1,3,4,5

Question 31

Sidney Bechet played which instrument?

Answer 31

Clarinet

Question 32

Typically, women sang classic blues

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Jenny Lind was often called...

Answer 33

The Swedish Nightingale

Question 34

The first Dixieland jazz recording was made by an all white band, the original Dixieland jazz band

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Which piece that you heard imitates animals?

Answer 35

Livery Stable Blues

Question 36

What is not a characteristic of early blues music?

Answer 36

Homogenous sound ideal

Question 37

Which instrument did Buddy Bolden play?

Answer 37

Trumpet

Question 38

What was Louis Armstrong not known for?

Answer 38

Skill on the trombone

Question 39

What is not a characteristic of bebop music?

Answer 39

Large group of musicians

Question 40

Which group popularized and acculturated African American spirituals?

Answer 40

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Question 40

Theodore Thomas' main mission was to bring classical music to the American public

Answer 40

True

Question 41

Musicians who performed in big bands could more then likely read music

Answer 41

True

Question 42

Duke Ellington made carefully orchestrated pieces and put room for individual solos in his pieces

Answer 42

True

Question 43

Which jazz musician composed jazz concert music?

Answer 43

Ellington

Question 44

Who is often considered Americas most prolific composer?

Answer 44

Ellington

Question 45

Which piece that we listened to utilized gut bucket trumpet

Answer 45

Concerto for Cootie

Question 46

The silent theme tradition was one where musicians improvised on harmony instead of melody

Answer 46

True