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Question 1

Composer of pre-Civil War music for social events and high society dances. He was never enslaved.

Answer 1

Frank Johnson.

Question 2

Loud-talking, trash-talking exercises to draw attention to oneself. Also, inserting one’s own creative style on a performance or event.

Answer 2

Signifyin(g)

Question 3

Black 18th-century French composer of Western classical music.

Answer 3

Joseph Bologne

Question 4

A type of spiritual.

Answer 4

jubilee

Question 5

A type of musical texture that involves several instruments or voices simultaneously performing variations on the same melodic melody.

Answer 5

heterophony

Question 6

The method in which an ethnic group passes information by word of mouth from one generation to the next.

Answer 6

oral tradition

Question 7

Noted African music scholar considered the world’s expert on African music.

Answer 7

Joseph Nketia

Question 8

The lowered 3rd, 5th, and 7th scale tones of the major scale.

Answer 8

blue notes

Question 9

Creole composer and concert pianist of the pre-Civil War era.

Answer 9

Louis Gottschalk

Question 10

Composer who was a former slave. He studied with white singing schoolmaster, Andrew Law.

Answer 10

Newport Gardner.

Question 11

Known as the Dean of Afro-American composers.

Answer 11

William Grant Still

Question 12

Canadian-born composer principally known for his choral compositions.

Answer 12

R. Nathaniel Dett

Question 13

Known for composing the song that later was adopted by the NAACP and known as the “Negro National Anthem”.

Answer 13

John R. Johnson

Question 14

Pan-Africanist composer best known for the trilogy of cantatas, The Song of Hiawatha.

Answer 14

Samuel C. Taylor

Question 15

The principal pioneer composer of ragtime and ragtime opera.

Answer 15

Scott Joplin

Question 16

The composer who combined elements of ragtime and the blues which created a type of “proto-jazz.”

Answer 16

James R. Europe

Question 17

This social leader was considered part of black modernism but was viewed in a negative light by the black elite integrationists.

Answer 17

Booker T. Washington

Question 18

Considered the Dean of the Harlem Renaissance.

Answer 18

Alain Locke

Question 19

Composer/Teacher most known for teaching other composers.

Answer 19

Nadia Boulanger

Question 20

This black modernist composer’s early 20th century work Negro Folk Suite illustrates the combining of European and African music traditions.

Answer 20

Nathaniel C. Smith

Question 21

Internationally known black American singer who was denied a chance to perform a solo concert at Constitution Hall because of her race.

Answer 21

Marian Anderson

Question 22

Internationally known black American singer who was perceived to be a communist and an enemy of the United States.

Answer 22

Paul Robeson

Question 23

Black Modernist composer known for Contours

Answer 23

Hale Smith

Question 24

PA born composer known for orchestrating and performing Joplin’s Treemonisha, but also composed modernist compositions such as Minstrel Man

Answer 24

Thomas J. Anderson

Question 25

This composer was born in DC and was the first Black composer to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music.

Answer 25

George Walker

Question 26

This Chicago Renaissance Composer was educated at Northwestern University but fount it to be an unpleasant experience, later composing such works as The Negro Speaks of Rivers and Troubled Water.

Answer 26

Margaret Bonds

Question 27

Poet whose works were used as lyrics for art songs by composers of the Negro Renaissance

Answer 27

Langston Hughes

Question 28

This neoclassical composer was born in Arizona and was related to jazz pioneer King Oliver, but embraced the teachings of his white professors and shunned the conscious use of African-derived musical traits in his compositions.

Answer 28

Ulysses S. Kay

Question 29

Born in DC, this composer was known for big band jazz compositions, but wrote works that could be considered classical, though they use jazz instrumentation.

Answer 29

Duke Ellington

Question 30

This composer attended Fisk University but also studied at Columbia and the Manhattan School of Music. Though beginning her career by composing modernist works, she became well-known for art songs that used lyrics taken from spirituals.

Answer 30

Undine S. Moore