Music Section 1 Flashcards

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What are some practices advocated by Genevan psalm-writer Jean Calvin?

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  1. Protestants should sing as a congregation
  2. No instruments!
  3. Native Language (not Latin)
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What are psalters?

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Retranslated psalms usually containing only poetry

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Where did the “ill-fated Huguenots” bring the 1562 edition of the Genevan psalter?

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Florida

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Where was Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter of 1562 brought to?

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Also known as the “Old Psalter”, it was first brought to Jamestown, Virginia

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How many melodies were needed to accommodate for 150 psalm translations?

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17… just like my AGE!

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What psalter did the Pilgrims bring in 1620?

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Ainsworth Psalter

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How many different meters were employed in the Ainsworth Psalter?

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15

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When did the Puritans establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston?

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1630

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Due to the dissatisfaction of the psalms the sang, what publication arose from a team of thirty ministers?

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The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully translated into English Metre

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What was the nickname of “The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully translated into English Metre”?

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Bay Psalm Book

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How many meters were needed for the initial “Bay Psalm Book”?

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6

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How many subsequent editions of “Bay Psalm Book” were published over the next 120 years?

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30

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What is a special milestone of the ninth edition of the Bay Psalm Book issued in 1698?

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The appended tunes were the first notated music printed in the northern colonies!!!!!

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What was Thomas Walter’s main concern about lining-out?

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The congregation couldn’t sing very well!!!

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Which minister published a sermon against the “Usual Way”?

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Thomas Symmes in 1720 notated that in visits to three churches, he heard radically different versions of the same tunes

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What was so-called “Regular Singing”?

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Musical literacy

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Who wrote “An Introduction to the Singing of Psalm Tunes”?

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John Tufts in 1721

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Who wrote “The Grounds and Rules of Musick, Explained; or, An Introduction to the Art of Singing by Note”?

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Thomas Walter in (yet AGAIN) 1721

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Who PUBLISHED “The Grounds and Rules of Musick, Explained; or, An Introduction to the Art of Singing by Note”?

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James Franklin, who was Benjamin’s older half-brother

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How many tunes did Tuft’s fifth edition contain? …….. Remember, Tufts wrote “An Introduction to the Singing of Psalm Tunes”.

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37

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Who published “Southwel New”?

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Either Thomas Walter himself in Grounds and Rules of Musick, or someone in his circle

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William Byrd the younger did what?

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noted in his diary that he and his wife attended sessions to sing psalms

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How would a singing school teacher advertise their school?

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Publishing a broadside

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What year did James Lyon publish Urania, a 198-page volume of psalm-tunes?

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1761

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What are hymns?
Strophic, religious texts not scriptual in origin
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What are set pieces?
Compositions designed to support a particular (non-strophic) sacred poem
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How many compositions were in Urania?
96 (just like the number of Indians murdered in the Gnadenhutten Massacre?)
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"The New-England Psalm-Singer" reached what milestone?
The first New World publication devoted entirely to works by a single American-born composer
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What profession was William Billings also?
A tanner in Boston
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How many fuging tunes did Billings include in "The Singing Master's Assistant" (1778)?
10
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Where did Daniel Read relocate to after leaving the Continental Army as a private?
New Haven, Connecticut
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What was the first published music periodical in America?
The American Music Magazine in 1786
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What else was Daniel Read (his daytime profession)?
A shopkeeper
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The American Singing Book was what?
The second American-composed volume containing new compositions solely by one person
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Who composed "The Columbian Harmonist"
Daniel Read
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To what did Daniel Read pirate several compositions?
The Worcester Collection
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Where did Andrew Law request new federal copyright laws, reusing the Statute of Anne?
The Connecticut General Assembly
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The key of ___ was set by Read in Sherburne
D
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On the cadence of the word "ground", which note is omited as the third of the chord?
C#, giving the chord an archaic feel
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Segno indicates what?
The start of a polyphonic phrase
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What is the overall form of Sherburne?
A (plain tune) B B (the fuging + repetition)
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The Anglican Church was supported in taxes by which colonies?
Carolinas, Georgia, and Virginia
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Where was the first known pipe organ installation in a colonial church?
Boston 1714
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The original name of the Moravian Church is what?
Unitas Fratrum "Unity of the Brethren", originating in the Czech Republic
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When did the Moravian Church nearly collapse?
The Thirty Year's War in 1618-48
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Which nobleman encouraged the performance of hymns, leading the Moravian brethren in missionary efforts?
Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf
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Which of the thirteen original colonies was founded last?
Georgia, which served as a buffer between Florida and the Carolinas
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Who founded Georgia?
James Edward Oglethorpe, a progressive leader who drove the Act of 1735, which forbade slavery
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The "Collection of Psalms and Hymns" in 1737 was the first ___ ___ in colonial America, and published by ___
Anglican hymnal; John Wesley
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Where was the Moravians' first mission?
Georgia, which failed, but they had much better success in Bethlehem, Penn, and Salem, North Carolina.
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What was the first book of any sort published in the English colonies?
"The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully translated into English Metre" (aka "Bay Psalm Book")
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Where was the Ephrata Cloister, a German-speaking sect, established?
Pennsylvania
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What does "Ephrata" mean?
Beautiful
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Who established the Ephrata Cloister?
Conrad Beissel
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What did Beissel think about Lutheranism?
It was too lax
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What is pietism?
Individual devotion with careful attention to Biblical teachings... Beissel adopted this
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When did Beissel emigrate to America?
1720, a year before Tufts wrote "The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully translated into English Metre"
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Who printed Beissel's 1730 hymnal texts?
Benjamin Franklin
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What is a monastic society?
Men and women live apart from each other
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What were "housekeepers" in the context of the Ephrata Cloister?
Married families that attended Ephrata services, but did not partake in other customs (i.e. celibacy)
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Define what was worn by Ephrata members
tonsures—a shaved patch on the top of the skull—along with all-white garments.
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What was the spiritual name of Beissel?
Father Friedsam Gottrecht ("Peaceable, Right with God")
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When did Beissel die?
1768 :(
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Who were the German Seventh Day Baptists"
Reorganized householder families of the Ephrata Cloister
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Who issued the 1739 Ephrata collection?
Christoph Sauer
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What was the first product of the Ephrata's printing press?
Das Gesang der einsamen und verlassenen Turtel- Taube, nemlich der christlichen Kirche (aka Turtle-Taube)
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What was the point of creating a scriptorium for hymnals?
Since their printed hymnals contained only text, they needed accompanying manuscript (handwritten) music
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Who was responsible for creating the manuscripts for the Ephrata Cloister?
The sisterhood
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What does the title of the 1746 Ephrata Codex read?
Die Bittre Süse (“The Bitter-Sweet”)
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Who gave the Ephrata codex to Benjamin Franklin in 1771?
Peter Miller
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Who, in turn, did Franklin give the codex to?
John Wilkes, an English member of Parliament who was sympathetic to the Patriot cause
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What place was given the codex by the antiquarian?
The Library of Congress
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Christopher Herbert made what exciting discovery in his 2017 dissertation of the Ephrata Cloister?
Some women composed the music (Oh look. Women!)
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Who was Brother Jaebez?
Peter Miller (who later gave this codex to Franklin)
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What other Sister Foben piece does the codex contain?
“Formier, mein Töpffer” (“Give Shape to Me, My Potter”).120
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Which of the following voices was the melody in Beissel's works? Tenor, Soprano, Bass, Alto, or Double-bass
Soprano: instead of relying on the bass line, which normally governs common-practice tonality
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What did Beissel call the notes of the tonic triad?
"Masters"
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Who was the poet for “Die sanfte Bewegung"?
Christian Friedrich Richter, a German Pietist,
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Where did the Ephrata Cloister had already published Richter's poem?
the 1739 hymn collection Zionitscher Weyrauchs Hügel (“Incense from the Hill of Zion”), printed by Sauer.
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What did Sister Foben choose as the "master" chord for “Die sanfte Bewegung"?
F major
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Where and when was the performance of listening example 2 made?
recorded at Ephrata in 2019, in the actual building in which the hymn was originally performed.