True or False

Question 1

The ring shout was a form of piano recital music.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Richard Allen was one of the pre-Civil War black American composers.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Crooked Shanks is an opera composed by Edmund Dede.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Joseph Neketia was an African scholar who wrote the book titled Anti-Slavery Harp.

Answer 4

False

Question 6

One of the labels for Eshu is the Master of Style

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Joseph Bologne was not only a noted composer but also an excellent fencer.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

Polyrhythm and syncopation carry the same definition.

Answer 8

False

Question 9

Eileen Southern was the only known black female composer before the Civil War.

Answer 9

False

Question 10

The Fisk Jubilee Singers were established at Fisk College (now University) after the end of the Civil War.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

The only African-derived trait not found or used in the ring shout is the portamento.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

Edwin Hill was a pre-Civil War composer.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

Louis Gottschalk was a concert pianist and composer of classical music.

Answer 13

True

Question 14

The use of African-made instruments is one of the African-derived musical traits.

Answer 14

False

Question 15

A sorrow song is a type of spiritual.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a widely known British-born composer who never visited the United States.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

The Great Migration was about the movement of African Americans from northern states to southern states.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

Although sociologist WEB DuBois contributed to black modernist thought in the early 20th century, he was criticized for being a segregationist.

Answer 18

False

Question 19

The only African-derived trait associated with ragtime music is syncopation.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Compared with the spiritual, which was associated with slavery and group performance, the blues represents a movement in African music towards the thoughts and moods of the individual.

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Robert Nathaniel Dett’s Symphony No. 1 was the first known orchestral work to incorporate the blues form.

Answer 21

False

Question 22

Paul Dunbar was important to black composers in the early 20th century in that his poetry was used as lyrics for art songs and choral works.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

Although James Europe is credited for being one of the earliest pioneers of jazz, his music incorporates none of the African-derived musical traits.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

According to Floyd, Joplin’s opera Treemonisha was the single musical work of the first decade of the 20th century that embodied the spirit of black modernism.

Answer 24

True.

Question 25

Scott Joplin was trained in the European classical music tradition.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Ulysses Kay was noted for composing music that contains many of the African-derived traits.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

According to Floyd, one of the four concert rituals is that musicians perform with a serious and honest demeanor, expression, and posture.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

Atonality is characterized by the absence of key in music.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

According to Floyd, one of the reasons why black composers did not produce significant concert hall compositions during the Negro Renaissance was because audiences were not interested in hearing compositions by black composers.

Answer 29

False

Question 30

George Walker's most recognized compositions use serial techniques.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

Howard Swanson composed the work The Negro Speaks of Rivers that uses text written by Langston Hughes.

Answer 31

True

Question 32

One of Undine S. Moore's most recognized compositions is a spiritual for chorus entitled Daniel, Daniel, Servant of the Lord.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

Paul Robeson was known as a neoclassical composer.

Answer 33

False

Question 34

One of Margaret Bond's early teachers was Chicago Renaissance composer, William Dawson.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

Hale Smith was the first African American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in music.

Answer 35

False.