CH 51 music quiz

How did Joplin achieve financial security with the publication of Maple Leaf Rag?

He insisted on receiving royalties rather than a flat payment

Which is a true statement regarding the saxophone?

It was invented by the Belgian Adolphe Sax.

Which composer is often referred to as the "March King"?

John Philip Sousa

_____ is perhaps the best-known rag ever composed.

Maple Leaf Rag

Which composer is often referred to as the "King of Ragtime"?

Scott Joplin

Where was Scott Joplin born?

Texarkana, Texas

_____ is one of Sousa's most well-known marches.

The Stars and Stripes Forever

Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for

Treemonisha

Scott Joplin's father was

a former slave

Ragtime is typically in _____ meter.

duple

Which of the following does NOT describe the style of ragtime?

no repetition within a rag

Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?

piano

America's vernacular traditions include

piano music parlor ballads music for brass bands

Before recorded music was widespread, music like the rags of Scott Joplin could be mechanically performed by

player pianos

Ragtime was NOT

popular until mid-twentieth century

Sousa is credited with bringing _____ to European audiences during his first European tour in 1900.

ragtime

Which does NOT describe the device that enables us to hear Scott Joplin's rendition of Maple Leaf Rag?

recorded on a wax cylinder

Rags, like marches, are structured in regular, duple-meter sections known as _____, each of which is usually repeated.

strains

Which describes the melodies in Maple Leaf Rag?

syncopated disjunct played by pianist in the right hand

In 1880, Sousa became the director of

the U.S. Marine Band

Ragtime was originally a piano style that featured highly syncopated melodies.

true

Scott Joplin is one of the first African American composers to receive widespread recognition.

true

Scott Joplin recorded some of his piano rags himself, which were preserved on punched-paper rolls made in 1910 on a Steinway player piano.

true

Sousa created, nearly single-handedly, a national music for America that continues to resonate in its concert halls, on its streets, in its sports stadiums, and in the hearts of its people.

true

The patterns of repetition and clear-cut sections in Joplin's rags are reminiscent of those heard in Sousa marches.

true