MUEL 2752 Music in American Culture Exam 3
Showboat significantly fused which two dramatic genres?
Musical comedy and operetta
Victor Herbert composed how many operettas?
40
Rhythm section
Piano, drums, tuba, bass, banjo, guitar
The newly discovered market for African American musicians playing the blues was dubbed:
Race records
What is blues?
A feeling A musical form (AAB 12 - bar blues) A Scale (mix of major and minor - bent notes) A Harmonic progression (I-IV-V chords in 12 bars)
Thomas A. Dorsey
"The Father of Gospel Music." Started as secular musician, "Georgia Tom." Dedicated life to Gospel music by 1931. Founded National Convention of Gospel Choirs and the Separate Dorsey's House of Music publishing in 1932. Brought AA vernacular music to worship
What is Maybelle Carter known for?
"Thumb and brush" guitar style (thumb plays melody while fingers strummed chords - playing 2 distinct parts at once) with "hammer-ons."
__________________Studied music with composer Charles Seeger at the University of California at Berkeley. Treated the piano like no one before him, calling for performer to hammer out clusters with fists, forearms, and elbows. Composed "The Banshee"
(Henry Cowell)
Jimmie Rodgers's style and output borrowed deeply from _______ music practice and culture.
African American
Jelly Roll Morton: Jazz composer
- Made his first recordings in Chicago in 1923 - Organized the Red Hot Peppers in 1926 - Moved to New York in 1928 - Fell into obscurity as the New Orleans sound became dated - Volunteered to record his role in the history of early jazz for the Library of Congress (he claimed to have invented jazz) - At a time when solo improvisation based on a - compositions' harmonic structure was gaining - importance in jazz, Morton maintained composition as the music's vital force. - Listening Guide 12.3: Black Bottom Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers) Walking bass, backbeat, and out chorus
Ellington composed and copywritted more than________ pieces.
1100
In what year was the electric microphone introduced into the recording studio?
1925
Duke ellington was a ____________
Band Leader
Who sang St. Louis Blues and who was it composed by?
Bessie Smith, WC Handy
Duke Ellingtons most significant composer was..
Billy Strayhorn
Jazz and Gospel share a grounding in______
Blues
Like Tin Pan Alley, Broadway embraced ragtime and, from the 1920s until well after World War II, many popular songs would display some degree of _______ influence.
Blues
Under what composer did Henry Cowell study music in his youth?
Charles Seegar
Who was Buddy Bolden?
Earliest jazz soloist. "Father of jazz style."
Ultramodernist Composers
Edgar Varese (France) Dane Rudhyar (France) Carl Ruggles (Massachusetts)
Musical Modernism: A new aesthetic value that rejected key aspects of Romantic tradition (including notions of aesthetic beauty) favoring instead:
Fragmented melodies Dissonant harmonies Irregular rhythms
Trumpet, Clarinet and trombone comprise what part of a typical New Orleans Jazz band?
Front Lines
What attributes are associated with "New Orleans Style"?
Front line and rhythm section
What early jazz giant fell into obscurity as the new Orleans sound became dated?
Jelly Roll Morton
Who was the first undisputed solo star of country music?
Jimmy Rodgers
Who was the earliest blues singer?
Mamie Smith
Who were the "blues queens"?
Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Ethel Waters
Who were the blues queens (classic blues)?
Mamie smith, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters
Front line
Melody: cornet (trumpet) Counter-melody: clarinet (obligatto) Tailgate: trombone
What A&R man was hired by Okeh Records to comb the rural South in search of new artists for the white Southern market?
Ralph Peer
What are characteristics of hillbilly music?
Rural, roots music. Voices accompanied by banjo, fiddle, guitar, or string bands. Texts based on ballads. Hybridity. Brought folk music modes into popular acceptance.
The earliest blues singers, like "ma" rainey, ida cox and clara smith got their start in the rough touring world of the travelling Vaudeville ________
Tent shows
What are the two acts that would eventually transform country music from a small specialty market into a major segment of the American music industry?
The Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers
Bessie Smith was nicknamed
The Empress of the blues
W.C. Handy is known as ________
The father of the blues
Who recorded the first Jazz recording in 1917 for Victor Records?
The original Dixieland Jazz Band
Who started as a secular musician called "Georgia Tom" and is considered the "Father of Gospel Music"?
Thomas A. Dorsey
British Theatrical Imports dominated the American stage throughout the 19th century.
True
Most show songs that won popularity in the years between the two world wars were about romantic love. (true or false)
True
The blues would go on to influence nearly every style of music that developed in its wake. (true or false)
True
Who were the ultramodernists?
Varse, Rudhyar, Ruggles
The Carter Family was from:
Virginia
Where was the Carter family from?
Virgnia
Louis Armstrongs legacy was known for...
Virtuosity, Scat Singing, Solo Inventiveness,
Was the first jazz recording made by whites or African Americans?
Whites
Did John Coltrane study under Leo Ornstein?
Yes
Did New York metropolitans opera tour Mexico?
Yes
Was Al Jolson connected to the musical comedy tradition?
Yes
Outside of his work with the Carter Family music group, A.P Carter was....
an amateur song catcher
Outside his work with the Carter Family music group, A. P. Carter was:
an amateur song catcher, collected folk songs.
Some hillbilly music fits neatly into the category of ________, but much of it does not.
folk
Show Boat significantly fused which two dramatic genres?
musical comedy and operetta
What are the successful ingredients for an independent show tune?
simplicity memorability interesting lyrical subject matter
Two acts that would eventually transform country music from a small specialty market into a major segment of the American music industry were:
the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers
Many early twentieth- Century operas composed for the metropolitan opera focused on what group of people as a subject matter?
Native Americans
Which city is Jazz believed to have originated?
New Orleans
Who was the most prominent ultramodernist?
Parisian Edgard Varse
Jimmie Rodgers
was the first undisputed solo star of country music
