Music 104 Midterm
What song was a big hit among crooners?
"My Blue Heaven"
What is the Tin Pan Alley songform?
AABA
What is the form of the "St. Louis Blues"?
AABC
What is the repetition pattern of "April Showers"?
ABAC
The invention of the "back beat," where emphasis of the beat is on beats "2" and "4," was introduced by which stream of American popular music?
African American
Who is known as "the World's Greatest Entertainer"?
Al Jolson
Who recorded "April Showers"?
Al Jolson
Which song reveals the sound and style of the pre-microphone period?
April Showers
Who is known as "the King of Swing"?
Benny Goodman
Who was a vaudeville trained-performer of classic blues?
Bessie Smith
Which legendary French-born superstar of tango was inspired by operatic bel canto singing and the criollo songs of the Argentine guachos?
Carlos Gardel
Who is the pioneer of the Mississippi blues style?
Charley Patton
Who recorded Tom Rushen Blues?
Charley Patton
Which type of music was an entirely oral tradition?
Country blues
Which ensemble recorded "Dippermouth Blues," a piece which exemplifies the earliest form of a mature jazz style?
Creole Jazz Band
Who developed a style called "jungle music"?
Duke Ellington
What 20th century invention allowed for the rise of soft, velvety singers, or "crooners," like Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee?
Electric Microphone
From which stream of influence does the "high lonesome sound" commonly heard in country music hail?
European American Stream
Who was one of the first crooners?
Gene Austin
Who was the first successful singing cowboy?
Gene Autry
Which is true about songwriter Stephen Foster?
He embraced both genteel traditions and less highly regarded but popular traditions such as minstrelsy
When did crooning evolve?
after the introduction of the electric microphone
Where did the blues emerge from?
black communities in the deep south
Which type of music bridged the gap between black and white communities?
classic blues
How is the 12 bar blues arranged?
in 4-beat bars
What were Tin Pan Alley songs about?
privacy and romance
Who is the "King of Jazz"?
Paul Whiteman
Who was an influential ragtime pianist and composer?
Scott Joplin
Which southern string band did James Gideon (Gid) Tanner leader?
Skillet Lickers
What song is Bessie Smith known for?
St. Louis Blues
Who was the most influential songwriter of American popular song during the nineteenth century?
Stephen Foster
Which Latin dance style did Irene and Vernon Castle and movie star Rudolph Valentino help popularize in the early twentieth century?
Tango
Which film released in 1927 became the first to exploit sound successfully?
The Jazz Singer
What was the first form of musical and theatrical entertainment regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character?
The Minstrel Show
Where did the country blues emerge from?
the Mississippi Delta
Which lines are the same for the 12 bar blues?
the first 16
Which couple were arguable the biggest media superstars of the years around World War I?
Vernon and Irene Castle
Who is known as "the Father of the Blues"?
WC Handy
Who was the most influential classic blues music composer?
WC Handy
What is swing?
a new type of jazz inspired music developed by black dance bands
Who of became the conductor of the US Marine Band?
John Philip Sousa
Who helped pioneer swing music?
Louis Armstrong
Who is the "Father of Latin Jazz"?
Mario Bauza
Which became the first nationwide commercial radio network in 1926?
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Which is NOT true about James Reese Europe?
He was cornet player and leader of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Who was one of the greatest big band crooners?
Helen Forrest
Who was the most productive and creative of the Tin Pan Alley songwriters?
Irving Berlin
Who were some important Tin Pan Alley composers?
Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Al Jolson
Which is true about the tango?
It developed during the late nineteenth century in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Who played an essential role during the Tin Pan Alley period?
Jewish immigrants
Which of the following is true about African American ballads of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
They celebrated the exploits of black heroes and "bad men."
What role did song pluggers play in the music industry from the nineteenth century until the 1920s?
They promoted songs and convinced big stars to perform them
Who invented the phonograph?
Thomas Alva Edison
