MUSIC EXAM 1

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Western swing artists took cues with regard to sound, style, and instrumentation from the jazz-oriented swing bands that toured the Southwest.

true

Where Varèse looked to science for compositional inspiration, Rudhyar found in spiritualism a similar inspiration to create a highly dissonant, nontraditional-sounding music.

true

William Grant Still was his generation's most versatile black composer.

true

With prosperity growing in the South, the demand for amusement grew with it

true

Woodie Guthrie wrote or adapted more than a thousand songs, reflecting his travels and emphasizing the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s

true

New York City's Metropolitan Opera opened in 1861.

false

Aaron Copland's modernist interests managed to appeal to conservative tastes.

true

John Philip Sousa set the standard for professional music making

true

John Philip Sousa rose to prominence in

1892

Elvis Presley's first guitarist was

B.B. King

Which two jazz figures pioneered free jazz?

Ornette Coleman & Cecil Taylor

Elvis Presley left Sun Records for which label?

RCA Victor

Who recorded the first jazz recording in 1917 for Victor Records?

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Sousa held significant reservations about recording.

True

Which of the following songs references substance abuse?

all of these options

In early America, the word "amateur" meant someone

who pursued music simply for the love of it

The limited nature of early oral and written African American histories most closely parallels the documentation of what North American demographic?

American Indian

The image of the outspoken, educated, middle-class American emerging as the "new negro" became a harbinger of the ___________ of the 1920s and 1930s.

Harlem Renaissance

___________ took shape before World War II as mainstream denominations brought Pentecostal musical styles into their worship.

Modern black gospel music

________ called for the regulation and desecularization of singing in worship services.

Nathaniel D. Gould

In 1910, one in about how many Americans purchased a piano?

250

Victor Herbert composed how many operettas?

40

Where was the first American-issued sheet music published?

Philadelphia

All of the following considered dance a sacred activity EXCEPT

Puritans

Lowell Mason was the most important musical reformer in American history.

true

W.C. Handy originally believed that no one would find blues music appealing.

true

How much did Elvis Presley pay to record his first song?

$3.98 plus tax

How much was mezzo-soprano Maria Garcia earning per night by the time she left for Europe in 1827?

$500

Jimmie Rodgers's style and output borrowed deeply from _______ music practice and culture.

African American

Of the Second New England School of composers, the work and legacy of ________ is most notable today.

George Chadwick

Beatlemania started in

1964

The Great Awakening occurred during which period?

1730s and 1740s

The Second Great Awakening occurred when?

1780s to 1830

Tin Pan Alley took shape in New York City around

1890

The landmark United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Fergusonoccurred in

1896

Irving Berlin's "immigrant" song period spanned

1912-1917

In which year was the League of Composers was founded?

1923

In what year was the electric microphone introduced into the recording studio?

1925

Younger composers began to discover Ives's work during the

1930s

In what year did the first American tape music concert take place?

1952

By mid-1892, Sousa had conducted the U.S. Marine Band in more than ______ recordings.

200

The motivations behind the preservation and dissemination of African American folk music, spirituals, and slave songs are closely connected with similar concerns regarding ___________ music in the later nineteenth century.

American Indian

Many early twentieth-century operas composed for the Metropolitan Opera focused on which of the following groups as subject matter?

American Indians

Following the premiere the Gaelic Symphony, whose work did Chadwick declare fine enough to be "one of the boys"?

Amy Cheney Beach

At eighteen, ___________ played a Chopin concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Amy Cheney beach

Who among the following was one of the first composers to use folk melodies to help create a distinctively American style?

Amy Cheney beach

Who among the following possessed an especially strong gift for melodic improvisation?

Billie Holiday

Duke Ellington's most significant arranger-composer was

Billy Strayhorn

One of the first, Texas-based country blues musicians to make records was

Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Who was the central figure in western swing?

Bob Wills

Who of the following was a soul jazz artist?

Cannonball Adderley

With whom did Florence Price study composition?

Chadwick

________ collected, transcribed, and recorded Hispanic folk songs.

Charles F. Lummis

Who among the following was NOT an ultramodernist composer?

Charles Ives

Under what composer did Henry Cowell study music in his youth?

Charles Seeger

Alan Freed operated in which city?

Cleveland

In the early 1950s, a studio was established at ___________ by professors Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, Milton Babbitt, and Roger Sessions.

Columbia university

Founded in 1928, the ____________ concerts produced ten concerts by 1932.

Copland sessions

Ruth Crawford Seeger's early compositions were inspired by

Dane Rudhyar

Who wrote Hyperprism?

Edgard Varèse

The first piece by Aaron Copland to quote folk material was

El salón Mexico

Louis Moreau Gottschalk's stylistic diversity owes much to his _________ background.

European, Jewish, and creole

Who was the most successful Jimmie Rodgers imitator?

Gene Autry

Who among the following is NOT a minimalist composer?

George Rochberg

No honky-tonk singer equaled _________ in popularity and lasting influence.

Hank williams

Who among the following did NOT win a Pulitzer Prize?

Henry Cowell

Charles Ives studied composition with which member of the Second New England School

Horatio Parker

An Arrow against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing: Drawn out of the Quiver of the Scriptures was written by

Increase Mather

Which of the following acts is the latest?

Indian Nationality Act

Who of the following was not a native-born, Yankee psalmodist?

James Lyon

What early jazz giant fell into obscurity as the New Orleans sound became dated? Correct!

Jelly Roll Morton

What songwriting team authored Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog"?

Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Which figure was directly associated with music of social reform?

Jesse Hutchinson Jr

Dolly Parton's first solo hit covered the tune, "Muleskinner Blues" by

Jimmie Rodgers

What earlier country artist(s) had initiated the 1970s singer-songwriter emphasis on intimate self-revelation?

Jimmie Rodgers

For whom did Stravinsky compose his 1964 elegy?

John F. Kennedy

What early figure is credited with helping Armstrong perfect his virtuosity?

Lil Hardin

Which jazz artist had the most significant influence on vocalists?

Louis Armstrong

Who was America's first significant "classical composer"?

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Legal and social distinctions in which region were less sharp and increased the possibilities for a merging of culture?

Louisiana

Who among the following was NOT a significant jazz figure during the 1960s?

Lukas foss

Which performer was the first singer to receive a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 1993?

Marion Williams

The film scores of _________ set the tone for what has been called Hollywood's "golden age."

Max Steiner

In the nineteenth century, one favorite song genre in the home circle was centered on a mythic view of love harking back to the

Middle Ages

No musician seized more eagerly on the constructive possibilities of twelve-tone technique than

Milton Babbitt

Scott Joplin's first published rag was

Mississippi rag

Though artistically negligible, record producer __________ novelty records, like Les Paul's, introduced the idea that a record could deliver a listening experience that could only be constructed bit by bit in the studio.

Mitch miller's

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

Much of Ives's instrumental music was inspired by whom?

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau

Likely the delta blues musician with the most legendary status was

Robert Johnson

Which opera performance in New York during 1825 marked the debut of a newly arrived opera troupe headed by tenor Manuel Garcia?

Rossini's Barber of Seville

An important city center for the psychedelic music scene was

San Fransisco

No American city, at any time, has shown a passion for operatic performance equaling that of _________ in 1860.

San Fransisco

The most successful black musician to bring music from the black folk tradition into the popular sphere was

Scott Joplin

Which of the following conductors especially championed the music of new American composers?

Serge Koussevitsky

Which of the following are referenced by Bernstein's West Side Story?

Shakespeare, race, and gang culture

In which colonial region did blacks heavily outnumber whites?

South Carolina

Which of the following was NOT part of the Catholic church's public display efforts?

Spanish-language masses

____________ proclaimed Elliott Carter's Double Concerto for piano, harpsichord, and small orchestra a masterpiece.

Stravinsky

Gershwin's first hit was

Swanee

From which of the following areas did western swing NOT originate?

Tennessee

The 1950 mainstream success of a pop version of the tune _________ seemed to indicate that country songwriters' emotional directness could jump barriers of social class and geography.

Tennessee waltz

What Chicago musician and songwriter has performing credits that include a stint as a pianist for Ma Rainey as well as a lifelong devotion to sacred music?

Thomas A. Dorsey

Miles Davis emerged in the latter 1940s with a lyrical approach that contradicted the image of modern jazz as virtuoso music.

true

Minstrelsy was the Civil War era's most popular form of entertainment.

true

The first tunebook to address the needs of both the congregation and the choir was

Urania, or A Choice Collection of Psalm-tunes, Anthems, and Hymns

The Carter Family was from

Virginia

____________ was known as the "father of the blues."

W.C. Handy

In which of the following cities was professional musical activity NOT concentrated?

Washington, D.C.

Which of the following is NOT an expressly African musical trait or practice?

Western European harmonic sensibility

Who among the following was NOT a rival, collaborator, or student of Lowell Mason?

William Billings

Which figure did NOT attempt a scholarly study of American Indian culture?

William Cody

The premiere of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony marked the first time in history that

a major orchestra performed a symphonic work by an African American composer.

Typically, country blues involves

a male singer accompanying himself on guitar

Among Ives's myriad contributions is

a substantial body of music, some of it radically individual in style.

Most classic American popular songs began life in a musical comedy.

true

Which of the following film genres used popular music prominently and in pathbreaking ways?

all of these options

Which of the following skews the historical record of preserving American Indian music culture in the 1800s?

all of these reasons

The Weavers were the successors to

almanac singers

Outside his work with the Carter Family music group, A.P. Carter was

an amateur song catcher.

The concert spiritual was

an expression of African American experience that incorporated the manner of European classical music.

The eighteenth-century American theater was

an extension of English-language stage works from London

The variety contained within Ives's song literature does NOT include

any of these options

Most of the top-selling songs at the turn of the century were in a major key.

true

Most show songs that won popularity in the years between the two world wars were about romantic love.

true

Musicals before Leonard Bernstein's time were largely ignored by music critics, who saw the classical and popular spheres as separated by a firm barrier.

true

New York City's Metropolitan Opera toured Mexico.

true

Nineteenth-century parlor music's purpose was more social than artistic.

true

No national church nor any political structure existed in America to sponsor music development.

true

No social fact about music in the years after World War II is more noteworthy than the growing influence of teenagers in the marketplace.

true

Opera's popularity in America was partly due to its interactive performance environment that embraced audience involvement through real-time response to events on stage.

true

Pete Seeger was a key figure in the urban folk revival.

true

Settings for camp-meeting hymns typically proved to be interdenominational gatherings that set religion above rac

true

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band emulated many aspects of Pet Sounds.

true

Source material for Lowell Mason's hymn collections came principally from the sacred melodies of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

true

Sousa made approximately one thousand recordings by the 1920s

true

The 1960s and early 1970s saw the demise of the golden-age film score.

true

The African American spiritual served a dual purpose as both a religious expression and a call to action.

true

The American Indian population after the Civil War swiftly declined in the face of war, disease, and poverty.

true

The Birth of a Nation makes uses of leitmotif technique.

true

The British Isles welcomed minstrel shows.

true

The Jazz Singer was the first film to demonstrate that a spoken soundtrack was marketable.

true

The Protestant Reformation in early-sixteenth-century Europe challenged the belief that prescribed rituals foster true piety.

true

The Virginia Minstrels were formed in New York.

true

The blues would go on to influence nearly every style of music that developed in its wake.

true

The first American performance of Beethoven's first symphony was in Boston.

true

The first jazz recording was made by white musicians.

true

The heart of the sheet music trade lay in the solo song with keyboard accompaniment.

true

The lined-out practice developed because too few worshipers could read the psalms.

true

The most influential musical émigré was the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

true

The music of Henry Cowell drew on Chinese, Japanese, African, South Indian, Javanese, and Irish musics.

true

The nineteenth century saw a significant increase in the quantity and quality of American Indian ethnography.

true

The phrase "rock and roll" was a sexual euphemism from African American slang.

true

The profit motive has been a vital source of creative music energy throughout much of American history.

true

The radio proved an important new medium to broadcast a wide variety of music.

true

The rise of fascism in the postwar era compelled a number of European musicians to emigrate to the United States.

true

The vast majority of race records featured blues numbers.

true

Patrick S. Gilmore's career primarily proved that

bands could cut loose from military affiliation as an independent ensemble in the public arena.

The __________ has clear West African antecedents.

banjo

Who among the following did NOT contribute to the large body of song that took shape in the American West?

bankers

Mason's early career had been in the field of

banking

The first all-black congregations were formed in the South in the 1770s and 1780s by

baptists

________ was the first phase of modern jazz in the postwar period.

bebop

Jazz and gospel music 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

In popular music after 1960, perhaps no other single figure would be as profoundly influential as

bob Dylan

A bridge between the two countercultures of the folk revivalists and the Beats was

bob dylan

What performer's career inspired a host of singer-songwriters during the 1970s?

bob dylan

The first known public concert in the American colonies took place in

boston

The music publishing firm Oliver Ditson & Co. was located in

boston

The singing-school movement was principally based in which city?

boston

Which city resisted touring troupes for a time owing to a law that prohibited theater from 1750 to 1793?

boston

Which of the following would have been viewed as the lowest form of musical entertainment during the early twentieth century?

burlesque

Thelonious Monk, John Lewis, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis did not emphasize virtuoso technique.

true

Which of the following was NOT a professional or semiprofessional performing ensemble first formed in antebellum America?

church choirs

Songs of the Civil War prominently referenced all of the following topics or concepts EXCEPT

civil rights

Irene and Vernon Castle were known for

combing "exotic" and European dance styles for mainstream audiences

In which of the following roles did Henry Cowell serve throughout his career?

composer, writer, and concert promoter

Various types of concert music in early America included all of the following EXCEPT

conscription concerts

Which of the following labels were NOT used by Billboard magazine to classify country music recordings during the 1940s?

country records

Patsy Cline's "Crazy," with words and music by Willie Nelson, was a crossover hit on both _________ and __________ charts in 1961.

country; pop

Americans of the colonial era performed

couple and country dances.

Which of the following movements was popular song NOT specifically enlisted to support?

critiquing Wall Street

Like _________, theater provoked strong opposition.

dance

Accounts of Native American music near present-day Texas and New Mexico as early as the 1530s

detail general attributes of vocal performance, various instrumentation, and some aspects of functional and spiritual meaning.

After 1800, a split opened up in Protestant sacred music characterized by a competing focus on

edification and praise

Henry Cowell's approach to piano composition was largely _________.

experimental

A fuging tune models precisely after the European fugue.

false

A pandiatonic sound means that only a select few notes of the diatonic scale are in use.

false

African Americans skilled in Western instrumentation was not commonplace in the 1700s.

false

Al Jolson was not connected to the musical comedy tradition.

false

Alan Lomax replaced Robert Winslow Gordon in the Archives of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

false

American labor unions emerged in the early 1800s.

false

An example of a new up-to-date musical comedy of the 1920s was The Student Prince with songs by George and Ira Gershwin.

false

Before New York City, the center of the American popular song trade was Chicago.

false

Ben Johnston was a prominent figure in 1970s musical theater.

false

Between 1910 and 1920, the Metropolitan Opera especially encouraged creative opera efforts by American composers, and many won an enduring place in the repertory

false

Blues and black gospel music share a melodic and harmonic idiom, a rhythmic approach, a rootedness in traditional African American culture, and a similar function.

false

Blues music took shape in a written tradition.

false

Broadside ballads eschewed commenting on current events.

false

By the 1800s, collectors of Anglo-Celtic ballads were more interested in ballad reworkings than the earlier British forms.

false

By the 1820s, theatrical performance revolved less and less around star performers.

false

By the 1950s Memphis was the undisputed capital of the country music industry.

false

By the late 1940s rock and roll enjoyed a prominent place in the youth culture of the United Kingdom as well as the United States.

false

Charles Ives made a living as a composer.

false

Charlie Parker's contemporaries did not recognize his superior talent and musicianship in his own lifetime.

false

Chuck Berry's vocal style was both racially ambiguous and androgynous.

false

Colonial Boston records indicate that many citizens did not own musical instruments.

false

Composer Jerome Kern got his start in America

false

Duke Ellington toured for the U.S. State Department in the 1950s.

false

During the 1800s, the U.S. military was using wind instruments according to customs borrowed from the French army.

false

Early psalmody featured compositions by native-born Americans who were principally from New York and New Jersey.

false

Erich Wolfgang Korngold scored the soundtrack for Gone with the Wind.

false

Frances Densmore's recordings of American Indian music provided a faithful, accurate transcription document of the American Indian music making experience.

false

George Chadwick founded and directed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

false

George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess became the twentieth century's most performed piece of American concert music.

false

Harry Partch pioneered the technique of metric modulation.

false

In 1950 "The Tennessee Waltz," by the country songwriter and performer Pee Wee King, was turned into a hit record by Les Paul.

false

In the decades after World War II, Hollywood film scores came increasingly to reject the aesthetic stance established by Aaron Copland.

false

In the decades between the two worlds, the composer was elevated to a standing in the classical sphere once reserved for the performer.

false

In the mid-1800s, American music business took shape specifically to meet the needs of military functions

false

In the years between the two world wars, the boundaries between country music and other genres were clearly marked.

false

In their own time, composer Leo Ornstein was less well-known than Charles Ives.

false

Instrumentation of typical minstrel groups emphasized melody and harmony over rhythm, timbre, and body movement.

false

James P. Johnson's concert music enjoyed moderate critical and popular success during his lifetime.

false

Jelly Roll Morton made his first recordings in New Orleans.

false

Johann Gottfried von Herder's notion of "das Volk" was closely tied to ideas of political ideology.

false

Just before the United States entered World War II, film scores began to lean toward American-sounding music, often with a traditional slant.

false

Lowell Mason's publications concentrated upon religious music practice.

false

Most popular culture in nineteenth-century America challenged, sensationalized, and distorted portrayals of American Indians.

false

Not until the 1900s did any appreciable number of American-born singers or players find a place on U.S. stages.

false

Philip Glass invented phase music and later composed Piano Phase.

false

Popular music record sales topped $214 million in 1947, surpassing the previous peak, set before the World War II.

false

Richard Rodgers had a troubled partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II.

false

Rock was eclipsed by the overwhelming popularity of jazz in the 1960s.

false

Ruth Crawford Seeger was Pete Seeger's mother.

false

Ruth Crawford Seeger was the third woman to receive the Guggenheim Fellowship.

false

Samuel Cartwright's theory of polygenesis challenges racial prejudice.

false

The English approach to colonization was more systematic than that of the Spanish.

false

The New York Philharmonic Society was founded during the 1860s.

false

The Second Great Awakening occurred in the 1730s and 1740s.

false

The blues was developed by whites in the rural South.

false

The rise of the phonograph somewhat stalled the popularization of music.

false

The second decade of country music experienced a marked slowing in its development.

false

The transatlantic slave trade started soon after Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

false

The unpretentious manner of Merle Haggard was welcomed by upper-class listeners.

false

The use of bluesy riffs, sometimes called the "the Ellington effect," was Ellington's trump card, making his band instantly recognizable and emotionally potent.

false

Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph in 1897.

false

William Cody collected recordings of more than two-thousand American Indian tribal songs over fifty years.

false

William Walker's The Southern Harmony was printed in the South.

false

Which of the following is NOT a practice or aspect of black musical worship?

field holler

Some hillbilly music fits neatly into the category of ________, but much of it does not.

folk

Trumpet, clarinet, and trombone comprise what part of a typical New Orleans jazz band?

front line

The ___________ was memorized, assembled from the ideas of band members and learned aurally rather than being written down.

head arrangement

In the Southern Uplands

hymnody had taken root among rural plain folk

When was the magnetic tape recorder perfected?

in the late 1940s

In the years before the American Revolution, amateur music making seems to have

increased

During the years before the Civil War, the United States was undergoing a fundamental shift to a primarily __________ economy.

industrial

Musical comedy differed from operetta in that

its settings and characters were contemporary.

Duke Ellington found great success merging

jazz nd concert music

The film music of _______________ marked a return to the golden age of film music.

john williams

Who among the following experimented widely with editing and overdubbing techniques in recording?

les paul

Which of the following would NOT be a part of a musical modernist aesthetic?

lyricism

Lowell Mason seems to be the first American musician who

made a substantial profit from his musical work.

The Swing Era witnessed the popularity of the ___________, a fast dance of Cuban origin.

mambo

Of the following, the earliest recorded blues singer was

mamie smith

By the mid-1800s home music making involving sheet music and pianos was a pastime accessible to

many middle-class Americans.

The Stars and Stripes Forever is a

march

Spanish congregations in the New World increasingly came to include more and more __________.

mestizos

The rise of ______________ as a popular medium of art and entertainment was one of the most important cultural developments in the years between the world wars.

motion pictures

_________ were a significant way for country musicians to reach a wider audience.

motion pictures

Heterophony is a texture in which

multiple voices simultaneously vary a melody.

_____________ and vaudeville provided the sheet music business' main marketing arm at the turn of the century.

musical comedy

Show Boat significantly fused which two dramatic genres?

musical comedy and operetta

What popular Broadway tune did John Coltrane update as a jazz cover?

my favorite things

Which of the following was NOT a function or place where bands were active during the mid-1800s?

navy battles

According to the 1850 census, in what ratio did people of African descent account for the American population?

one in six

Visiting a plantation in the summer of 1841, New Englander Lewis Paine observed slaves dancing to a unique kind of accompaniment known as

patting juba

What made it possible for critics in the postwar era to be able to treat jazz performances with increasing seriousness?

phonographic records

By the 1820s, the ______ was on its way to becoming the quintessential parlor instrument of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

piano

Which of the following groups was NOT involved in the 1869 Boston National Peace Jubilee?

policemen

Ruth Crawford Seeger's music was often directly connected with

politics

The key to the distinctive voice in American musicals was

popular song

The first Old World settlers to populate what is now the eastern United States were

protestants

Lowell Mason was considered the "father" of

public school music

Who were the music trade's chief architects?

publishers

The newly discovered market for African American musicians playing the blues was dubbed

race records

________ pervaded all three entertainment types of theater, song, and dance.

ragtime

Stravinsky was particularly interested in

ragtime and jazz

Modeling it after the Bay Psalm Book format, __________ published the first hymnal assembled by a black author for a black congregation.

reverend richard allen

With whom did Fred Astaire NOT collaborate?

richard Rodgers

In the years immediately after World War II, a widening gulf stood between the cerebral music of postwar academic composers and the earthy joys of

rock and roll

Of the following, which is NOT an explicitly successful ingredient for an independent show tune?

sentimentality

During the 1950s, ______ became basic to Davis's musical vocabulary.

silence, or space

The primary unit of sale in the popular music industry both before and after the war was the

single

William Francis Allen published

slave songs of the United States

Classical instrumental repertoire in America followed the design of the _______.

sonata

George Gershwin's early work was as a

song plugger

Stephen Foster

staged minstrel shows, advanced racial stereotypes through his music, and published minstrel tunes.

Which animation film did Walt Disney produce in 1928?

steamboat willie

Theodore Thomas took it as his mission to help raise the musical standards of the American symphony orchestra.

true

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.

George L. White established ________ in 1870.

the Fisk jubilee singers

Mason's early music publication was sponsored by

the Handel and Haydn Society.

Who formed the United Booking Office of America in 1906?

the Keith-Albee organization

In 1833

the Mexico City government secularized missions and sent friars back to Spain.

Shape notes originated in

the Northeast

In 1721, Cotton Mather stressed

the importance of words over music

To which of the following realizations about American symphonic culture did Thomas NOT subscribe?

the notion that classical music making was the noblest of the arts

Which of the following groups did NOT contribute significant sacred works outside the Calvinist tradition during this early period in American music making?

the pilgrims

Typically, operetta differed from opera in that

the plots were carried by spoken dialogue

Theodore Thomas was

the premier American conductor of the nineteenth century.

In Paris during the 1840s, Adolphe Sax invented

the saxhorn

Before 1890, __________ and other conductors had established the American symphony orchestra as an ensemble grounded in European classics.

theodore thomas

Which of the following does NOT characterize Lester Young's playing style?

thick vibrato

Music that brought jazz techniques into the classical sphere or vice versa, through improvisation or written composition, was known as

third stream

How many American Indians were alive in 1865?

three hundred thousand

"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" straddles the carefree ethos of 1950s rock and roll and the more mature sensibility of 1960s rock.

true

A lively tradition of stage musical entertainment developed in the rural South at a time when minstrel and vaudeville shows were largely urban phenomena.

true

Advantages such as musical literacy, music lessons that promoted literacy, ownership of musical instruments---especially the piano---were beyond the reach of many Americans, especially in the least prosperous regions of the country.

true

After World War I, jazz was seen by some as a decline of civilization.

true

America's musical culture in the period from the Civil War to World War I witnessed a more pronounced separation between the three spheres of music making.

true

Amy Cheney Beach is the only female member of the so-called Second New England School.

true

Amy Cheney Beach's compositions number over 300.

true

Basie formed his nine-piece orchestra in the wake of Benny Goodman's success and Bennie Moten's early death.

true

Before the Civil War, most American dances came from Europe.

true

Traditional folk songs and performance styles mixed with newly composed topical songs were known as protest songs.

true

Before the end of the American Civil War achieved the abolition of slavery, free blacks in the North had been finding niches in the American music business.

true

Bill Monroe established himself on the Grand Ole Opry.

true

Black minstrel shows set the stage for the careers of professional African American entertainers after the Civil War.

true

By 1800 New Orleans was a multiracial society with less rigid stratification than anywhere else on the continent.

true

By all accounts, slaves were generally expected to sing as well as to work.

true

By the end of World War II, the term "hillbilly" was on its way out.

true

Calvinists pledged allegiance to the Holy Bible in place of the church itself.

true

Count Basie was based in Kansas City.

true

Despite the regular presence of ragtime in most popular music of this period, only songs having to do with African American subject matter were considered ragtime

true

During the rise of the music publishing industry in America, distinctions made among music styles or genres (classical, popular, folk) were not a matter of elitism but were instead a matter of recognizing different markets for different kinds of music.

true

Early American military uses for music included recreation.

true

Early Spanish colonization of North America was tied to efforts at religious conversion.

true

Early public concerts in America emphasized variety, programming more short pieces than long ones.

true

Edward MacDowell's music was identified with the "New German School" of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner.

true

Florence Price carried forward the development of the concert spiritual as begun by Harry T. Burleigh.

true

French opera theater existed in New Orleans before 1800.

true

Gene Autry appeared in nearly ninety western films.

true

George Chadwick's American style found a niche in early Hollywood film scores.

true

George Crumb created some of the most distinctive New Romantic music.

true

George M. Cohan's "I Want to Hear a Yankee Doodle Tune" made references to foregoing operatic repertoire.

true

George Pullen Jackson's observations on the Southern practice of hymnody in the early twentieth century seem more a transformation than a simple survival of Northern practice.

true

Gospel music offered rich opportunities for women as well as men.

true

Henry Cowell was imprisoned.

true

In the 1960s and early 1970s, some films went so far as to limit themselves to diegetic music alone.

true

In the Northern United States, Christians generally favored conversion of blacks.

true

In the postwar years, jazz was the only popular music then being taken seriously by critics.

true

Ives self-published his 114 Songs in 1922.

true

Jazz of the Swing Era tended to place a more equal emphasis on all four beats in a bar.

true

Jimmie Rodgers was the first undisputed solo star of country music.

true

John Cage was a student of Arnold Schoenberg.

true

John Cage's musical interests extended westward to Asia as well as eastward to Europe.

true

John Coltrane studied under Leo Ornstein.

true

Like contemporaneous rock musicians, country artists in the 1960s borrowed the advanced production techniques of mainstream popular music to create records that appealed to a broader, more diverse audience.

true

Louis Armstrong displaced the Beatles on the pop charts.

true

In which city is jazz believed to have originated?

New Orleans

James P. Johnson's Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody premiered in

New York City's Carnegie Hall.

During the mid-nineteenth century, the American popular music industry was consolidated in what city?

New York city

In 1915, Cecil Sharp learned of a community maintaining an ancient folk song tradition from the British Isles in the mountains of

North Carolina

The composer of "Dixie" hailed from which state?

Ohio

Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer" reached a mass audience through the hit record made by

Peter, Paul, and Mary.

The form of "The Battle Cry of Freedom" is

verse and chorus

Louis Armstrong's legacy is his

virtuosity, scat singing, and solo inventiveness.

William Billings's The New-England Psalm-Singer, or American Chorister was significant in that it

was the first published collection of entirely American music and the first American tunebook devoted wholly to works by one composer.

Broadside ballads

were sold in the marketplace.

Between the Civil War and ________, the wind band flourished.

world war 1


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