music test

The singing school movement experienced its greatest activity throughout New England from ______.

1760 to 1800

Identify the true statements about alabados. Multiple select question. Newer alabados use major and minor scales. Alabados may be sung by a solo voice or by a lead singer, often a priest, alternating verses with group responses. Some alabados are related musically to the chants of the Protestant church. Alabados relate the unofficial history of Mexican or Mexican American communities and their heroes.

- Newer alabados use major and minor scales. - Alabados may be sung by a solo voice or by a lead singer, often a priest, alternating verses with group responses.

Which of the following is a true statement about Native American music?

A song often consists simply of many repetitions of one or more phrases or partial phrases.

Identify an accurate statement about the development of American folk music in the nineteenth century.

Each geographic area of America was producing songs and instrumental pieces expressing the typical local experience.

The first Americans to write music with a distinctively American (at least, non-European) sound, they are collectively referred to as members of the Blank______ of composers. Multiple choice question.

First New England Schoo

Mennonite schoolmasters decorated the title pages of their tune books with a Pennsylvania-German Mennonite folk art called ______, a highly ornamental combination of calligraphy and script with flowers, figures, and geometric designs.

Fraktur

Identify an accurate statement about Francis Hopkinson.

He held the view that the colonists were inferior in the arts and best advised to emulate European styles.

Identify an accurate statement about William Billings.

He wrote songs to suit his own American tastes and made no attempt to imitate European sounds.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about a "school" of artists?

It includes people living at about the same time.

Identify an accurate statement about folk music. Multiple choice question. It includes simple songs and instrumental pieces whose origin has been lost or forgotten. It includes transcriptions of classical and operatic music. It includes complex melodies and harmonies that use numerous chromatic tones. It includes syncopated rhythms distinctive of the new vernacular music.

It includes simple songs and instrumental pieces whose origin has been lost or forgotten.

The ______ (of whom the Amish were a later offshoot) first arrived in 1683, mostly from Germany.

Mennonites

The first performances in America of important European symphonic and choral works were given by ______.

Moravian musicians

Identify the true statements about Spanish missions.

Music had an important part in the religious training of American Indians by zealous Spanish missionaries. The Spanish missionaries taught their more or less willing converts to sing the songs and prayers usually set to very simple tunes.

Identify an accurate statement about the singing school masters.

Singing school masters were music amateurs who previously earned their living as shopkeepers, merchants, or farmers.

One of the first kinds of religious music in California, Texas, and New Mexico was the ______.

alabado

The term ___________refers to a Spanish hymn, or a religious song.

alabado

What did West Africans develop by using drums for communication as well as for music?

an extremely fine sense of changes in tone and timbre truly remarkable rhythmic techniques

A characteristic of pentatonic scale is that ______.

any five notes may be selected to form a pentatonic scale

Benjamin Franklin invented a musical instrument called the Blank______ that consisted of a series of hollow, hemispheric glass bowls or bells, each with a short neck.

armonica

Identify the features of work songs developed by African slaves in America. Multiple select question. The songs were strophic in form. The songs were performed in the characteristic Spanish folk songs and folk hymns style called alabados. The songs were binary in form. The songs were performed in the characteristic West African music practice known as call-and-response.

The songs were strophic in form. The songs were performed in the characteristic West African music practice known as call-and-response.

Which of the following is a true statement about the singing of the Plains Indians?

The sound is high in pitch, tense in quality, and harsh in tone.

Sailors' work songs or __________ appeared as New Englanders became heavily involved in sea trade and traffic, and as sailors working on the rivers, too, developed songs about their trade

chanteys or shanties

Francis Hopkinson wrote several songs intended for ______.

concert or recital performance

Storytelling songs or ballads called Blank______ relate to the unofficial history of Mexican or Mexican American communities and their heroes.

corridos

Storytelling songs or ballads with roots in both Mexico and parts of the southwestern and western United States are referred to as _____.

corridos

Which of the following are accurate statements about the First New England School composers?

They relied upon old, familiar techniques and their own honest taste. They shared the goals of teaching people to read music and to sing.

Identify an accurate statement about British folk ballads. Multiple choice question. They were delivered from memory by a solo voice. They were never subjected to an alteration. They were based on the practice of call-and-response. They were short songs that had only two verses. Need help? Review these concept resources.

They were delivered from memory by a solo voice.

According to Thomas Jefferson, art, especially American art, ______.

must be practical to be worthwhile

Which of the following are true of the domination of the musical scene by Philadelphia in the eighteenth century?

Those sitting in the cheaper seats of the Philadelphian theaters yelled freely at the actors and musicians, demanding to hear their favorite songs. Despite the presence of soldiers hired to keep order, pandemonium often reigned in the Philadelphian theaters.

The first generation of African slaves who were born in America Blank______.

began to develop their own music, rooted in African customs and sounds

The first generation of African slaves who were born in America Blank______. Multiple choice question.

began to develop their own music, rooted in African customs and sounds

Much African American music is still based on the "bent" or flexible tones of the Blank______.

blues scale

he British folk tradition that was written and printed on a very large sheet suitable for public display, or sometimes printed in a, newspaper is called the Blank______.

broadside

Although women's voices lie an octave lower than men's, and although call-and-response sometimes leads to an overlap between the leader's and the other singers' tones, there is always harmony in the Western sense.

false

Field hollers always used religious texts as their lyrics.

false

In a fuging tune, each voice performs the same melody, entering and dropping out in turn.

false

African American slaves poured all the anguish of their new, tragic experience of work as slaves into Blank______.

field hollers

The ___________ in a fuging tune is chordal, or homophonic, in texture, the melody lying in one voice, while the other three provide chordal harmony. The __________ in a fuging tune begins with staggered entrances, gives each voice melodic interest; thus the texture is polyphonic.

first section (A); second section (B)

Alabados performed during religious processions are sung in unison, unaccompanied except perhaps by ______________figures evocative, some say, of the tears of Mary, and a twirling rattle.

flute

Music composed in an informal style traditional in certain cultures is referred to as ______ music.

folk

A characteristic of ring shout is that the shouters ______

form a circle and shuffle energetically to the singing of a spiritual or hymn

A characteristic of ring shout is that the shouters ______.

form a circle and shuffle energetically to the singing of a spiritual or hymn

Developed from ancient Arab prototypes, the African banjo typically had Blank______.

four strings, three long and one short

The mysterious sounds of the Blank______, invented by Benjamin Franklin, were reputed to make women faint and soothe marital dispute.

glass harmonica

In order to learn each tune as they thought it should be rendered, some congregations adopted the practice of __________ __________, in which a more or less musically literate leader sang one line of the psalm, which the congregation then repeated in unison, performing each successive line in this awkward manner.

lining out

When the Blacks could no longer understand the African languages while creating music, they used ______.

meaningless but rhythmic syllables

Music consisting only of one line of melody, such as a Native American song or flute piece, is said to be ______ in texture.

monophonic

Some texts are simply a series of consonant-vowel clusters or Blank______—neutral syllables, such as hey, yeh, or neh, which may in fact convey meaning in themselves.

vocables

Thomas Jefferson participated enthusiastically in music activities, although he insisted that the arts were meaningful ______.

only as they bore relevance to everyday life

A canon is ______ in texture, meaning two or more melodic lines are performed together.

polyphonic

People who followed the strict teachings of the Swiss reformer John Calvin believed that the only texts suitable for singing in a worship service were those of the ______, 150 inspirational verses found in the Old Testament of the Bible.

psalms

The newly metered and rhymed psalm verses used by the Calvinists were printed in books called ______ for use in congregational singing.

psalters

The Great Awakening refers to a series of ______.

religious revival movements

A feature of the African banjo is that the short string provides a ______.

rhythmic and harmonic drone

a feature of the African banjo is that the short string provides a ______.

rhythmic and harmonic drone

An African tradition translated to an African American experience that is performed at religious services or camp meetings is called ______.

ring shout

Work songs often accompanied American plantation slaves to Blank______. Multiple choice question.

set the pace and synchronize the movements of groups of forced laborers

Work songs often accompanied American plantation slaves to ______.

set the pace and synchronize the movements of groups of forced laborers

Which of the following qualities enhance the emotional intensity of the music of the Plains Indians?

tense quality of voices

Which of the following elements in music is described in terms of its "threads," or melodic lines?

texture

Music publishing had become an important business by the latter part of the nineteenth century, producing quantities of sheet music appropriate for Blank______.

the amateur performer that consisted mostly of simple vocal and piano pieces

A feature of British folk ballads is that Blank______.

they often included a very large number of stanzas

When each line of text has its own music, the song is said to be in Blank______ form.

through composed

When each line of text has its own music, the song is said to be in ______ form.

through composed

In Africa, drums often accompanied work songs, providing Blank______. Multiple choice question.

two or three different underlying rhythmic patterns in a complexity difficult for Western ears even to hear

In Africa, drums often accompanied work songs, providing ______.

two or three different underlying rhythmic patterns in a complexity difficult for Western ears even to hear

Native American songs are usually sung by a solo voice or by men and women singing together in __________________ (all singing the same notes at the same time).

unison

Native American songs are usually sung by a solo voice or by men and women singing together in___________ (all singing the same notes at the same time).

unison

Identify an accurate statement about the early efforts at musical reform.

As old tunes came to be remembered differently, New Englanders began to disagree as to how they should be sung.

Where did the singing school movement begin?

Boston

Identify an accurate statement about Native American music. Multiple choice question. Native American music essentially consists of songs imbued with strong powers to accomplish a given end. Songs, which are highly valued in American Indian cultures, have been preserved through the ages by notation. American Indians think of their songs not as received in a dream or vision, but as composed. Native American music was never part of dance, celebration, games, work, or prayer but was always an independent concept.

Native American music essentially consists of songs imbued with strong powers to accomplish a given end.

______ is the primary melody-playing Native American instrument. Multiple choice question.

Navajo flute

In the late eighteenth century, musical theater grew in popularity as interest in music and the theater moved north to New York and then to___________ , which soon dominated the musical scene.

Philadelphia

Which of the following statements is true about psalters?

Some psalters contained notated melodies, whereas others printed only the words of the psalm verses, which could be sung to popular tunes.

Which of the following are true of the plays performed in the eighteenth century in the United States?

Sometimes a march played at the end led the audience out of the hall to attend a nearby dance. Performances usually included a main drama and also a shorter, lighter, often comic piece.

Identify a true statement about the psalm tunes sung by the Calvinists.

The Calvinists consistently sang their psalm tunes in church a cappella and in unison.

Which of the following are true about the singing practices followed by the Calvinists?

The Calvinists did not intend their psalm tunes to stir emotions. The Calvinists believed the only purpose for music in a church service was to enhance expression of a religious text.

Identify a true statement about the Great Awakening.

The Great Awakening raised concern among urban and rural folk not only for their own redemption, but for that of Black slaves and American Indians as well.

Which of the following is true about the singing practices followed by Calvinists, the people who adhered to the strict teachings of John Calvin?

They forbade the singing in church of hymns, which had freely written texts not necessarily based on passages from the Bible or from church liturgy.

Which of the following statements is true about the broadsides in America?

They offered an opportunity to state one's case anonymously.

In 1798, President John Adams signed into law the creation of the Blank______, which included thirty-two drummers and fifers, a drum major, and a fife major. Multiple choice question.

United States Marine Band

Which of the following statements correctly highlight the musical differences between Lutherans and Calvinists?

Unlike Calvinists, American Lutherans sang hymns, many of which appear in hymnals currently used by many Protestant sects. Unlike Lutherans, Calvinists confined their worship music to the unaccompanied singing of psalm tunes.

Which of the following statements correctly highlight the musical differences between Lutherans and Calvinists? Unlike Calvinists, Lutherans proscribed all music but the singing of psalm tunes in church. Unlike Lutherans, Calvinists confined their worship music to the unaccompanied singing of psalm tunes. Unlike Lutherans, Calvinists were encouraged to sing simple tunes and lighthearted texts in worship. Unlike Calvinists, American Lutherans sang hymns, many of which appear in hymnals currently used by many Protestant sects.

Unlike Lutherans, Calvinists confined their worship music to the unaccompanied singing of psalm tunes. Unlike Calvinists, American Lutherans sang hymns, many of which appear in hymnals currently used by many Protestant sects.

Identify the centers of music activity that had active theaters well before the middle of the eighteenth century in America.

Williamsburg in Virginia Charleston in North Carolina

Identify the first American to produce a book of tunes all of his own composition in 1770.

William Billings

Which of the following became a basic characteristic of African American vocal and instrumental music?

call-and-response

A ______ is a melody that forms meaningful harmonies when performed with "staggered entrances"—that is, when successive voices begin the same melody at later times.

canon

What type of wood is used to make a Navajo flute?

cedar

Music had an important part in the religious training of American Indians by zealous Spanish missionaries, who taught their more or less willing converts to sing the songs and prayers of the_____ _______

christian church

A feature of the Moravian musicians is that they ______.

composed and performed music for the love of it

Which of the following events encouraged a wave of foreign, mostly British, musicians to come to the American musical theater in the late eighteenth century?

he passing of the first national copyright act in 1790 the lifting of the ban on all theater performances in 1789 by the Congress

When group singing involves an overlap between voices singing slightly different versions of the same melody, the musical texture is called Blank______. Multiple choice question.

heterophonic

The Yeibichai chant is characterized by the alternation between singing in the normal range of the voice and singing in the extremely ______ tones.

high falsetto

Identify the types of music that dominated American music throughout the Revolutionary and federal periods.

home music and work music music for dancing Music for entertainment

Many folk and other simple melodies are based on a five-note scale called ____________scale.

pentatonic

The efforts of the teaching ministers were supplemented, and eventually assumed, by talented amateur musicians, who became known as ______.

singing school masters