Music Ch 8

Identify the characteristics of barbershop singing.

Four unaccompanied male voices that ranged from high to low sang popular songs in close harmony.

Identify accurate statements about Scott Joplin

He addressed both white and black music markets by playing in black bars and saloons. He wrote sentimental songs and arrangements in the white popular style.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about the musical achievements of John Philip Sousa?

He became the director of the Marine Band at the age of twenty-five. He faithfully served five presidents as the director of the Marine Band.

Which of the following statements is true of Scott Joplin?

He regularly improvised complex embellishments in his own playing.

Identify an accurate statement about the life of Jerome Kern.

He was irresistibly drawn to the popular musical theater and began writing songs for Broadway.

Which of following statements is true of Cole Porter?

He was trained under classical musicians in Paris.

Identify an accurate statement about the music composed by George Gershwin.

His musical language reflected the sounds and the flavor of jazz.

Identify an accurate statement about player pianos.

Player pianos brought recorded performances of the great ragtime players into people's homes before phonographs.

Identify a reason that led to the decline in popularity of ragtime at the end of World War I.

The commercial effort to reach a broad audience often diluted the very characteristics that made ragtime exciting.

Identify an accurate statement about ragtime music.

The musical arrangement is normally ragged and has spicy syncopation over a steady beat.

Which of the following is a feature of the songs of Tin Pan Alley?

The songs of Tin Pan Alley proceed with the verse-chorus form after the introduction. The songs of Tin Pan Alley begin with a brief piano introduction.

Which of the following statements is true of marches?

They normally share a duple meter, with a strongly marked beat to correspond with the pattern of LEFT-right-LEFT-right.

Identify a true statement about Tin Pan Alley.

Tin Pan Alley publishers produced only popular songs.

A feature of ragtime is that it was _____.

a new and essentially American music created by black musicians

Besides being an excellent pianist, George Gershwin was also in demand as a(n) _____.

accompanist for professional singers

A feature of popular songs is that they _____.

allowed emotional release for African Americans without requiring direct confrontation of the issues on a personal level

Identify an accurate statement about John Philip Sousa.

best remembered today as the "march king"

Some of the ragtime musical piece include complex melodies and harmonies using numerous _____ tones which are tones other than those of the major or minor scale on which the musical piece was based.

chromatic

Two beats are counted in each measure but they are divided as ONE -and-a- TWO -and-a, or ONE -two-three- FOUR -five-six for musical pieces in _____.

compound duple meter

Which of the following forms of entertainment straddled the worlds of classical and popular music?

concert bands

A feature of marches is that they normally share _____.

duple meter

In 1914, Irving Berlin was one of a group of prominent music creators who founded the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) to _____.

ensure that music creators would be fairly compensated for the public performance of their works

The fox-trot soon replaced all other dances in popularity in America because _____.

its frequent syncopations delighted young people

A feature of barbershop style of singing is that the _____.

lead voice always sang the melody

Ragtime pianists recorded their performances on by playing on a special piano that marked dots on a paper, which then could be punched and duplicated.

piano rolls

Talented African American pianists began to play a new, highly syncopated and very danceable music in more or (especially) less reputable places of entertainment during the last decade of the nineteenth century. By 1897, this hot new music was being called _____.

ragtime

The last decade of the nineteenth century witnessed two phenomenal movements in popular American music: _____, which was primarily instrumental and led by black musicians, and the _____, which were vocal and led by American Jews.

ragtime; songs of Tin Pan Alley

Two beats are counted in each measure as ONE -and- two -and, and so forth for musical pieces in _____.

simple duple meter

_____ means that each of the beats in a measure is divided by two.

simple meter

In the context of music in the nineteenth century, unlike the composers of classical music, writers of popular songs _____.

simplified the melodies and harmonies of their songs

One of the reasons that ragtime declined in popularity at the end of World War I is that _____.

some composers were producing rags too complex for popular appeal

A march, which may begin with a short (four- or eight-measure) introduction, consists of a series of melodic sections called _____, each usually sixteen or thirty-two measures long, and each repeated at least once.

strains

The art form called popular music emerged in America during _____.

the period between the Jacksonian era and the Civil War

In compound meter, each beat is divided by _____.

three

By the 1890s, every major music publishing house was situated on or near 28th Street in New York. The street was soon dubbed _____, in reference to the sounds of many pianos playing at once.

tin pan alley

One of the strains in a march, scored for fewer instruments and therefore softer in dynamic level, and also typically sweeter or more lyrical than the other strains, is called the _____.

trio

Irving Berlin's first hit song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" was written for a _____ in 1911.

vaudeville show