MUSIC EXAM 3

What is the Second Great Awakening?

A Christian movement of the early 1800s.

Which best describes the structure of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot as sung by the Fisk Jubilee Quartet?

A series of verses separated by a refrain or chorus.

Listen to the three sections of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Which best describes the overall form?

ABA

Beyond ballet, Tchaikovsky was also a noted composer of

All possible answers.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects which of the following traditions?

All possible answers.

What did spirituals include that made them politically subversive?

All possible answers.

Which describes the ring shout?

All possible answers.

Which statement describes the activities of the Fisk Jubilee Singers?

All statements are true.

Which is true of the ragtime style?

All statements true.

Tchaikovsky conducted at the inaugural concert of which famous concert hall?

Carnegie Hall, New York City

During what time of year is The Nutcracker usually performed?

Christmas

The Nutcracker is based on a fanciful story by

E. T. A. Hoffmann.

Which of the following is an opera by Tchaikovsky?

Eugene Onegin

The Nutcracker is based on a story originally written by the Romantic writer Victor Hugo and expanded by E. T. A. Hoffmann.

False

Spirituals fell out of circulation after the Civil War in the United States.

False.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was originally composed in the first decade of the twentieth century.

False.

The style and structure of African American spirituals were in strict imitation of European models.

False.

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a favorite tune of which college-level performing group?

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Ballet was featured in operas by _____ composers.

French

Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?

Harlem Renaissance

Which is NOT something that Harry T. Burleigh accomplished?

He directed the Fisk Jubilee Singers for the last ten years of his life.

How did Joplin achieve financial security with the publication of Maple Leaf Rag?

He insisted on receiving royalties rather than a flat payment.

Which is a true statement regarding the saxophone?

It was invented by the Belgian Adolphe Sax.

What accounts for the slightly fuzzy sound of this recording?

It was recorded and stored on a wax cylinder.

Which composer is often referred to as the "March King"?

John Philip Sousa

______ is perhaps the best-known rag ever composed.

Maple Leaf Rag

Tchaikovsky's three ballets were all choreographed by

Marius Petipa

Which best describes the relationship between the voices in this excerpt?

One voice sings the melody while the other three sing harmonies.

Nadezhda von Meck's relationship with Tchaikovsky was that of his

Patron

The Fisk Jubilee Singers were introduced to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by

Reverend Alexander Reid.

Which of the following was NOT a famous ballet written by Tchaikovsky?

Romeo and Juliet

Tchaikovsky was a famous ______ composer.

Russian

Which composer is often referred to as the "King of Ragtime"?

Scott Joplin

Which describes camp meetings?

Special gatherings popular in nineteenth-century America where songs of worship were sung.

Which best describes the singers on the Fisk recording?

TTBB quartet

Where was Scott Joplin born?

Texarkana, Texas

Listen to the following two excerpts. Which is a true statement? (A and B section)

The B section is in a higher range than the A section.

The text of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on a story from what source?

The Holy Bible

Which statement is NOT true?

The Nutcracker was Tchaikovsky's only ballet NOT choreographed by Marius Petipa.

_____ is one of Sousa's most well-known marches.

The Stars and Stripes Forever

When was the Harlem Renaissance?

The early part of the twentieth century

Which of the following statements is correct about Burleigh's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

The melody uses a pentatonic scale.

Listen to the following two excerpts. Which is NOT a true statement? (A and B section)

The second excerpt is an exact repetition of the first.

Listen to the following two excerpts. Which is a true statement? (B and C section)

There is a new rhythmic pattern in the C section.

Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for

Treemonisha

Which movement of The Nutcracker is based on a Russian dance?

Trepak

Tchaikovsky struggled with attacks of depression.

True

The singing of spirituals offered the slave community a sense of solidarity.

True

Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, was established as a college for freed slaves.

True.

The Fisk arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is strophic.

True.

Scott Joplin's father was

a former slave

America's vernacular traditions include

all possible answers

Which describes the melodies in Maple Leaf Rag?

all possible answers

Which best describes the performing forces on the Fisk recording?

an a cappella quartet

Which of the following describes the celesta?

bell like timbre

Which new instrument did Tchaikovsky introduce to ballet?

celesta

In what meter was this written?

duple

Ragtime is typically in _____ meter.

duple

Ballet was first featured in Russian opera in the Romantic era.

false

Tchaikovsky lived and worked mostly in Paris.

false

Which best describes the tempo and meter of Burleigh's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

flexible duple meter with syncopations

Which best describes the music from the beginning of Burleigh's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, heard in this excerpt?

high female voice with piano

What it the texture in this excerpt?

homophonic

Which term describes the texture of this work?

homophonic

What was an Italian precursor to ballet?

intermedio

Which describes the mood of the Maple Leaf Rag?

marchlike

The texture of African American spirituals is best described as

monophonic with some heterophonic elaboration.

Which of the following does NOT describe the style of ragtime?

no repetition within a rag

What did the choreographer Marius Petipa invent?

pas de deux

Which scale is used in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

pentatonic

Listen to the melody only (not the harmony) in this excerpt. Which best describes the scale?

pentatonic scale

Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?

piano

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy What technique are the strings employing in this excerpt?

pizzicato

Before recorded music was widespread, music like the rags of Scott Joplin could be mechanically performed by

player pianos

Which best describes the texture in the third section of Burleigh's Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, heard in this excerpt?

polyphonic texture

Ragtime was NOT

popular until mid-twentieth century.

Sousa is credited with bringing _____ to European audiences during his first European tour in 1900.

ragtime

Which does NOT describe the device that enables us to hear Scott Joplin's rendition of Maple Leaf Rag?

recorded on a wax cylinder

The sudden bursts of sound heard in this excerpt are best described as

sforzandos

Which genre describes Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

spiritual

Which describes the rhythm played in the left hand?

steady

What is each of the repeated sections (like the one heard in this excerpt) called in a rag?

strain

Rags, like marches, are structured in regular, duple-meter sections known as _____, each of which is usually repeated.

strains

Which describes the rhythm played in the right hand?

syncopated

Nadezhda von Meck's arrangement with Tchaikovsky had one stipulation

that they never met

In 1880, Sousa became the director of

the US marine band

The lyrics to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot concern

the prophet Elijah taken up to heaven by a chariot of fire.

At the turn of the 1800s camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background.

true

Ballet has been a part of theatrical entertainments since the Renaissance.

true

Ballet was part of the court of Louis XIV.

true

Burleigh's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot calls upon jazz and blues traditions.

true

Ragtime was originally a piano style that featured highly syncopated melodies.

true

Scott Joplin is one of the first African American composers to receive widespread recognition.

true

Scott Joplin recorded some of his piano rags himself, which were preserved on punched-paper rolls made in 1910 on a Steinway player piano.

true

Sousa created, nearly single-handedly, a national music for America that continues to resonate in its concert halls, on its streets, in its sports stadiums, and in the hearts of its people.

true

The pas de deux, or dance for two, was developed by the choreographer Marius Petipa.

true

The patterns of repetition and clear-cut sections in Joplin's rags are reminiscent of those heard in Sousa marches.

true

Trepak (Russian Dance) Which term best describes the overall tempo of this dance?

vivace

Spirituals (devotional songs)

were sung by African Americans at camp meetings for freed slaves.

Tchaikovsky was the first Russian

whose music appealed to Western tastes