Music Styles - American Music before 1920 (chp. 35)
b
The composer of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" march was a. Edward MacDowell. b. John Philip Sousa. c. Charles Ives. d. Horatio Parker. e. Lowell Mason
e
The first important America women composer in the early part of the twentieth century was a. Dolly Madison. b. Clara Schumann. c. Harmony T. Ives. d. Jenny Lind. e. Amy Cheney Beach.
e
The melody to which we sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" was originally a. a Shaker tune. b. a French folk song. c. the English national anthem. d. a German marching song. e. an English drinking song.
c
The most original America composer in America in the late eighteenth century was a. Benjamin Franklin. b. Francis Hopkinson. c. William Billings. d. Lowell Mason. e. Louis Jullian.
a
The song "God Bless America" was composed by a. Irving Berlin. b. Lowell Mason. c. Charles Ives. d. William Billings. e. Francis Scott Key.
a
The wind band is an especially American musical tradition. a. True b. False
a a b b c c dogfight C(loud) C(really loud)
what form is the washington post?
march
what genre is Stars and Stripes forever?
symphony
what genre is Symphony no. 2, fifth movement?
ives
who liked to do quotation music and take snippets of famous tunes and incorporate them into marches?
Billings
who wrote "Chester" based on the region he was living?
John Philip Sousa
who wrote "The Stars and Stripes Forever"
Ives
who wrote Symphony no. 2, fifth movement?
a
Many of the melodies for American patriotic songs came from Europe. a. True b. False
c
Some of the most advanced American music in the eighteenth century was the product of the a. settlers in the Delaware-Maryland peninsula. b. people in the coastal areas of the Carolinas. c. Moravian communities in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. d. Puritans in the Boston area. e. educated families in the Philadelphia area.
b
A nineteenth-century American pianist and composer who achieved some recognition in Europe was a. Lowell Mason. b. Louis Moreau Gottschalk. c. Patrick Gilmore. d. Thomas Jullian. e. Irving Berlin.
do it yourself
Billings was a ___-___-_______ kind of guy
c
Until the twentieth century, the arts in America were largely derived from Europe because a. there were few wealthy families able to support the arts. b. Americans seems to assume that European culture was superior. c. all of these choices. d. settling a new land was a consuming interest. e. the early Puritans discouraged the arts.
e
Which compositional technique did Charles Ives employ in his music? a. polyrhythms b. quotations from songs c. polytonality d. dissonant chords e. all of these choices
dogfight
a term band directors use to describe a part of a march in which there is a rapid exchange of musical material among sections of the band
