MUSC 2743 unit 1
Consider the following statement and choose the best response: "Stephen Foster, the most influential popular songwriter of the 19th century, sold over 100,000 copies of his biggest hit, "Old Folks at Home".
The statement is true.
Who invented the phonograph?
Thomas Alva Edison
Scott Joplin, native Texan, got his first job as a pianist at a cafe in St. Louis
True
The advent of the "revue", which featured sequences of skits, songs, and dances, were an obvious post-WWI successor to vaudeville.
True
Which of the following statements is an example of the interaction between advancing technology and the qualitative nostalgia in popular music?
"I prefer analog recordings to digital because the tone is so much richer and warmer."
Listen to the excerpt and name this piece? (0:26)
"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"
Which white banjo virtuosos lead the Virginia Minstrels?
Daniel Emmett
What famous singer first revealed the commercial possibilities of sound recordings?
E. Caruso
Name the following Latin American piece
Enigue Nigue
which "stream" would this piece of music come from? (15 sec)
European American
Which crooner releases the hit "My Blue Heaven" in 1927?
Gene Austin
Which composer studied in this chapter advised aspiring songwriters to keep their melodies to a limited range, "so that even a baby could hum them"?
Harry von Tilzr
Which statement about Paul Whiteman's life and career is NOT true?
He made a conscious endeavor to hire musicians of color in his orchestra and to celebrate the African-American roots of jazz music.
Which of the following is NOT true about James Reese Europe?
He was a cornet player and leader of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
From 1999 to 2009, what drastic shift changed the music industry?
Internet-based digital sales technologies, such as Apple's online iTunes store.
Which of the following is true about the tango?
It developed during the late nineteenth century in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Listen to the excerpt from "Tiger Rag" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. What musical 'trick' is exemplified in this excerpt? (0:10)
stop-time
Louis Armstrong's final hit record broke the Top 40 in 1988, several years after the musical legend's death
true
Consider the following statement and choose the best response: "While John Philip Sousa's performing ensemble made two dozen hit phonograph recordings, Sousa himself did not direct them, as he held recorded music in low esteem."
This statement is true.
George and Ira Gerswhin wrote many songs in the 20s and 30s that have since become "majors," or songs that have remained in active circulation more or less continuously since their original publication.
False
In most performances of early "minstrel shows", the performers were exclusively white.
False
Jim Europe's band famous for the standard repertoire, but famous potential patrons - such as Vernon and Irene Castle- bemoaned their inability to play complex syncopations.
False
The term rumba refers to a repeated rhythmic pattern used in Latin American music.
False
Tin Pan Alley was technically a stretch of a street in the heart of the 19th-century music publishing industry: Nashville, TN.
Flase
Which productive, varied, and creative Tin Pan Alley composer was born in Temun, Russia, in 1888 and later immigrated to the United States as a result of the anti-Jewish pogrom in 1892?
Irving Berlin
Consider the following statement and choose the best response: Many dance bands in the 1920s specialized in one of the three main categories, "hot," "sweet," and "Latin."
This statement is true.
Which white actor invented the minstrel character 'Jim Crow?"
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
"Timbre" is used to describe the quality of 'tone color' of a given sound.
True
Listen to the excerpt from "Stagolee" by Mississippi John Hurt. Mr. Hurt uses alternating patterns with his thumb and forefingers on the guitar's strings to create what kind of rhythmic texture
Polyrythmic
Which of the following is the best description of vaudeville?
Popular theatrical form in which a series of set performers presented one after another without an overarching narrative theme.
Which of the following pieces is widely considered Gershwin's greatest work?
Porgy and Bess
A repeated pattern designed to generate rhythmic momentum is called what ?
Riff
Listen to the excerpt from "Ain't Misbehavin" by Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra. What is the term for the vocal technique Armstrong uses here? (0:08)
Scat
Which of the following was an influential ragtime pianist and composer?
Scott Joplin
What show by Kern and Hammerstein was the first Broadway show to seriously address racial issues?
Show Boat
Which 1927 musical featured music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and was a new kind of musical show of unprecedented seriousness and depth?
Show boat
Which southern string band did James Gideon (Gid) Tanner lead?
Skillet Lickers
Who was the most influential songwriter of American popular song during the nineteenth century?
Stephen Foster
Which Latin dance style did Irene and Vernon Castle and movie star Rudolph Valentino help popularize in the early twentieth century?
Tango
Which film released in 1927 became the first to exploit sound successfully?
The Jazz Singer
In what ways did popular song both reflect and help shape the changes in American society during the 1920s and 1930s?
The lyrical content and performance style and tin pan alley songs that's reflected the efforts of professional composers to tap into the aspirations of an expanding an ethnically mixed and predominantly white middle-class these songs were also popular among other audiences however including large numbers of southern whites and African-Americans who migrated to urban centers during the 1920s and 30s this wide reaching popularity suggest that the image of romantic love and domestic bliss a boat by these songs as well as the urban sophistication of the superstar crooner's who sang them on phonograph recordings and radios and then Hollywood films exerted an appeal that cross boundaries of race, religion, and class
What was the first form of musical and theatrical entertainment regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character?
The minstrel show
Consider the following statement and choose the best response: "Irving Berlin, born into extreme poverty among the Russian Jews who fled an anti-Jewish pogrom in 1892, was first brought widespread acclaim by the song "Blue Skies."
The statement is false because "Alexander's Ragtime Band" was Berlin's first hit.
What is the key difference between, for instance, recordings by Al Jolson and Bing Crosby?
The vocal style known as "crooning" made recordings by Crosby feel much more intimate than those by Jolson.
Which of the following types of popular 19th-century dance was initially regarded as a threat to public morality due to its indecorous exhibition of intimacy between men and women?
The waltz
Which of the following is true about African American ballads of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
They celebrate the exploits of black heroes and "bad men."
Which of the following is generally true about Tin Pan Alley songs?
They did not deal directly with the troubling issues of the 1920s and 1930s: racism, massive unemployment. and the rise of fascism in Central and Eastern Europe.
What role did song pluggers play in the music industry from the nineteenth century until the late 1920s?
They promoted songs and convinced big stars to preform them.
Consider the following statement and choose the best response: "Vernon and Irene Castle, who are credited with attracting millions of middle-class Americans into ballroom classes while expanding in stylistic range of popular dance, emulated publishers of sheet music by breaking down complex traditions into simplified versions that required little formal training to replicate."
This statement is true
By the turn of the twentieth-century, what form of popular theater became the most important medium for popularizing Tin Pan Alley songs?
Vaudeville
Describe vaudeville. How did vaudeville differ from the minstrel show? Be specific
Vaudeville was a popular 19th century show that offered a variety of acts while Minstrel shows offered white performers who artificially blackened their skin and enacted parodies of African American music, dance, dress, and dialect.
Which couple were arguably the biggest media superstars of the year around World War I?
Vernon and Irene Castle
Which of the following became the first nationwide commercial radio network in 1926?
National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
In which city was Tin Pan Alley located?
New York
What is the best definition of "strophe?"
One repetition of verse-and-chorus within a song's structure
Which group recorded the first jazz record in 1917?
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
If a piece of music contains several verses that tell a story sung to repeating musical material, it would best be described as what?
A strophic ballad
Which song recorded by the Paul Whiteman Band sold 2 million copies and featured the Swanee (slide whistle), a novelty that helped sell the record?
"Whispering"
What were the new technology that changed the sound of popular music during the 1920s?
-Acoustic recording - early process for recording sound vibrations -Electric recording -sound is converted to electric signal -Radio -commercial stations introduced in 1920 -Sound film
What is a ballad? Typically, what musical form does a ballad follow?
A ballad is a type of song in which a series of verses telling a story, often about a historical event or personal tragedy, are sung into a repeating melody. This sort of musical from is called a strophic.
Which departments of the record company is responsible to discover and cultivate new musical talent
A&R (Artist and Repertoire)
Listen to the excerpt from the 1921 recording of "April Showers" by Louis Silvers, sung by Al Jolson. What best describes the form of this piece? (0:29)
ABA'C
Which "steam" would this music come from? (28 sec)
African American
From which stream of influence does the "high lonesome sound" commonly herd in country music hail?
Anglo-American
Which musician studied in this chapter famously said, "Ain't no sense in playing a hundred notes if one will do"?
Armstrong
What is another common name for the "bridge" of a Tin Pan Alley song?
B Section
John Philip Sousa was famous for composing what type of ensemble?
Brass band
What is the "B" section of a song in AABA form also called?
Bridge
Listen to the excerpt from "East St. Louis Toodle-oo" by Duke Ellington & His Washingtonians. How did feature trumpeter James Miley produce the sound evidenced in this selection? (0:29)
By combining two types of mutes and creating a deep growl in his throat
Listen to the excerpt from "My Blue Heaven" by George Whiting. How does Gene Austin signal the conclusion of the piece? (0:24)
By concluding the final phrase with an upward melodic motion, instead of downward as elsewhere in the song.
Listen to the excerpt from "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five. What is the term from the interplay between the clarinet and Armstrong's voice in this section? (0:17)
Call and Response
Which composer discussed in this chapter studied music at elite institutions such as Yale, Harvard, and the Scola Cantorum in Paris?
Cole Porter
What is "critical listening?"
Consciously seeking meaning in music by drawing on knowledge about both musical and historical elements
Which ensemble recorded "Dippermouth Blues?"
Creole Jazz Band
What new form of singing arose specifically because of the availability of electric microphones?
Crooning
Which singing style emerged soon after the invention of the electronic microphone?
Crooning
Which of the following is true of Bing Crosby's recording of "How Deep is the Ocean"
Crosby constantly varies his dynamics within individual phrases.
Listen to the excerpt from "Castle House Rag" by J.R. Europe. Which section of the music is this, and why? (0:23)
D Section; drums re-entering, violins and trumpets introduce new syncopated ragtime theme.
Which of the following is true about about the Afro-Cuban rumba?
It accompanies dances featuring sexual role-playing and was originally suppressed by Cuban authorities.
Which part of the following is true about the diddley bow?
It is a musical instrument adapted from the African one-stringed zither.
Listen to the excerpt from "Deed I Do" recorded by Ruth Etting. On what is this opening "hook" based? (0:30)
It is taken from the A section of the refrain
Which of the following is true about Brazilian bossa nova music?
It was popularized in the United States by songs like "The Girl from Ipanema"
Which of the following became the conductor of the US Marine Band?
John Philip Sousa
Which of the following was not an influential Tin Pan Alley composer?
John Phillip Sousa
Which of the following is true about Al Jolson's 1921 recording of "April Showers"?
Jolson is accompanied by an orchestra that plays an elaborate and decorative accompaniment suitable to the flowery sentiments of the songs.
Which musician studied in this chapter wrote a song that was later picked up by Louis Armstrong?
Justo Azpiazu
Who lead the Ambassador Orchestra, the most successful dance band of the 1920s?
Paul Whiteman
Which is the correct term from music that features multiple differing rhythms going on at the same time?
Polyrhythmic
Listen to the excerpt from "Dipper Mouth Blues" by the Creole Jazz Band. What two contrasting elements are displayed side-by-side in this piece? (0:22)
composition and improvisation
