Music Appreciation Chapter 11
Coltrane's A Love Supreme is in four parts:
"Acknowledgment", "Resolution", "Pursuance", and "Psalm"
Aretha's Franklin's Gospel singing background includes the fact that:
All of the above: She was the daughter of a Baptist minister; she first sang in church; she sang on her father's preaching tours; at age 18, she left gospel for a career in popular music
Hymns composed in the American shape not tradition were unique because composers:
All of the above: rejected the conventions of European harmony and part writing; included unusual and harsh sounds by breaking voice-leading rules; used uneven phrases and incomplete charade harmonies; placed the melody in the tenor part
A Love Supreme is an example of modal jazz, in which modal chords are replaced with chords based in major and minor.
False
Aretha Franklin (1942-2018) was among the most prominent of the crossover singers and was criticized and shunned for recording both Gospel and mainstream popular music.
False
Black gospel emerged alongside Southern gospel and has its roots in Pentecostal churches in the 19th century.
False
Franklin's album Amazing Grace (1972) was recorded across multiple weeks and at multiple churches.
False
Newton wrote hymns for his congregation that used elevated language in the 3rdperson to create a sense of distance between the singer and the ideal Christian.
False
The "Amazing Grace" melody used by Newton's congregation was the same that is used today.
False
Which of the following is NOT true about a Sacred Harp "sing"?
There is a single designated conductor
Aretha Franklin's first hit single, "Respect," went to the top of the charts with Atlantic Records in 1967.
True
By the 19th century, shape-note singing came to be viewed as outdated in New England as musicians sought to imitate European models and cosmopolitan identity.
True
Coltrane's recovery from heroin inspired the religious themes of his later work.
True
Franklin's gospel album Amazing Grace(1972) was the top-selling album of her career.
True
In the early 20th century, Southern gospel transformed from a participatory musical tradition to a performative one.
True
Newton developed a reputation for freely confessing sins from his own past, which were many.
True
Shape notes became popular in 18th-century New England. Before that time, most congregations engaged in unison hymn singing led using the lining-out method in which a songleader would recite a line of music and congregants would repeat the melody.
True
The Southern gospel group The Inspirations was established in Bryson City, NC, in 1964.
True
The most influential shape-note hymnal, The Sacred Harp, was published in Georgia in 1844.
True
The text of "Amazing Grace" was written by an English clergyman named John Newton (1725-1807).
True
William Walker set the text "Amazing Grace" to the tune titled "New Britain" in his 1835 hymnal Southern Harmony.
True
Which of the following is true about John Coltrane (1926-1967)?
he was one of the great jazz innovators of the 20th century, he began playing saxophone as a teenager in Seattle, he preformed with coast guard ensembles as a servicemen during WW2
In order to combat congregant illiteracy, singing schools were begun in which:
none of the above
Which system of notation had developed in England and was intended to facilitate sight-reading?
shaped notation
"Amazing Grace" appeared in Newton's collection of devotional poems, Olney Hymns(1779), published with the intent:
that they be sung to preexisting melodies
