MUSIC EXAM 1
Western swing artists took cues with regard to sound, style, and instrumentation from the jazz-oriented swing bands that toured the Southwest.
true
Where Varèse looked to science for compositional inspiration, Rudhyar found in spiritualism a similar inspiration to create a highly dissonant, nontraditional-sounding music.
true
William Grant Still was his generation's most versatile black composer.
true
With prosperity growing in the South, the demand for amusement grew with it
true
Woodie Guthrie wrote or adapted more than a thousand songs, reflecting his travels and emphasizing the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s
true
New York City's Metropolitan Opera opened in 1861.
false
Aaron Copland's modernist interests managed to appeal to conservative tastes.
true
John Philip Sousa set the standard for professional music making
true
John Philip Sousa rose to prominence in
1892
Elvis Presley's first guitarist was
B.B. King
Which two jazz figures pioneered free jazz?
Ornette Coleman & Cecil Taylor
Elvis Presley left Sun Records for which label?
RCA Victor
Who recorded the first jazz recording in 1917 for Victor Records?
The Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Sousa held significant reservations about recording.
True
Which of the following songs references substance abuse?
all of these options
In early America, the word "amateur" meant someone
who pursued music simply for the love of it
The limited nature of early oral and written African American histories most closely parallels the documentation of what North American demographic?
American Indian
The image of the outspoken, educated, middle-class American emerging as the "new negro" became a harbinger of the ___________ of the 1920s and 1930s.
Harlem Renaissance
___________ took shape before World War II as mainstream denominations brought Pentecostal musical styles into their worship.
Modern black gospel music
________ called for the regulation and desecularization of singing in worship services.
Nathaniel D. Gould
In 1910, one in about how many Americans purchased a piano?
250
Victor Herbert composed how many operettas?
40
Where was the first American-issued sheet music published?
Philadelphia
All of the following considered dance a sacred activity EXCEPT
Puritans
Lowell Mason was the most important musical reformer in American history.
true
W.C. Handy originally believed that no one would find blues music appealing.
true
How much did Elvis Presley pay to record his first song?
$3.98 plus tax
How much was mezzo-soprano Maria Garcia earning per night by the time she left for Europe in 1827?
$500
Jimmie Rodgers's style and output borrowed deeply from _______ music practice and culture.
African American
Of the Second New England School of composers, the work and legacy of ________ is most notable today.
George Chadwick
Beatlemania started in
1964
The Great Awakening occurred during which period?
1730s and 1740s
The Second Great Awakening occurred when?
1780s to 1830
Tin Pan Alley took shape in New York City around
1890
The landmark United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Fergusonoccurred in
1896
Irving Berlin's "immigrant" song period spanned
1912-1917
In which year was the League of Composers was founded?
1923
In what year was the electric microphone introduced into the recording studio?
1925
Younger composers began to discover Ives's work during the
1930s
In what year did the first American tape music concert take place?
1952
By mid-1892, Sousa had conducted the U.S. Marine Band in more than ______ recordings.
200
The motivations behind the preservation and dissemination of African American folk music, spirituals, and slave songs are closely connected with similar concerns regarding ___________ music in the later nineteenth century.
American Indian
Many early twentieth-century operas composed for the Metropolitan Opera focused on which of the following groups as subject matter?
American Indians
Following the premiere the Gaelic Symphony, whose work did Chadwick declare fine enough to be "one of the boys"?
Amy Cheney Beach
At eighteen, ___________ played a Chopin concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Amy Cheney beach
Who among the following was one of the first composers to use folk melodies to help create a distinctively American style?
Amy Cheney beach
Who among the following possessed an especially strong gift for melodic improvisation?
Billie Holiday
Duke Ellington's most significant arranger-composer was
Billy Strayhorn
One of the first, Texas-based country blues musicians to make records was
Blind Lemon Jefferson.
Who was the central figure in western swing?
Bob Wills
Who of the following was a soul jazz artist?
Cannonball Adderley
With whom did Florence Price study composition?
Chadwick
________ collected, transcribed, and recorded Hispanic folk songs.
Charles F. Lummis
Who among the following was NOT an ultramodernist composer?
Charles Ives
Under what composer did Henry Cowell study music in his youth?
Charles Seeger
Alan Freed operated in which city?
Cleveland
In the early 1950s, a studio was established at ___________ by professors Vladimir Ussachevsky, Otto Luening, Milton Babbitt, and Roger Sessions.
Columbia university
Founded in 1928, the ____________ concerts produced ten concerts by 1932.
Copland sessions
Ruth Crawford Seeger's early compositions were inspired by
Dane Rudhyar
Who wrote Hyperprism?
Edgard Varèse
The first piece by Aaron Copland to quote folk material was
El salón Mexico
Louis Moreau Gottschalk's stylistic diversity owes much to his _________ background.
European, Jewish, and creole
Who was the most successful Jimmie Rodgers imitator?
Gene Autry
Who among the following is NOT a minimalist composer?
George Rochberg
No honky-tonk singer equaled _________ in popularity and lasting influence.
Hank williams
Who among the following did NOT win a Pulitzer Prize?
Henry Cowell
Charles Ives studied composition with which member of the Second New England School
Horatio Parker
An Arrow against Profane and Promiscuous Dancing: Drawn out of the Quiver of the Scriptures was written by
Increase Mather
Which of the following acts is the latest?
Indian Nationality Act
Who of the following was not a native-born, Yankee psalmodist?
James Lyon
What early jazz giant fell into obscurity as the New Orleans sound became dated? Correct!
Jelly Roll Morton
What songwriting team authored Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog"?
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Which figure was directly associated with music of social reform?
Jesse Hutchinson Jr
Dolly Parton's first solo hit covered the tune, "Muleskinner Blues" by
Jimmie Rodgers
What earlier country artist(s) had initiated the 1970s singer-songwriter emphasis on intimate self-revelation?
Jimmie Rodgers
For whom did Stravinsky compose his 1964 elegy?
John F. Kennedy
What early figure is credited with helping Armstrong perfect his virtuosity?
Lil Hardin
Which jazz artist had the most significant influence on vocalists?
Louis Armstrong
Who was America's first significant "classical composer"?
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Legal and social distinctions in which region were less sharp and increased the possibilities for a merging of culture?
Louisiana
Who among the following was NOT a significant jazz figure during the 1960s?
Lukas foss
Which performer was the first singer to receive a "genius" grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 1993?
Marion Williams
The film scores of _________ set the tone for what has been called Hollywood's "golden age."
Max Steiner
In the nineteenth century, one favorite song genre in the home circle was centered on a mythic view of love harking back to the
Middle Ages
No musician seized more eagerly on the constructive possibilities of twelve-tone technique than
Milton Babbitt
Scott Joplin's first published rag was
Mississippi rag
Though artistically negligible, record producer __________ novelty records, like Les Paul's, introduced the idea that a record could deliver a listening experience that could only be constructed bit by bit in the studio.
Mitch miller's
What A&R man was hired by Okeh Records to comb the rural South in search of new artists for the white Southern market?
Ralph Peer
Much of Ives's instrumental music was inspired by whom?
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Likely the delta blues musician with the most legendary status was
Robert Johnson
Which opera performance in New York during 1825 marked the debut of a newly arrived opera troupe headed by tenor Manuel Garcia?
Rossini's Barber of Seville
An important city center for the psychedelic music scene was
San Fransisco
No American city, at any time, has shown a passion for operatic performance equaling that of _________ in 1860.
San Fransisco
The most successful black musician to bring music from the black folk tradition into the popular sphere was
Scott Joplin
Which of the following conductors especially championed the music of new American composers?
Serge Koussevitsky
Which of the following are referenced by Bernstein's West Side Story?
Shakespeare, race, and gang culture
In which colonial region did blacks heavily outnumber whites?
South Carolina
Which of the following was NOT part of the Catholic church's public display efforts?
Spanish-language masses
____________ proclaimed Elliott Carter's Double Concerto for piano, harpsichord, and small orchestra a masterpiece.
Stravinsky
Gershwin's first hit was
Swanee
From which of the following areas did western swing NOT originate?
Tennessee
The 1950 mainstream success of a pop version of the tune _________ seemed to indicate that country songwriters' emotional directness could jump barriers of social class and geography.
Tennessee waltz
What Chicago musician and songwriter has performing credits that include a stint as a pianist for Ma Rainey as well as a lifelong devotion to sacred music?
Thomas A. Dorsey
Miles Davis emerged in the latter 1940s with a lyrical approach that contradicted the image of modern jazz as virtuoso music.
true
Minstrelsy was the Civil War era's most popular form of entertainment.
true
The first tunebook to address the needs of both the congregation and the choir was
Urania, or A Choice Collection of Psalm-tunes, Anthems, and Hymns
The Carter Family was from
Virginia
____________ was known as the "father of the blues."
W.C. Handy
In which of the following cities was professional musical activity NOT concentrated?
Washington, D.C.
Which of the following is NOT an expressly African musical trait or practice?
Western European harmonic sensibility
Who among the following was NOT a rival, collaborator, or student of Lowell Mason?
William Billings
Which figure did NOT attempt a scholarly study of American Indian culture?
William Cody
The premiere of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony marked the first time in history that
a major orchestra performed a symphonic work by an African American composer.
Typically, country blues involves
a male singer accompanying himself on guitar
Among Ives's myriad contributions is
a substantial body of music, some of it radically individual in style.
Most classic American popular songs began life in a musical comedy.
true
Which of the following film genres used popular music prominently and in pathbreaking ways?
all of these options
Which of the following skews the historical record of preserving American Indian music culture in the 1800s?
all of these reasons
The Weavers were the successors to
almanac singers
Outside his work with the Carter Family music group, A.P. Carter was
an amateur song catcher.
The concert spiritual was
an expression of African American experience that incorporated the manner of European classical music.
The eighteenth-century American theater was
an extension of English-language stage works from London
The variety contained within Ives's song literature does NOT include
any of these options
Most of the top-selling songs at the turn of the century were in a major key.
true
Most show songs that won popularity in the years between the two world wars were about romantic love.
true
Musicals before Leonard Bernstein's time were largely ignored by music critics, who saw the classical and popular spheres as separated by a firm barrier.
true
New York City's Metropolitan Opera toured Mexico.
true
Nineteenth-century parlor music's purpose was more social than artistic.
true
No national church nor any political structure existed in America to sponsor music development.
true
No social fact about music in the years after World War II is more noteworthy than the growing influence of teenagers in the marketplace.
true
Opera's popularity in America was partly due to its interactive performance environment that embraced audience involvement through real-time response to events on stage.
true
Pete Seeger was a key figure in the urban folk revival.
true
Settings for camp-meeting hymns typically proved to be interdenominational gatherings that set religion above rac
true
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band emulated many aspects of Pet Sounds.
true
Source material for Lowell Mason's hymn collections came principally from the sacred melodies of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
true
Sousa made approximately one thousand recordings by the 1920s
true
The 1960s and early 1970s saw the demise of the golden-age film score.
true
The African American spiritual served a dual purpose as both a religious expression and a call to action.
true
The American Indian population after the Civil War swiftly declined in the face of war, disease, and poverty.
true
The Birth of a Nation makes uses of leitmotif technique.
true
The British Isles welcomed minstrel shows.
true
The Jazz Singer was the first film to demonstrate that a spoken soundtrack was marketable.
true
The Protestant Reformation in early-sixteenth-century Europe challenged the belief that prescribed rituals foster true piety.
true
The Virginia Minstrels were formed in New York.
true
The blues would go on to influence nearly every style of music that developed in its wake.
true
The first American performance of Beethoven's first symphony was in Boston.
true
The first jazz recording was made by white musicians.
true
The heart of the sheet music trade lay in the solo song with keyboard accompaniment.
true
The lined-out practice developed because too few worshipers could read the psalms.
true
The most influential musical émigré was the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
true
The music of Henry Cowell drew on Chinese, Japanese, African, South Indian, Javanese, and Irish musics.
true
The nineteenth century saw a significant increase in the quantity and quality of American Indian ethnography.
true
The phrase "rock and roll" was a sexual euphemism from African American slang.
true
The profit motive has been a vital source of creative music energy throughout much of American history.
true
The radio proved an important new medium to broadcast a wide variety of music.
true
The rise of fascism in the postwar era compelled a number of European musicians to emigrate to the United States.
true
The vast majority of race records featured blues numbers.
true
Patrick S. Gilmore's career primarily proved that
bands could cut loose from military affiliation as an independent ensemble in the public arena.
The __________ has clear West African antecedents.
banjo
Who among the following did NOT contribute to the large body of song that took shape in the American West?
bankers
Mason's early career had been in the field of
banking
The first all-black congregations were formed in the South in the 1770s and 1780s by
baptists
________ was the first phase of modern jazz in the postwar period.
bebop
Jazz and gospel music share a grounding in __________.
blues
Like Tin Pan Alley, Broadway embraced ragtime and, from the 1920s until well after World War II, many popular songs would display some degree of _______ influence.
blues
In popular music after 1960, perhaps no other single figure would be as profoundly influential as
bob Dylan
A bridge between the two countercultures of the folk revivalists and the Beats was
bob dylan
What performer's career inspired a host of singer-songwriters during the 1970s?
bob dylan
The first known public concert in the American colonies took place in
boston
The music publishing firm Oliver Ditson & Co. was located in
boston
The singing-school movement was principally based in which city?
boston
Which city resisted touring troupes for a time owing to a law that prohibited theater from 1750 to 1793?
boston
Which of the following would have been viewed as the lowest form of musical entertainment during the early twentieth century?
burlesque
Thelonious Monk, John Lewis, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis did not emphasize virtuoso technique.
true
Which of the following was NOT a professional or semiprofessional performing ensemble first formed in antebellum America?
church choirs
Songs of the Civil War prominently referenced all of the following topics or concepts EXCEPT
civil rights
Irene and Vernon Castle were known for
combing "exotic" and European dance styles for mainstream audiences
In which of the following roles did Henry Cowell serve throughout his career?
composer, writer, and concert promoter
Various types of concert music in early America included all of the following EXCEPT
conscription concerts
Which of the following labels were NOT used by Billboard magazine to classify country music recordings during the 1940s?
country records
Patsy Cline's "Crazy," with words and music by Willie Nelson, was a crossover hit on both _________ and __________ charts in 1961.
country; pop
Americans of the colonial era performed
couple and country dances.
Which of the following movements was popular song NOT specifically enlisted to support?
critiquing Wall Street
Like _________, theater provoked strong opposition.
dance
Accounts of Native American music near present-day Texas and New Mexico as early as the 1530s
detail general attributes of vocal performance, various instrumentation, and some aspects of functional and spiritual meaning.
After 1800, a split opened up in Protestant sacred music characterized by a competing focus on
edification and praise
Henry Cowell's approach to piano composition was largely _________.
experimental
A fuging tune models precisely after the European fugue.
false
A pandiatonic sound means that only a select few notes of the diatonic scale are in use.
false
African Americans skilled in Western instrumentation was not commonplace in the 1700s.
false
Al Jolson was not connected to the musical comedy tradition.
false
Alan Lomax replaced Robert Winslow Gordon in the Archives of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.
false
American labor unions emerged in the early 1800s.
false
An example of a new up-to-date musical comedy of the 1920s was The Student Prince with songs by George and Ira Gershwin.
false
Before New York City, the center of the American popular song trade was Chicago.
false
Ben Johnston was a prominent figure in 1970s musical theater.
false
Between 1910 and 1920, the Metropolitan Opera especially encouraged creative opera efforts by American composers, and many won an enduring place in the repertory
false
Blues and black gospel music share a melodic and harmonic idiom, a rhythmic approach, a rootedness in traditional African American culture, and a similar function.
false
Blues music took shape in a written tradition.
false
Broadside ballads eschewed commenting on current events.
false
By the 1800s, collectors of Anglo-Celtic ballads were more interested in ballad reworkings than the earlier British forms.
false
By the 1820s, theatrical performance revolved less and less around star performers.
false
By the 1950s Memphis was the undisputed capital of the country music industry.
false
By the late 1940s rock and roll enjoyed a prominent place in the youth culture of the United Kingdom as well as the United States.
false
Charles Ives made a living as a composer.
false
Charlie Parker's contemporaries did not recognize his superior talent and musicianship in his own lifetime.
false
Chuck Berry's vocal style was both racially ambiguous and androgynous.
false
Colonial Boston records indicate that many citizens did not own musical instruments.
false
Composer Jerome Kern got his start in America
false
Duke Ellington toured for the U.S. State Department in the 1950s.
false
During the 1800s, the U.S. military was using wind instruments according to customs borrowed from the French army.
false
Early psalmody featured compositions by native-born Americans who were principally from New York and New Jersey.
false
Erich Wolfgang Korngold scored the soundtrack for Gone with the Wind.
false
Frances Densmore's recordings of American Indian music provided a faithful, accurate transcription document of the American Indian music making experience.
false
George Chadwick founded and directed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
false
George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess became the twentieth century's most performed piece of American concert music.
false
Harry Partch pioneered the technique of metric modulation.
false
In 1950 "The Tennessee Waltz," by the country songwriter and performer Pee Wee King, was turned into a hit record by Les Paul.
false
In the decades after World War II, Hollywood film scores came increasingly to reject the aesthetic stance established by Aaron Copland.
false
In the decades between the two worlds, the composer was elevated to a standing in the classical sphere once reserved for the performer.
false
In the mid-1800s, American music business took shape specifically to meet the needs of military functions
false
In the years between the two world wars, the boundaries between country music and other genres were clearly marked.
false
In their own time, composer Leo Ornstein was less well-known than Charles Ives.
false
Instrumentation of typical minstrel groups emphasized melody and harmony over rhythm, timbre, and body movement.
false
James P. Johnson's concert music enjoyed moderate critical and popular success during his lifetime.
false
Jelly Roll Morton made his first recordings in New Orleans.
false
Johann Gottfried von Herder's notion of "das Volk" was closely tied to ideas of political ideology.
false
Just before the United States entered World War II, film scores began to lean toward American-sounding music, often with a traditional slant.
false
Lowell Mason's publications concentrated upon religious music practice.
false
Most popular culture in nineteenth-century America challenged, sensationalized, and distorted portrayals of American Indians.
false
Not until the 1900s did any appreciable number of American-born singers or players find a place on U.S. stages.
false
Philip Glass invented phase music and later composed Piano Phase.
false
Popular music record sales topped $214 million in 1947, surpassing the previous peak, set before the World War II.
false
Richard Rodgers had a troubled partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II.
false
Rock was eclipsed by the overwhelming popularity of jazz in the 1960s.
false
Ruth Crawford Seeger was Pete Seeger's mother.
false
Ruth Crawford Seeger was the third woman to receive the Guggenheim Fellowship.
false
Samuel Cartwright's theory of polygenesis challenges racial prejudice.
false
The English approach to colonization was more systematic than that of the Spanish.
false
The New York Philharmonic Society was founded during the 1860s.
false
The Second Great Awakening occurred in the 1730s and 1740s.
false
The blues was developed by whites in the rural South.
false
The rise of the phonograph somewhat stalled the popularization of music.
false
The second decade of country music experienced a marked slowing in its development.
false
The transatlantic slave trade started soon after Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
false
The unpretentious manner of Merle Haggard was welcomed by upper-class listeners.
false
The use of bluesy riffs, sometimes called the "the Ellington effect," was Ellington's trump card, making his band instantly recognizable and emotionally potent.
false
Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph in 1897.
false
William Cody collected recordings of more than two-thousand American Indian tribal songs over fifty years.
false
William Walker's The Southern Harmony was printed in the South.
false
Which of the following is NOT a practice or aspect of black musical worship?
field holler
Some hillbilly music fits neatly into the category of ________, but much of it does not.
folk
Trumpet, clarinet, and trombone comprise what part of a typical New Orleans jazz band?
front line
The ___________ was memorized, assembled from the ideas of band members and learned aurally rather than being written down.
head arrangement
In the Southern Uplands
hymnody had taken root among rural plain folk
When was the magnetic tape recorder perfected?
in the late 1940s
In the years before the American Revolution, amateur music making seems to have
increased
During the years before the Civil War, the United States was undergoing a fundamental shift to a primarily __________ economy.
industrial
Musical comedy differed from operetta in that
its settings and characters were contemporary.
Duke Ellington found great success merging
jazz nd concert music
The film music of _______________ marked a return to the golden age of film music.
john williams
Who among the following experimented widely with editing and overdubbing techniques in recording?
les paul
Which of the following would NOT be a part of a musical modernist aesthetic?
lyricism
Lowell Mason seems to be the first American musician who
made a substantial profit from his musical work.
The Swing Era witnessed the popularity of the ___________, a fast dance of Cuban origin.
mambo
Of the following, the earliest recorded blues singer was
mamie smith
By the mid-1800s home music making involving sheet music and pianos was a pastime accessible to
many middle-class Americans.
The Stars and Stripes Forever is a
march
Spanish congregations in the New World increasingly came to include more and more __________.
mestizos
The rise of ______________ as a popular medium of art and entertainment was one of the most important cultural developments in the years between the world wars.
motion pictures
_________ were a significant way for country musicians to reach a wider audience.
motion pictures
Heterophony is a texture in which
multiple voices simultaneously vary a melody.
_____________ and vaudeville provided the sheet music business' main marketing arm at the turn of the century.
musical comedy
Show Boat significantly fused which two dramatic genres?
musical comedy and operetta
What popular Broadway tune did John Coltrane update as a jazz cover?
my favorite things
Which of the following was NOT a function or place where bands were active during the mid-1800s?
navy battles
According to the 1850 census, in what ratio did people of African descent account for the American population?
one in six
Visiting a plantation in the summer of 1841, New Englander Lewis Paine observed slaves dancing to a unique kind of accompaniment known as
patting juba
What made it possible for critics in the postwar era to be able to treat jazz performances with increasing seriousness?
phonographic records
By the 1820s, the ______ was on its way to becoming the quintessential parlor instrument of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
piano
Which of the following groups was NOT involved in the 1869 Boston National Peace Jubilee?
policemen
Ruth Crawford Seeger's music was often directly connected with
politics
The key to the distinctive voice in American musicals was
popular song
The first Old World settlers to populate what is now the eastern United States were
protestants
Lowell Mason was considered the "father" of
public school music
Who were the music trade's chief architects?
publishers
The newly discovered market for African American musicians playing the blues was dubbed
race records
________ pervaded all three entertainment types of theater, song, and dance.
ragtime
Stravinsky was particularly interested in
ragtime and jazz
Modeling it after the Bay Psalm Book format, __________ published the first hymnal assembled by a black author for a black congregation.
reverend richard allen
With whom did Fred Astaire NOT collaborate?
richard Rodgers
In the years immediately after World War II, a widening gulf stood between the cerebral music of postwar academic composers and the earthy joys of
rock and roll
Of the following, which is NOT an explicitly successful ingredient for an independent show tune?
sentimentality
During the 1950s, ______ became basic to Davis's musical vocabulary.
silence, or space
The primary unit of sale in the popular music industry both before and after the war was the
single
William Francis Allen published
slave songs of the United States
Classical instrumental repertoire in America followed the design of the _______.
sonata
George Gershwin's early work was as a
song plugger
Stephen Foster
staged minstrel shows, advanced racial stereotypes through his music, and published minstrel tunes.
Which animation film did Walt Disney produce in 1928?
steamboat willie
Theodore Thomas took it as his mission to help raise the musical standards of the American symphony orchestra.
true
Two acts that would eventually transform country music from a small specialty market into a major segment of the American music industry were
the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers.
George L. White established ________ in 1870.
the Fisk jubilee singers
Mason's early music publication was sponsored by
the Handel and Haydn Society.
Who formed the United Booking Office of America in 1906?
the Keith-Albee organization
In 1833
the Mexico City government secularized missions and sent friars back to Spain.
Shape notes originated in
the Northeast
In 1721, Cotton Mather stressed
the importance of words over music
To which of the following realizations about American symphonic culture did Thomas NOT subscribe?
the notion that classical music making was the noblest of the arts
Which of the following groups did NOT contribute significant sacred works outside the Calvinist tradition during this early period in American music making?
the pilgrims
Typically, operetta differed from opera in that
the plots were carried by spoken dialogue
Theodore Thomas was
the premier American conductor of the nineteenth century.
In Paris during the 1840s, Adolphe Sax invented
the saxhorn
Before 1890, __________ and other conductors had established the American symphony orchestra as an ensemble grounded in European classics.
theodore thomas
Which of the following does NOT characterize Lester Young's playing style?
thick vibrato
Music that brought jazz techniques into the classical sphere or vice versa, through improvisation or written composition, was known as
third stream
How many American Indians were alive in 1865?
three hundred thousand
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow" straddles the carefree ethos of 1950s rock and roll and the more mature sensibility of 1960s rock.
true
A lively tradition of stage musical entertainment developed in the rural South at a time when minstrel and vaudeville shows were largely urban phenomena.
true
Advantages such as musical literacy, music lessons that promoted literacy, ownership of musical instruments---especially the piano---were beyond the reach of many Americans, especially in the least prosperous regions of the country.
true
After World War I, jazz was seen by some as a decline of civilization.
true
America's musical culture in the period from the Civil War to World War I witnessed a more pronounced separation between the three spheres of music making.
true
Amy Cheney Beach is the only female member of the so-called Second New England School.
true
Amy Cheney Beach's compositions number over 300.
true
Basie formed his nine-piece orchestra in the wake of Benny Goodman's success and Bennie Moten's early death.
true
Before the Civil War, most American dances came from Europe.
true
Traditional folk songs and performance styles mixed with newly composed topical songs were known as protest songs.
true
Before the end of the American Civil War achieved the abolition of slavery, free blacks in the North had been finding niches in the American music business.
true
Bill Monroe established himself on the Grand Ole Opry.
true
Black minstrel shows set the stage for the careers of professional African American entertainers after the Civil War.
true
By 1800 New Orleans was a multiracial society with less rigid stratification than anywhere else on the continent.
true
By all accounts, slaves were generally expected to sing as well as to work.
true
By the end of World War II, the term "hillbilly" was on its way out.
true
Calvinists pledged allegiance to the Holy Bible in place of the church itself.
true
Count Basie was based in Kansas City.
true
Despite the regular presence of ragtime in most popular music of this period, only songs having to do with African American subject matter were considered ragtime
true
During the rise of the music publishing industry in America, distinctions made among music styles or genres (classical, popular, folk) were not a matter of elitism but were instead a matter of recognizing different markets for different kinds of music.
true
Early American military uses for music included recreation.
true
Early Spanish colonization of North America was tied to efforts at religious conversion.
true
Early public concerts in America emphasized variety, programming more short pieces than long ones.
true
Edward MacDowell's music was identified with the "New German School" of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner.
true
Florence Price carried forward the development of the concert spiritual as begun by Harry T. Burleigh.
true
French opera theater existed in New Orleans before 1800.
true
Gene Autry appeared in nearly ninety western films.
true
George Chadwick's American style found a niche in early Hollywood film scores.
true
George Crumb created some of the most distinctive New Romantic music.
true
George M. Cohan's "I Want to Hear a Yankee Doodle Tune" made references to foregoing operatic repertoire.
true
George Pullen Jackson's observations on the Southern practice of hymnody in the early twentieth century seem more a transformation than a simple survival of Northern practice.
true
Gospel music offered rich opportunities for women as well as men.
true
Henry Cowell was imprisoned.
true
In the 1960s and early 1970s, some films went so far as to limit themselves to diegetic music alone.
true
In the Northern United States, Christians generally favored conversion of blacks.
true
In the postwar years, jazz was the only popular music then being taken seriously by critics.
true
Ives self-published his 114 Songs in 1922.
true
Jazz of the Swing Era tended to place a more equal emphasis on all four beats in a bar.
true
Jimmie Rodgers was the first undisputed solo star of country music.
true
John Cage was a student of Arnold Schoenberg.
true
John Cage's musical interests extended westward to Asia as well as eastward to Europe.
true
John Coltrane studied under Leo Ornstein.
true
Like contemporaneous rock musicians, country artists in the 1960s borrowed the advanced production techniques of mainstream popular music to create records that appealed to a broader, more diverse audience.
true
Louis Armstrong displaced the Beatles on the pop charts.
true
In which city is jazz believed to have originated?
New Orleans
James P. Johnson's Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody premiered in
New York City's Carnegie Hall.
During the mid-nineteenth century, the American popular music industry was consolidated in what city?
New York city
In 1915, Cecil Sharp learned of a community maintaining an ancient folk song tradition from the British Isles in the mountains of
North Carolina
The composer of "Dixie" hailed from which state?
Ohio
Seeger's "If I Had a Hammer" reached a mass audience through the hit record made by
Peter, Paul, and Mary.
The form of "The Battle Cry of Freedom" is
verse and chorus
Louis Armstrong's legacy is his
virtuosity, scat singing, and solo inventiveness.
William Billings's The New-England Psalm-Singer, or American Chorister was significant in that it
was the first published collection of entirely American music and the first American tunebook devoted wholly to works by one composer.
Broadside ballads
were sold in the marketplace.
Between the Civil War and ________, the wind band flourished.
world war 1