Chapter 54. A Good Beat: American Vernacular Music at the Close of an Era; Listening Guide 45: Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag

Which of the following statements correctly describe strain 1 of Maple Leaf Rag?

-It features one melody with accompaniment. -It is performed by solo piano.

Which of the following statements describe strain 1 of Maple Leaf Rag? Which do not? Joplin, Maple Leaf Rag, strain 10:23

-It features one melody with accompaniment. -It is performed by solo piano.

Which of the following statements correctly describes strain 1 of Maple Leaf Rag?

-It is in a major key. -The left hand (low pitches) plays in an even rhythm; the right hand (high pitches) plays uneven rhythms.

American brass bands were originally an outgrowth of the - military band.

British

Which of the following statements describe strain 1 of Maple Leaf Rag? Which do not?

Describes It is in a major key. The left hand (low pitches) plays in an even rhythm; the right hand (high pitches) plays uneven rhythms. Does Not Describe It is in a minor key. The right hand (high pitches) plays in an even rhythm; the left hand (low pitches) plays in an uneven rhythm. It is atonal.

Scott Joplin is considered the "March King."

F

The work that is considered to be Scott Joplin's most famous is his _____.

Maple Leaf Rag

The work that is considered to be Scott Joplin's most famous was which?

Maple Leaf Rag

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

No repetition in each rag

Match the career descriptions to their correct American musician.

Scott Joplin: pianist who introduced ragtime to the larger public and strove to elevate the art form Patrick Gilmore: virtuoso cornet player and bandmaster John Sousa: conductor of the U.S. Marine Band from 1880 - 1892

Adolphe Sax was a famous musical instrument inventor who positively affected bands in the United States.

T

America's vernacular traditions also included music for brass bands.

T

During the United States Civil War, Northern and Southern regiments marched to the sound of bands that included brass instruments as well as woodwinds, thanks to pioneering efforts by designers such as Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.

T

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

T

Scott Joplin was one of the first African American composers to receive wide recognition.

T

The United States Marine Band has a history dating back to the eighteenth century.

T

Drag and drop the appropriate words to describe Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.

The piano rag Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin has four melodies in major keys and a homophonic texture. The melodies are syncopated against an accompaniment playing a steady beat outlining duple meter.

Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for _____.

Treemonisha

Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for which?

Treemonisha

Which of the following describe the style of ragtime and which do not?

balanced phrasing highly syncopated melodies clear-cut sections

Which describes the meter of this excerpt from Maple Leaf Rag?

duple meter

Which escribes the meter of this excerpt from Maple Leaf Rag? [0:26]

duple meter

Which describes the form of Maple Leaf Rag?

four repeated strains, one of which is in a different key (the trio)

Which describes the texture of Maple Leaf Rag?

homophonic texture

Which describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag?

it is a repeat of strain 1

Which describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? (0:25)

it is a repeat of strain 2

Which describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? (0:22) (2nd one)

it is a repeat of strain 3 (the trio)

Which describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? (0:21)

it is a return of strain 1

In Maple Leaf Rag, what distinguishes strain 3, the trio, from the other strains?

it is in a different key

Which best describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? (0:25) (2nd one)

it is new music I haven't yet heard in this work

Which describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? (0:22)

it is new music I haven't yet heard in this work

Which describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? (0:25) (2nd one)

it is new music I haven't yet heard in this work

Which describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? (0:26)

it is new music I haven't yet heard in this work

Which describes the next part of Maple Leaf Rag? (0:23)

it is return of strain 4

Listen to the following music excerpts and drag them to the correct location on the music chart, below.

main melody, 0:23 (Orange): 1st contrasting theme, 0:25 (Yellow): 3rd D-flat major, 0:22 (Green): 2nd

Which describes the harmony in strain 1 of Maple Leaf Rag?

major key

Match the description to the musical element found in Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.

melodic contour: disjunct rhythm: syncopation texture: homophonic form: AABBACCDD harmony:

Which describes the relationship between the voices (the texture) in the first strain of Maple Leaf Rag?

one melodic line with accompaniment (homophonic)

Ragtime was an African American - style characterized by - rhythms and sectional forms.

piano syncopated

Joplin recorded his own piano rags through the use of a -.

piano roll

Before recorded music was widespread, music like Scott Joplin's rags could be mechanically performed by which?

player pianos

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

player pianos

Which was originally an African American piano style that featured highly syncopated melodies?

ragtime

Which of the following were popular musical styles in the United States in the late nineteenth century and which were not?

ragtime marches for wind band

Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?

solo piano

Which describes the music in this excerpt of Maple Leaf Rag?

solo piano

In a rag, what is each of the repeated sections (like the one in this excerpt) called?

strain

n a rag, what is each of the repeated sections (like the one in this excerpt) called?

strain

Strain 3 sounds different from strains 1 and 2. Which describes the difference between strain 3 and the other strains in Maple Leaf Rag?

strain 3 changes to a new major key

Strain 4 sounds different from strain 3. Which describes the difference between strain 4 and strain 3 in Maple Leaf Rag?

strain 4 is in the original key (A-flat major)

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

strains

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

strains

Which describes the rhythm of Maple Leaf Rag?

syncopated in the right hand, steady beat in bass (left hand)