Mus 008 Chapter 1/2 TB

The quality of sound, sometimes called "tone color," is ____________________.

timbre

Old-time music

A category of music comprising string band music, ballad songs, sacred songs, church hymns, and a variety of functionally specialized music genres such as lullabies and work songs

Chorus

A contrasting musical section consisting of a fixed melody and lyric, repeated exactly each time around

Gospel music

A large body of sacred song with texts that reflect aspects of the personal religious experience of Protestant evangelical groups.

Ragtime

A syncopated musical style that emerged in the 1880s and was influenced by the Cuban habanera and marching band music.

Formal analysis

A system of musical interpretation informed by the Western academic tradition and usually applied to written music

Montuno

An improvised and often climactic part of rumba music.

"Soldier's Joy"

An old-time fiddle tune originating in Europe and influential in the United States

From which stream of influence does the "high lonesome sound" commonly heard in country music hail?

Anglo-American stream

Which legendary French-born superstar of tango was inspired by operatic bel canto singing and the criollo songs of the Argentine gauchos?

Carlos Gardel

Which white banjo virtuoso lead the Virginia Minstrels?

Daniel Emmett

Sharecroppers

Exploited farmers working on land they do not own who were required to buy farming supplies, food, and clothing on credit from a local merchant or plantation store and sell crops back to the merchant to retire debt.

Which of the following is true about songwriter Stephen Foster?

He embraced both genteel traditions and less highly regarded but popular traditions such as minstrelsy.

A term that evokes the channeled flow of "swinging" or "funky" or "phat" rhythms is called a ___________________.

groove

A memorable musical phrase or riff is called a _________________.

hook

Which is the best definition of "strophe?"

One repetition of verse-and-chorus within a song's structure

A repeated pattern designed to generate rhythmic momentum is called what?

Riff

Which of the following was an influential ragtime pianist and composer?

Scott Joplin

Which southern string band did James Gideon (Gid) Tanner lead?

Skillet Lickers

What was the first form of musical and theatrical entertainment regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character?

The Minstrel Show.

Hook

The basic musical or verbal idea that "hooks" the listener's ear

Dialect

The distinctive aspect of language unique to a geographic region, social group, or ethnicity.

Minstrel show

The first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regarded by European audiences as distinctively American in character; featured mainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and carried out parodies of African American music, dance, dress, and dialect.

By the turn of the twentieth-century, what form of popular theater became the most important medium for popularizing Tin Pan Alley songs?

Vaudeville

Which of the following is true about the Afro-Cuban rumba?

It accompanies dances featuring sexual role-playing and was originally suppressed by Cuban authorities.

Who was the most influential songwriter of American popular song during the nineteenth century?

Stephen Foster

Rhythm

The musical organization of time

Which of the following is true about the diddley bow?

It is a musical instrument adapted from the African one-stringed zither.

Syncopation

Shifting melodic accents onto the offbeats

Which Latin dance style did Irene and Vernon Castle and movie star Rudolph Valentino help popularize in the early twentieth century?

Tango

Comoser

The author of a piece of music.

Which of the following became the conductor of the US Marine Band?

John Philip Sousa

Strophes

Main sections of music often consisting of a verse and chorus.

Dance music

Music designed to accompany or inspire dancing.

Verse

Musical section sung to a fixed melody

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 is true about African American ballads of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

They celebrated the exploits of black heroes and "bad men."

What role did song pluggers play in the music industry from the nineteenth century until the 1920s?

They promoted songs and convinced big stars to perform them.

Who invented the phonograph?

Thomas Alva Edison

Which white actor invented the minstrel character "Jim Crow?"

Thomas Dartmouth Rice

Folk music

Traditional music originating in popular culture usually transmitted orally, often related to aspects of social or national identity and frequently of unknown authorship.