Exam 1 Prt 2 Flashcards

0
Q

What are three factors of singing schools

A

Helped formation of choirs
Spread through the us
Introduced instruments for pitch

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
1
Q

What is the importance of the Bay Psalms Book

A

First hymn book in colonies

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

What did William Billings do?

A

New England Psalm-Singer
Wrote patriotic music
Wrote new music

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

What are broadsides?

A

Sheets that music was printed on?

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

What are broadside ballads?

A

Patriotic
Current events
Sold in marketplace

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Two types of dance music

A

Country and couples

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Importance of amateur musicians?

A

It increased before the revolutionary war

Spread music

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

What was military music used for?

A

Used for communication

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

What were benefit concerts?

A

Profit for composers

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

What were subscription concerts?

A

You pay in advance for concert

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

What was theater music?

A

Mostly shakespeare

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

What were ballad operas

A

Type of comic opera

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

What is pasticcio?

A

Various songs put together to form a new story

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

What is comic opera?

A

Wrote in language of country

For the public

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

What is a libretto?

A

The “little book” that tells the story of the opera

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Strophic form

A

Verse repeating

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

What is binary form?

A

AB

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

What was the second great awakening?

A

Religous revivals

Slave conversion

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

What is edification?

A

Sacred music is seperate from secular

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

What is praise?

A

Sacred expressions in every day life?

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

What were camp meetings?

A

Campouts where people play and simg for days

Sacred words, folk melodies

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

What are shape notes?

A

Ways of writing music with notes having different shapes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Hymnody

A

Transformation of psalmody in 19th century

23
Q

What was the sacred harp?

A

Tunebook that brought shapenotes to south

24
Who was lowell Mason?
Most important musical reformer
25
What were Pestalozzi's ideas?
Kid imitate aongs One subject at a time Students master before moving on teach purpose afterwards
26
What is Northern Revivalism?
Spiritual songs for social worship
27
What is patting juba?
Using bosy for instrument
28
What are work songs?
Songs used while working | Beat of song, mirrored action
29
What were Pinkster celebrations
Days of dancing and singing
30
What is congo square?
Location where blacks would sing and dance for days
31
What were spirituals?
Old testament Sacred songs Routed to slavery Calls for action
32
What wa important about sheet music publishing?
Alowed for home playing
33
What is notation?
Key to music commerce before the phonograph
34
What was the key to opera?
Adaptation
35
Name the three janissary instruments
Triangle Cymbals Bass drum
36
What are oratorios
Music not composer | Sacred music in concert
37
What was the importance of the NY Philharmonic?
Introduced classical composers to public
38
What dis Gottschalk want for music?
Look forward | Diversity
39
Ternary form
ABA
40
What are minstrelsys
Most popular form of entertainment First national performance Everyone played same songs
41
What are parlor songs?
Songs that became popular in Minstrel shows, then were printed for home playing
42
Who was jim crow?
Thomas rice's blackface character | Drewses poorly
43
Who was zip coon?
Blackface character | Dressed well
44
Name the four popular minstrel instruments
Banjo Bones Tambourine Fiddle
45
What was blackface?
Performers painted their face and perform minstrels
46
Who was the interlocutpr?
The master of ceremonies of a minstrel
47
What did the Christy's minstrels do?
Toured and took up residence in New York | Most sucessful minstrel group
48
What were strophes?
All verses sung to same music
49
What is accelerando?
Acceleration of music
50
Song chester
``` 1770 Gregg smith singers Hymn Duple Strophic ```
51
Ich Will Dir ein Fruedenopfer
``` 1780s Boston Borque and Martin Pealman Moravian Anthem Triple Through Composed ```
52
Liberty song
``` 1768 Arthur F. Shrader Broadside ballad Duple Verse and chorus ```
53
Wonderous love
``` 1859 Singing convention Folk hymn Duple Strophic ```
54
Am i a soldier of the cross
``` Na Richard allen African American hymn Undefined Strophic ```
55
De camptown races
``` 1850 Fredrick urrey and Van Buskirk Ministrel Duple Verse and chorua ```
56
Jeanie with the light brown hair
1851 Douglas Perry and David Starobin Parlour song Duple strophic