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What are three factors of singing schools

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

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What is the importance of the Bay Psalms Book

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First hymn book in colonies

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What did William Billings do?

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New England Psalm-Singer
Wrote patriotic music
Wrote new music

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What are broadsides?

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Sheets that music was printed on?

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What are broadside ballads?

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Patriotic
Current events
Sold in marketplace

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Two types of dance music

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Country and couples

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Importance of amateur musicians?

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It increased before the revolutionary war

Spread music

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What was military music used for?

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Used for communication

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What were benefit concerts?

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Profit for composers

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What were subscription concerts?

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You pay in advance for concert

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What was theater music?

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Mostly shakespeare

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What were ballad operas

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Type of comic opera

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What is pasticcio?

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Various songs put together to form a new story

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What is comic opera?

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Wrote in language of country

For the public

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What is a libretto?

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

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Strophic form

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Verse repeating

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What is binary form?

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AB

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What was the second great awakening?

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Religous revivals

Slave conversion

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What is edification?

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Sacred music is seperate from secular

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What is praise?

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Sacred expressions in every day life?

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What were camp meetings?

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Campouts where people play and simg for days

Sacred words, folk melodies

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What are shape notes?

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Ways of writing music with notes having different shapes

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Hymnody

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Transformation of psalmody in 19th century

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What was the sacred harp?

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Tunebook that brought shapenotes to south

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Who was lowell Mason?

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Most important musical reformer

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What were Pestalozzi’s ideas?

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Kid imitate aongs
One subject at a time
Students master before moving on teach purpose afterwards

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What is Northern Revivalism?

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Spiritual songs for social worship

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What is patting juba?

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Using bosy for instrument

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What are work songs?

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Songs used while working

Beat of song, mirrored action

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What were Pinkster celebrations

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Days of dancing and singing

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What is congo square?

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Location where blacks would sing and dance for days

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What were spirituals?

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Old testament
Sacred songs
Routed to slavery
Calls for action

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What wa important about sheet music publishing?

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Alowed for home playing

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What is notation?

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Key to music commerce before the phonograph

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What was the key to opera?

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Adaptation

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Name the three janissary instruments

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Triangle
Cymbals
Bass drum

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What are oratorios

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Music not composer

Sacred music in concert

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What was the importance of the NY Philharmonic?

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Introduced classical composers to public

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What dis Gottschalk want for music?

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Look forward

Diversity

39
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Ternary form

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ABA

40
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What are minstrelsys

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Most popular form of entertainment
First national performance
Everyone played same songs

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What are parlor songs?

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Songs that became popular in Minstrel shows, then were printed for home playing

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Who was jim crow?

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Thomas rice’s blackface character

Drewses poorly

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Who was zip coon?

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Blackface character

Dressed well

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Name the four popular minstrel instruments

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Banjo
Bones
Tambourine
Fiddle

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What was blackface?

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Performers painted their face and perform minstrels

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Who was the interlocutpr?

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The master of ceremonies of a minstrel

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What did the Christy’s minstrels do?

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Toured and took up residence in New York

Most sucessful minstrel group

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What were strophes?

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All verses sung to same music

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What is accelerando?

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Acceleration of music

50
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Song chester

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1770
Gregg smith singers
Hymn
Duple
Strophic
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Ich Will Dir ein Fruedenopfer

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1780s
Boston Borque and Martin Pealman
Moravian Anthem
Triple
Through Composed
52
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Liberty song

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1768
Arthur F. Shrader
Broadside ballad
Duple
Verse and chorus
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Wonderous love

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1859
Singing convention
Folk hymn
Duple
Strophic
54
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Am i a soldier of the cross

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Na
Richard allen
African American hymn
Undefined
Strophic
55
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De camptown races

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1850 
Fredrick urrey and Van Buskirk
Ministrel
Duple
Verse and chorua
56
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Jeanie with the light brown hair

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1851
Douglas Perry and David Starobin
Parlour song
Duple strophic

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