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1
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Describe band music

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Band music is the music that is heard by bands today and became popular after the civil war

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Name two things Patrick Gilmore did

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Band can be independent from military

Organized National Peace Jubilee

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What is the connection between civil war bands and community bands?

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When the bands were taken away from the military they stayed together and played as community bands.

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Name four things that John Sousa did

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Set professional standard
“The Stars and Stripes Forever”
Conducted US Marine Band
King of Marches

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What is march form?

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AABB CDCDC

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What was used for early recordings and who invented it?

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The phonograph and Thomas Edison

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What was the 1909 copyright act?

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Granted money to the composers of the music

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What were the early recording rights?

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Was record companies that received money

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What were the popular songs after the civil war?

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The popular songs were those that were in common with ones from the 1820s and 1830s

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What was the importance of Dwight Moody?

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Favored simple and popular hymns

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What was the importance of Ira Sankey?

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Wrote “Gospel Hymns”

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What is the importance of “Gospel Hymns”

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Best selling hymnal in 20th century

Sacred songs using popular music techniques

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What is Tin Pan Alley?

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Publishing district in NYC
Many music publishers on this block
Goal was to make song a hit not artist
Focused on popular music

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What is vaudeville?

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A wide range of performers and acts

Popular entertainment

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What were the traits of a hit song?

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Verse Chorus form
Self published
Arranged to be song on broadway

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What were the different song types?

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Operas
Parlor Songs
Tin Pan Alley pieces
Foreign Language
Minstrels
Religous
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What is the importance of Theodore Thomas?

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Helped realize three elements of American Symphonic culture

Founded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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What are the three elements of American Symphonic culture?

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Belief in artistic importance
Community involved (civic pride)
Wealth
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George Chadwick

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Pentatonic and gapped scales
Helped to invent an American style
Non-German traits into composistions

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Amy Beach

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First great woman composer
First american trained pianist
Used folk melodies to create American style

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Edward MacDowell

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Nationalism for America

Indigenous musical style in his music

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Charles Ives

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Wrote “concord Sonata”
Large variety of musical styles
An aesthetic philosophy

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What is herder’s das volk?

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National spirit

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What are the acts that the US used to get rid of indians?

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Indian removal act - Moved 60,000 to territories
General Allotment act - dissolved 100 reservations
Indian citizenship act - gave most indians rights
Indian reorganization act - recognized tribal constitutions and bi laws
Nationality act - gave full citizenship to all Indians

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Alice Fletcher

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Studied indian music and realized that it didn’t fit into the standard scale

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What is ethnomusicology?

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The study of music in different cultures

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A Buffalo said to me

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Brave Buffalo

Vocal

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Francis Densmore

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Started recording ethnomusicology

29
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Child’s ballads

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Focused on the words not the music

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Francis James Child

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Wrote his ballads, focused on words, not music

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Cecil Sharp

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Researched for living performers rather than

Publications set off an interest in ballad collection

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Maple Leaf Rag

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Piano Rag
Scott Joplin
Fast piano

33
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Harry T. Burleigh

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Wrote spirituals in a more sophisticated manor
Jubilee Songs of the United States of America
Concert spiritual

34
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What is a concert spiritual?

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Fusion of African American experience that incorporates European classical music

35
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What was the Fisk Jubilee Singers

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Black singers who performed spirituals, toured across America and Europe

36
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Slave songs of the United States

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First anthology of slave songs

Documented to preserve disappearing oral practice

37
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What are vocables?

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Sounds chosen for sounds not actual words

38
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Theodore Baker

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ethnomusicology

On the music of the North American Indians

39
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The Black Crook

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First musical in the United States

Reworking of german opera

40
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What is musical comedy?

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British imports dominated stage throughout 19th century

More contemporary and conventional songs

41
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What is burlesque

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Very raunchy and racey, had striptease in 1930s

42
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What is revue

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More expensive and elaborate variety show

43
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What is operetta?

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Light opera with spoken dialogue and comedy

Also called light or comic opera

44
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What is metropolitan opera?

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First american opera house

45
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What are interpolations?

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Songs added to show that wasn’t written by original composer, to make songs popular

46
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Who is Al Jolson

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Starred in the first major sound film

Wrote his own interpolations

47
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What are Jim Crow laws?

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Seperate but equal

48
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Who was Blind Tom Bethune?

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Black piano player

49
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Who was sissieretta Jones?

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Black opera singer

50
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What is black miinistrelsy?

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Gave blacks opportunities

51
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Who is Will Marion Cook?

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Black

Wrote for broadway shows, highly desired

52
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Who is Scott Joplin?

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King of ragtime

First composer to receive royalties

53
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Who was irving Berlin?

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Wrote music for dances

54
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What were cakewalks

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African tradition

Fanciest strutting

55
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What were coon walks?

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Stereotypical dialect with demeaning words associated with black life
Replaced ministrels

56
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What is vamp?

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A two bar repeated phrase

57
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Who is James Reese Europe?

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Formed black band which played for the castles

58
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Who were the castles?

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Two professional dancers that took cultures dancing and made them more acceptable for upper class
Origin of ballroom
59
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What kinds of music did Irving Berlin write?

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Ballads
Novelties
Ragtime

60
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Sweet By and By

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Hymn

Filmore Bennett

61
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After the Ball

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Popular music

Charles Harris

62
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The things our fathers loved

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Charles Ives

Opera sounding

63
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The Gypsy Laddie

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Child Ballad

Cecil Sharp

64
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Deep River

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Spiritual

Slow passionate singing

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