Exam 2

Question 1

Describe band music

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Name two things Patrick Gilmore did

Answer 2

Band can be independent from military

Organized National Peace Jubilee

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Name four things that John Sousa did

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is march form?

Answer 5

AABB CDCDC

Question 6

What was used for early recordings and who invented it?

Answer 6

The phonograph and Thomas Edison

Question 7

What was the 1909 copyright act?

Answer 7

Granted money to the composers of the music

Question 8

What were the early recording rights?

Answer 8

Was record companies that received money

Question 9

What were the popular songs after the civil war?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What was the importance of Dwight Moody?

Answer 10

Favored simple and popular hymns

Question 11

What was the importance of Ira Sankey?

Answer 11

Wrote “Gospel Hymns”

Question 12

What is the importance of “Gospel Hymns”

Answer 12

Best selling hymnal in 20th century

Sacred songs using popular music techniques

Question 13

What is Tin Pan Alley?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is vaudeville?

Answer 14

A wide range of performers and acts

Popular entertainment

Question 15

What were the traits of a hit song?

Answer 15

Verse Chorus form
Self published
Arranged to be song on broadway

Question 16

What were the different song types?

Answer 16

Operas
Parlor Songs
Tin Pan Alley pieces
Foreign Language
Minstrels
Religous

Question 17

What is the importance of Theodore Thomas?

Answer 17

Helped realize three elements of American Symphonic culture

Founded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Question 18

What are the three elements of American Symphonic culture?

Answer 18

Belief in artistic importance
Community involved (civic pride)
Wealth

Question 19

George Chadwick

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Amy Beach

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Edward MacDowell

Answer 21

Nationalism for America

Indigenous musical style in his music

Question 22

Charles Ives

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What is herder’s das volk?

Answer 23

National spirit

Question 24

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

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Alice Fletcher

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What is ethnomusicology?

Answer 26

The study of music in different cultures

Question 27

A Buffalo said to me

Answer 27

Brave Buffalo | Vocal

Question 28

Francis Densmore

Answer 28

Started recording ethnomusicology

Question 29

Child's ballads

Answer 29

Focused on the words not the music

Question 30

Francis James Child

Answer 30

Wrote his ballads, focused on words, not music

Question 31

Cecil Sharp

Answer 31

Researched for living performers rather than | Publications set off an interest in ballad collection

Question 32

Maple Leaf Rag

Answer 32

Piano Rag Scott Joplin Fast piano

Question 33

Harry T. Burleigh

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What is a concert spiritual?

Answer 34

Fusion of African American experience that incorporates European classical music

Question 35

What was the Fisk Jubilee Singers

Answer 35

Black singers who performed spirituals, toured across America and Europe

Question 36

Slave songs of the United States

Answer 36

First anthology of slave songs | Documented to preserve disappearing oral practice

Question 37

What are vocables?

Answer 37

Sounds chosen for sounds not actual words

Question 38

Theodore Baker

Answer 38

ethnomusicology | On the music of the North American Indians

Question 39

The Black Crook

Answer 39

First musical in the United States | Reworking of german opera

Question 40

What is musical comedy?

Answer 40

British imports dominated stage throughout 19th century | More contemporary and conventional songs

Question 41

What is burlesque

Answer 41

Very raunchy and racey, had striptease in 1930s

Question 42

What is revue

Answer 42

More expensive and elaborate variety show

Question 43

What is operetta?

Answer 43

Light opera with spoken dialogue and comedy | Also called light or comic opera

Question 44

What is metropolitan opera?

Answer 44

First american opera house

Question 45

What are interpolations?

Answer 45

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

Question 46

Who is Al Jolson

Answer 46

Starred in the first major sound film | Wrote his own interpolations

Question 47

What are Jim Crow laws?

Answer 47

Seperate but equal

Question 48

Who was Blind Tom Bethune?

Answer 48

Black piano player

Question 49

Who was sissieretta Jones?

Answer 49

Black opera singer

Question 50

What is black miinistrelsy?

Answer 50

Gave blacks opportunities

Question 51

Who is Will Marion Cook?

Answer 51

Black | Wrote for broadway shows, highly desired

Question 52

Who is Scott Joplin?

Answer 52

King of ragtime | First composer to receive royalties

Question 53

Who was irving Berlin?

Answer 53

Wrote music for dances

Question 54

What were cakewalks

Answer 54

African tradition | Fanciest strutting

Question 55

What were coon walks?

Answer 55

Stereotypical dialect with demeaning words associated with black life Replaced ministrels

Question 56

What is vamp?

Answer 56

A two bar repeated phrase

Question 57

Who is James Reese Europe?

Answer 57

Formed black band which played for the castles

Question 58

Who were the castles?

Answer 58

``` Two professional dancers that took cultures dancing and made them more acceptable for upper class Origin of ballroom ```

Question 59

What kinds of music did Irving Berlin write?

Answer 59

Ballads Novelties Ragtime

Question 60

Sweet By and By

Answer 60

Hymn | Filmore Bennett

Question 61

After the Ball

Answer 61

Popular music | Charles Harris

Question 62

The things our fathers loved

Answer 62

Charles Ives | Opera sounding

Question 63

The Gypsy Laddie

Answer 63

Child Ballad | Cecil Sharp

Question 64

Deep River

Answer 64

Spiritual | Slow passionate singing