MUSC 2226 - unit 2

Question 1

call and response

Answer 1

a rapid exchange, usually of rifts, between two different timbres; solo voice and guitar; solo voice and choir; or saxophones and trumpets

Question 2

parlor song

Answer 2

a song to be sung at home in the parlor, like Stephen Foster’s “Beautiful Dreamer,” popular through most of the nineteenth century. Also called home songs and piano bench music

Question 3

minstrel show

Answer 3

a form of stage entertainment distinguished by cruel parodies of African Americans. Minstrelsy was popular from the early 1840s to the end of the nineteenth century

Question 4

blackface

Answer 4

minstrel show practice in which white and (later) black performers applied burnt cork to darken their complexion

Question 5

Tambo and Bones

Answer 5

nicknames for the endmen in a minstrel show, so called because one usually played tambourine and the other a pair of bones

Question 6

interlocuter

Answer 6

the straight man in a minstrel show. The interlocuter would sit in the middle of the semicircle and ask questions of the endmen,who would give comic replies

Question 7

endmen

Answer 7

a comic in a minstrel troupe. Minstrel performers sat in a semicircle on-stage; an endman sat at one end or the other

Question 8

olio

Answer 8

the second section of a minstrel show-the variety portion that featured a wide range of unrelated acts, much like the later vaudeville shows

Question 9

burlesques

Answer 9

in a minstrel show, humorous parodies of cultivated material

Question 10

walkaround

Answer 10

the conclusion of a minstral show, featuring the entire troupe in a grand finale of song and dance

Question 11

cakewalk

Answer 11

a dance-fad of the 1890’s; also the music to accompany the dance

Question 12

unison

Answer 12

two performers playing the same pitch

Question 13

songsters

Answer 13

a book containing the lyrics of popular song

Question 14

song pluggers

Answer 14

a publishing-house pianist who could play a new song for a professional singer or a prospective customer.

Question 15

Tin Pan alley

Answer 15

A nickname for a section of East 28th street in New York City, where many music publishers had their offices. Also the styles of the songs created in the first half of the centurey for these publisher: a Tin Pan Alley song refers to songs by Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and their contemporaries.

Question 16

waltz songs

Answer 16

a type of song popular around 1900 in which a flowing melody is supported by a simple, waltz-time accompaniment

Question 17

vaudeville

Answer 17

a form of stage entertainment popular from the 1880s to about 1930. It consisted of a series of acts: singers, dancers, novelty performers, and comics. It differed from the revue and musical comedy in that there was no attempt to link vaudeville acts into a dramatically coherent whole

Question 18

operetta

Answer 18

a light, often humorous, form of opera

Question 19

revue

Answer 19

a type of stage entertainment popular int he first third fo the century. They were topical; they often lampooned prominent public figures. They had a flimsy plot, designed to link - however loosely - a series of songs, dance numbers, and comedy routines

Question 20

interpolation

Answer 20

the insertion of a song into a musical comedy for which it was not written. It was common in the early years of musical comedy, when producers would insert a song into a show simply because it was a hit

Question 21

patriotic songs

Answer 21

a song with a patriotic theme

Question 22

concert band

Answer 22

a band (woodwinds, brass, and percussion instruments) that performs in a concertlike setting (seated on-stage, in front of an audience) rather than marching.

Question 23

march

Answer 23

music composed in regularly accented, usually duple meter that is appropriate to accompany marching; a composition in the style of march music

Question 24

trio

Answer 24

one of the two main sections of a march, in a different key