Music P11

Question 0

Define: Field Holler

Answer 0

African American improvised solo call that expresses emotion

Question 1

Define: Work Song

Answer 1

African American vocal genre performed by laborers

Question 2

Work Songs tended to be sung at a ____ pace, often in a ____ pattern, or with __________.

Answer 2

Steady

Call-and-Response

Alternating Lines between laborers

Question 3

Work Songs could either be ______ or _______.

Answer 3

Sorrowful

Humorous

Question 4

How were Field Hollers different from work songs?

Answer 4

Longer

Flexible

Individual Singer

Question 5

Where did the first blues develope?

Answer 5

Mississippi Delta Region

Question 6

What made blues first standardized?

Answer 6

Twelve-Bar Blues

Question 7

What 3 Cords are used in Twelve-Bar Blues?

Answer 7

Tonic (1)
Dominant (5)
Subdominant (4)

Question 8

Twelve-Bar Blues is in what meter?

Answer 8

Duple Meter

Question 9

Twelve-Bar Blues uses a loose what?

Answer 9

Rhythmic Approach of Swing

Question 10

Who spoofed the blues tradition of repeating the first line twice?

Answer 10

Andrew Webber’s Play “Starlight Express” in the song “Poppa’s Blues”

Question 11

What is the poetic pattern if the blues?

Answer 11

AAB