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Where did Revue begin?

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Paris

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What is the third type of theatrical entertainment?

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Revues

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What is revue

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A show with independent scens without a continuous plot wih a common denominator that they depict things that had happened the previous year

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How does a revue differ from vaudeville?

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Because the same actors were used in every scene

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When did England begin imitating the French genre of revue?

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In 1825

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When did America embrace the notion of revues?

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1894

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What revue caused America to embrace the notion of revues?

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The Passing SHow

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What was the most famous revues in the United States?

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The annual Ziegfeld Follies

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How many follies were there in Ziegfeld’s follies over the years?

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21

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What was the first hit song in America from a revue?

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Shine on harvest moon

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Who wrote and premiered Shine on Harvest Moon?

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Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth

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In what Passing Show was the song Goodbye Broadway, Hello France added?

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The Passing Show of 1917

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What French general’s assistance tipped the balance in America’s favor during the revoltion?

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The General marquis de Lafayette

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Who remarked that Lafayette we are here?

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Pershing’s aide Colonel Charles E. Stanton

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Who wrote Lafayette We Hear You Calling?

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Reinald Werrenrath

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Who wrote The man who put the Germ in Germany?

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George M. Cohan

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What was the problem with The Man Who Put the Germ in Germany?

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Only a short time later the flu swept through the globe killing more people than had died in the entire war

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What two songs were published in response to the Spanish Flue?

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Spanish Flue Blues and Oh You Flu

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Where were all the leading musical publishers clustered in the United States?

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28th Street in New York CIty

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Who is credited with coming up with the term Tin Pan Alley and why?

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Journalist Monroe Rosenfelt because all the pianos sounding together apparently sounded like tin pans being slammed together

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Tin Pan Alley referred to catchy hits that dominated American popular music through what years?

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The 1880’s to 1950’s

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Who produces the annual Catalogue of Copyright Entries?

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The Library of Congress

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In the annual Catalogue of Copyright from August 1914 to 1919 how many songs were filed for copyright protection?

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111,973

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Of the 111973 songs filed during 1914 to 1919 for copyright protection how many were to patriotism and the war effort and of those how many were produced?

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35,600 were devoted to patriotism and the war effort but only 730 were printed

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In 1900 how many piano factories were based in New York?

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130 piano factories

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Who did publishers hire to market the songs of new music?

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Song pluggers

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What two composers were hired as songplulggers where they got their start in popular music?

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George Gershwin and Irving Berlin

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Who hired George Gershwin at age fourteen?

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Jerome H. Remick & Company

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What is Barbershop singing?

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When four voices are used o support a melody in tight harmony with no instrumental accompaniment and in tritone or 7th chord

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What Italian opera composer produced Madama Butterfly?

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Gacomo Puccini

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Who testified before Congress in 1909 about justifications for composers to receive royalties from the fledgling business of sound recordings which led to the first major copyright law in the United States?

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Victor Herbert

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What two people plus 7 unnamed others formed ASCAP in 1914?

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Victor Herbert and Raymond Hubbel

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What was ASCAP?

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The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

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What was the purpose of ASCAP?

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To collect fees when music was performed publicaly

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What did Herbert sue for when he went to the Supreme Court?

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That he heard tunes from his operetta Sweethearts being played at Shanley’s Restaraunt in New York

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Who ruled in Herbert’s favor over licensing laws?

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Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What was the second licensing agency that protected musicians?

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BMI, the Broadcast Music Incoporated

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What was the third most recognized song in America?

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Take me Out to the Ball Game

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What are the two most recognizable tunes in America?

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Happy Birthday and the National Anthem

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Who was the husband of Nora Bayes?

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Jack Norworth

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What was ironic about Take Me Out to the Ball Game?

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Neither Tilzer or Norworth were baseball fans

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Where did Take Me Out to the Ball Game receive most of its initial popularity?

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In nickelodeons and other early movie houses

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What music company produced a story of Take Me Out to the Ball Game?

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The York Music Company

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What inning’s stretch is Take Me Out to the Ball Game preformed?

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The 7th innings stretch

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When did the American and National Leagues adopt Take Me Out to the Ball Game as their official song?

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In 1933

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How many different arrangements of Take Me Out to the Ball Game are there?

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160+

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How many movie and television shows has Take Me Out to the Ball Game been heard in?

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1200+

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How many copies of sheet music has Take Me Out to the Ball Game Sold?

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6 million+

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How many recordings of Take Me Out to the Ball Game have been sold?

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8 million+

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What are the similarities between Take Me Out to the Ball Game and I Wants to Be a Actor Lady?

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Both contain an introduction and vamp, structured as verse-chorus and has a short vamp before the second verse begin

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In what kind of tempo is Take Me Out to the Ball Game played?

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Waltz tempo

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What is called when the second line of a verse repeats the same melody a step higher?

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Sequence

52
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Where was the food Cracker Jack debuted?

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At the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago

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When did Cracker Jack begin to be packaged in boxes?

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IN 1899

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When was Cracker Jack first sold at a Major League Baseball game?

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In 1907

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Who did Jack Norworth donate his royalties from Take Me Our to the Ball Game and other songs in his will?

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The ASCAP foundation

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When was the first showing of public film?

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In 1895

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What German filmmaker showed films to a paying public with an accompanying orchestra in 1895?

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Max Skladanowsky

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What two brothers used a cinematograph on Devember r23 in Paris?

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The Lumiere Brothers

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Why did the Lumiere brothers hire a pianist during their presentations?

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To mask the noise made by their cinematograph

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What was the first anthology of music cues specifically for movies and when was it published?

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The Motion Picture Piano Music: Descriptive Music to Fit the Action, Character, or Scene of Moving Pictures

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What is a nickelodeon?

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A small movie theater

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By 1907 how many nickelodeons were there in the United States?

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3,000+

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When did the first nickelodeon open its doors and where?

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Pittsburg 1905

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What popular 1949 song made it seem as if a nickelodeon was a coin driven machine?

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Music!Music!Music!

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Why did producers of film want to publish sheet music to go along with their film?

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Because machines often misplayed their cues

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Who used newly composed score for his film Kingdom of the Faries?

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George Melies

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What were originally composed film scores called?

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Custom or Original

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Who wrote the first original orchestral film score and for what?

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French composer Camille Saint-Saens for the Assassination of the Duke of Guise in 1908

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What piece were many early original film scores written and why?

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The solo piano because it needed less rehearsal time

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Who is credited with the first fully original score for an American movie?

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Victor Herbert

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What movie featured the first fully original score for an American movie?

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The Fall of a Nation

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Who wrote the Birth of a nation?

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D.W. Griffith

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Why was Birth of a Nation made it a complicated film for posterity to embrace?

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Because of its scenes of racism

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What battle did D.W. Griffith choose to feature in Birth of a Nation?

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The Battle of Petersburg

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Why did Griffith choose to portray the Battle of Petersburg?

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Because of its startaling resemblance to trench warfare in Europe

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Who were the classical composers for the Birth of a Nation?

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Beethoven and Wagner

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Who was the composer for The Birth of a Nation?

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Joseph Carl Breil

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What song was used during a scene In The Birth of a Nation to accompany scenes of the gallopingKlu Klux Klan, think Battle of 73 Easting?

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Ride of the Valkaries

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What popular songs were used in The Birth of a Nation

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Dixie, Old Folks at Home, The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the Star-Spangled Banner

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What was the first song to become a hit from a movie?

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The Perfect Song

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What theater rejected the score for Birth of a Nation and added his own music?

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Cluny Theater in Los Angeles

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How many musicians lost their jobs when sound films were produced?

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100,000

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When did the major film studios settle on the sound on film approach to movies?

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1925

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