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  1. The oratorios composed by Handel between 1739 and 1749 would fill about 40 CDs
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A.True

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  1. Sacred music remained almost exclusively vocal music through the end of the 16th century
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A.True

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  1. Productive contemporary artists typically put out an album
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C. Every year or two

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  1. Cantatas were not always intended for church use, there were also
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D. Secular cantatas

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  1. Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of JS Bach considered his father:
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C. Old fashioned

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  1. Handel’s oratorio Messiah used _________ instead of _______
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A. English, Italian

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  1. Among the most significant of the annual performances of Messiah were those to support the
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D. Foundling Hospital

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  1. Two significant changes in the relationship between sacred and secular music were
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E. Both answers

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  1. In 1842 a group of Irish peasants formed an opera company the Guild of Royal Talent and engaged Handel as a music director
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B.False

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  1. Handel was the most cosmopolitan composer of the early 18th century
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A.True

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  1. Castration prior to puberty conserved the castratos singers voice into the female range
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A. True

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  1. What is the dictionary definition of a primma donna?
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E. Both answers

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  1. About a century after the Camerata first formulated the idea of opera
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C. The Arcadian academy decided to reform opera

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  1. Handel composed
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D. more than 40 operas

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15.Giulio Cesare in Egitto was based on the love affair of

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C. Caesar and Cleopatra

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  1. John Gay was
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B. an English poet and dramatist, not a composer

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  1. Two of the characters in the beggars opera were
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C. Polly Peachum and Lucy Lockit

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  1. Like so many innovation in popular music, the beggars opera grew out of
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D. new ways of combining old materials and ideas

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  1. When Corelli composed his violin sonatas at the end of the 17th century, the violin was a very primitive instrument and was difficult to keep in tune
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B. False

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  1. The sound produced by the plucking on the harpsichord has a dull attack followed by a ringing tone that lingers
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B. False

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  1. Bach had 20 children yet produced an astounding amount of music in his lifetime
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A. True

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  1. The unique texture and sound of the continuo are defining features of Baroque music
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A. True

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  1. Stringed instruments are
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A. basically the same now as they were 300 or more years ago

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  1. A plectrum is
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C. a plucking device made of quill to pluck one or more strings

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  1. Continuo can refer to the combination of
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A. a bass instrument such as the cello and a chord producing instrument such as the harpsichord

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  1. Following the Baroque era, the consistent steady movement of the bass
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C. disappeared until the swing era of the 1930s

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  1. The sonata typically had four movements
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C. slow fast slow fast

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  1. Lully died from an infection….
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A. True

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  1. The Baroque concerto
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B. the most popular orchestral genre of the early 18th century

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  1. The Baroque era was a time of
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C. energy, virtuosity, motion, and ornamentation

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  1. The solo concerto
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C. features a single solo instrument such as a violin or flute

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  1. Late Baroque concertos
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A. typically have 3 movements

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  1. Vivaldi’s music was
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C. a significant influence on JS Bach

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  1. The Brandenburg concertos
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B. very diverse in instrumentation

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  1. Bach seemed to compose from
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C. an overpowering inner need

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  1. Instrument choice is not important in a concerto as demonstrated in a commercial where Jimi Hendrix finds success as an accordion player
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B. False

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  1. Heavy metal guitarist Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple acknowledged borrowing from Bach for his classic solo Highway Star
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A. True

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  1. Learning to play the piano became a customary part of the education of young people with any signs of musical ability
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A. True

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  1. George Frederic Handel was an entrepreneur as well as a composer
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A. True

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  1. The music of the great Baroque composers was the product of the following two major developments
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C. the growth of music as a business and the almost universal adoption of common practice harmony by European composers

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41
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  1. The new keyboard, the pianoforte, got its name because
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A. performers could play both soft and loud by changing their touch

42
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  1. The following composers all settled in Vienna
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B. Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

43
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  1. Beethoven left his birthplace of Bonn to seek fame and fortune to study with
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D. Haydn

44
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  1. The term Baroque originally referred to
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E. an irregularly shaped pearl or convoluted thought process

45
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  1. We refer to music of the latter part of the 18th century as
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B. classical music

46
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  1. By using the term “baroque” historians were calling attention to
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A. the extravagant and even bizarre qualities of the music

47
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  1. The new use of homophony began around 1600 and made possible
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D. the emergence of opera

48
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  1. Baroque musicians tried to move their audience by
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A. the artful imitation of emotion

49
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  1. Composers quickly abandoned the aria style used in “possente spirto” in favor of more tuneful melodies with an underlying pulse
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A. True

50
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  1. Dido and Aeneas was Henry Purcell’s only opera
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A. True

51
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  1. The ultimate destiny of Aeneas was to find the city of Rome
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A. True

52
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  1. Librettos are
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A. the texts to be sung in operas

53
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  1. Operatic plots typically reveal themselves over
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B. 3 acts

54
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  1. English audiences accepted opera
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B. slowly because there was relatively little demand for opera in England

55
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  1. The musical revolution in northern Italy 400 years ago produced opera compared in the text to
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A. the one that produced rock in 1950s and 1960s

56
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  1. Frank Sinatra
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C. called Rock and Roll “ the most brutal…..”

57
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  1. Musical innovators from the past include
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C. Franz Joseph Haydn, Claude Debussy, Louis Armstrong, The Beatles

58
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  1. Two musicians who were able to combine the prevailing style of the music of the next generation were
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B. Beethoven and Moteverdi

59
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  1. Monterverdi was a skilled vocalist and violinist and he grew up in Cremona which was
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A. The center of fine violin making

60
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  1. Claudio Monteverdi was
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D. the first important composer of opera and a key figure in the transition…and Baroque music

61
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  1. By the time he composed Orfeo in 1607, Monteverdi was already
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D. a highly esteemed composer

62
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  1. Monteverdi provided two versions of the melody “Possente Spirito”
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A. one is an absolutely bare boned version and the other lavishly ornamented

63
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  1. Monteverdi’s way of combinging voice and instruments points to the future not only to his later operas but also
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C. all of opera as a genre

64
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  1. Thomas Morley and Thomas Weelkes were known as the composing Thomas duo
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B. False

65
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  1. Josquin could assume that everyone who heard on of his masses would have the text firmly in mind
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A. True

66
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  1. The Catholic hierarchy tried to ban polyphonic music during the Counter-Reformation
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A. True

67
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  1. Thomas Morley was a one man music industry
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A. True

68
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  1. In 2006 British rocker ______________ recorded a collection of songs for lute and voice by Elizabthan composer _______.
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B. Sting and John Dowland

69
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  1. The term a cappella refers to
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D. singing without instrumental accompaniment

70
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  1. Oriana referred to
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B. Queen Elizabeth the first

71
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  1. Elizabeth I
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B. was herself a skillful musician

72
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  1. Thomas Morley and Thomas Weelkes
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D. composed madrigals as well as music

73
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  1. An obbligato is
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C. a second melody playing under the main melody

74
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  1. “O mistresse Mine” was almost certainly
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B. a popular song known only in oral tradition before Morleys arrangement of it

75
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  1. Consort is a term used in England during the 16th and 17th centuries to identify
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D. a small group of diverse instruments

76
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  1. Singing in vernacular made worship services less appealing to the common man
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B. False

77
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  1. In the wake of Luthers Reformation Nearly all Protestant denominations adopted congregational singing
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A. True

78
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  1. John Wesley encouraged the enthusiastic and heartfelt singing of hymns
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A. True

79
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  1. Martin Luther was the father of
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E. Both…

80
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  1. Meistersingers were
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C. German lyric poets of the 14th – 16th centuries

81
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  1. ______________ which served as a commentary on scripture…..
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C. Hymns

82
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  1. Martin Luther’s original setting of “Fin feste Burg” includes distinct features of a hymn which are all of the following except
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E. syncopated rhythms and off beat entrances

83
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  1. Luther’s frequent collaborator and the other key figure in the rise of Lutheran Hymns was:
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B. Johann Walter

84
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  1. There was a business aspect to choral production which involved all of the following except the:
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C. Recording of demos

85
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  1. What did Martin Luther say about the music of Josquin
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C. It was as free as the song of the finch

86
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  1. The Jesuit missionaries thought the music of the Huron Indians sounded frightful, as if demons were singing in hell
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A. True

87
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  1. The plains Indians were all nomadic
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B. False

88
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  1. The early missionaries compared the singing of the Abenakis to:
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D. The cries and the howlings of wolves

89
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  1. For the Plains Indians, the War Dance was:
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E. Intended to ensure success in battle

90
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  1. The colonies under French, Portuguese, and Spanish rule allowed slaves to retain African customs and practices
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A. True

91
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  1. Music is not important to Santeria rituals
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B. False

92
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  1. Yoruba religious practices by African slaves, mainly from what is now Nigeria, were adopted as:
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B. Santeria

93
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  1. One researcher tracked down 98 versions of “Barbara Allen” in Virginia alone
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A. True

94
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  1. The movie Songcatcher (2000) documents the story of…
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A. True

95
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  1. The folk song “Barbara Allen” must have come to US with the:
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B. Earliest English and Scottish Immmigrant

96
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  1. About 2/3 of the dances in Playford’s anthology are in compound duple meter
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A. True

97
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  1. Rufus Guinchard was only 15 when he recorded the version of “Boston Laddie” in this text
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B. False

98
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  1. National anthems emerged during a century of tumultuous change in Europe and North America
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A. True

99
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  1. The adoption of hymn like anthems in England was a ____, unlike the commissioned anthems in Austria
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A. Happy Accident

100
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  1. Franz Joseph Haydn was:
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C. The most celebrated composer in Europe

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