Week 1 - Colonial And Federal Eras - 1820

Question 1

Five musicologists who documented Native American music

Answer 1

Alice Fletcher- pioneered the study of Native American music
Natalie Curtis - convinced president teddy Roosevelt to lift ban on performance of Native American music
Theodore Baker – wrote his dissertation on native American music
Frances Densmore - transcribed and recorded thousands of native American songs for the Smithsonian
Willard Rhodes – professor at Columbia university

Question 2

Natalie Curtis

Answer 2

Convinced President Teddy Roosevelt to lift the ban on performance of Native American music

Question 3

For composers born in the British colonies

Answer 3

Francis Hopkinson, James lyon, William Billings, John Antes

Question 4

William Billings

Answer 4

• The first important American individualist, a true American original and Maverick
• Born in Boston in 1746 had a little formal schooling apprenticed as a youth to a Tanner
• in 1770 publish the “New England psalm singer”covered by Paul revere
• became famous for “I am the rose of Sharon” and “Chester” 1770 a revolutionary war song

Question 5

John antes

Answer 5

First American born composer of chamber music

Question 6

Ben Franklin

Answer 6

After hearing music played on tuned crystal glasses invented the “glass harmonica” which Mozart and Beethoven among others soon compose music for

Question 7

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 7

• Played violin, I had concerts at his home in Monticello

- sold his own library to the government, marking the beginning of the music division of the Library of Congress

Question 8

To immigrant composers from this period

Answer 8

Benjamin Carr

Anthony Philip Heinrich

Question 9

Anthony Philip Heinrich

Answer 9

Started an orchestra in Kentucky where he conducted a Beethoven symphony in 1817

Question 10

John Stafford Smith

Answer 10

Composed the Star-Spangled Banner the song that has become or US national anthem was originally composed in 1777 and called Anacreon in heaven. Later given lyrics by Francis Scott Key

Question 11

Francis Scott Key

Answer 11

Wrote the lyrics to the Star-Spangled in 1814 Banner from the original 1777 composition by John Stafford Smith

Question 12

Fudging

Answer 12

Pioneered by billings - everyone songs in a round in different melodies- break the rules