Week 2 - The Romantic Century 1820-1920

Question 1

Stephen Foster

Answer 1

– Born July 4, 1826 in Pittsburgh
- was Americas first great songwriter, wrote “old folks at home” ‘Swanee River’ ‘oh Susanna’ ‘beautiful dreamer’ ‘Camptown races’ among others

Question 2

Scott Joplin

Answer 2

• King of ragtime want to Texas in 1868 took formal lessons and piano and harmony
• Toured around and then in St. Louis led the development of a Music Genre now known as ragtime. name derived from the fact of the rhythm is ragged - The pianist right-hand plays syncopated rhythm’s against a steady rhythm maintained by the left-hand
• worked at the Mapleleaf club - providing inspiration for his hit song ‘the maple leaf rag’followed by ‘the entertainer’
• he moved to New York City to work on his operatic work “Treemonisha’
• never saw his opera come to life died in 1917
• Treemonisha was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1976

Question 3

John Philip Sousa

Answer 3

Wrote “the stars and stripes forever” now the official march of the US

Question 4

Amy beach

Answer 4

The first American woman to achieve recognition of the composer of large forms
- wrote mass in e- flat
Gaelic symphony

Question 5

H. T. Burleigh et al.

Answer 5

Spiritual composer

Question 6

Jenny Lind

Answer 6

• Dubbed the ‘Swedish Nightingale’ by her tour promoter PT Barnum
• gave his store concert on 9/11/1850 in NYC
• what’s the first famous young female pop singer in the US early predecessor of today’s stars

Question 7

Lowell Mason & William Bradbury

Answer 7

• pioneered music education and public schools in Boston and New York
• Mason wrote many homes including ‘nearer my God to thee’ later heard in the music of Charles Ives