MH2 Week 11 Review

Lowell Mason disliked "crude" compositions of early US tunesmiths, stamping them out with "scientific music" approach.

In the 19th c., women were expected to be amateur musicians and to constrain their music-making to the home.

Which was considered an ideal art in the Romantic era becuase it was free from the specificity of words and images?

Who composed this song, from a song cycle?

Musical that does not include the narrative references is often described as:

Who was the first U.S. choral composer, the first tunebook published by one U.S. composer, friend of Paul Revere?

When we analyze a work according to the relationships between small gestures and the whole work, what is that approach?

In his "early period," which composer did Beethoven study with?

One of the reasons Blackface Minstrelsy was popular was because there was no room in it for social critique.

Romantic composers emphasized individuality as a response to the social mobility engendered by the French Revolution.

What was the genre in which performers "blackened up" and pretended to be African American characters?

Which composer straddled the end of the Classical era and the beginning of the Romantic, and wrote 9 symphonies?

Which symphony did Beethoven original dedicate to Napoleon, only to redact that dedication out of anger?

The first book printed in the "New World" was

Blackface Minstrelsy started in the Southern United States.

Which Beethoven work is over an hour long with a huge ensemble (+ chorus and soloists), and uses text to Ode to Joy?

What is the book, reprinted in many editions since 1844, that presents early american psalmody in shape note notation?

Who originated Blackface Minstrelsy, and the Jim Crow character?

Who composed this piece?

A composition that demonstrates and develops technical facility, but which may also be performed in concert, is...

The pedagogical method from mid-1900s that uses a form of solfege and uses shapes to indicate scale degrees, is called

Who was the founder of public-school music in the U.S.?