America's Music: Part 1

Question 1

Who called for the regulation and desecularization of singing in worship services?

Accepted Answer

Nathaniel D. Gould

Question 2

The first known public concert in the American colonies took place in

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Boston.

Question 3

The heart of the sheet music trade lay in the solo song with keyboard accompaniment.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

By the mid-1800s, home music making involving sheet music and pianos was a pastime accessible to

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many middle-class Americans.

Question 5

In the 19th century, one favorite song genre in the home was centered on a mythic view of love harking back to the

Accepted Answer

Middle Ages.

Question 6

In early America, the word "amateur" meant someone

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who pursued music simply for the love of it.

Question 7

The lined-out practice developed because too few worshipers could read the psalms.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Who was America's first significant "classical composer?"

Accepted Answer

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Question 9

Source material for Mason's hymn collections came principally from the sacred melodies of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Lowell Mason was considered the "father" of

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public school music.

Question 11

Legal and social distinctions in which region were less sharp and increased the possibilities for a merging of culture?

Accepted Answer

Louisiana

Question 12

In 1721, Cotton Mather stressed

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the importance of the words over the music.

Question 13

Heterophony is a texture in which

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multiple voices simultaneously vary a melody.

Question 14

Accounts of Native American music near present-day Texas and New Mexico as early as the 1530s

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detail vocal performance, instrumentation, functional and spiritual meaning

Question 15

The first tunebook to address the needs of both the congregation and the choir was

Accepted Answer

Urania, or A Choice Collection of Psalm-tunes, Anthems, and Hymns.

Question 16

Who published the first hymnal assembled by a black author for a black congregation?

Accepted Answer

Reverend Richard Allen

Question 17

The profit motive has been a vital source of creative music energy throughout much of American history.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

Early public concerts in America emphasized variety, programming more short pieces than long ones.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 19

Which of the following movements was popular song not specifically enlisted to support?

Accepted Answer

critiquing Wall Street

Question 20

Shape notes originated in

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the Northeast.

Question 21

After 1800, a split opened up in Protestant sacred music characterized by a competing focus on

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edification and praise.

Question 22

Billings' The New-England Psalm-Singer, or American Chorister was significant in that it

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the first published collection of entirely American music by one composer.

Question 23

Instrumentation of typical minstrel groups emphasized melody and harmony over rhythm, timbre, and body movement.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

Gottschalk's stylistic diversity owes much to his ______ background.

Accepted Answer

European, Jewish, and Creole

Question 25

Settings for camp-meeting hymns typically proved to be interdenominational gatherings that set religion above race.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

Not until the 1900s did any appreciable number of American-born singers or players find a place on US stages.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 27

Before the Civil War, most American dances came from Europe.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

Who were the music trade's chief architects?

Accepted Answer

publishers

Question 29

19th-century parlor music's purpose was more social than artistic.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

Which is not an expressly African musical trait or practice?

Accepted Answer

Western European harmonic sensibility

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