Quiz 2 Review

Question 1

She was the first American woman to compose large scale musical works

Accepted Answer

Amy Beach

Question 2

This group of singers helped to save their university, which was one of those created for newly freed African Americans

Accepted Answer

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Question 3

This technology allowed a piano to "play itself" with no performer

Accepted Answer

player piano

Question 4

This section of a Sousa march is the loudest and most climactic

Accepted Answer

The dogfight

Question 5

This genre was based on an African American religious tradition but combined it with classical singing and harmony

Accepted Answer

Concert spiritual

Question 6

Amy Beach wrote a symphony including Gaelic music

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Scott Joplin was the inventor of the term "Ragtime" and thought that it accurately described his music

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

Vaudeville shows generally had 9 acts

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Which of the following factors contributed to the decline of Native cultures and populations in the late 19th century

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 10

Folk music collectors began collecting this music in late 19th century, fearing it would disappear after emancipation

Accepted Answer

Spirituals

Question 11

This woman was one of the first women professional instrumentalists and composers

Accepted Answer

Amy Beach

Question 12

This composer was known for writing 136 marches

Accepted Answer

John Philip Sousa

Question 13

This composer used many experimental techniques and also worked most of his life as an insurance executive

Accepted Answer

Charles Ives

Question 14

This organization connected touring performers with theater managers across the country

Accepted Answer

United Booking Office of America

Question 15

In addition to song pluggers most songs sold well because

Accepted Answer

They were made famous in Vaudeville and minstrel shows

Question 16

This term refers to both a genre of music an an area of New York City where the music industry was based

Accepted Answer

Tin Pan Alley

Question 17

Scott Joplin sold his music as printed sheet music in part to:

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 18

Scott Joplin performed in this kind of ensemble before inventing Ragtime

Accepted Answer

Minstrel troupe

Question 19

Edward MacDowell cultivated an American style of classical composition by:

Accepted Answer

Both A and B

Question 20

Ragtime was associated with dacing and moral decline when it first came out

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

The "mega hit" "After the Ball" told American businesspeople that music

Accepted Answer

could be big business

Question 22

Two forms of music acknowledged as "folk music" in America early on were

Accepted Answer

both A and B

Question 23

Charles Ives' experimentation with polytonality was inspired by ear training exercises that his father taught him

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

This genre of music features the piano prominently and is very syncopated

Accepted Answer

Ragtime

Question 25

The genre was named Ragtime because of the use of "ragged," syncopated rhythms

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

The rights guaranteed to African Americans after emancipation existed mostly in theory

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

Antonin Dvorak used Native and African American elements in his "New World Symphony"

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

The last act in a Vaudeville show was intentionally boring and was known as

Accepted Answer

the chaser

Question 29

In the United States, wind band culture is related to the military

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

This genre of musical theatre featured singing, parody, and striptease

Accepted Answer

Burlesque

Question 31

This form of musical theatre features no spoken dialogue and is associated with the classical sphere

Accepted Answer

Opera

Question 32

Sousa was skeptical of recording technology for what reasons

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 33

Popular songs after the Civil War tended to be about the social upheavals of the day and contain political commentary

Accepted Answer

False

Question 34

These performers played loudly on 28th street to sell songs

Accepted Answer

song pluggers

Question 35

Sousa's marches all tended to use a similar form or template

Accepted Answer

True

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