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Music In American Culture Exam 2
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Music In American Culture Exam 2"Barbara Allen" is a - ANSWER-Ballad
"I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land" was written as a - ANSWER-Minstrel song
"Mood pieces" for the piano, such as Gottschalk's "Berceuse" and "The Banjo" are
called - ANSWER-Character pieces
"Shenandoah" is most closely connected to which of the following? - ANSWER-Sea
chantey
A chantey is - ANSWER-A song about adventures at sea
A conservatory is - ANSWER-A professional Music School
A drone is - ANSWER-A long-held constant pitch
A fiddle was a small, light - ANSWER-Violin
A repeated rhythmic and/or melodic pattern is called - ANSWER-Ostinato
A song is "through-composed" when - ANSWER-Each line of text has its own music
All of the following are true about New Orleans music except - ANSWER-Slave
musicians did not perform in public
All of the following were standard characteristics of a minstrel show except - ANSWER-
Speeches delivered by performers, acknowledging stereotypes
Aside from Native American instruments, which of the following is considered America's
first indigenous instrument? - ANSWER-Banjo
Ballads are written in what form - ANSWER-Strophic
Brass instruments were first fitted with valves, making them easier to play, in the early
____ century - ANSWER-Nineteenth
Disasters, famous murders and other historical events are subjects frequently described
in - ANSWER-Broadsides
Edward MacDowell studied in France as well as Germany - ANSWER-True
, Edward MacDowell was a member of the Second New England school of composers -
ANSWER-False
Fugue subjects and answers alternate between tonic and dominant tonalities -
ANSWER-True
Glees were songs in four part harmony that were generally - ANSWER-Humerous
In a fugue, the answer is always introduced in which key - ANSWER-Dominant
In the late nineteenth century, music in America continued to be dominated by which
style - ANSWER-German Romantic
Like Thomas Jefferson, many early Americans agreed that - ANSWER-Art must be
practical to be worthwhile
Lining out was initiated as a way to - ANSWER-Improve the way singers learned tunes
Most important members of the Second New England School of composers studied
music in - ANSWER-Germany
Most of the plays performed in eighteenth-century America were - ANSWER-
Adaptations of English pieces
Musical conservatories began to flourish - ANSWER-At the end of the nineteenth
century
Nineteenth century Romanticism was dominated by French artists, writers and
composers - ANSWER-False
Psalters are defined as - ANSWER-Books that contained psalms
Some of the earliest American popular songs - ANSWER-Were composed by foreign
musicians
Stephen Foster preferred which of the following to accompany his songs - ANSWER-
Piano or guitar
T/F A "fife" is a small percussion instrument - ANSWER-True
T/F A field holler is typically sung by multiple voices - ANSWER-False
T/F African Americans never participated in minstrel shows - ANSWER-False
T/F Amy Beach's husband discouraged her career as a solo pianist - ANSWER-True
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