Download Music of the United States Exam # 1 Review Questions Prelude 1

Music of the United States
Exam # 1
Review Questions
Prelude
1. Which of the following elements of music has to do with time relationships?
A. melody
B. harmony
C. rhythm
D. form
2. _____________ refers to the number of pulses or beats per measure?
A. bars
B. meter
C. rhythm
D. harmony
3. ________ is the distance between two tones.
A. an interval
B. a space
C. a measure
D. a triad
4. _____________ consists of a meaningful succession of tones?
A. form
B. harmony
C. timbre
D. melody
5. Which item refers to the most commonly used melodic system?
A. major/minor scales
B. pentatonic scale
C. modes
D. whole tone scale
6. Which of the following is created when two pitches sound simultaneously?
A. chord
B. rhythm
C. harmony
D. triad
7. The "home” tone of a piece, which is also names of the key of a composition, is called the
A. subdominant
B. tonic
C. dominant
D. unison
8. Two or more melodies happening simultaneously refers to which texture?
A. monophonic
B. stereophonic
C. homophonic
D. polyphonic
9. When composers focus on balancing repetition and contrast, they are working with the musical
element called
A. melody
B. rhythm
C. harmony
D. form
Chapter 2
1: Most of the folk music of the United States stems from what ethnic and cultural source?
a. Native American
b. Spanish
c. Anglo-Celtic
d. Old World Europe
2: Most folk ballads are:
a. sung by memory
b. are strophic in form
c. describe dramatic or tragic events
d. all of the above
3: Oral traditions play a large role in the development of:
a. alabado
b. folk ballads
c. strophic songs
4: Written and printed on very large sheets suitable for public display, or sometimes printed in
newspapers are the:
a. folk songs
b. Revolutionary War songs
c. Ownership of Copyrights to songs
d. Broadsides
5: Loud, rhythmically flexible, emotionally expressive chants or cries by a solo voice.
a. field cries
b. field hollers
c. lullabies
d. folk ballads
6: Ring shouts are performed at:
a. religious ceremonies
b. sunset
c. funerals
d. all of the above
7: Work songs were sung on plantations to:
a. voice dissent
b. praise the Lord
c. synchronize movements and keep the pace
d. remind slaves of home
8: Southern plantations banned the use of African drums because:
a. they feared drumbeats might incite revolt
b. they did not want slaves to play music
c. they only wanted to hear hymns
d. they could not follow the rhythm
True/False
1: Folk music is generally easy to remember and perform.
2: As a part of Christian conversion, priests taught Indians to sing hymns.
3: Early settlers had many musical instruments.
4: Ballads are usually sung by amateurs to their family or friends.
5: Slaves had their own form of ballad broadsides.
6: "Blue notes" originated in the slave folk ballad.
7: Dance was a common feature of early Afro-American religious worship.
Chapter 3
1: What hymn tune was composed by Martin Luther (1483-1546)?
a. Joyful, Joyful, We resound thee
b. Amazing Grace
c. A Mighty Fortress is Our God
d. Sherburne
2: Which religious group forbade the singing of hymn tunes during worship?
a. Protestants
b. Calvinists
c. Reformationists
d. Lutherans
3: Newly metered and rhymed psalm verses appeared in books called:
a. breviaries
b. hymnals
c. psalm books
d. psalters
4: Which early religious group had the most significant effect on musical life in early America?
a. Lutherans
b. Calvinists
c. Moravians
d. Puritans
5: The first American-born man to produce a book of his own compositions was:
a. John Antes
b. William Billings
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. Charles Wesley
6: What enthusiastic religious revival stimulated the rise of psalm and hymn tune singing in
American?
a. The decline of Calvinism
b. The rise of Singing Schools
c. The Great Awakening
d. the publication of the Bay Psalm Book
7 This comb-maker also composed the famous fuging tune "Sherburne."
a. John Antes
b. Daniel Read
c. William Schuman
d. Virgil Thomson
8: Polyphonic means:
a. two or more lines of melody are performed together
b. multiple voices are singing
c. the song makes harmonic sense
d. a voice is accompanied by an instrument
9: William Billings was a:
a. tanner of hides
b. blacksmith
c. farmer
d. nobleman
True/False
1: Calvinists "created" the psalm tunes.
2: The practice of "lining-out" hoped to improve musical reading skills.
3: Editions of the Bay Psalm Book before 1698 contained no music.
4: Lining-out allowed psalm tunes to become grossly distorted.
5: Virgil Thomson is associated with the First New England School.
6: The first American to produce a book of original tunes was John Antes.
7: A favorite Revolutionary war tune was William Billing's "Chester."
Chapter 4
1: When did public concerts being to take place in Colonial America?
a. 1720s
b. 1770s
c. 1740s
d. 1776
2: By The later part of the 1700s what became an important business throughout Colonial America?
a. musical instrument building
b. concert hall building
c. music publishing
d. all of the above
3: The most popular instrument to accompany dance was:
a. the piano
b. the flute
c. the fife
d. the fiddle
4: Which American president was an avid amateur musician?
a. George Washington
b. Samuel Adams
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Thomas Jefferson
5: The "glass harmonica" was invented by:
a. Thomas Jefferson
b. John Antes
c. Thomas Edison
d. Benjamin Franklin
6: What was the duty of the fife and drum corps?
a. Announce the beginning and end of each day
b. Transmit commands on the battle field
c. Call troops to meals
d. All of the above
7: Yankee Doodle was composed in:
a. the eighteenth century
b. the sixteenth century
c. the nineteenth century
d. none of the above
8: Francis Hopkinson was:
a. the first secretary of the navy
b. one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence
c. a composer of several songs
d. all of the above
True/False
1: Colonial Americans heard and loved the symphonies of Mozart and Haydn.
2: Fearing that theater was a "danger" to national defense, government banned it in 1778.
3: Theater performances generally lasted 4 or 5 hours during Colonial times.
4: Many military bands were comprised of African-Americans who, in addition to performing music,
were responsible for carrying out other duties.
Chapter 5
1: Singing school teachers, eager to have their students improve the quality of their student's singing
devised a system of notation known as:
a. fa-sol-la
b. neumatic notation
c. Revivalist notation
d. Shape-note singing
2: One of the most popular shape note songbooks is called:
a. The Sacred Harp
b. Shape note Psalm Book
c. The Shape-note Singer
d. The Singing School Master's Book of Tunes
3: Folk hymns and spiritual songs involve a great deal of:
a. tonic and dominant harmony
b. zeal for reform
c. rhythmic variety
d. repetition
4: Black spirituals often borrowed imagery from:
a. camp meetings
b. slave owners
c. plantation work
d. Old Testament of the Bible
5: Which composer below is responsible for having Black spirituals enter the repertory of solo
singers?
a. Edward MacDowell
b. Thomas A. Dorsey
c. John Newton
d. Henry Thacker Burleigh
6: What contributed to the demise of the singing schools?
a. camp meetings
b. that generation became older
c. with more people learning how to read music they were unnecessary
d. music education was implemented in public schools
7: In thinking about the music of the First New England School, what kind of music was especially
disparaging to "educated" Americans.
a. spirituals
b. the general idea of shape note singing
c. the inclusion of black spirituals
d. fuging tunes
8: This person led the movement to reform music in America.
a. William Billings
b. John Preston
c. Lowell Mason
d. John Tufts
9: What made Mason's music so appealing to 19th century Americans?
a. it not as irregular as the "fuging tunes"
b. it was sentimental
c. it relied on a European sense of harmonic motion
d. all of the above
10: Slave Hymns or Sorrow Songs are also known as:
a. hymns
b. canticles
c. gospel
d. spirituals
True/False
1: There was a Hudson River School of musicians and composers.
2: Circuit riders led praying, shouting, singing and often a kind of frenzied dancing during the religious
revival movement known as the Great Awakening.
3: The first publication of the Sacred Harp was in 1844.
4: Shape-note songbooks contained newly composed music exclusively by American composers.
5: During camp meetings blacks and whites, young and old, men and women all freely worshiped
together.
6: John Newton, the composer of "Amazing Grace" was a remorseful slave owner.
7: Black spirituals often contain hidden references in them.
8: Black spirituals have now entered into solo singer's repertory.
9: "Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen" was composed by H. T. Burleigh.
10: Despite the popularity of shape-note singing, many "educated" Americans considered this music
inferior.
11: While American literary and visual artists developed indigenous styles of expression, professional
American musicians sought to emulate European models of music.