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Music 150

Study Questions for Kingman

These links will take you to the questions for each chapter.

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Questions are organized by chapter in the Kingman text. Note, though, that there may be some questions may not answered in the text but discussed in lecture. Every question on each of the exams will be drawn from these question, though the format of exam questions will vary. (Exams utilize multiple choice, matching, true-false, short answer and short essay formats.)

PART I. FOLK AND ETHNIC MUSICS

Chapter 1: The Anglo-American Tradition

1. What are likely characteristics of a typical Anglo-American ballad text?

2. What forces act on ballad texts to produce textual and musical variants? Is there an "authentic" or "correct" version of the text of a ballad? Of the tune?

3. Describe briefly the relationship between print and ballad texts.

4. Compare a "traditional" ballad with a broadside ballad.

5. What is a songster?

6. In what ways is a native ballad likely to differ from an Anglo-American ballad?

7. Does a particular ballad text always have a single tune associated with it?

8. What aspects of "field" recordings or "authentic" performances of folk songs are likely to make them seem archaic?

9. What instruments were used to accompany ballads before 1800?

10. What instruments begin to be used to accompany ballads in nineteenth century America?

11. What are effects of adding accompaniment to ballads?

12. Describe the sound of the traditional singing voice for ballads. Does the singing style always reflect the subject matter?

13. Compare the approach a traditional ballad singer takes to performing with the approach of a professional folk singer. Consider the attitude of each toward the music sung, the vocal quality, the type of musical arrangement, the singer's attitude toward the audience and audience expectations.

14. Does the ballad tradition have a place in the modern world? Can you cite modern examples of the ballad tradition you know from your own experience? Can you think of examples of modern circumstances--wars, natural disasters, famous or infamous people--that have been used as the basis for ballads?

15. List three different approaches to folk music that have evolved since 1900.

16. How far back in the history of U.S. music can we trace the use of folk music as an instrument of persuasion?

17. How does the use of folk music in the 1930's different from earlier uses of folk music in the service of social and/or political causes?

18. What two motivations drove the urban folksong movement of the 1930s?

19. What effect did the perceived, and often real, connection of urban folksong to a Communist "party line" on social and political issues have on the folk song movement from 1940-1960?

20. Compare the relationship between background/experience and work as songwriters of Aunt Molly Jackson, Huddie Ledbetter, Pete Seeger, Woodie Guthrie and Bob Dylan.

21. How did the transition from folk musician, creating songs to address the problems of a limited area, to FOLK MUSICIAN, creating songs aimed at no one group but rather meant to reach a large, diverse audience, affect performances by Aunt Molly Jackson? by Woodie Guthrie? by Huddie Ledbetter?

22. Compare the use of folk music in the Labor movement in the 1930's with its use in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's. What was similar, what was different?

23. Do you agree with Kingman's view that, although "songs promoting unity and solidarity among the already committed are still and will always be effective sustainers of morale...," "the old line hard-hitting protest song is probably being sung to a diminishing public?" Why or why not?

24. How and why did folk songs become popular music in the 1960's? What happened to their "popularity?"

25. Are new "urban" folksongs still being created today? If not, why not? If so, how do they differ from the "urban" folk songs of the past? From the urban folk songs of the 1930's? From the folk music of the 1960's?

26. How has recording encouraged the preservation of folk music and styles from the past as living traditions?

27. Imagine a concert on which Aunt Molly Jackson, Pete Seeger, the Kingston Trio and the New Lost City Ramblers each sang the same song. Compare their performances and the effect each would likely have on a concert audience.

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Chapter 2: The Afro-American Tradition

1. List three important characteristics of African music. For each one, describe how that characteristic has manifested itself in Afro-American music.

2. Where and when did the spiritual first evolve in Afro-American culture? In what ways did the Afro-American community reinterpret the Christian gospel to make it particular to their position in society?

3. List three different environments where religious music might be sung in Afro-American culture of the nineteenth century. For each cite two characteristics you would probably notice about the performance.

4 . What instrumental forces usually accompanied the spiritual in the early 19th century?

5. How did Fisk University make Northern and European society aware of the spiritual? Why was this task undertaken?

6. Compare the character of singing in an Afro-American church, an urban upper middle class church and a lower class Southern white church in 1900.

7. What role does the spiritual play today?

8. When did the blues first evolve? List four social or cultural conditions peculiar to and/or new to Afro-Americans at that time which contributed to the rise of blues.

9. Was the starting point for blues a standard form? What factors contributed toward the standardizing of the form in the early 20th century?

10. List three characteristics of blues lyrics.

11. List three ways the standard blues form encourages textual and musical improvisation.

12. List five typical vocal characteristics of blues singing.

13. Why was the guitar the ideal instrument for accompanying rural blues? What special ways of playing the guitar (beyond picking and strumming) arose among rural blues guitar players?

14. List two other types of music important in rural black culture. Describe briefly the role each played in that culture.

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Chapter 3: The American Indian Tradition

1. Music can be understood in two ways: as an object (the score or a recorded performance) which can be studied and appreciated as a thing in itself; or as a component of an experience taking place within a cultural context, whose meaning and significance can be fully appreciated only within that cultural context. How does this distinction help explain the remarkable non-influence of Native American musics on American music?

2. List three beliefs of Native Americans about music that defined its role in culture as utterly different from any European music.

3. What functions for music important in Native American culture are absent in Anglo-American culture?

4. List three different instruments that play a role in Native American music.

5. List three musical characteristics of Native American musics that distinguish them from Anglo American music. List three characteristics which distinguish Native American musics from Afro-American musics.

6. How have government policies toward Native Americans undermined Native American music within Native American culture?

7. What was the Ghost Dance? What significance did the Ghost Dance have for Native American attitudes toward the relationship between tribal identity and music? How did the Ghost Dance movement help to break down musical differences between Native American cultures?

8. Why was the Peyote cult an important influence on the development of Native American music?

9. How were the effects of the Ghost Dance and the Peyote cult on the prctice of Native American music similar? How were they different?

10. What does the term renovated mean in relationship to music? How does a renovationist attitude toward music differ from a revivalist attitude? Describe briefly the importance of both of these concepts to an understanding of the state of Native American music today.

11. How has the function of Native American music changed in the 20th century?

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Chapter 4 The Latino Tradition

1. List three geographically distinct cultures which contributed to the development of music in Central and South America.

2. Compare the type of music that evolved from Spanish catholic roots in New Mexico with that of California.

3. What is an albado ?

4. Contrast briefly the treatment of slaves in Spanish America with that in English America and the United States. What effect did this difference have on the development of music in Central and South America?

5. Compare the secular music of Mexico, as described on page 69, with that of the United States. In what ways are they similar? How--besides language--do they differ?

6. Compare the role of drums in Afro-Cuban music & Afro-American music.

7. List four styles of Mexican music.

8. What functions does music serve in Mexican American culture?

9. Contrast briefly the corrido and the Anglo-American ballad? How are they similar? How different

10. What is conjuncto ?

11. What two distinct ways of "importing" Latin-American have been important influences on American music?

12. What role has music played in preserving a distinct hispanic culture in the United States?

13. What is clave ? Why is it important in Cuban music?

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PART TWO. THREE PRODIGIOUS OFFSPRING OF THE RURAL SOUTH

Chapter 5 Country Music

be able to identify and briefly state the significance of

Jimmy Rogers

Ernest Tubb

Maybelle Carter

Carter family

Kitty Wells

Bob Willis

Vernon Dalhart

Patsy Kline

Hank Williams

Blue Sky Boys

Bill Monroe

Flatt & Scruggs

Gene Autrey

Chet Atkins

Merle Haggard

1. List 3 characteristics of country music that have changed over time.

2. List 3 characteristics of country music that have not changed over time.

3. List 3 genres of music of the nineteenth century or earlier that are important sources for early country music.

4. What family of instruments provides the backbone of country instrumental sound?

5. In what decade of what century does country music begin? Why can we date the beginnings of the music so precisely?

6. What technology was important to the beginnings of country music? Why was it important?

7. Compare the approach to country music exemplified by Jimmy Rogers in "Waiting for a Train" and the Carter family in "Can the Circle be Unbroken". Discuss briefly the how each approach is reflected in the country music of today.

8. How did the "western" get into "country and western"? What contributions did the west--its history, music, fashions, imagery, etc.--make to country music?

9.What new musical elements--instruments, style, sound--does western swing bring to a country sound? What function does this music serve? How does its style reflect that function

10. What effects does the emergence of rock'n'roll in the 50's have on country music?

11. Compare briefly the style of old country music and the Nashville sound of commercial country. Consider singing style, instruments used and style of playing.

12. When and where did honky-tonk arise? How does its function differ from old country music? from Nashville commercial country? How does the nature of text and music reflect these differences in function?

13. List 4 instruments basic to the sound of bluegrass.

14. What aspects of bluegrass grow out of traditional styles? What aspects go beyond traditional styles?

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Chapter 6 Blues and Soul: From Country to City

be able to identify and briefly state the significance of

W. C. Handy

McKinley Morganfield

Ray Charles

Bessie Smith

"T-Bone" Walker

Hound Dog

Robert Johnson

Louis Jordan

B. B. King

Meade "Lux" Lewis

Lighnin' Hopkins

Joe Louis Walker

1. List 3 characteristics of blues that have changed over time.

2. List 3 characteristics of blues that have not changed over time.

3. What characteristics of African music have remained important in Afro-American blues? What aspects of blues derive from musics blacks heard in America?

4. When did the blues begin? Why can we not be a specific about a starting point for blues as we could be for country music?

5. List four socio-cultural characteristics of the post-Civil war status of blacks in the South that contributed to the development of blues.

6. What factors contribute to the "standardization" of blues as a form in the first three decades of the 20th century?

7. Describe briefly the "standard" blues lyric form. Why is this form ideal for making up lyrics as you go along? for instrumental improvisation? What is fixed, what can vary?

8. Describe briefly the "standard" blues musical form. What is fixed, what can vary?

9. List 3 differences between the blues of the rural South 1900-1920 and the so-called "Classic" blues of the 1920's. In what respect is "Classic" blues unique among the styles of blues we have studied?

10. What style of music adapted blues guitar to the piano? Describe briefly the musical characteristics of that adaptation.

11. List 3 source geographical areas for rural blues. What contribution did technology make to the popularization of rural blues?

12. How did the function of blues change when the performers moved to large urban areas? How does the style of urban blues reflect these changes in function?

13. How can one differentiate between blues and R & B? Why were drums added to the blues? What were some of the effects of this addition? What new functions did R & B serve?

14. How did radio change the character of the R & B audience in the 1950's?

15. How did the black audience respond to early rock'n'roll?

16. Describe briefly the characterstics that defined the Motown sound.

17. List 3 types of music that contribute to the 'soul synthesis'. What was the most important difference between soul music and R&B?

18. What musics from outside the continental U. S. have influenced blues? R&B? soul?

19. Who is the audience for blues today? How has that affected the character of the music?

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Chapter 7 Rock and Its Progeny

be able to identify and state briefly the significance of

Bill Haley

punk rock

Mothers of Invention

Sam Phillips

disco

Lieber & Stoller

"covering" a record

Motown

Phil Spector

Jerry Lee Lewis

George Martin

rap

1. List 3 characteristics of rock music that have changed over time.

2. List 3 characteristics of rock music that have not changed over time.

3. List 3 social conditions that contributed to the rise of rock'n'roll.

4. List 3 technological developments that are crucial to the rise and dissemination of rock n roll in the 1950's.

5. What is the most important source music for early rock'n'roll?

6. How did the emergence of rock'n'roll affect the recording industry in the short run? in the middle run? in the long run?

7. Compare the contributions of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry to the development of rock music.

8. Compare the contributions of Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to the development of rock music.

9. List three new genres of source music rock drew on beginning in the middle 60's.

10. How has rock music since 1970 reflected the changing economic, social and cultural climates during that time?

11. Rock music is the first music whose identity has grown at least as much from recordings as from live performance. What effect has this change had on the way the music is experienced?

12. How has the emergence of MTV in the last decade changed the experience of rock music? What effects has a home visual component had on live performance?

13. Kingman notes that rock music has been compared to tribal music. In what ways does the way rock music is used by young people resemble the use of music in folk and tribal cultures?

PART THREE: POPULAR SACRED MUSIC

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Chapter 8: From Psalm Tune to Rural Revivalism

be able to identify and state briefly the significance of:

psalm tune

psalter

lining out

regular way

usual way

tunebook

Bay Psalm Book

singing school

sol-fa

Chester

Lament Over Boston

1. What type of religious music was brought to America by the Pilgrims and the Puritans? Was this music a notated or vernacular tradition? Were there different parts or did everyone sing in unison?

2. What use was made of music in these services? Was there a separate choir? Were instruments common?

3. How did congregational singing change from 1620 to 1720? Where might one hear a style of congregational singing similar to that of 1720 in America today?

4. Describe briefly the operation of a typical singing school. Was it a permanent institution in the community?

5. What were the musical goals of the singing school reformers? How important was "improved performance" to the leaders of the reform movement?

6.When were singing schools important in New England? Who attended the singing schools? Why were singing schools important as social institutions?

7.Describe briefly the change in the way music might operate in a congregation whose members had attended a singing school.

8. How did singing schools encourage the emergence of composers? Did these composers generally make their living by composing?

9. Describe briefly the life of William Billings. Was he a successful composer? How, in his view, should a composer learn the craft of composition?

10. Were sacred and secular kept separate in music from 1620 to the Revolution? What was the most common home music during this period?

11. In what ways did the music of the Moravians differ from the music of the Puritan sects in pre-Revolution America? Did it develop a "usual way" of performing comparable to the New England "usual way"?

12. What sort of music did Moravian church musicians perform?

13. In what respect is the history of Moravian music similar to that of English folk song in the Appalachians? How is it different?

14. What were the most important characteristics of Shaker music?

15. Where did Shaker music come from? In what respect is the Shaker attitude toward music and its sources similar to that of Native Americans?

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Chapter 9: Urban Revivialism and Gospel Music

1. What happened to sacred music between the American Revolution and the Civil War in the urban centers of the east coast? What was the musical model for church music?

2. How much congregational singing was there in these urban churches? What sort of music was sung by church choirs? How did urban churches view the reforms of the New England tunesmiths?

3. Who was Lowell Mason? Compare Mason's musical values with those of William Billings? How did Mason influence the development of religious music in America? Was his influence a positive one?

4. What happened to sacred music between the American Revolution and the Civil War in the rural areas of the South? What is shaped note singing? Who sang shaped note hymns--choirs or congregations?

5. What happened to the "usual way" after 1800?. Would you describe rural shaped note singing as "usual way" or "regular way?" Why?

6. List three likely characteristics of a revival hymn from the early 19th century. Where did these revivals take place? Who came? Were there tunebooks?

7. Compare the subject matter and style of rural white gospel hymns and the urban gospel movement that arose in the late nineteenth century (Moody-Sankey).

8. What types of twentieth century secular music have been influenced by white gospel music?

9. Did white gospel music after 1900 flourish primarily in the cities or in rural areas? What about black gospel music?

10. Why was the preacher so important in the development of black gospel music?

11. List three typical characteristics of twentieth century black gospel music that distinguish it from white sacred music in mainline urban churches.

12. Was gospel music typical of morw middle-class Afro-American churches in the early 20th century? Why not?

13. Who was Thomas Dorsey?

14. List 3 examples of influences from Afro-American gospel on other musics since 1950.

15. List three ways technology has shaped the development of sacred music in the last 200 years (Consider developments in the 19th century as well as the 20th.)

16. How distinct are the sacred and secular musics being created today? How does the relationship between sacred and secular music today compare with their relationship in the late 19th century?

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PART FOUR: POPULAR SECULAR MUSIC

From Introduction to Part 4 (and lecture)

1. What is the basis for the distinction between popular music, folk music and art music? How much does this distinction rest on the musical quality of the different musics?

2. What conditions are necessary for popular music to develop?

3. When did America begin to produce its own popular secular music?

Chapter 10 Popular Secular Music in the Cities from Colonial Times to the Jacksonian Era

1. Where was popular music found in America before 1830?

2. Why is it not appropriate to separate "classical" and "popular" music at this time?

3. How would a concert in Boston in 1750 have differed from a concert in 1950?

4. What two types of dances were found in cities in the colonial era? How does the history of each type reflect the emerging America negative attitude toward a noble aristocracy?

5. What was the basis for wealth in early America?

6. What role did musical societies play in the development of secular music in the cities?

7. What two types of benefit concerts were found in colonial cities?

8. Who were the performers of early secular music?

9. What role did immigration play in the development of urban music?

10.What was a "gentleman" performer? How important were such performers to early urban music events?

11. When did native composers of popular music begin to appear in America?

12. Compare the variety of music (and other activities) common at concerts before 1800 with the present day classical concert. With a rock concert today.

13. Compare the behavior of an audience of a concert in 1750 with a classical audience today. With a rock audience today.

14. What other activity commonly happened at the end of most early concerts?

15. What role did military bands play in early urban music? Why were they more common than orchestras?

16. When did opera begin? When did Shakespeare write his plays? What do these facts have to do with US music?

17. What is ballad opera? Why were ballad operas sure to be both popular and practical in early America?

18. How significant was the American composer to musical theater before 1830?

19. What is a popular song? What distinguishes it from a folk song? from an art song?

20. How did popular song as a genre begin in America?

21. How diverse was the subject matter and style of early popular song? Was there a clear dividing line between the sacred and the secular? Between the popular and the "classical"?

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Chapter 11 Popular Musical Theater From the Jacksonian Era to the Present

1. Describe briefly the genesis of the pre-Civil war minstrel show. Who were the models for the characters? Who were the first performers? the first audiences? Describe briefly the significance of Daniel Emmet in the development of the minstrel show, and discuss his career as a paradigm for the contributions white entertainers made to the form. Could we point to any comparable Afro-American entertainer at this time who could serve as a paradigm to illustrate the contributions made by black entertainers?

2. List the four essential instruments for the early minstrel show.

3. In what ways did the minstrel show contribute to the development of a distinctly American musical theater?

4. In your view, what place do the pathetic plantation songs of Stephen Foster have in the repertory of American songs appropriate to concert performance today?

5. How did the minstrel show change after the Civil War?

6. When did The Black Crook open in New York? Why was this show an important milestone in the development of American musical theater?

7. How was vaudeville different from the minstrel show? Why was vaudeville an even more appropriate medium for promoting popular songs?

8. List three European cities whose popular musical theater influenced the development of American musical theater in the late 19th century. Name one important composer from each.

9. What was the single most important contribution of Gilbert and Sullivan to the development of American musical theater?

10.Why is George M. Cohan a crucial figure in the evolution of the American musical?

11. List two contributions of Afro-American musicians to the development of American musical theater from 1890 to 1930. How did the attitude of Afro-Americans toward minstrelsy change after 1890?

12. Explain the significance of Chlorindy, the Origin of the Cakewalk (1900) and Shuffle Along (1921) to the growth of American musical theater.

13. List three composers of American operettas in the early twentieth century. What set operettas apart from other American musical theater during this period?

14. What contribution did the Broadway revue make to the growth of the American musical?

15. From Show Boat (1927) to West Side Story (1957) has often been called the golden age of the American musical. Who are the five most important composers of musicals during this period?

16. List four areas of development one can see in musicals from 1927 to 1957..

17. Since 1960, in what two very different directions has the Broadway musical evolved?

18. What was the first movie to incorporate a popular song? In what year was this movie made? Who was the singer?

19. Why has the musical declined in importance since 1960? Where, in your opinion, is the most important American musical theater being created today?

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Chapter 12 Popular Song, Dance and March Music from the Jacksonian Era to the Advent of Rock

1. Why did the development of a mass market for sheet music about 1830 lead to changes in the nature of American popular song?

2. List four likely characteristics of a parlor song. For what audience were parlor songs written? Where did the audience listen?

3. List three likely subjects for parlor songs. What was the most common sentiment in parlor songs?

4. How did Henry Russell contribute to the development of American popular song as a songwriter? as a performer? What influence did Henry Clay have on Russell's views on songwriting and performing?

5. How did the Hutchinson family contribute to the development of American popular song? In what important way did the typical repertory of the Hutchinson family singers differ from that of Henry Russell?

6. Describe briefly the career of Stephen Foster, songwriter. Was he familiar with many types of songs popular at that time? Did he always write in imitation of existing song types, or...

7. What, in your view, has made Stephen Foster songs endure?

8. List four types of songs associated with the Civil War. How important to the development of American popular song was the Civil War? Why?

9. To what extent did popular songs written immediately after the Civil War reflect the dramatic changes taking place in American society at that time? What were likely subjects for songs during the period 1865-85?

10. How does the popular song evolve from 1830 to 1890? What changes, what remains the same?

11. Kingman describes a three-tier structure for popular songs from 1930 to 1955, on the basis of their sophistication and substance. What is this structure? Who is the one composer notable for significant contributions to all three tiers? Can you see any comparable structure in popular song today?

12. When did the basic unit for distributing popular songs change from sheet music to the record? What effect does this change have on the relative importance of the composer and the performer?

13. What was the main vehicle for advertising songs before radio and TV?

14. What factors contributed to the emergence of a national market for popular songs? When did this happen?

15. What is Tin Pan Alley?

16. What was old about ragtime songs? What was new?

17. What sorts of music did the pre-Civil War brass bands play?

18. How did the band change after the Civil War? What contributions did Patrick Gilmore make to the development of an American concert band tradition?

19. What repertory did late 19th century bands perform? Were they important in the dissemination of popular songs?

20. How important was the band as a local community institution in the late 19th century? What role did the band play in community musical and theater activities?

21. Describe briefly the contribution of John Phillip Sousa to the development of the American band. Did he see himself as an educator or an entertainer?

22. Where is concert band music found most often today?

23. List three crucial media shifts that took place in the popular music industry from 1920 to 1930. How did these shifts affect the way the popular music audience used popular song?

24. Why did the big swing bands of the 1930's become a major means of popularizing songs?

25. Trace the role of dance as an increasingly impotant stimulus for the creation of popular songs. When do popular songs begin to be used for social dancing? What was the source of these "dance-songs"?

26. Was there only one "pop song" type 1930-1950 or were there many? How much variety was there in the productions of Tin Pan Alley?

27. What was the basis for the strike called by ASCAP against radio broadcasters in 1941? How did this conflict contribute to the "opening up" of popular song to a greater variety of sources?

28. Compare the response of Tin Pan Alley publishers to rhythm'n'blues, country music and rock'n'roll in the 1950's with the response of traditional music publishers to the emergence of the New York-based mass-appeal popular song in the 1890's. What are the similarities? the differences?

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PART FIVE JAZZ AND ITS FORERUNNERS

Chapter 13 Ragtime and Pre Jazz

1. List three different genres of ragtime music found in the period 1885-1915. Was piano ragtime thought at that time to be the most important of these genres?

2. What was the response to ragtime by white society? By American classical musicians?.

3. What musical background did Scott Joplin have?

4. What is syncopation? Why is it important in describing ragtime?

5. What contribution did the military march make to ragtime piano music?

6. What aspect sof ragtime derives from Afro-American music? What aspects from European music?

7. In what way was ragtime unique among Afro-American musics in the way it reached its public?

8. List two late offshoots of ragtime.

9. How did the "second" audience for ragtime that developed as a result of the ragtime revival differ from the "first" audience of 1900-1920?

10. What was Black Bohemia? When and where did it thrive? Why is it important to the development of jazz?

11. Describe briefly the role of the southern black brass bands in the development of jazz.

12. Who was James Reece Europe? What contribution did he make to the development of jazz?

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Chapter 14 Jazz

Describe briefly the importance of each of the following in the development of jazz:

King Oliver

Jelly Roll Morton

Louis Armstrong

Fletcher Henderson

Duke Ellington

Count Basie

Lester Young

Billie Holiday

Benny Goodman

Ella Fitzgerald

Sarah Vaughn

Mary Lou Williams

Charlie Parker

Dizzy Gillespie

Thelonious Monk

Miles Davis

John Coltrane

Ornette Coleman

Cecil Taylor

Bill Evans

Eric Dolphy

McCoy Tyner

Chick Corea

Wynton Marsalis

1. What was the typical form of a New Orleans jazz piece?

2. Describe briefly the texture of New Orleans jazz? How many layers were there? What instruments? What sort of material did each instrument play?

3. In what sorts of performance environments was jazz most likely to be heard in the 1920's? What was its function?

4. List three different aspects of the development of jazz that took place in New York in the early 20's.

5. Describe briefly the way a big band of the 1930's grew out of the typical New Orleans or Chicago small ensemble of the 1920's.

6. In what respects is bebop a continuation of the jazz that preceded it? In what respects does it differ from its predecessors?

7. What extra-musical factors made bebop seem more "revolutionary" than it in fact was?

8. List four styles of post-1950 jazz that developed in response to bebop. Name one jazz musician prominent in each.

9. What is the third stream?

10. List three influences rock music has had on jazz.

11. When did revivalism become an approach jazz musicians took to their music? In what way does jazz revivalism resemble the revivalist approach to Native American musics? How does it differ?

12.Trace the changing meaning of fusion as it applies to jazz from its beginnings to the present. Consider New Orleans jazz, the big band, bebop, third stream, jazz-rock fusion and the fusion of jazz with ethnic musics from around the world.

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PART SIX CLASSICSAL MUSIC

Chapter 15 Laying the Foundation: Accomplishments from the Jacksonian Era to World War I

Describe briefly the importance of each of the following in the development of a uniquely American classical music

Lowell Mason

Anthony Phillip Heinrich

Louis Marie Gottschalk

John Sullivan Dwight

Theodore Thomas

Thomas Greene Bethune

John Knowles Paine

Amy Beach

Edward McDowell

Arthur Farwell

1.What conditions in America in 1830 were hostile to the development of a "classical" music parallel to that of Europe?

2. How did thinking about the proper role of music in education influence the development of American classical music in the 19th century?

3.What is a "nativist" composer? Why was this attitude important in the evolution of American classical music? What prevented the emergence of an American "nativist" composer comparable to the "nationalist" composers who emerged in Europe after 1860?

4. List two ways in which the life and career of Louis Marie Gottschalk were exceptional for an American composer in the first half of the19th century.

5. In what way did economic and social conditions in America after the Civil War favor the growth of an upper class "classical" music? What conditions mitigated against the development of such a music?

6.List 3 achievements of Theodore Thomas in the development of the symphony orchestra in America.

7. Who were the Second New England School of composers? List three ways these composers differed--in attutude, training and function within the community--from those of the First New England School of composers (William Billings and the New England tunesmiths).

8. How does the history of opera in New York sum up the conflicting attitudes toward the development of a broad-based classical music in America in the 19th century?

9. Compare the careers of Edward MacDowell and Arthur Farwell as American musicians. What was the attitude of Edward MacDowell toward Americanmusic? In what way do the conflicts he felt reflect his times? How did McDowell promote his beliefs about music? How did Arthur Farwell's Wa-Wan press promote the cause of an American classical music?

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Chapter 16 The Evolving Tradition 1920-1970

NOTE: Because much of this chapter contains discussion of music we will not be studying in the class, you need only read in detail the introduction to this chapter, pp. 454-461. The discussions of actual music in the text I will handle in class. You should also skim the rest of the chapter to be aware of the variety of performing forces and functions classical music during this period served (movies to concerts, for example).

Aaron Copland

Roger Sessions

Roy Harris

Samuel Barber

George Gershwin

1. What factors helped stimulate the rise of a distinctly American classical music after the World War I? To what extent did this rise depend upon societal needs and circumstances? To what extent upon the deterimination of a new generation of American composers?

2. What European city was most important to the growth of American classical music after WW I? Why?

3. What is "modernism"? Why was it important to the development of American classical music?

4. List five important American composers of classical music who rose to prominence between World War I and World War II.

5. What effect did the depression have on the development of American classical music?

6. How did American composers strive to create a "recognizably American" style of classical music?

7. What distinguishes a "conceptual" Americanist from a "compositional" Americanist? How did the approach of "compositional" Americanists after 1920 differ from the approach of 19th century "nativist" composers?

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Chapter 17 Modernism I: New Ways with Old Tools

NOTE: This chapter contains discussion of music we will not be studying; but, unlike Chapter 17, it is organized around individual composers, with emphasis on the ways each approached creating their own musical world. Each of these worlds is important--I plan that we will listen in class to some excerpt from all of them, and you should listen in the media center to further examples of those you connect with in class, or through your reading--even reading about what a composer seeks to do can often lead you into their musical universe. You will need to read the entire chapter; but do not linger over discussions of music we do not play in class. (Of course, music discussed in the text is an excellent source of music to listen to in the Media Center).

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1. How did Ives' background and early training equip him to be a musical explorer? Was he a professional musician? How did he make his living?

2. List three characteristics of Ives music that derive from a modernists approach to composition.

3. How did Ives study of music with Horatio Parker at Yale affect his attitude toward composition? Was Parker a modernist influence?

4. What was Ives' attitude toward popular music? Did he write popular music? How did he make use of popular music in his own work? Why did he regard popular music as important?

5. In what ways was Ives impractical as a composer? Was he always a good judge of what was possible to achieve in performance?

6. What was Ives' attitude toward professional in music? What aspects of his attitude seem appropriate today?

7. What, in your opinion, will be the attitude toward Ives' music among musicians in 2094? Will his music still be played? Why or why not?

For each of the following composers, list one important characteristic of the musical world they create that sets them apart from composers working in more traditional styles at the same time:

Carl Ruggles

Lou Harrison

Henry Cowell

Harry Partch

Conlon Nancarrow

Edgar Varese

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Chapter 18 The Impact of Technology and New Esthetic Concepts

NOTE: Do not linger over discussions of music we do not discuss in class

Be able to identify one important aspect of the music of each of these composers

Milton Babbitt

Elliott Carter

Morton Feldman

Morton Feldman

1. What are the two dominant rationales of mid-century modernism? In what respects is the music produced by both these rationales similar in character? How do they differ?

2. What is "serialism"? How did it give rise to "total organization"?

3. What is the difference between music created by improvisation and music which is indeterminate with respect to its composition? Indeterminate with respect to its performance?

4. Why does Post-World War II modernist music often sound so different from earlier musics. What are some sources for these new sounds?

5. How has technology been an important force in encouraging a modernist perspective toward composition? Describe some new ways of approaching music making made possible by technology.Compare the uses made of technology by classical composers and the uses of technology by popular musicians. By jazz musicians.

6 How has the connection between music, theater, dance and other media encouraged the growth of modernism?

8. What is conceptual music? How does it grow out of a modernist approach to composition?

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Chapter 19 Modernism Transcended: Autonomy, Assimilation, and Accessibility

Be able to identify one important aspect of the music of each of these composers

Terry Riley

Steve Reich

John Adams

Phillip Glass

David del Tredici

1. How had modernism become a new dogma by 1960?

2. What is minimalism? List three composers who have worked used minimalist techniques. How can minimalism be seen as a type of modernism? How can it be seen as a reaction against modernism?

3. How have classical composers since 1960 reconnected with past musical styles?

4. Why have non-western musics become an important source for classical composers? Is this just more "exotic" exploitation?

5. Compare the range of attitudes toward the importance of communication with an audience among modernist composers and post-modern composers. Is there a difference? Why?

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Chapter 20 Opera Old and New

Be able to identify one important aspect of the music of each of these composers

Virgil Thompson

George Gershwin

John Adams

Phillip Glass

Meredith Monk

1. How did the history of opera, as a part of musical theater in the 19th century, contribute to the view of opera in America as reserved for an elite? How did this compare with opera in Europe in the 19th century?

2. What is unusual about the musical sources of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bes in the world of opera? How was this opera received by the opera audience?

3. What text characteristics sets the operas of Virgil Thompson apart? Who was his librettist?

4. List three opera composers who became active since 1960. What sets their operas apart from more traditional operas? How do the operas of Phillip Glass relate to techno music?

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Chapter 21 Regionalism Revisited

1. Why has regionalism remained an important aspect of U. S. music in this age of schizophonia?

2. List three types of music which today are defined in terms of geography.

3. What conditions--musical, cultural or economic--give rise to new regional musics?