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Q: How does Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair exemplify the intersection between the vernacular American spirit and the European art tradition?
Q: Foster was perhaps the first American to make a living as a professional songwriter.
Q: My Old Kentucky Home, written by Stephen Foster, is the state song of Kentucky.
Q: Minstrel shows featured white performers in blackface, acting out idealized scenes from the plantation that were vastly different from the realities of slave life.
Q: Fosters Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair was not an immediate success.
Q: Foster intended his songs to be performed by professional singers.
Q: Fosters Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair contains a cadenza.
Q: Minstrelsy shaped stereotyping of African American culture well into the twentieth century.
Q: Stephen Foster composed both parlor and minstrel songs.
Q: There was a clear split between classical and popular music in nineteenth-century America.
Q: Stephen Foster made a fortune by writing popular songs.
Q: Nineteenth-century American music was a direct reflection of the music of European culture.
Q: Foster was under contract to write songs for: a. the Christy Minstrels. c. Washington and Jefferson. b. Walcotts Rabbit Foot Dancers. d. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Q: Parlor songs are best described as: a. sweet, sentimental, and nostalgic. b. overly concerned with human nature. c. intensely emotional, often through-composed. d. none of the answers shown here
Q: Stephen Foster blended the vernacular American spirit and the European art tradition into his ________. a. Lieder. c. operas. b. parlor songs. d. sonatas.
Q: Which nineteenth-century musical traditions were more connected to notions of American popular identity? a. music for dancing c. public events such as parades b. singing at home d. all of the answers shown here
Q: Who wrote the text for Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair? a. Goethe c. Edgar Allan Poe b. Stephen Foster himself d. William Wordsworth
Q: The form of Fosters Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is: a. A-B-A. c. strophic. b. rondeau. d. through-composed.
Q: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is best described as: a. a parlor song. c. a song for light opera. b. a minstrel song. d. part of a song cycle.
Q: Stephen Foster composed all of the following songs EXCEPT: a. Oh! Susanna. b. Camptown Races. c. When Johnny Comes Marching Home. d. Old Folks at Home.
Q: Which of the following best describes minstrelsy? a. wandering musicians who played at small social gatherings b. shows that featured white performers in blackface d. all of the answers shown here ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 2 REF: Essentials: p. 192
Q: Which nineteenth-century American composer is best remembered for his parlor songs and minstrel show tunes? a. William Billings c. Charles Griffes b. Stephen Foster d. Charles Ives
Q: What nationality was Stephen Foster? a. American c. German b. English d. African American
Q: Which types of cultivated repertoires are considered high art? a. opera, chamber music, and symphonies b. dance music, singing at home, and marches c. music using vernacular traditions d. none of the answers shown here
Q: Which of the following describes music in America during the early nineteenth century? a. The difficulty of life in the New World essentially eliminated music-making. b. Music was largely created by American composers. c. Music was largely imported from Europe. d. Because of the influence of the Puritans, music was forbidden.
Q: Discuss how Schubert created a unity of expression in the Elfking between text and music that enhanced the words of Goethes poem.
Q: Describe how Schubert uses the piano and voice to depict the characters and action of Elfking.
Q: Compare the different types of song structures used by Lieder composers.
Q: The Elfking is based on a legend that whoever is touched by the king of the elves must die.
Q: The Elfking requires four vocalists to sing the parts of the four characters.
Q: Schubert composed Elfking just before he died.
Q: Schuberts Lied Elfking is through-composed.
Q: The poem Elfking was written by Heinrich Heine.
Q: Schubert composed over 600 Lieder.
Q: Schuberts prolific output includes works in every major genre.
Q: Franz Schubert was a thoroughly Romantic composer who abandoned the forms and stylistic principles of Classicism.
Q: The song form that combines features of strophic and through-composed forms is called modified strophic.
Q: A song in which the same melody is repeated with every stanza of the text is in strophic form.
Q: A song that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is in modified strophic form.
Q: The rise of the piano as a household instrument influenced the popularity of the Lied.
Q: Goethe and Heine were two of the leading nineteenth-century writers whose poetry was set by Lieder composers.
Q: The art song can be described as a union of poetry and music.
Q: The poems four characters are sung by _______ vocalist(s). a. one c. three b. two d. four
Q: Which musical devices does Schubert use to portray the childs terror in Elfking? a. lilting melody in major mode c. low range and consonant harmony b. high range and dissonance d. medium range in minor mode
Q: In Schuberts Elfking, the obsessive triplet rhythm of the piano accompaniment represents: a. the wind. c. the galloping of the horse. b. the terror in the boys mind. d. all of the answers shown here
Q: Which of the following is true of Schuberts Elfking? a. He wrote the work as a teenager. b. It is based on a legend that whoever is touched by the king of the elves must die. c. It presents four characters who are differentiated in the music. d. all of the answers shown here
Q: Schuberts Lied Elfking is in _________ form. a. binary c. strophic b. ternary d. through-composed
Q: Schuberts song Elfking is a setting of a ballad written by: a. Mller. c. Heine. b. Schiller. d. Goethe.
Q: Approximately how many Lieder did Schubert compose? a. 300400 c. 500600 b. 400500 d. more than 600
Q: Schubert lived a tragically short life but was a remarkably prolific composer of: a. Lieder. c. piano music. b. chamber music. d. all of the answers shown here
Q: Schubert and his friends organized evening gatherings of artists, writers, and musicians, called: a. Abendmusiken. c. Schubertiads. b. soires. d. all of the answers shown here
Q: Schubert was born in: a. Bonn. c. Vienna. b. Salzburg. d. Leipzig.
Q: A song form in which the main melody is repeated for two or three stanzas but introduces new or significantly varied material when the text requires it is called: a. strophic. c. modified strophic. b. through-composed. d. ternary.
Q: A song that is composed from beginning to end without repetition of whole sections is called: a. strophic. c. through-composed. b. modified strophic. d. theme and variations.
Q: A song form in which the same melody is repeated with every stanza of text is called: a. through-composed. c. rondo. b. strophic. d. sonta-allegro.
Q: A group of Lieder unified by a narrative thread or by a descriptive or expressive theme is called: a. a song cycle. c. an opera. b. a ballad cycle. d. a cantata.
Q: The favorite subjects of the Romantic poets were: a. comedy and farce. b. love, longing, and nature. c. homage to the Virgin Mary and other religious subjects. d. historical events.
Q: The favorite Romantic poets of the composers of Lieder were: a. Goethe and Heine. c. Shelley and Twain. b. Wordsworth and Shakespeare. d. Hugo and Marlowe.
Q: Important composers of nineteenth-century Lieder included: a. Franz Schubert c. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel b. Robert Schumann d. all of the answers shown here
Q: A song whose text is a short lyric poem in German with piano accompaniment is called a: a. sonata. c. Lied. b. ballad. d. chant.
Q: The German term for the art song is: a. Gesang. c. durchkomponiert. b. Lied. d. chorale.
Q: Discuss how artists and works of art, including musical compositions, can become enveloped in myth.
Q: Discuss how Mozart musically evokes the terrible power of divine intervention during the Dies irae in his Requiem.
Q: Because Mozarts Requiem was written so long ago, it has little relevance for todays audience.
Q: Mozarts Requiem was performed at the funeral for Martin Luther King Jr.
Q: Mozarts setting of the Dies irae includes word-painting.
Q: The text for the Dies irae is from a poem written by a friar in the thirteenth century.
Q: The Mass, the oratorio, and the Requiem were the three principal genres of sacred choral music during the Classical era.
Q: A Requiem is a musical setting of the Mass for the Dead.
Q: Myths surrounding Mozarts early death and his Requiem continue to shape our cultures notions of creative genius.
Q: Mozarts Requiem was sung in a worldwide memorial for the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Q: The Dies irae from Mozarts Requiem includes solo voices.
Q: The Dies irae is a rhymed Latin poem.
Q: Mozart died before finishing the Requiem, and one of his students completed the work for him.
Q: The Requiem was Mozarts first major composition in Vienna.
Q: Mozart composed his Requiem out of gratitude for a long life of artistic creativity.
Q: The text of Mozarts Requiem is sung in: a. Italian. c. German. b. Latin. d. English.
Q: Which of the following best describes the mood of the Dies irae from Mozarts Requiem? a. gentle and comforting c. fearful b. lively and excited d. humorous and light
Q: What instrument accompanies the baritone voice in the Tuba mirum section of Mozarts Requiem? a. trombone c. trumpet b. tuba d. oboe
Q: Which of the following correctly describes the musical forces included in Mozarts Requiem? a. winds, strings, and choir b. strings, choir, and four soloists c. strings, winds, and timpani d. winds, strings, timpani, choir, and four soloists
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