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Questions
1. What is call-and-response? What is a vocable? Who is Carlos Nakai? Who/what did we listen to?
2. What is an alabados? What is a corridos? What is the difference between a work song and a field holler? What is a broadside; what was their use? Who/what did we listen to?
3. Who was William Billings and what did he write/compose? Is the song Chester strophic? What is a fuguing tune? Know: New England Psalm Singer, Bay Psalm Book. Who/what did we listen to?
4. Who invented the glass harmonica? What is the difference between a harpsichord and a fortepiano? Why were trumpet valves a good invention? What do army buglers do? Who/what did we listen to?
5. What are shape notes and where were they used, and why? Who was Lowell Mason? What was The Sacred Harp? Who/what did we listen to?
6. What were minstrel shows; who were Jim Crow and Zip Coon? Who was Stephen Foster? What famous American song was written to the tune of a British drinking song? Who/what did we listen to?
7. What was Tin Pan Alley; where was it? What was the first million seller song? What is it about? What is a cabaret? What is ragtime music; an example? What is a ballad? Name some crooners. Who/what did we listen to?
8. What is vaudeville? What is operetta? What is something in common between Candide, West Side Story, and My Fair Lady? What is off-Broadway? Who/what did we listen to?
9. What is the format of lyrics in a blues song? Where did the blues originate? Who/what did we listen to? 10. What was the point of a New Orleans funeral band; what instruments are in it and how do they perform in a funeral? What was the Original Dixieland Jass Band? Who/what did we listen to?
11. Who were Jelly Roll Morton and Bix Beiderbecke? Name some important things Louis Armstrong did. Who/what did we listen to?
12. What did Fletcher Henderson do? What was Benny Goodman famous for and what did he play? What is a big band and who plays in one? What did Duke Ellington play and what kind of music did he write? Who was the King of Swing? Who/what did we listen to?
13. What did they play: Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis. Please look at the Jazz Summary in the lecture notes for definitions of the different types of jazz. Who/what did we listen to?
14. What were Child ballads? How did they differ from broadsides? Why did we listen to John Henry? Who/what did we listen to?