AMERICA’S MUSICAL LANDSCAPE7E JEAN FERRIS - TEST BANK

AMERICA’S MUSICAL LANDSCAPE7E JEAN FERRIS – TEST BANK

 

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Chapter 05

 

Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century

 

True/False

 

1. Nineteenth century American social reform paralleled nineteenth century European Romanticism in terms of focus on the individual.

ANS: T

 

2. The Great Revival featured musical events as well as prayer.

ANS: T

 

3. Spirituals are usually through-composed.

ANS: F

 

4. “Amazing Grace” is in strophic form.

ANS: T

 

5. White spirituals were usually more rhythmically vibrant than African American spirituals.

ANS: F

 

6. African-American spirituals consisted only of sorrow songs.

ANS: F

 

7. Some African-American spirituals eventually became regarded as art music.

ANS: T

 

8. Shape-note singing conventions still exist in the United States today.

ANS: T

 

9. In the nineteenth century, well-educated Americans considered American music superior to European music.

ANS: F

 

10. Spirituals are strophic settings of religious texts to folk or popular tunes.

ANS: T

 

Multiple Choice

 

11. Which of the following is not true regarding shape-notes?
12. they were designed to help non-music readers learn to read music
13. they consisted of four different geometric shapes
14. each shape designated the duration of a note
15. they were based on the syllables fa, sol, la, and mi

ANS: C

 

12. Music publishers marketed their printed music collections by
13. distributing free sample copies at Sunday church gatherings
14. hiring singing quartets to demonstrate how the music sounded
15. creating collections of music that appealed to rural audiences only
16. creating easy guitar accompaniments

ANS: B

 

13. “The Sacred Harp” was
14. an instrument used at Sunday services only
15. a book published in 1844
16. a shape-note training manual
17. a famous spiritual

ANS: B

 

14. Which is true regarding spirituals?
15. they involved a great deal of repetition
16. they were written in through-composed form
17. they were never notated
18. they featured secular texts

ANS: A

 

15. Regarding spirituals, which of the following is not primarily an African influence?
16. call and response
17. melodic improvisation
18. rhythmic complexity
19. simple folk melody

ANS: D

 

16. The Jubilee Singers were
17. a group of shape-note teachers who traveled on the East coast
18. a group of African American students from Fisk University
19. a group that made the first recording of African American spirituals
20. a group of all-female art music performers

ANS: B

 

17. Which of the following is not true regarding early public school music education?
18. it was founded in 1838 by Lowell Mason
19. it contributed to an decrease in the number of singing conventions in America
20. it originated in the Boston public schools
21. the curriculum focused solely on learning to read music

ANS: D

 

18. Which of the following least impacted professional American musical composers in the nineteenth century?
19. indigenous music
20. European trends
21. German musical masters
22. shape-note notation

ANS: A

 

19. Which is true regarding “Nearer, My God, to Thee?”
20. it features one tone per syllable of text
21. melodic components are rarely repeated
22. it is difficult to memorize due to text usage
23. it features an uncomfortably wide vocal range

ANS: A

 

20. “They’ll be Joy, Joy, Joy” features which of the following textures?
21. polyphonic
22. monophonic
23. homophonic
24. heterophonic

ANS:  C

 

21. Lowell Mason was a well-known
22. composer and painter
23. painter and writer
24. writer and educator
25. educator and composer

ANS: D

 

22. Lowell Mason intended to
23. restore early American values to music
24. remove all traces of European influence on American music
25. reform American music and musical education
26. remove music from the public school system

ANS: C

 

23. The Great Awakening and the Great Revival were
24. famous nineteenth-century operas
25. religious revival movements
26. songs by Charles Wesley
27. white spirituals

ANS: B

 

24. Which of the following would most likely be sung in call and response fashion?
25. lullaby
26. patriotic song
27. spiritual
28. ballad

ANS: C

 

Essay

 

25. Considering American music today, what was the musical impact of the conversion of many African slaves to Christianity?

 

ANS: The conversion of African slaves to Christianity resulted in the creation of numerous genres that would otherwise not have existed.  Included in this category are spirituals, black gospel, and rhythm and blues (which evolved from black church music.)  Since rock evolved to some degree out of rhythm and blues, it too has a connection.

 

26. Reflecting on your own pre-collegiate music education, do you think that Lowell Mason would have been pleased with the outcome of that education? Outline his goals, and compare this with your own experience.

 

ANS: One of Mason’s goals was to create a musically literate culture, which would have included music reading skills.  While some American public school music programs accomplish this today, many American high school graduates are not music readers, and America on the whole remains a culture of musical consumers rather than performers and producers.  Additionally, the majority of Americans prefer popular music to art music, which is not what Mason envisioned either.  Mason probably could not have imagined the invention of recording technology that radically changed the way Americans experienced music.