Deck 3: Religious Music in Colonial Revolutionary and Federal Periods

Question 1

Most English settlers brought musical instruments with them to the New World.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Williams Billings was an American composer who attempted to imitate European sounds.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Protestants sang hymns in their vernacular language.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The New England School refers to

A) a group of English composers
B) a group of American composers
C) a school for teaching music educators
D) a school for training church musicians

Question 5

Hymn texts are taken directly from the Bible.

Question 6

Psalters are defined as

A) books that contained psalms
B) singers who performed psalms
C) teachers who taught music reading skills
D) psalms that are not notated

Question 7

A canon is a type of song that can create harmony without instruments.

Question 8

Mennonites apparently have preserved their hymns via the oral tradition.

Question 9

Psalms naturally lend themselves to congregational singing.

Question 10

The Calvinists preferred a cappella singing of psalms in church because

A) harmony was considered too sensuous for that setting
B) few congregations could afford organs
C) a cappella singing was much easier than accompanied singing
D) there were not enough song books to distribute among the people

Question 11

The "Bay Psalm Book" was created because a large number of music readers desired notated music.

Question 12

Some psalters contained only words,with no printed music notation.

Question 13

Psalm tunes were created for church settings but were also performed at social gatherings.

Question 14

The development of psalms and hymns in the United States was dominated by Catholic traditions.

Question 15

Psalm tune texts are paraphrased from the Bible.

Question 16

Lining out successfully improved church singing.

Question 17

Which of the following was least likely to be performed by musical amateurs?

A) anthems
B) hymns
C) psalm tunes
D) canons

Question 18

Hymns and Gregorian chant were introduced to Native Americans by Spanish missionaries.

Question 19

Psalters always contained a separate tune for each of the psalms.

Question 20

Along with religious music,Moravians also wrote secular music in the United States.

Question 21

The most popular composer of fuging tunes was probably

A) William Billings
B) Daniel Read
C) Francis Hopkinson
D) William Schuman

Question 22

Which form is utilized in "Chester?"

A) through-composed
B) strophic
C) fuging tune
D) canonic

Question 23

The "Bay Psalm Book" is

A) a psalter
B) a hymnal
C) an anthology of poems
D) a music encyclopedia

Question 24

Which of the following is often considered the first American popular song?

A) Barbara Allen
B) Chester
C) When Jesus Wept
D) Shenandoah

Question 25

The first book printed in the United States was the

A) Bible
B) Bay Psalm Book
C) Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter
D) Anne Bradstreet anthology

Question 26

Which of the following creates harmony when performed with staggered entrances?

A) Chester
B) When Jesus Wept
C) Shenandoah
D) Old Hundred

Question 27

Singing school masters were

A) highly educated musicians
B) musical amateurs who taught people to read music
C) almost always women
D) located in a school where people came to study

Question 28

The traditional language of Roman Catholic Church music is _________.

A) German
B) Italian
C) Greek
D) Latin

Question 29

The Protestant Reformation was initiated by

A) John Calvin
B) Martin Luther
C) Louis Bourgeois
D) William Penn

Question 30

The tune of "Old Hundred" was composed by ______________

A) John Calvin
B) Martin Luther
C) Louis Bourgeois
D) John Wesley

Question 31

Lining out was initiated as a way to

A) improve the way singers learned tunes
B) showcase the best singers in a congregation
C) teach people to read music
D) encourage congregational singing

Question 32

Which of the following Protestant sects is best known for hymn singing?

A) Calvinists
B) Lutherans
C) Moravians
D) Mennonites

Question 33

A song is "through-composed" when _________.

A) multiple verses are set to the same tune
B) text unfolds to new music throughout the piece
C) the composer notates the music as it is created
D) there is a great deal of repetition of melodic phrases

Question 34

Which of the following is not characteristic of the music of the First New England School?

A) unusual dissonances
B) modal melodies
C) strophic form
D) secular texts

Question 35

When performed as a canon,the texture of "When Jesus Wept" is

A) monophonic
B) heterophonic
C) homophonic
D) polyphonic

Question 36

The form of a fuging tune may be described as

A) AAB
B) ABC
C) ABA
D) ABB

Question 37

The first American to produce a book of original compositions was

A) William Billings
B) Virgil Thomson
C) Daniel Read
D) William Schuman

Question 38

Which of the following genres contains two distinctly different sections?

A) hymn
B) psalm tune
C) canon
D) fuging tune

Question 39

Which of the following is not a psalter?

A) Ainsworth
B) Sternhold and Hopkins
C) Bay Psalm Book
D) Bible

Question 40

The texture of a fuging tune changes from

A) homophonic to polyphonic
B) polyphonic to homophonic
C) monophonic to homophonic
D) polyphonic to monophonic

Question 41

How did the evolution of Colonial Period religious music reflect European-Protestant musical traditions?