Deck 5: Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century

Question 1

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

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The Great Revival featured musical events as well as prayer.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

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

Answer 3

False

Question 4

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

Question 5

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

Question 6

"The Sacred Harp" was

A) an instrument used at Sunday services only
B) a book published in 1844
C) a shape-note training manual
D) a famous spiritual

Question 7

Which of the following is not true regarding early public school music education?

A) it was founded in 1838 by Lowell Mason
B) it contributed to a decrease in the number of singing conventions in America
C) it originated in the Boston public schools
D) the curriculum focused solely on learning to read music

Question 8

Which is true regarding spirituals?

A) they involved a great deal of repetition
B) they were written in through-composed form
C) they were never notated
D) they featured secular texts

Question 9

African-American spirituals consisted only of sorrow songs.

Question 10

Which is true regarding "Nearer,My God,to Thee?"

A) it features one tone per syllable of text
B) melodic components are rarely repeated
C) it is difficult to memorize due to text usage
D) it features an uncomfortably wide vocal range

Question 11

The Jubilee Singers were

A) a group of shape-note teachers who traveled on the East coast
B) a group of African-American students from Fisk University
C) a group that made the first recording of African-American spirituals
D) a group of all-female art music performers

Question 12

Which of the following is not true regarding shape-notes?

A) they were designed to help non-music readers learn to read music
B) they consisted of four different geometric shapes
C) they did not require use of a staff
D) they were based on the syllables fa, sol, la, and mi

Question 13

"They'll be Joy,Joy,Joy" features which of the following textures?

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

Question 14

"Amazing Grace" is in strophic form.

Question 15

Regarding spirituals,which of the following is not primarily an African influence?

A) call and response
B) melodic improvisation
C) rhythmic complexity
D) simple folk melody

Question 16

Spirituals are usually through-composed.

Question 17

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

Question 18

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Which of the following least impacted professional American musical composers in the nineteenth century?

A) indigenous music
B) European trends
C) German musical masters
D) shape-note notation

Question 19

Music publishers marketed their printed music collections by

A) distributing free sample copies at Sunday church gatherings
B) hiring singing quartets to demonstrate how the music sounded
C) creating collections of music that appealed to rural audiences only
D) creating easy guitar accompaniments

Question 20

American women became socially active in the nineteenth century.

Question 21

Which of the following would most likely be sung in call and response fashion?

A) lullaby
B) patriotic song
C) spiritual
D) ballad

Question 22

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

Question 23

The Great Awakening and the Great Revival were

A) famous nineteenth-century operas
B) religious revival movements
C) songs by Charles Wesley
D) white spirituals

Question 24

Lowell Mason intended to

A) restore early American values to music
B) revolutionize Western music
C) reform and modernize American musical taste
D) remove music from the public school system

Question 25

Lowell Mason was a well-known

A) composer and painter
B) painter and writer
C) writer and educator
D) educator and composer

Question 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.