Deck 4: Secular Music in Colonial Revolutionary and Federal Periods

Question 1

How does a military band differ from a fife and drum corps?

A) only the military band was used to lift the troops' spirits
B) only the military band required the musicians to march
C) only the military band utilized brass instruments
D) only the military band allowed African-American musicians to perform

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following statesmen was known for writing art songs?

A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Francis Hopkinson
D) George Washington

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is least connected to popular music?

A) march
B) art song
C) dance tune
D) ballad opera

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Which of the following genres is associated with texts of literary merit?

A) rondo
B) art song
C) ballad opera
D) sonata

Question 5

The favored instrument to accompany dancing in the early 1700s was the drum.

Question 6

The first secular songs published in America were usually associated with

A) theatre
B) the military
C) the emerging concert scene
D) political campaigns

Question 7

Which of the following features recitative?

A) fife and drum corps
B) ballad opera
C) rondo
D) Alberti bass

Question 8

A "fife" is a small percussion instrument.

Question 9

Which of the following is not true regarding the sonata?

A) written for voices
B) based on principles of unity and contrast
C) multi-movements
D) lengthier than most songs

Question 10

The music publishing business in America was first associated with art music.

Question 11

The art song is usually associated with a concert setting rather than a utilitarian function.

Question 12

Which of the following types of music typically tells a story?

A) march
B) dance tune
C) program music
D) rondo

Question 13

Household music refers to vocal and piano pieces accessible to amateur performers.

Question 14

Which of the following is not a keyboard instrument?

A) virginal
B) fortepiano
C) harpsichord
D) armonica

Question 15

Concert music by contemporary European composers such as Mozart and Haydn was widely appreciated by most American audiences in the 1700s.

Question 16

Which of the following can be considered a variation of rondo form?

A) AAB
B) ABACA
C) ABB
D) AABB

Question 17

Music societies were normally located in rural areas.

Question 18

A fiddle was a small,light

A) guitar
B) violin
C) virginal
D) wind instrument

Question 19

Which of the following is not true regarding Benjamin Franklin?

A) he invented an instrument that Mozart enjoyed playing
B) he wrote about the subject of music
C) he believed that American music was superior to European music
D) he played musical instruments

Question 20

When an instrumental piece depicts a non-musical sound such as gunfire,the piece is said to be __________.

A) programmatic
B) imitative
C) march-like
D) Revolutionary

Question 21

Why did European musicians during the Colonial and Revolutionary periods dominate the American music scene in terms of composing and teaching?

Question 22

The text mentions that children and women took music lessons from immigrant professional musicians.Find out whether or not men studied in a similar manner.Why or why not?

Question 23

Describe the attention given to unity and variety in art music as opposed to design principles in folk and popular music.

Question 24

Describe the utilitarian functions of military bands.How does this tradition continue into the high school and collegiate band experience in America today? How does this compare with the orchestral experience?