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Music History Exam 2
chapters 5-7 and part of 8
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Music
Undergraduate 3
10/04/2011

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They'll be joy joy
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gospel hymn
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amazing grace
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spiritual song
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nobody knows the trouble i've seen
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spiritual
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nearer my god to thee
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hymn
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i wish i was in dixie's land
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minstrel song
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i dream of jeanie with the light brown hair
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sentimental song
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oh susanna
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minstrel song
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the anacreontic song or "anacreon in heaven"
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drinking song
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get off the track
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abolitionist song or emancipation song
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le bananier
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character piece
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fuga giocosa
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classical piano music
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symphony in e minor, second movement
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symphony movement
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Shape note singing
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way to read music that was supposed to teach people how to sing harmony
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Southern Harmony
Definition
book about shape-note singing by William Walker
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William Walker
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"singing billy walker" wrote Southern Harmony
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The Sacred Harp
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most popular shape-note singing book by B.F. White and it is still in publication
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Alan Lomax
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choir guy who wanted music that was intended to be religious to become social
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Fisk Singers
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Professor White
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Henry Thacker Burley
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set spirituals to popular music
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Music Reform
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people in cities thought shape singing was passe and the churches wanted to phase it out; began divide in North and South
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Lowell Mason
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composer and educator; embraced contemporary and tradition; brought music to public schools in Boston!!! "Nearer My God to Thee"
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Brass Bands
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outdoor ensembles; status symbol for small towns
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Really Popular Brass Band
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Boston Brass Band
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Minstral Show
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white performers in black face; whites embracing black culture while making fun of it.
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Instruments of Minstral Shows
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bones, banjo, concertina (accordion), and tambourine
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Thomas Dartmouth
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"daddy rice"; father of american minstrelsy; his character was jim crowe
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EP Christy
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the leader of the Christy Minstrels; took credit for Stephen Foster's "Old Folks at Home"
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Daniel emmett
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leader of VA minstrels; "Dixie"
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James Bland
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black musician who got involved in minstrel shows; first black man to get a college education; "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny"
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Stephen Foster
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Us 1st musical genius; begins with minstrel shows but disagrees and was more known for his "sentimental parlor ballads"; plays flute and piano
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Famous Stephen Foster Songs
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"Oh Susanna"
"I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair"
"Camptown Races"
"Nelly..." - respected black women
"Swanee River"
"Old Folks at home"
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Glee's
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lighthearted songs
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"Star Spangled Banner"
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Francis Scott Key
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George Root
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composer in chicago; "Battle Cry of Freedom"
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Bands in Civil War
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people joined war efforts as a band
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Bands in Civil War
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people joined war efforts as a band
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Famous Northern War Band
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1st Wisconsin Brigade Band
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Famous Southern War Band
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26th NC Regimental Band;
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Patrick Gilmore
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Band Master of Union Army; "When Johnny Comes marching Home"; arranger of transcriptions; formed a concert band
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John Philip Sousa
Definition
1st American groomed musician; played violin, piano, trumpet, horn, trombone; played with the US Marine Band; started the world famous Sousa Band; called the "march king"; helped start ASCAP; always inspired by something and wrote in duple meter; "Stars and Stripes forever"
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Louis- Antoine Jullien
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French conductor of Jullien orchestra; played American composers pieces and used American musicians;
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Theodore Thomas
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raised level of orchestral music appreciation; made programming important for audience appreciation; founded the Theodore Thomas Orchestra--- LATER CHICAGO SYMPHONY
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Jenny Lind
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singer; Swedish Nightingale; worked with PT Barnum; kind of tour; people built halls to get her to sing
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Louis Moreau Gattschalk
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NOLA boy; first US celebrity virtuoso musician (played piano); played legato with pedals and played character pieces;
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Nationalism
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national pride
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Anthony Philip Heinrich
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"The Ornithological Combat of Kings"; from Bohemia; called the "Log Cabin Composer"
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Jeanette Thurber
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Founder of the National Conservatory of Music in NYC
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Antonin Dvorak
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Symphony No. 9; used pentatonic scales; great teacher
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John Knowles Paine
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leader of the new school of composers; first professor of music at Harvard
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John Knowles Paine
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leader of the new school of composers; first professor of music at Harvard
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Amy Cheney Beach
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printed as AC Beach; famous for art songs; explored folk music
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Edward McDowell
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arts integration beginner; recognized tone colors; "To a Wild Rose"
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Arthur Farwell
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created music that was truly representative of native music; began the Wa-Wan Press: his own publishing company because he couldn't get it published; published any American composers no matter what critics say
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Spiritual
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spiritual songs
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walkaround
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perfomred as the finale of a minstrel show where people got up and walked around
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Hutchinsons
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most popular singing family
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program pieces
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describing music as a sequence of scenes or events
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ostinato
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repeated pattern
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exposition
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countersubject
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suite
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a musical work consisting of several sections
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