CH 61

(a)   worked as a song plugger on New York’s Tin Pan Alley.

Tin Pan Alley song pluggers were musicians in black face selling minstrel songs.

• demonstrated and sold sheet music.

• specialized in singing spirituals.

• were vaudeville entertainers.

The Tin Pan Alley songwriters

• capitalized on ragtime.

• capitalized on jazz styles.

• followed structural conventions of parlor songs.

• All answers are correct

What instrument did George Gershwin play?

• saxophone

• guitar

• piano

• trumpet

The version of Rhapsody in Blue most commonly performed today is scored for

• piano and full orchestra.

• piano trio.

• jazz trio.

• big-band ensemble.

Rhapsody in Blue is in ____ movement(s).

• one

• two

• three

• four

At its premiere, Rhapsody in Blue was performed by

• Paul Whiteman’s jazz orchestra.

• a full orchestra.

• a small jazz combo.

Gershwin was criticized for “whitewashing” an African American tradition in his “cultivated jazz” compositions.

• True

• False

Gershwin’s works reflect a merging of jazz elements and classical genres.

• True

• False

False

• True

• False