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WorksheetsPart I
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What texture is "When Jesus Wept"?
a)
Kinda pinchy
b)
heterophonic
c)
Homophonic
d)
Polyphonic
2.
The "corrido" is very similar to the one of the following.
a)
Fuging Tune
b)
British Ballad
c)
Psalm
d)
Sioux Grass Dance
3.
All of these are true about William Billings except one, which one is false?
a)
Wrote "Chester"
b)
2nd New England School of Composers
c)
Wrote music that please the ear
d)
Very eccentric
4.
The Sioux Grass Dance was used to for religious reasons by the Native Americans.
a)
True
b)
False
5.
"Shenandoah" is most closely connected to which of the following?
a)
Broadside
b)
Sea Chantey
c)
Love Song
d)
Patriotic Song
6.
The banjo's roots originate in which of the following areas?
a)
Africa
b)
England
c)
Scotland
d)
Ireland
7.
Which best describes a ballad?
a)
an unaccompanied British song
b)
an informal dance
c)
a story told in a song
d)
a song performed on plantations
8.
While much African music is rhythmically flexible, which of the following features a steady pace?
a)
field holler
b)
spirituals
c)
broadsides
d)
work songs
9.
Which item did Benjamin Franklin NOT invent?
a)
Stove
b)
Harpsichord
c)
Bifocals
d)
Glass aromica
10.
Which of the following is correctly spelled?
a)
Yiebichai
b)
Yebichai
c)
Yeibich-ch-ch-chia
d)
Yeibichai
11.
Which definition best describes the term "through-composed"?
a)
Multiple verses are set to the same tune.
b)
Each line of the text has its own music.
c)
The composer notates the music as it is created.
d)
There is a great deal of repetition of melodic phrases.
12.
The "alabado" is a type of:
a)
Spanish folk dance
b)
Spanish hymn
c)
Welsh ballad
d)
work song.
13.
Who wrote the "Sherburne"?
a)
Willing Billings
b)
Daniel Reed
c)
Thomas Jefferson
d)
R. Carlos Nakai
14.
Williams Billings was an American composer who attempted to "imitate European sounds".
a)
True
b)
False
15.
What was the first book printed in the United States?
a)
Bible
b)
Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter
c)
Anne Bradstreet Anthology
d)
Bay Psalm Singer
16.
Secular music is religious music.
a)
True
b)
False
17.
Vocables are neutral syllables used in Native American singing.
a)
True
b)
False
18.
What best describes this picture?
a)
Sioux Grass Dance
b)
Fuging Tune
c)
Broadside
d)
Fiddle Music
19.
Protestants sang hymns in their "vernacular" language.
a)
True
b)
False
20.
Which of the following is not a traditional keyboard instrument?
a)
Virginal
b)
Fortepiano
c)
Harpsichord
d)
Glass armonica
21.
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.
22.
What is this?
a)
Nintendo Switch
b)
Harpsichord
c)
Fortepiano
d)
Virignal
23.
Which of the following statesmen was known for writing art songs?
a)
Thomas Jefferson
b)
Benjamin Franklin
c)
Francis Hopkinson
d)
George Washington
24.
Which of the following was not said to be an effect of glass harmonica music?
a)
Make women faint.
b)
soothes marital disputes.
c)
cures smallpox.
d)
wakes the dead.
25.
Which of the following is True about Benjamin Franklin?
a)
He invented an instrument Mozart enjoyed playing.
b)
He was the first president with a beard.
c)
He had 5 brothers (Tito, Marlon, Jermaine and Jackie)
d)
He thought American music was superior to European music.
26.
"Psalm tunes" text are paraphrased from the Bible.
a)
True
b)
False
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