All of the following are true about Maceo Pinkard EXCEPT

What is the form of 'Tea For Two'?

In 1923 producer, George White, approached the book-writing team of Miller and Lyles. The result was ________.

What was Ben Bernie's original name?

Who sang “Ol’ Man River” in the first movie version of Show Boat?

In the first appearance of the jazzy riff pattern in The Charleston, Johnson used the syncopated “Charleston rhythm” in a sequence of ___________.

What kind of music did theater musicians begin to use to match the mood of movie scenes?

On its “tryout tour,” No, No, Nanette remained in which city for nearly a year?

Al Jolson had already popularized “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!” as well as ______________ before he added them to “The Jazz Singer.”

The African-American comedy duo of ________________ and ____________ created the book for Shuffle Along.

How many recordings have been made of “Sweet Georgia Brown”?

During the 1920s, the hybrid musical blended the best features of musical comedy and operettas. The “musical” featured all of the following EXCEPT

What song “came to be the defining song of America’s jazz age”?

Who was the bandleader that was nicknamed “The Old Maestro”?

What is the form of the song, “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man”?

Which of the following is a source a stage show’s plot is based, such as a novel, play or movie?

Two competing methods of synchronizing music and film were sound-on-disk and __________ technology.

In January 1925, ________________'s vocal version of “Tea for Two” climbed to Number 1 and stayed there for eleven weeks.

What is the form of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

Which musical comedy taught Broadway theater owners that shows created by Black artists could achieve mainstream success?

The version of the 1949 Brother Bones “Sweet Georgia Brown” ____________________.

The B phrase of “Tea For Two” creates an uncommon harmonic shift where a C major triad is introduced in the key of A♭ major. This shift is called a ____________________.

When Runnin' Wild opened, "The Charleston" was performed by which of the following?

What instrument did Ben Bernie play?

In Show Boat, Kern assigned a musical motif to the river itself: a(n) _________________

Which of the following wrote the book for No, No, Nanette?

Al Jolson's father wanted him to become a(n) ________________.

Which Soviet composer was one of the first classical artists to be inspired by "Tea for Two"?

The ________________ was a social dance in 4/4 or 2/2 time and thousands of pieces were able to suit its rather simple rhythm.

Vaudeville performers moved through a network of affiliated theaters known as a(n) _____________.

What is the overall form of "Sweet Georgia Brown"?

Oscar Hammerstein II co-wrote ______________ in 1924.

Which of the following was a celebrated pianist in New York's jazz world, but had never written a Broadway musical before Runnin' Wild?

The crowds that danced at the Hotel Roosevelt were so enthusiastic about the Ben Bernie orchestra when they were hired that the Hotel kept them from _________ to ____________ .

__________ Music Store on "Tin Pan Alley" employed both Vincent Youmans and George Gershwin as song-pluggers.

Harry Frazee changed his mind about hiring Vincent Youmans to write the music for No, No, Nanette when Youmans’s mother offered to back the show with ____________ or ____________.

The movie, “The Jazz Singer” was loosely based on the life of _______________.

Dmitri Shostakovich made an orchestral arrangement of “Tea for Two” from memory in ____________ on a wager with his teacher.

All of the following are features of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!” EXCEPT

What campaign song did President Harry S. Truman use in 1948?

Although “Sweet Georgia Brown” is in a danceable common-time, the orchestra performs a(n) __________ passage in the introduction that emphasizes every third beat as if the tune were in ¾ time.

Which of the following wrote the novel that served as property for the musical Show Boat?

What is the form of "The Charleston"?

Which network company connected with Ben Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra for its first nationwide radio broadcast on November 15, 1926?

Show Boat with its __________-performance run, demonstrated that audiences were ready for increased realism and that a musical could be "taken seriously as theater."

Which of the following was the producer of No, No, Nanette and also owned the Boston Red Sox?

The play, "The Jazz Singer" was written by ___________________.

A New York Daily News critic said, “Boston saw it. Philadelphia saw it. Chicago saw it. London saw it, and Guatemala, Medicine Bend and the Canary Islands have probably seen it as well.” What was he referring to?

Who composed “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?

The theatrical world uses the word to mean both the overall plot and the spoken dialogue.

All of the following are featured in “Sweet Georgia Brown” EXCEPT

______________ is often viewed as the “flagship” of the newly blended genre: musical theater.

Producer George White turned to a new pair of African-American writers for Runnin’ Wild, composer ____________ and lyricist ____________.

Ben Bernie was inspired to become a conductor after hearing the jazz-orchestra of _______________.

Helen Morgan played the role of ______________ in both the stage show and first film version of Show Boat.

Otto Harbach started writing lyrics for No, No Nanette but agreed to bring on a second lyricist, ______________.

Who said, "Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet"?

In the Soviet Union, the tune, "Tea for Two" was known as ______________.

Warner Brothers used their Vitaphone equipment to create ______________ in 1926, the year before The Jazz Singer?

The music and lyrics for the musical comedy Shuffle Along were set by composer ____________ and lyricist ____________.

Which version of “Sweet Georgia Brown” became the theme song for the Harlem Globetrotters?

What was a major challenge for filmmakers who wanted custom scores for their movies?

Which song from Shuffle Along was noted as a fox-trot novelty song?

What helped Ben Bernie become successful on NBC’s first national broadcast?

In the rondo A section of “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man”, Kern and Hammerstein set the poetry in __________ phrases reflecting lyrics in most blues songs.

A novel titled Oh James! and an adaptation of it as a play titled My Lady Friends provided the property for _____________

Which early motion picture company used sound-on-disk recording technology?

Vincent Youmans’s Broadway career was far too short. He had to retire after only thirteen years in the business because of which of the following?

Al Jolson’s contract called for him to sing how many songs in The Jazz Singer?

Which of the following caricatured Blacks, introducing characters such as Jim Crow and locations such as Dixieland?

What inspired Ben Bernie to pursue a conducting career?

An operetta exhibited all of the following features EXCEPT

Historian Eileen Southern claimed, "The __________ of the black musical generally was its weakest element."

Many song-pluggers cultivated relationships with star performers, persuading them to add new songs to all of the following EXCEPT

All of the following are characters in the musical Show Boat EXCEPT

In the 1923 recording of "The Charleston" made by Arthur Gibbs and his Gang, all of the following are featured EXCEPT

A score that was newly written to suit a particular film was called a(n) __________ or an original score.

The first recording of "Tea for Two" featured solely a jazz orchestra, and it reached Number 5 on Billboard, remaining there for ____________ weeks.

The Jazz Singer went on to earn __________________ dollars setting a record for a low-budget film.

All of the following were features of early musical comedies EXCEPT

Kenneth Casey is credited on the sheet music of "Sweet Georgia Brown" but he is best known as a(n)

The repetitive rhythmic pattern of "Tea For Two" is highly suitable for a style of tap dance called ________.

The orchestra for Shuffle Along included all of the following instruments EXCEPT