PART ONE
1.French and Spanish missionaries taught Native Americans the music of the ______church.
a. Lutheran
b. Calvinist
c. Protestant
d. Catholic
[d]
2.The Pilgrims and Puritans arrived in America during the stylistic period known as ______.
a. Renaissance
b. Baroque
c. Classical
d. Romantic
[b]
3.The Baroque period is best characterized by the terms ______.
a. extravagant, dramatic, and emotional
b. restrained, controlled and balanced
[a]
4.Anne Bradstreet was the New World’s first ______.
a. composer
b. painter
c. poet
d. sculptor
[c]
5.The Pilgrims and Puritans appreciated art ______.
a. for its own sake
b. that was practical as well as beautiful
[b]
6.Art works were not considered appropriate in Pilgrim or Puritan ______.
a. homes
b. churches
c. graveyards
d. shops
[b]
7.The kind of painting most appreciated by the settlers was ______.
a. landscapes
b. decorative paintings
c. history paintings
d. portraits
[d]
8.Art that is characterized by restraint and objectivity is referred to as ______in style.
a. Classical
b. Romantic
[a]
9.The Age of Reason is another name for the ______period.
a. Renaissance
b. Baroque
c. Classical
d. Romantic
[c]
10.The American Revolution occurred during the period known as the ______.
a. Renaissance
b. Baroque
c. Age of Faith
d. Age of Reason
[d]
11.Neoclassical artists based their designs upon the styles of ______.
a. eighteenth-century France
b. seventeenth-century England
c. the New England settlers
d. ancient Greece and Rome
[d]
12.The buildings in Washington, D.C. reflect the strong ______influence of the time when the city was designed.
a. Classical
b. Romantic
[a]
13.America’s greatest colonial artist is considered to have been ______.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Robert Feke
c. Benjamin West
d. John Singleton Copley
[d]
14.The famous American painter who spent most of his/her life in Europe was ______.
a. Anne Bradstreet
b. Charles Wilson Peale
c. Benjamin West
d. John Singleton Copley
[c]
15.The American artist who established the first American museum of natural history was ______.
a. Benjamin West
b. Robert Feke
c. Charles Wilson Peale
d. John Singleton Copley
[c]
CHAPTER 1
1.Traditionally, Indian culture has been passed from one generation to the next by ______.
a. oral tradition
b. formal schooling
c. written stories
d. paintings
[a]
2.Indian music is essentially ______.
a. vocal
b. instrumental
[a]
3.The most common and widespread music instruments of the Native Americans are ______.
a. drums
b. rasps
c. rattles
d. trumpets
[c]
4.The primary melodic instrument of the Native Americans is the ______.
a. drum
b. flute
c. whistle
d. trumpet
[b]
5.The falsetto range lies ______the normal singing range.
a. above
b. below
[a]
6.Another term for responsorial singing style is ______.
a. echoing
b. imitation
c. call and response
d. oral tradition
[c]
7.“Chicken scratch” music is also known as ______.
a. powwow music
b. a flag song
c. a butterfly dance
d. waila
[d]
8.Louis Ballard is the best-known and most accomplished Native American ______.
a. composer of concert music
b. dancer
c. poet
d. painter
[a]
9.Native American languages have ______words for music.
a. many
b. no
[b]
10.American Indians think of their songs as ______.
a. received in a dream or vision
b. composed by an individual
[a]
11.When all voices sing the same notes at the same time, they are said to be singing in ______.
a. harmony
b. unison
[b]
12.Vocables may be described as ______.
a. song texts
b. dance-songs
c. consonant-vowel clusters
[c]
13.Multicultural celebrations of Native American song and dance are called ______.
a. powwows
b. conventions
c. parades
[a]
14.The Plains Indians’ singing style is ______.
a. low-pitched and controlled in tone
b. high-pitched, tense in quality, and harsh in tone
[b]
15.Carlos Nakai is a well-known Native American ______.
a. composer
b. Navajo-style flute player
[a]
CHAPTER 2
1.Ballads are written in ______form.
a. a cappella
b. strophic
c. vernacular
d. psalter
[b]
2.Which one of the following is not characteristic of folk music?
a. origin is obscure
b. simple and unpretentious
c. enjoyed by sophisticated and inexperienced listeners alike
d. difficult to remember and perform
[d]
3.Folk music ______.
a. is always instrumental
b. is always vocal
c. may be either instrumental or vocal
[c]
4.Which one of the following is not a kind of folk song?
a. chorales
b. chanteys
c. lullabies
d. ballads
[a]
5.A ballad is best described as ______.
a. a religious folk song
b. a song about adventures at sea
c. a nonsense song
d. a story told in song
[d]
6.A chantey is ______.
a. a nonsense song
b. a religious song
c. a song about adventures at sea
d. a lullaby
[c]
7.The oldest folk ballads have survived since ______.
a. the Middle Ages
b. the Renaissance
c. the Barocque era
d. the eighteenth centure
[a]
8.“Barbara Allen” is a ______.
a. chantey
b. ballad
c. lullaby
d. hymn
[b]
9.Blacks were first brought to America ______.
a. long before the Pilgrims and Puritans
b. about the same time as the Pilgrims and Puritans
c. long after the Pilgrims and Puritans
[b]
10.In strophic form, ______.
a. there is only one verse
b. two or more verses are set to the same music
c. two or more verses are set to different music
[b]
11.Field hollers were long, expressive ______calls.
a. composed and memorized
b. improvised
[b]
12.The banjo as we know it was created by Africans in ______.
a. America
b. Africa
[a]
CHAPTER 3
1.The Protestant Reformation was initiated by the protests of ______.
a. John Calvin
b. Pope Gregory I
c. Louis Bourgeois
d. Martin Luther
[d]
2.The traditional language of Roman Catholic church music is ______.
a. German
b. Italian
c. Latin
d. the vernacular language
[c]
3.The vernacular language in Germany is ______.
a. English
b. Latin
c. Italian
d. German
[d]
4.The text of a hymn is ______.
a. taken directly from the Bible
b. a freely written religious poem
[b]
5.Unaccompanied choral singing is called ______style.
a. folk
b. strophic
c. vernacular
d. a cappella
[d]
6.Psalm tunes were approved for singing in church by the followers of ______.
a. John Calvin
b. Martin Luther
c. Louis Bourgeois
d. Elizabeth I
[a]
7.The text of a psalm tune is ______.
a. paraphrased from the Bible
b. a freely written religious poem
[a]
8.The psalms are ______.
a. folk songs
b. inspirational verses in the Bible
c. books of collected tunes
d. a kind of hymn
[b]
9.The words and sometimes melodies of psalm tunes are printed in books called ______.
a. hymnals
b. Bibles
c. psalters
d. collections
[c]
10.The first edition of the Geneva Psalter appeared in the ______century.
a. fifteenth
b. sixteenth
c. seventeenth
d. eighteenth
[b]
11.The verse known as the Doxology, sung in many churches today, is sung to the tune of ______.
a. “A Mighty Fortress is Our God”
b. Sternhold andHopkins
c. “Old Hundred”
d. “God Bless America”
[c]
12.The tune of “Old Hundred” was composed by ______.
a. John Calvin
b. Martin Luther
c. Pope Gregory I
d. Louis Bourgeois
[d]
13.The psalter known as Sternhold and Hopkins was printed for the use of ______Protestants.
a. German
b. Dutch
c. Swiss
d. English
[d]
14.The Separatists brought their psalter, known as ______, when they sailed from Holland to America.
a. Ainsworth
b. Sternhold and Hopkins
c. “Old Hundred”
d. The Winter’s Tale
[a]
15.Most of the musical experience for a hundred years after the settlers arrived in 1620 consisted of the singing of ______.
a. chorales
b. folk songs
c. psalm tunes
d. hymns
[c]
16.Psalters always contained a separate tune for each of the psalms.
a. true
b. false
[b]
17.The tune known as “Old Hundred” was included in the Geneva Psalter.
a. true
b. false
[a]
18.“Old Hundred” was often accompanied by instruments when sung at home in the sixteenth century.
a. true
b. false
[a]
19.The first book printed in America was the ______.
a. Sternhold and Hopkins psalter
b. Bay Psalm Book
c. Bible
d. Anne Bradstreet anthology
[b]
20.In seventeenth-century America, psalm tunes were sung for ______.
a. religious purposes only
b. entertainment only
c. both religious and entertainment purposes
[c]
21.The Bay Psalm Book is a(n) ______.
a. psalter
b. hymnal
c. anthology of poems
d. encyclopedia
[a]
22.In order to teach the psalm tunes as certain church leaders thought they should be sung, the practice of ______was introduced.
a. reading music
b. vocal exercise
c. musical instruments
d. lining out
[d]
23.Some tunes were eventually included in later editions of the Bay Psalm Book.
a. true
b. false
[a]
24.The Bay Psalm Book is considered of great literary value.
a. true
b. false
[b]
25.Public concerts began in Europe and America early in the ______century.
a. sixteenth
b. seventeenth
c. eighteenth
d. nineteenth
[c]
26.The early piano was called a ______.
a. virginal
b. harpsichord
c. jew’s harp
d. fortepiano
[d]
27.The term “household music” refers to music intended for ______.
a. music to build houses by
b. dancing
c. concert performance
d. amateur performance
[d]
28.In eighteenth-century America, dancing was most often accompanied by a ______.
a. fortepiano
b. jew’s harp
c. fiddle
d. guitar
[c]
29.A fiddle was a small, light ______.
a. guitar
b. violin
c. virginal
d. wind instrument
[b]
30.The singing school masters are sometimes referred to as members of the ______School of composers.
a. First Boston
b. First New York
c. First New England
d. Second New England
[c]
31.Which one of the following does not generally apply to the members of a “school” of artists?
a. all share certain artistic ideals
b. all live during a given period of time
c. all live within a broadly defined geographical area
d. all are teachers
[d]
32.Which one of the following is not characteristic of much of the music of the First New England School of composers?
a. unusual dissonances
b. modal melodies
c. strophic form
d. secular texts
[d]
33.Billings considered ______the best teacher of music.
a. Beethoven
b. God
c. nature
d. himself
[c]
34.Our first American popular song is often considered to have been ______.
a. “Barbara Allen”
b. “Chester”
c. “When Jesus Wept”
d. “Sherburne”
[b]
35.During the eighteenth century, the melody of a song with four-part harmony usually lay in the ______voice.
a. soprano
b. alto
c. tenor
d. bass
[c]
36.The mood of “Chester” is ______.
a. martial and stirring
b. religious and calm
c. romantic
d. suspenseful
[a]
37.“Chester” is in the form called ______.
a. canon
b. strophic
c. fuging tune
d. hymn
[b]
38.Which one of the following songs forms consonant harmonies when performed with staggered entrances?
a. “Chester”
b. “When Jesus Wept”
c. “Sherburne”
d. “Old Hundred”
[b]
39.A round is a circular ______.
a. scale
b. chord
c. canon
d. fuging tune
[c]
40.The texture of “When Jesus Wept” when it is performed in canon is ______.
a. monophonic
b. homophonic
c. polyphonic
[c]
41.The texture of a fuging tune changes from ______.
a. homophonic to polyphonic
b. polyphonic to homophonic
c. monophonic to homophonic
d. polyphonic to monophonic
[a]
42.The form of a fuging tune may be described as ______.
a. A A B
b. A B C
c. A B A
d. A B B
[d]
43.The most popular composer of fuging tunes was probably ______.
a. William Billings
b. Daniel Read
c. W.A. Mozart
d. J.F. Peter
[b]
44.Billings was widely admired by his contemporaries.
a. true
b. false
[a]
45.In late eighteenth-century America, performances of concert music were dominated by ______.
a. native amateurs
b. foreign professionals
[b]
46.The armonica or glass harmonica was invented by ______.
a. Thomas Jefferson
b. W.A. Mozart
c. Francis Hopkinson
d. Benjamin Franklin
[d]
47.Which one of the following does not apply to Benjamin Franklin?
a. played musical instruments
b. composed concert music
c. wrote about music
d. wrote verses to set to tunes
[b]
48.Benjamin Franklin believed that music performances in America were ______to those in Europe.
a. superior
b. inferior
[b]
49.We generally consider that ______wrote the first American art song.
a. William Billings
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. Thomas Jeffereson
d. Francis Hopkinson
[d]
50.The root of the word amateur means ______.
a. money
b. evil
c. love
d. inferior
[c]
51.An anthem is a ______.
a. patriotic song
b. round
c. popular song
d. religious song
[d]
52.An anthem is to be sung by ______.
a. a choir
b. a church congregation
c. children only
d. adults only
[a]
53.The first important American-born Moravian composer was ______.
a. Francis Hopkinson
b. Benjamin Franklin
c. John Antes
d. Johann Friedrich Peter
[c]
54.Antes wrote ______accompaniments for his anthems.
a. no instrumental
b. multiple
c. only keyboard
d. full instrumental
[d]
55.Which one of the following composers was not a foreign immigrant?
a. John Antes
b. Benjamin Carr
c. James Hewitt
d. Alexander Reinagle
[a]
56.A ballad opera was a ______.
a. simple, unsophisticated musical play
b. long, serious drama
c. religious work
d. patriotic composition
[a]
57.Although he played the violin, Thomas Jefferson believed that music served no useful purpose in American life.
a. true
b. false
[b]
58.Benjamin Franklin considered Europeans far superior to Americans in the arts.
a. true
b. false
[a]
59.Moravians were more interested in concert music than in hymns and other religious music.
a. true
b. false
[b]