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1
“Hootenannies” were
A)early American folk singers
B)gatherings at which folksingers entertained audiences
C)religious revivals held in tents
D)camp-meetings where evangelists preached and sang gospel music
2
A Child ballad is
A)a song for children
B)a lullaby
C)named for a folksong collector
D)named for the son of a folksong collector
3
The “king” of the Rhythm and Blues genre was
A)Jimi Hendrix
B)Pete Seeger
C)Edwin Hawkins
D)B. B. King
4
The Hutchinson family is best known for
A)protest music
B)religious music
C)string band music
D)children’s songs
5
A strophic setting is
A)the same words to different music
B)the same music to different words
C)the same words to the same music
D)the same music to the same words
6
Which structure tends to have the words repeated?
A)verse
B)chorus or refrain
C)stanza
D)blues
7
Vernacular music is music that
A)speaks the language of the common people
B)was intended for worship
C)was created for permanent preservation
D)represents a blending of cultures
8
A psalter is
A)a book in the King James Bible
B)a collection of American folk music
C)a book of African-American spirituals based on the Psalms
D)a hymnbook that contains the psalms to be sung during worship.
9
Singing schools were organized to
A)train choir directors
B)develop singers
C)improve hymn singing
D)provide massed choirs
10
Singing schools were
A)social events
B)musical events
C)religious events
D)all of the above
11
Thomas A. Dorsey
A)was a big band leader
B)was a camp-meeting song leader
C)is considered the “father of black gospel music”
D)is considered on the most influential American composers of hymns
12
The Edwin Hawkins Singers contributed significantly to
A)American hymnody
B)black gospel music
C)pop culture
D)revival music
13
Folk music is transmitted primarily through
A)music notation
B)oral tradition
C)known composers
D)the church
14
Psalm singing was brought to America by
A)African-American slaves
B)French settlers
C)English Pilgrims and Puritans
D)immigrants from Asia
15
The first book to be published in British North America was
A)The Book of Psalmes: Englished Both in Prose and Metre
B)The Bay Psalm Book
C)The Easy Instructor
D)The Southern Harmony
16
“Lining out” was
A)a form of call and response singing used in psalm singing
B)the process of writing notation on a music staff
C)a form of singing that English settlers learned from Native Americans
D)the process of notating pitch on a musical line, rather than with shapes
17
The primary instrument in virtually all European-American folk dance traditions is the
A)guitar
B)banjo
C)flute
D)fiddle
18
“Tone bending” is
A)a singing technique used in psalm singing
B)a singing technique used in Negro spirituals
C)a process used in shape notation
D)a style of singing brought to America by English settlers
19
The secular counterpart of the spiritual is
A)the blues
B)the rally song
C)the narrative ballad
D)the protest song
20
White Gospel and Black Gospel music differed primarily in
A)the language of the songs
B)performance practices
C)the texts used in the songs
D)the composition of the songs





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