music 125 ch 44 – Flashcards
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Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?
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Harlem Renaissance
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At the turn of the 1800s, camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background.
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True
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Burleigh's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot calls upon jazz and blues traditions.
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true
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Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, was established as a college for freed slaves.
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True
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Harry T. Burleigh was an editor for a music publisher.
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True
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Spirituals fell out of circulation after the Civil War in the United States.
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false
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a favorite tune of which college-level performing group?
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Fisk Jubilee Singers
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects which of the following traditions?
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native american, european american, african americans
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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was originally composed in the first decade of the twentieth century.
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false
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Tchaikovsky believed that African American musical traditions were the true root of American music.
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False
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The 1910 recording of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by the Fisk Jubilee Singers is stored on what type of recording technology?
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wax cylinder
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The Fisk arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is strophic.
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true
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The singing of spirituals offered the slave community a sense of solidarity.
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true
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The style and structure of African American spirituals were in strict imitation of European models.
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False
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The text of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on a story from what source?
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the holy bible
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The texture of African American spirituals is best described as
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monophonic with some elaboration
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What scale is utilized in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?
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pentatonic
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When was the Harlem Renaissance?
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during the early part of the 20th century
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Which European composer was an early supporter of African American musical styles like the spiritual?
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Dvo?ák
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Who of the following arranged spirituals for solo voice and piano?
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Harry T. Burleigh
