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What is "pizzicatio"?
The technique of playing a normally bowed instrument by plucking its strings.
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What is the smallest unit of musical form?
A Motive
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What are the three most basic formal processes in music?
Repitition, variation, and contrast
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What is another name for the ABA form?
Ternary form
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What is the subject of a fugue called?
Fugue subject
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The blues is rooted in what tradition?
African-American Oral Tradition
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Which three scale degrees are bent to form blues notes?
The thrid, fifthe, and seventh
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What is another name for the response in the "call-and-response" form?
the fill
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What African-American slave musical tradition is religious in its origins?
Ring shout
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Why were slaves prohibited from playing loud instruments?
Slave owners feared that slaves would communicate through music to organize escapes or uprisings
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What African-American slave musical tradition featured the improvisation of a single performer?
Field Holler
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Blues musicians adopted the business model of what two performance styles?
The minstrel show and vaudeville
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What performance style predominantly featured blackface?
The minstrel show
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What is the name of the paths that minstrel troupes used as they traveled from city to city?
Theater circuits
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Early blues is closely tied to what region?
The Mississipi Delta
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What is another name for a traveling singer?
Songster
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What blues tradition is considered the oldest?
Country blues
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What type of singer dominated the vocals of the classic blues?
Professional female vaudeville singers
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George Gershwin was a central composer of what form of blues?
Tin Pan Alley Blues
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Who is called the "Father of the Blues"?
WC Handy
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Where was WC Handy born?
Alabama
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What instrument did WC Handy play for a minstrel group during the 1890s?
Cornet
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When was "Memphis Blues" published?
1912
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Where did WC Handy set up his music publishing business?
New York City
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How was music most often disseminated before 1920?
Through sheet music
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What composer os credited with the preperation of blues for the mainstream?
WC Handy
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The introduction of "St. Louis Blues" makes use of what texture?
Polyphony
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What harmonic structure is used in "St. Louis Blues"?
Twelve-bar blues form
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The B section of "St. Louis Blues" is an example of what kind of blues?
Classic blues
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Who performed "Crazy Blues" in 1920?
Mamie Smith
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Who was called the "Queen of the Blues"?
Bessie Smith
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Which record company signed Bessie Smith in 1923?
Columbia Records
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Which country blues musician wrote songs about serious issues such as lynching?
Blind Blake
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What form of blues suffered the most from the Great Depression?
Classic Blues
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Bessie Smith starred in what 1929 film?
"St. Louis Blues"
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Where did Bessie Smith replace Billie Holiday as a club singer?
A club in New York City
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When did the theatre's owner's booking association go out of business?
1931
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Why did record companies stop recording almost all blues musicians during the 1930s?
The financial risk of recording was too great
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Where did many former blues stars perform during the 1930s?
Small clubs in the North or tent shows in the South
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What event marked the end of the classic blues singer era?
The stock market crashed
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What prompted Blind Blake's record company to drop him?
A sharp decline in record sales
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What form of blues features lyrics less emotional than classic blues?
Downhome blues
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What is the main reason downhome blues appealed to urban audiences?
It maintained a close tie with the rural blues tradition
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What instrument did Scrapper Blackwell play?
Guitar
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How old was Robert Johnson when he died?
27 years old
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Which country blues musician had a notable influence on Robert Johnson?
Son House
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How many recordings did Robert Johnson make in Texas
30
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Which record company was the leader in recordinf African-American music after 1934/
Decca Records
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Who created the "Southside Chicago" sound?
Big Bill Broonzy
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Who is called the "Father of Modern Chicago Blues"?
Muddy Waters
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Muddy Waters was most siccessful under what record label?
Bluebird
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Where was Hokum developed/
Chicago
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What is abother name for Hokum?
Party blues
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What style of piano blues features a frantic pace and angular accompaniment?
Boogie-woogie
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Benny Motens' famous jazz orchestra was based in what city?
Kansas City
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What prompted the interest in collecting American floksong during the 1930s?
The left-leaning movement that favored the culture of the "common man" and sought socio-economic equality
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