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56 Cards in this Set
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Who was MA Rainey's understudy?
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Bessie Smith
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Who was the father of gospel?
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Thomas A. Dorsey
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Who was the first gospel music publisher
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Charles A. Tindley
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What were the blues regions?
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mississippi delta
carolina peidmont texas blues country blues |
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Who was Eva Jeysee
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A composer and conductor for hollywood movies
did porgy and bess Studied with will marion cook |
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Who sand Run Lil Chillun?
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The Hall Johnson singera
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Describe african instruments
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aerophone
chordophone vibophone |
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when was the revolutionary war?
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1175-1783
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what was the richard dunmore proclamation?
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england gave freedom to slaves who served with the english army
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how was the richard dunmore proclamation countered?
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george washington wouldnt allow any more slaves into the colonies
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Who was Crispus Attackus
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first black man to die in the boston massacre (runaway slave)
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Who was arther foote?
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co-founder of the American Guild of Organist
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Who was John Knowles PAine?
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First professor of music at Harvard
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Whose George Chadwick?
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taught at New England Conservatory
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Who was Antonin Dvorak?
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Composer, Director of the National Conservatory
nationalist movement native and black music Symphony # 9 |
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Name composers of the nationalist movement?
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Will Marion Cook, HArry T Burleigh, Antonin Dvorak, John Rosamond Johnson
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Harry T Burleigh
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Student of Dvorak
preserved negro spirituals as art songs 300 composition |
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Josef Joachim
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violinist at Oberlin
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Will Marion Cook
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Studied from Dvorak And John White
theater, choral and orchestral composer violin from Josel Joachim |
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Who composed lift every voice and sing?
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John Rosamond Johnson
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What did John Rosamond Johnson do
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compose 2 black operettas
music educator in jacksonville |
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How did the 1920's change socially?
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blacks migrated to the north
lynchings in the south ghettos closing of storyville in new orleans |
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Marcus Garvey
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Back To Africa Movement
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The Red Summer
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Race riots of 1919
James Weldon Johnson |
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Who coined the term the "jazz age"?
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Characterisitics of JAzz
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vocalist is the performer
horns imitate voice melody instead of improv |
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Who was buddy bolden?
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lead jazz bands in new orleans
created fixed instrumentation ragtime, melodies, marches and blues |
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Who was Alderman Sidney Story?
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He created the ghetto which became known as Storyville
red light district |
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When did storyville close?
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1917
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What was the front line of a jazz ensemble
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trumpet, clainet, trombone
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rythem section of a jazz ensemble?
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banjo, tuba and drums (piano later added
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How was Jazz a blend of cultures
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american: make it up
african and european culture chord progressions improv, syncopation., rough timbres, repetition, polyrythem, call & response |
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Scott Joplin
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wrote the entertainer
wrote Treemonisha and the manual "School of Ragtime" |
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Where did ragtime evolve from?
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Coon songs
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How are ragtime songs structured?
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Multisectional: usually 16 bars called “strains” or “themes.” ABAC, ABACB, ABCD, ABACD
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Who were the big three of ragtime?
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Scott Joplin
James Scott Joseph Lamb |
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Jelly Roll Morton
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(1885-1941) pianist, composer, bluesman, jazzman
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Eubie Blake
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(1883-1983) eastcoast rag player; wrote several shows
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How is the blues distinctive?
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The third line answers a question raised in the first two lines
a a b |
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Iambic pentameter
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poetry consisting of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, with five of these combinations in each line of poetry.
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Who created reconstruction?
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President Andrew Johnson
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What happened during reconstruction?
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how the 11 succeeded states would be reseated in Congress
-ex slaves got rights to vote -democrats come into office -equal citizenship |
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What did Ulysees S Grant do?
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fought against KKK
blamed for poor economy served 2 terms |
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Did Johnson keep Lincolns laws?
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no he repealed many of them
did not want to help ex slaves |
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what were the precursors of jazz?
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State of Music
Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky—broke away from conventional traditions Atonal music Serial techniques Emergence of Ragtime |
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Who was James Reese Europe?
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conductor of Clef Club Orchestra
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Clef Club orchestra?
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Extended instrumentation: banjo, mandolin
Music by Black composers only went to europe |
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Who was Scot Joplins publisher?
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John Stack
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What was the Dred Scott Decsision?
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Negro could not be regarded as a citizen
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Where did John Brown's raid take place?
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Harpers Ferry
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How did the cival war start?
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Lincoln sent troops to defend Fort Sumter, April 12, 1861
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Who was John Brown?
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An abolistionist
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What happened with the emancipation proclimation?
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Lincoln issued a proclamation stating that slaves will be free (only from the South)
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What is the 13th amendment?
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abolishing slavery
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Who served the 54th regement
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Robert Gould Shaw
think of the movie |
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what were contraband camps like?
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plantation life
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