19th-c Popular Music
A popular dance during the 19th c.
What is a reel?
John Stevenson and Thomas Moore.
Who were two of the most important composers of Irish folk songs popular in the US?
That was the most popular song form during the 19th c.
Verse-Chorus Form
That was the name given to the march that won the inaugural Amateur Authors essay contest.
What is the Washington Post March?
This is the term that refers musicians who would publicize music by singing songs and playing the accompaniment on the piano?
What are song pluggers?
That was a type of instrumental music often performed in small town centers especially during holidays like July 4.
What are military marches?
He wrote popular songs for minstrel shows and parlors.
Who was Stephen Foster?
This is what we call this form: a series of verses with different lyrics sung to the same music.
What is strophic form?
That was the name given to the period between the Civil War and WWI.
What was the Guilded Age?
What was Tin Pan Alley?
That is a popular type of song performed at home in living or music rooms.
What are parlor songs?
The most famous composers of military marches during the 19th c.
Who was John Philip Sousa?
AA Bridge A
What is the form of Tin Pan Alley Songs?
What are telephones, phonographs, automobiles, or airplanes.
Those years encompass the Golden Age of Tin Pan Alley songs.
What is 1920-1950.
"Get Off the Tracks."
What anti-slavery song was sung by the Hutchinson family?
He wrote "Dixie" and the "Bonnie Blue Flag" sung in the south during the Civil War.
Who was Daniel Emmett?
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What is the form of most marches?
Economic growth, social inequality, political corruption, immigration influx, and labor movements.
What social, political, and economic trends characterized the Guilded Age?
How were Tin Pan Alley songs disseminated during the late 19th and 20th centuries?
That was called the Beggar's Opera.
What was a popular English musical performed throughout the colonies in the 18th c.?
Julie Ward Howe wrote the lyrics to this important patriotic song for the north -- still sung today.
Who wrote the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic?"
That is what the form AABA is also called.
That is called 32-bar form.
"Brother Can You Spare a Dime?"
This was one of the most important and popular composers of Tin Pan Alley songs like "White Christmas."
Who was Irving Berlin?