Broadway & Early Musical Theater
Which 1904 musical comedy introduced the song “Give My Regards to Broadway”?
a. Shuffle Along
b. Hello Dolly
c. Little Johnny Jones
d. The Belle of New York
e. At the Lower Harbor
c. Little Johnny Jones
What is the form of “Tea For Two?”
a. Verse-chorus
b. 12 bar blues
c. A B A coda
d. A B A C
e. A B A C A
d. A B A C
Two competing methods of synchronizing music and film were sound-on-disk and ____________ technology.
a. music-embedded on film
b. sound-filtered
c. film-enhanced
d. sound-on-film
e. music-embedded on disk
d. sound-on-film
_______________ and the “Hellfighters” band introduced numerous French listeners to jazz.
a. Aaron Anderson
b. John Mawer
c. James Reese Europe
d. Vernon Castle
e. Paul Claudel
c. James Reese Europe
One of the earliest prominent interweaving of jazz into a classical genre was La création du monde, a 1923 ballet written by _________________ .
a. Maurice Ravel
b. Paul Dukas
c. Darius Milhaud
d. Claude Debussy
e. Francis Poulenc
c. Darius Milhaud
Which musical comedy taught Broadway theater owners that shows created by Black artists could achieve mainstream success?
a. Show Boat
b. Shuffle Along
c. No, No, Nanette
d. Little Johnny Jones
e. Runnin’ Wild
b. Shuffle Along
What is the form of “Toot, Toot, Tootsie!”?
a. Verse-chorus
b. 12 bar blues
c. A B A coda
d. A B A C
e. A B A C A
a. Verse-chorus
Which network company connected with Ben Bernie and his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra for its first nationwide radio broadcast on November 15, 1926?
a. American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
b. Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC)
c. Columbia Broadcasting Company (CBS)
d. Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
e. National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
e. National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Before World War I, James Reese Europe had led a notable orchestra in which city?
a. Boston
b. New York
c. Philadelphia
d. Atlanta
e. Chicago
b. New York
Band leader________________ had the idea for the work that became Rhapsody in Blue.
a. George White
b. Fletcher Henderson
c. Joe “King” Oliver
d. Ben Bernie
e. Paul Whiteman
e. Paul Whiteman
The music and lyrics for the musical comedy Shuffle Along were set by composer ____________ and lyricist ________________
a. Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II
b. James P. Johnson, Cecil Mack
c. Vincent Youmans, Frank Mandel
d. Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle
e. Flournoy Miller, Aubrey Lyles
d. Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle
The B phrase of “Tea For Two” creates an uncommon harmonic shift where a C major triad is introduced in the key of A¯ major. This shift is called a ____________________ .
a. secondary dominant
b. modal mixture
c. chromatic mediant
d. displaced subdominant
e. deceptive cadence
c. chromatic mediant
Warner Brothers used their Vitaphone equipment to create _______________ in 1926, the year before The Jazz Singer?
a. Don Juan
b. The Lost World
c. Black Oxen
d. The Island of the Lost
e. Metropolis
a. Don Juan
During World War I many French listeners had first heard ragtime, blues and jazz through the performances of the ____________ Infantry Regiment Band, “The Hellfighters.”
a. 352nd
b. 369th
c. 82nd
d. 101st
e. 223rd
b. 369th
What form does Rhapsody in Blue MOST closely resemble?
a. Sonata Cycle
b. A B C
c. Rondo like
d. A B A Coda
e. A B A’ C
a. Sonata Cycle
_______________ is often viewed as the “flagship” of the newly blended genre: musical theater.
a. Rose-Marie
b. The Mikado
c. Always You
d. No, No, Nanette
e. Show Boat
e. Show Boat
In the 1923 recording of “The Charleston” made by Arthur Gibbs and his Gang, all of the following are featured EXCEPT
a. stop-time
b. chromatic mediants
c. a very early recording of a saxophone
d. heterophony
e. muted trumpet
b. chromatic mediants
The movie, “The Jazz Singer” was loosely based on the life of _______________ .
a. Ben Bernie
b. Al Jolson
c. Ernie Erdman
d. Gus Kahn
e. Dan Russo
b. Al Jolson
Which European country was especially receptive to the new sounds of jazz?
a. Germany
b. Holland
c. England
d. France
e. Italy
d. France
All of the following are movements from Copland’s Music for the Theatre EXCEPT
a. Burlesque
b. Epilogue
c. Prelude
d. Interlude
e. Dance
c. Prelude
Show Boat with its ___________-performance run, demonstrated that audiences were ready for increased realism and that a musical could be “taken seriously as theater.”
a. 497
b. 450
c. 525
d. 572
e. 616
d. 572
In the rondo A section of “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man”, Kern and Hammerstein set the poetry in _________ phrases reflecting lyrics in most blues songs.
a. six
b. twelve
c. four
d. three
e. five
d. three
The Jazz Singer went on to earn ___________________ dollars setting a record for a low-budget film.
a. two million
b. five million
c. 500,000
d. 230,000
e. three million
e. three million
In his memoirs, Darius Milhaud discussed his delight at hearing an American jazz orchestra in __________ in 1920.
a. London
b. Paris
c. Madrid
d. Manchester
e. Brussels
a. London
The two processes of “jazzing the classics” and “classicizing jazz” was described by _______________ .
a. William Tate
b. Irene Castle
c. Deborah Mawer
d. Aaron Anderson
e. Carl Anthony
c. Deborah Mawer