Folk Songs
It is the secular folk song of the enslaved
What is work song?
The year of the Emancipation Proclamation
1863
He was the first composer to formally arrange Spirituals for the concert stage.
Who is Harry T. Burleigh?
It is the action of taking something for one’s own use, typically without permission.
What is appropriation?
It is the sacred folk song of the enslaved
What is the Spiritual?
It is the war that emancipated the enslaved black Americans.
What is the Civil War?
He is the arranger of the Spiritual “His Name So Sweet”.
Who is Hall Johnson?
This must be considered and fully understood when deciding if a song is appropriate for you to perform.
What is the text?
It means it deals with the Christian church or the Christian religion
What is sacred?
He believed freed black Americans should invest in agriculture and farming.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
They have a hidden message and are sometimes referred to as “coded songs”.
What are cult songs?
He is the teacher of Harry T. Burleigh.
Who is Antonín Dvořak?
Multiple rhythms at one time
What is polyrhythmic?
He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D from Harvard.
Who is W.E.B. Dubois?
Who is Marian Anderson?
He does NOT like for singers to ad lib when singing his arrangements of Spirituals.
Who is Uzee Brown?