This is the term for a musical form that features repeating verses with the same music, but with different words.
What is strophic?
100
This is the name of the Navajo chant song from the Nightway curing ritual.
What is a Yeibichi song?
100
This is a religious folk music song category practiced in the Southwest.
What is the alabados?
100
This is the first psalter published in America.
What is the Bay Psalm Book? (1640)
100
This American from the 18th c. was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a composer of songs in an English style.
Who was Francis Hopkinson? 1737-1791
200
This is the term for patterns of strong and weak beats within a song's rhythm, usually groups of 2, 3, or 4.
What is meter?
200
These are non lexical syllables often contained in Native American songs.
What are vocables?
200
This was a large document posted in public places in early America containing satirical or patriotic verses designed to be sung to a familiar tune.
What is a broadside?
200
This is a First New England School composer and author of When Jesus Wept.
Who is William Billings?
200
This musical instrument was innovated by Benjamin Frankin and was well received both in America and Europe.
What is the glass harmonica?
300
This is the term for the individual quality of sound expressed by various instruments as well as regional vocal styles.
What is musical timbre?
300
This is a common musical texture in Native American song delivery that features 2 or more singers singing the same tune, but with slight variations between them.
What is heterophonic?
300
These are solo African American chants, laments, sung while working.
What are field hollers?
300
This is a late 18th century choral genre utilized in the US that featured 2 contrasting sections of music - one homophonic, the other canonic.
What is a fuging tune?
300
This American played the violin and held the opinion the music and arts must be practical and relevant to everyday life to be meaningful.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
400
This is a meaningful succession of if musical tones at various levels of pitch.
What is a melody?
400
This is a common musical wind instrument in Navajo culture.
What is a flute?
400
This was a Mexican folk ballad song designed to preserve Mexican history and culture.
What is a corrido?
400
This was an early 18th century social movement that featured strong religious revival meetings in New England towns.
What is The Great Awakening?
400
This was the 18th century military ensemble intended to move troops on and off the battlefield.
What is the fife and drum ensemble?
500
This is the rate of speed of the rhythm in musical performance.
What is tempo?
500
This is modern forum for Native American dance and celebration of culture.
What is a powwow?
500
These were religious folk tunes sung by African Americans in prescribed circular formations with restricted choreography.
What is a ring shout?
500
These were professional musicians/ministers who sought to improve the quality of singing in 18th c. New England churches.
What is a singing school master?
500
These southern states lay claim to the earliest theaters in America. Name one.