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Early Popular Song
Spirituals
Ragtime
Blues/Jazz
Gershwin
100
This man wrote many early American popular songs, including Camptown Races.
What is Stephen Foster
100
This is a genre of religious song created by African slaves in the nineteenth century.
What is the spiritual
100
The King of Ragtime.
Who is Scott Joplin
100
Jazz, Blues, and Ragtime have their roots in these peoples' music.
What is African American music
100
This person was one of the first people to incorporate African American blues and jazz styles into their compositions.
What is George Gershwin
200
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is in this musical genre.
What is parlor song
200
This spiritual, in its many guises, reflects qualities of the Native American, European American, and African American traditions.
What is Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
200
Scott Joplin became famous when this piece sold a million copies.
What is Maple Leaf Rag
200
This is a note whose pitch rises slightly
What is a blue note
200
Gershwin’s Summertime suggests this musical tradition
What is an African American spiritual
300
This is a show popular in the mid 1800s that featured performers in blackface
What is minstrel show
300
6. The melody of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on this scale.
What is pentatonic
300
The name of Scott Joplin's Opera.
What is Treemonisha
300
This city is considered the birthplace of jazz
What is new Orleans
300
Gershwin called this his "folk opera".
What is Porgy and Bess
400
This was the time period when there became a clear split between “classical” and “popular” music in America
What is end of 19th century
400
This is a group of singers who took their name from their school, Fisk University.
What is Fisk Jubilee Singers
400
Ragtime is characterized by this rhythmic technique.
What is syncopation.
400
This is an instrument-like approach to singing made popular by Louis Armstrong.
What is scat
400
This was an orchestral piece Gershwin wrote in his short time in France depicting the sounds of the city.
What is American in Paris
500
This is a term describing popular songs sung in a country’s native language
What is vernacular
500
This was a Christian movement at the turn of the 1800s that featured camp meetings lasting up to 2 weeks in duration.
What is Second Great Awakening
500
Town Joplin was born in.
What is Texarcana.
500
This was Duke Ellington’s great musical collaborator in the 1940s.
What is Billy Strayhorn
500
This was George Gershwin's first career in the music business.
What is a song plugger