Music Fundamentals
A category of instruments where noise is made by a vibrating column of air.
What are aerophones?
A rhythm used in many Psalms with a syllable pattern of 8.6.8.6.
What is common meter?
These were inexpensive musical texts which were sold like newspapers.
What were broadside ballads?
The melody which the "Star Spangled Banner" is based on.
"The Anacreontic Song"
The British patriotic tune which "The Liberty Song" was set to.
What is "Heart of Oak?"
Another name for the 5th note in a scale.
What is the dominant tone?
A book of Psalms translated and compiled by John Calvin.
What is the Genevan Psalter?
A news ballad describing the death of Timothy Myrick after being bitten by a rattlesnake.
What is "Springfield Mountain?"
Creator of Ballad Operas, shows performed in English and with spoken lines alongside songs.
The meter which William Billings' "Chester" is written in.
What is long meter?
The quality of a pitch which makes it unstable.
What is dissonance?
These taught "regular singing" and became a social outing for young colonists.
What were singing schools?
These were personal or intense musical expressions slaves used to vent feelings, convey messages, etc.
What were field calls?
The first made-in-America theater work, shot down by Pennsylvanian elite for satirical elements.
What is The Disappointment; or, The Force of Cruelty?
A William Billings tune describing his devotion to his hometown in the wake of the Intolerable Acts.
What is "Lamentation Over Boston?"
When music in two different keys is performed simultaneously.
What is polytonality?
A musical religious group from the Czech Republic which permanently established itself in Pennsylvania.
What is the Moravian Church?
A composer who described tonic triad notes as "masters" while other notes in a scale were "servants."
Who was Johann Conrad Beissel?
A composer attacked by an audience for not performing the songs they requested.
Who was James Hewitt?
A compilation of patriotic tunes appealing to both Federalists and Anti-Federalists.
What is "The Federal Overture?"
When accented or emphasized notes fall on "weaker beats."
What is syncopation?
A Yankee tunesmith who petitioned the General Assembly for copyright laws.
Who was Andrew Law?
The colony which assigned one drummer and one fifer to every company of 76 men.
What is Virginia?
Who was Ann Home Hunter?
A tune about the Battle of Bunker Hill and the burning of Charleston.
What is "The American Hero?"