Country Folks
Hoedowns involved this kind of dancing that had its roots in Ireland
What is square dancing?
This is the largest region of indigenous music in N.A.
What is the sub-arctic and plains?
These ballads of sorts were from Mississippi
What are Hollers?
Do...re...mi
What is Solfege?
This land is your land
Who was Woody Guthrie?
Bluegrass music originated in this great state.
What is Kentucky?
These were sung by Native Americans and involved non-literal sounds on many notes
What are vocables?
These jazzy ballads told stories and their chord progression repeated after this many measures
What are 12 bar blues?
Spiritual lyrics were often codes for this activity
What was the Underground Railroad?
Rhapsody in Blue
Who was George Gershwin?
This genre is a fusion of jazz and country
What is Western Swing?
Black Elk was this many years old when he had his visions and became this to his people
What is 9 years old and a holy man?
Dixieland Jazz is from this city and has a certain texture
What is New Orleans and polyphonic?
A book of shapes, you might say
What was the Sacred Harp?
What a Wonderful World
Who is Louis Armstrong?
This composer preserved folk music of Europe then moved to this location in North America.
Who was Cecil Sharp and what is Appalachia?
These are two parts of an Indian Rattle
What is the horn filled with beads and the teeth hanging from the horn, and wooden handle?
Each hand does this in Ragtime music
What is the left marches and plays the bass
and the right hand plays the syncopation?
This college from the Reconstruction Era still exists, thanks to this group
(2 answers)
What is Fisk College and who are the Fisk Jubilee Singers?
Great Hymn writer after the Reformation
Who was Lowell Mason?
This family began the recording industry for country music and their homestead is still here in this beautiful setting in Eastern Tennessee
Who are the Carters and where is Bristol?
This woodwind instrument is different than our flute in this way?
What is a hollowed out piece of bamboo and is blown straight in, like a recorder
Scott Joplin is known for playing these 2 instruments
What is the piano and trumpet?
Civil War music was anything but civil because of this
What is the Northern music written to preserve the Union and the Southern music written about killing Yankees?
His compositions alway left room for improvisation
Who was Duke Ellington?