This is a minstrel show instrument other than the tambourine, banjo, or bones.
What is the concertina?
100
This is the term for the "finale" of a minstrel show.
What is a walkaround?
100
This was the term that described the early psalm singing prior to reforms, where a congregation would repeat each line of music after it was presented.
What is lining out.
100
Of German-speaking groups, this group brought the most significant musical influence to America in the 18th C.
Who are the Moravians?
100
This was one of America's first original popular melodies that was sung during the Revolutionary War.
What is "Chester"?
200
Patrick Gilmore played this instrument.
What is the cornet?
200
This is a ballad song genre often performed in the Tex-Mex region of the US.
What is a corrido?
200
This was a New England singing school composer OTHER than William Billings.
Who was Daniel Read?
200
This was a large printed document intended for public display, expressing topical events and political commentary.
What was a broadside?
200
This was a 19th C. English comic song genre that was part of the Hutchinsons' repertory.
What was a glee?
300
This instrument was played by the Carter family.
What is the guitar or autoharp?
300
This is the founder of the Virginia Minstrels.
Who was Daniel Decatur Emmett?
300
This was an African-American performer of spirituals.
Who was Paul Robeson?
300
This was an English drinking song that was later adapted by Thomas Carr to be the US national anthem.
What is the Anacreontic Song?
300
These are non-text syllables heard in many Native American songs.
What are vocables?
400
This American is creditied with developing the banjo from its earlier West African derived prototypes called "gourd-lutes", such as the banza.
Who was Joel Walker Sweeney?
400
This was a musical family from NH who wrote numerous politically conscious songs during the Civil War era.
Who were the Hutchinsons?
400
This was a collection of scared music in shape note notation.
What is the Sacred Harp?
400
This was a Spanish reigious song genre practiced in the US Southwest.
What are the alabados?
400
This is the writer of the text to the patriotic song, The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
What is Julia Ward Howe?
500
The early American partriot, Patrick Henry, played this instrument.
What is a violin?
500
This was an American composer who developed the "parlor ballad" in the mid-19th C.
Who was Stephen Foster?
500
This was the name of the first psalter printed in America.
What is the Bay Psalm book?
500
This was the English author of the text of what would be a famous camp meeting song in America in the early 19th C.
Who was John Newton?
500
This is the "father of American minstrelsy" who wrote the song, "Jim Crow".