CHAPTER TWO: “AFTER THE BALL”: MUSIC OF THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY
TWENTIETH CENTURIES
Review and Discussion Questions
1. Describe minstrelsy.
2. What makes Stephen Foster an important figure in American popular song?
3. Describe the different musical forms we have studied so far: strophic form, versechorus, multi-sectional/march form, standard AABA song form.
4. What is the history and meaning of the term “Jim Crow”?
5. How did a parlor song differ from a plantation song?
6. How did Charles K. Harris promote his song “After the Ball”?
7. What are the musical elements found in ragtime piano music?
8. What city became the center of the music industry at the end of the nineteenth century?
9. How does a waltz differ from a march? Give an example of each.
10. Describe vaudeville. How did vaudeville differ from the minstrel show?
CHAPTER TWO: “AFTER THE BALL”: MUSIC OF THE NINETEENTH AND EARLY
TWENTIETH CENTURIES
11. What is Tin Pan Alley?