MUSIC 1C FINAL EXAMINATION PREPARATION SPRING 2014
This test will cover only the chapter 11 and Ron’s presentation on other European-influenced music.
 There will be approximately 35 multiple choice/matching questions
 There will be approximately ten short essay questions covering both the book/lecture—see list below
 Please study the limited list of concepts and terms below that may appear on the test.
 In addition to the terms below, you should know the general principles and contexts in which they appear.
 There will not be any listening examples
This will straightforward test—If you have spent adequate preparation time, you’ll do well!
Be sure to do a thorough job on the essay questions, so that you’ll remember more during the test
CHAPTER 11 IMPORTANT TERMS FOR IDENTIFICATION / DESCRIPTION – USE FOR FLASH CARDS?
12-bar blues
Anthems
Autoharp
Baser
Bebop
Blue notes
Bluegrass
Blues
Breakdown/hoedown
Cajun
Country blues
Creole
Instruments
Mountain dulcimer
Banjo
Diatonic
Ghost dance
Gospel music
Head
Holler
Indigenous American
musical instruments
Lining out
Minstrel show
Pentatonic
Polka
Polka belt
Powwow
Psalm
Quebecois
Ragtime and Scott
Joplin
Rhythm and blues
Soul music
Techno
The rise
Urban blues
Ring shout
Vocable
Waila
Western swing
Wind bands
Zydeco
Shape note singing
Singing cowboy
Solfege
Spirituals
String band
Pedal steel guitar
Native American flute
Vision quest
Diddly bow
Autoharp
Button accordion
Important People
Alan Lomax
Pete Seeger
Florence Reece
Black Elk
Wovoka
R Carlos (Charles) Nakai
Robert Johnson
Son House
Bessie Smith
Bill Monroe
Carter Family
Balfa Brothers
Lucy Mckim
Cecil Sharp
WC Handy
The regional
Tribal groups of North
America
Elvis Preslley
Lawrence Welk
Papago
Scott Joplin
William Billings
Charlie Parker
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Short Essay candidates: Each should be answered in several complete sentences for full credit
1. How is Waila music similar to, yet different from, conjunto? What are the common historical threads?
2. List and describe at least three of the most important elements of North American music
3. Name and describe three North American regional tribal groups and some of the musical attributes that
distinguish them
4. Name and describe two ways that Alan Lomax traces blues music to its African roots in The Land
Where the Blues Began. Be specific.
5. What are five of the seven distinctive characteristics of rock and roll?
6. What are some of the contributing song types that led to the blues, and what African elements are
retained in the style?
7. What is a spiritual? Is it a European, or African-American music? Explain.
8. What is Lining Out, and how did it come to be?
9. What is the difference between a Cajun and a Creole person? How do their musics differ?
10. What is the difference between a collective work song and a cry or holler?
11. What is the significance of the term “polka belt”?
12. Why did the Acadians choose Louisiana as a place to which to migrate?
13. Why has indigenous American music not been syncretized with European/African music to a large
degree?
14. Why is polka so important in the musical landscape of North America?
15. Why was it incorrect for early writers to describe all Indigenous American music as “religious?”
Question? Operators are standing by!
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