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Early Part 2 Test #10 Name:______

Each question is worth up to 4 points each (70%). The first essay is worth up to 30pts (30%). Your first and last name is 10pts (10%).

1. Rhythm makes people want to tap their feet, get up and dance, or sway back and forth because of what?

2. Ragtime started using in an effort to copy what popular turn-of-the-century American music groups? 3. Ragtime became because of a relaxing of the rhythm we now call what?

4. What country fused all of the rhythmic elements from , Europe, and Latin America into the form “son”?

5. Composers like abandoned traditional western music techniques in favor of what?

6. “Appalachian Spring”, commissioned by the famous choreographer and dancer Martha Graham, was written by what great American ?

7. What American Broadway composer elevated by combining popular music sensibilities with techniques?

8. Which American composer legitimized Jazz as an American art form by combining it with classical music?

9. Ragtime, , Bluegrass, , and Southern Gospel are all examples of what American form of music?

10. Who collected and recorded from southwestern Virginia, wrote their own songs, and became “the first family of country music”?

11. What native of Meridian, Mississippi is called the “The Brakeman”, “The Blue Yodeler”, and the “Father of Country Music”?

12. Who was nicknamed, “the Father of Texas Blues” with songs like “Black Snake Moan” and “Easy Rider Blues”?

13. Who was nicknamed, “the Father of Delta Blues” thanks to songs like “Pony Blues” and “Screamin’ and Hollerin’ The Blues”?

14. Up until 1927, all movies used a pianist or some type of live to play with the silent movie. What was the name of the first full length feature movie with sound?

15. Who was the inventive composer known for his movie scores for such movies as “Citizen Kane”, “Psycho”, and “Poltergeist”?

Essay: Choose one and write a minimum of one complete paragraph. Use your own words. Make your answer clear and accurate.

A. How does rhythm work and why is it so important in music? B. Tell me about the musical that we watched. Be detailed. C. Name and explain some early African American music styles.

Bonus: Choose another essay. Get up to 5 points per extra essay.

How Music Works with Howard Goodall - 02 - Rhythm (Full Show) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZJPnAer7EM

Appalachian Spring Ballet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmgaKGSxQVw&list=PLpg85QpWAw_OvwyczkxUNZGOr6xb_CO3x

Howard Goodalls Twentieth Century Greats 4of4 Cole Porter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2htSTN1crU

George Gershwin (Carlin Ober--Music in History) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgm66WcAooA

Al Jolson - Swanee (1920) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB5_FScm41Q

Rhapsody in Blue - Fantasia 2000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWJ-kGuOA_Q

Porgy & Bess "Summertime" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7-Qa92Rzbk

An American In Paris 1951 - I Got Rhythm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLjF9hlH2k

Promenade. (Walking the dog). . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t67SdkYubs4

Whitney Houston - Summertime & I Loves You Porgy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvHhoxYmL_c

Folk America ep01 Birth Of A Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMm8_SJ8IlY

Can the circle be unbroken - The Carter Family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjHjm5sRqSA

The Carter Family Wabash Cannon Ball https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMiU_aknPDA

Jimmie Rodgers - Waiting for a Train/Daddy andHome/BlueYodel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyHulWOZBpk

Black Snake Moan - Blind Lemon Jefferson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yd-c91ww8

Blind Lemon Jefferson-Easy Rider Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3jG_tsTn_w

Charlie Patton - Pony Blues – Original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoKKJjf-oQA

'Screamin' And Hollerin' The Blues' CHARLEY PATTON, 1929 Delta Blues Guitar Legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhUVzBzqqV4

Buster Keaton's ONE WEEK (1920) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBGBj6cse1M

Al Jolson sings in the 1st-ever Talkie "" .mpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iX2lg4eYwQ

Toot, Toot, Tootsie! - Al Jolson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD_YRnuuKyY

Howard Goodalls Twentieth Century Greats 2of4 Bernard Herrmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6kv9gVBWDo

West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein (DVD)