Tin pan alley Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Minstrel Shows - correct answerMainly white performers who artificially blackened their skin and enacted parodies of African American music, dance, dress and dialect Stephen Foster (1826-1864) - correct answerThe father of American music First person to be the full time professional songwriter i. "Oh! Susanna" 1848 ii. "My Old Kentucky Home" iii. "Camptown Races" iv. "Way down upon the Swanee river" (old folks at home) v. "I dream of Jeannie" vi. "Beautiful Dreamer" ...

MUS505 Final Exam with Complete Solution The Standard (Standards) - Tin Pan Alley songs were still popular in the 1950s and became known as______ Songs were known by the general mainstream population Not attached to a particular artist, performed by different artists follows a familiar formula Tin Pan Alley Pop Song Model - professional songwriters and producers crafting songs for musicals, movies, and artists "Song factory" system keeps shaping pop music artists are not ...

Music History III Question and answers verified to passMusic History III-Chapter 34 & 35 Irving Berlin () - correct answer Generally recognized as the most productive, varied, and creative of the Tin Pan Alley songwriters. Cole Porter () - correct answer An influential Tin Pan Alley composer born into a wealthy family in Indiana who studied classical music at elite institutions such as Yale, Harvard, and the Scola Cantorum in Paris. George Gershwin () - correct answer The most wid...

Roots of Rock Exam Questions and Answers Solved Minstrelsy - -Traveling Entertainment, comic skits, variety acts, dancing, music -Usually done in black face -Taken over by Vaudeville Stephen Foster - -Mid 19th century -Most Successful SONG WRITER in America -Jeanie with the light brown hair AABA (32 Bar Song Form) - -Stated, restated with different words, something new, restated again with different words -Common in Tin Pan Alley -"Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" Tin Pan Al...

Music History IV Midterm Question and answers already passed Music History IV Midterm What is not true about the musical style of Expressionism? - correct answer In music, it was primarily concerned with soft sounds, such as muted horns and divided strings What is not true about the 12 bar blues? - correct answer The poetic scheme is ABA One of the most Tin Pan Alley song chorus forms is - correct answer AABA

Music midterm Question and answers verified to passMusic midterm - Chapter 4 AABA form - correct answer One of the most common structures that Tin Pan Alley composers used to organize their melodic and harmonic material. This structure would be found in the refrain of a verse-refrain song Arranger - correct answer A person who adapts (or arranges) the melody and chords to a song to exploit the capabilities and instrumental resources of a particular musical ensemble Bridge - correct ...

MUS505 Final Exam Q&A Correctly Solved music results from the interaction between music sonic materials and the ___________ we attach to these sounds - meanings the most commonly used music for in Tin Pan Alley songs was - AABA Which one of the following musicians is associated with the 'jump band' style, which was a direct ancestor of rock and roll - Louis Jordan The talented African American pianist and conductor who was controversially hired in 1913 by a famous white husband-and...

Who proclaimed: "If it is art it is not for everybody; if it is for everybody it is not art"? - ️️Schoenberg Stravinsky's Octet helped usher in a new creative period, commonly called: - ️️Neoclassicism Which of the following "classical" forms does Stravinsky include in the Octet: - ️️Sonata Form and Theme and Variations Which of the following describes Stravinsky's Octet? - ️️Three Movements Used modernist mannerisms Used eighteenth century mannerisms In t...

What are the 3 main markets for popular music before rock and roll? ANS 1) Popular music (including big band music)(middle-class white audience) 2) Country & Western(rural, low income, mostly white) 3) Rhythm & Blues (low-income, mostly black) How were the 3 main markets for popular music before rock and roll "consumed" or experienced? ANS 1) live performances: vaudeville/stage shows 2) home concerts/published music 3) radio 4) recordings 5) movies 6) TV What are Tin Pan Alley ...

MUS 505 Final Exam with absolute solution Rock and Roll - brought styles previously on the margins to the mainstream (example: r&b/country) Now a new or single style Standards - songs from the tin pan alley that were known by the majority of mainstream Countrypolitan - mix of country with urban pop music → nashville sound Soul Music - black pop music from 1950s → combined sacred gospel music with secular r&b - Focus on vocals, call and response, melismatic vocals, guttural voca...