History of Rock Chp 1

In oral tradition, music is learned and transmitted from memory instead of by a written score.

True

Benny Goodman frequently purchased big band arrangements from:

Fletcher Henderson

Swing bands usually included a banjo and a tuba.

False

Which song was the first major Tin Pan Alley hit?

After the Ball

Dixieland jazz originated in:

New Orleans

Scott Joplin’s piano rags are in the form of

The March

The form AABBACCDD best describes

The March

The first commercially successful Tin Pan Alley song was written in

1892

Ragtime features a steady right hand melody and a syncopated left hand accompaniment

False

Maple Leaf Rag featured what style for the left hand on the piano?

Stride

"After the Ball" is best described as:

a sentimental Tin Pan Alley song about lost love

Songs in 32-bar song form follow an AABA form for the melody.

True

The first commercially successful Dixieland group was:

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band

All of the following were promotional tactics of Tin Pan Alley song pluggers EXCEPT:

advertising their songs via local radio broadcasts

Dixieland jazz included tenor and alto saxophones.

False

"I Got Rhythm" was more famous than the musical in which it first appeared.

True

During the nineteenth century, most American homes had pianos for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

the competing publishers in Tin Pan Alley drove the price of sheet music down

Cotton Tail has the musical basis of

a contrafact on "After the Ball"

Cootie Williams and Johnny Hodges were frequent soloists in Duke Ellington’s orchestra.

True

Vaudeville refers to a music publishing district in New York City.

False