Women in Western Music Spring 2014

Study Guide for Quiz #2 Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Breakdown:

Listening identification: 8 examples

True/false: 5 questions
Multiple choice: 6 questions
Fill in the blank: 6 questions

All questions are worth 2 points each a total of 25 questions worth 50 points
Listening: the following musical examples will be used from the Listening List. You will
be given the information below of composer (or performer) and work title and match
them to the selections played.
#32
#35
#37
#40
#42
#44
#45
#46

Carter: Wildwood Flower

Ma Rainey: Morning Hour Blues
Thornton: Hound Dog
Ronettes: Be my Baby
Chaminade: Concerstucke
Schindler Mahler: Bei dir ist es traut
Smyth: The Wreckers - Overture
Bonis: Une Flute Soupire

For true/false, multiple choice, and fill in the blank, study these:
From lectures and readings and the latest vocabulary words on the Analyzing Music sheet
handed out in class, the Dunbar textbook, your notes, and power points in Blackboard
and know these terms/concepts:
Atonal music
Improvisation
Ballad

bridge

strophic form
girl group

spiritual

Call and response overture

Musical review

race records

symphonic/tone poem
parlor song

Great Migration

gospel music

field/holler cry

vaudeville

sheet music

Furthermore remember these concepts:

Be able to identify Tin Pan Alley song form: A A B A
Be able to identify 32 bar blues song form: A A B
Know what a blind audition is and why it is important to women who audition for
orchestras
(over)

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Know the names of these composers: Antonia Brico and Marin Alsop and which of the two
was successful in her career as a conductor
Be able to cite one accomplishment of Vivian Adelberg Rudow
Be able to recognize the differences between rural blues and classic blues
Know what the male gaze is in relation to women on stage and in video
Recall that Carrie Bond Jacobs created the first women owned music publishing house in
the US
Know who was referred to as the Queen of Gospel
Know what the Carter Scratch was and who made it her trademark style
Know why some were critical of Sister Rosetta Tharpes swingin spiritual nightclub
performances
Recall that women performers in girl groups had little artistic input into their material and
were often exploited by male record producers
Recall that gospel music allowed women to use their stage performances as a means of
preaching their faith
Know who was called The Empress of the Blues
Know why the composer Mel-Bonis published her works under this particular spelling of
her name