Music of the United States - MUH 3633 (Spring 2020) - Warfield

Review Sheet # 5 - Chapter 5, "A Language of Feeling": Cultivating Musical Tastes in Antebellum America

Any of the following concepts and terms (as well as any not specifically listed, but indicated in these review questions) may be included on the first test in MUH 3633. Know these concepts and terms, including their (1) spelling, (2) pronunciation, and (3) definition (if appropriate).

In addition to your notes and the daily PowerPoint slides, remember that there are links on the course home page that provide explanations and even audio and video demonstrations of many of the terms and concepts listed below.

    Chapter 5

  1. How do the terms "classical music", art music", and "cultivated music" create a new class of music? How is is that classification different from other sorts of music, and what does it say about the musical types included in this new class?

    2. Home Music Making and the Publishing Industry

  2. Who was Alexander Reinagle? From where did he come, where did he live and work, and what sorts of things did he do for a living?
  3. What is the difference between "composer's music" and "performer's music", and how is each manifested in sheet music?
  4. What are the three spheres that Crawford /Hamberlin use to categorize music in the US? What does each represent in terms of who makes and uses each of those musical types?

    5. Italian Opera in the United States

  5. What was new (in the US) about Manual Garcia's debut performance of Rossini's Barber of Seville in NYC in 1825?
  6. What were some of the factors that made opera popular in 19th-century US?
  7. Why and how were cities like New Orleans and San Francisco important centers of opera in the US?
  8. Who was Jenny Lind, and who promoted her as a performer in the US? How was she representative of the craze for opera stars?

    9. Bands in Antebellum America

  9. How did the addition of Janissary instruments and valved brass (including cornets and saxhorns) transform the older Harmoniemusik into a brass band?
  10. Beyond military settings, what sorts of music did town bands perform?
  11. Know the music example "Helene Schottische" (LG 5.1). What are its primary sounding traits? What sorts of devices make the sectional musical form easy to hear?

    12. America's First Oratorio Society

  12. What was the first such group in the US?
  13. How do oratorio societies contribute to the musical life of the US? How do such groups represent American values?

    14. Classical Instrumental Music Comes to Boston and New York

  14. Who was John Sullivan Dwight, and how and why did he promote classical music in the US?
  15. Who were George Bristow and William Henry Fry, and how did they promote American classical music?

    16. Louis Moreau Gottschalk

  16. Who was Louis Moreau Gottschalk, where was born and raised, and what effect might that have had on his music?
  17. Where was Gottschlak educated in music, and what sort of performer was he?
  18. How did Gottschalk's music reflect his exotic musical personality (to European and other audiences)?
  19. Know the music example "The Banjo: An American Sketch" (LG 5.2). What are its primary sounding traits? What virtuoso elements are heard here? How does Gottschalk imitate the sound of a banjo?

To supplement your textbook reading, make sure that you read the following primary documents in To Stretch Our Ears:

(updated 10 February 2020)