American popular music was revolutionized by the invention of an automated piano keyboard called a ________.
Which early 19th century American musical stage form influenced Stephen Foster?
Which Sousa march is the official American march?
Who was known as the "King of Ragtime"?
The third set in a march, the "CC" was also called _______.
Which type of 19th century American music was "by the people"?
Who was known as the "Father of American Popular Music"?
The most popular song form of the mid-19th century was called ______.
Which type of folk song gave voice to the trials and tribulations of the African-American slaves in the 19th century?
Both the ragtime song and the march were built using musical building blocks called _______.
One characteristic of folk songs was that they were transferred _________.
Ragtime is a contraction of what phrase?
Who was the composer of "Beautiful Dreamer"?
Which type of 19th century American music was "for the people"?
Who was the "beginning" of the American popular music industry?
Who was known as the "March King"?
A ragtime song often used a _________ melody.
The march was most often performed by an instrumental group consisting of brass, wind and _________ instruments.
Copyright law, protecting composers and writers was passed in America in what year?
Place Joplin, Sousa & Foster in the correct chronological order.
player piano or pianola
the minstrel show
"Stars & Stripes Forever"
Scott Joplin
the "trio"
folk music
Stephen Foster
a parlor song.
the spiritual
strains
by oral tradition
"ragged time"
popular music
John Philip Sousa
syncopated
percussion
1909
1) Stephen Foster
2) Scott Joplin
3) John Philip Sousa
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