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1
Spanish music traditions have a strong hold in what U.S. city today?
A)Los Angeles, CA
B)Boston, MA
C)St. Augustine, FL
D)New York, NY
2
A long and invariably sad kind of Spanish hymn is called:
A)cantilena
B)hymnos para el muerte
C)alabado
D)none of the above
3
Music folk music stems from what tradition?
A)Native American
B)Spanish
C)Anglo-Celtic
D)Old World Europe
4
Most folk ballads are:
A)sung by memory
B)are strophic in form
C)describe dramatic or tragic events
D)all of the above
5
Oral traditions play a large role in the development of:
A)alabado
B)folk ballads
C)strophic songs
D)British or Scottish folk songs
6
The song "Barbara Allen" probably originated in:
A)Britian
B)Scotland
C)Ireland
D)West Indies
7
Written and printed on very large sheets suitable for public display, or sometimes printed in newspapers are the:
A)folk songs
B)Revolutionary War songs
C)Ownership of Copyrights to songs
D)Broadsides
8
"The Liberty Song" uses as its main tune the song:
A)Yankee Doodle
B)Ballad of John Henry
C)Barbara Allen
D)Heart of Oak
9
By what year did slavery become common throughout the thirteen colonies?
A)1690
B)1700
C)1776
D)1835
10
Loud, rhythmically flexible, emotionally expressive chants or cries by a solo voice is found in:
A)field cries
B)field hollers
C)lullabies
D)folk ballads





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