Countrystudy. USA. Music

American music has never assimilated musical traditions of other peoples.

Many Americans don't even realise that a lot of folksongs that they hear and sing have a foreign origin.

Spirituals appeared as a result of the assimilation of ....

The usual themes of blues were... (choose several points)

In the late 1800s the first symphonic orchestras were formed in the USA.

The first "Metropolitan Opera" was opened in 1883 in ......

At the end of 19th century, a truly American genre appeared. It was ....

The authors of the musicals used the ....., songs and dances to achieve the dramatic effect.

...... was probably the Negro's greatest contribution to American music.

...... has always been more important in jazz than writing.

...... called the 1920s the "Jazz Age".

Rock-'n-roll was another type of Negro rythm-and-blues music. It appeared in 1970s.

After rock-'n-roll conquered Europe, "The Beatles" appeared influenced by the songs of Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley.

Spirituals often had ........, expressing hopes to escape.

Although the words in the spirituals were ....., the meaning was ....

The Ohio river is mentioned in many spirituals as the Jordan river because (just as the Mississippi or other rivers) crossing it was....

Spirituals are the songs proliferated in the last few decades of the eighteenth century leading up to the abolishment of legalized slavery in the 1860s.

Spirituals are typically sung in a call and response form, with a leader improvising a line of text and a chorus of singers providing a solid refrain in unison. The vocal style abounded in freeform slides, turns and rhythms that were challenging for early publishers of spirituals to document accurately.

Many spirituals, known as ........ are intense, slow and melancholic. Songs like "Sometimes I feel like a motherless child," describe the slaves' struggles and identification the suffering of Jesus Christ. Other spirituals are ............ . Known as "jubilees," or "camp meeting songs," they are fast, rhythmic and often syncopated.

Unlike the worships of the whites, Africanized Christianity was often ....