Chapter 34

Foster earned a huge profit from the sales of his sheet music.

Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is primarily composed in what texture?

Foster's My Old Kentucky Home was inspired by _____.

From what type of songs did Foster earn the majority of his income?

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is a strophic song for solo voice and piano.

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is best described as a:

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair was the most famous of Foster's songs during his lifetime.

Music in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America was wildly divergent from European traditions.

Nineteenth-century parlor music in the United States was written to be accessible to amateurs.

Nineteenth-century songwriters in the United States combined elements of all of the following EXCEPT _____.

Radio broadcasting helped popularize Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair in the 1940s.

Stephen Foster is known for his ballads, minstrel show tunes, and plantation songs.

Stephen Foster was born and raised in Kentucky.

Stephen Foster wrote some of his most famous songs for the Christy Minstrels.

The music that accompanies the lyrics of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair reflects Foster's Anglo-Irish cultural heritage.

What famous song was composed by two sisters in the 1890s?

Which of Foster's songs is written in the style of an Italian air?

Which of the following best describes the form of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair?

Which of the following songs was NOT written by Stephen Foster?

Which of the following was a type of racially charged theatrical variety show in the United States in the nineteenth century?