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- 1. Multiple Choice
some of the sources of Great American Songbook songs include:
spirituals from the Black church
broadway musicals
songs from minstel shows from the late 19th century
hollywood movie music
- 2. Multiple Choice
Tin Pan Alley was located
Across from the Cotton Club in Harlem
In the Tremé district of New Orleans
Corner of 18th and Vine Streets in Kansas City
on 28th street in Manhattan
- 3. Multiple Choice
What was Tin Pan Alley?
A great bowling alley in Kansas City
An alley in New York filled with stores that sold tin goods.
The center of music publishing in New York City from the 1890s through 1950s
- 4. Multiple Choice
The following are some songs published in Tin Pan Alley:
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Mothers Don't Raise Your Sons to be Soldiers
Strassborg St. Denis
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Alexander's Ragtime Band
- 5. Multiple Choice
All the composers of the Great American Songbook were men
true
false
- 6. Open Ended
What might be a few reasons so many Tin Pan Alley and Broadway composers were Jewish?
- 7. Fill in the Blank
This song was written by George Gershwin in a jazz style for the opera "Porgy and Bess" and later covered by many, many jazz musicians. The name of the song is...
- 8. Multiple Choice
This recording is of John Coltrane covering a Great American Songbook song from the musical "The Sound of Music". What's the name of the song?
Do, a Deer
Edelweiss
Sixteen, Going on Seventeen
My Favorite Things
- 9. Multiple Choice
Check all the boxes with names of famous Great American Songbook composers
Duke Ellington
Cole Porter
Scott Joplin
George Gershwin
Jerome Kern
- 10. Multiple Choice
In addition to being entertaining, many Tin Pan Alley songs also...
inspired many NYC trombone players -- they found inspiration from Tin Pan Alley songs, and could collect a free trombone made out of tin in the alley on Tuesdays and alternate Thursdays
provided the news to people who could not read -- they learned the news of the day from songs written that morning by Tin Pan Alley composers and sung in pubs the same evening
reflected public opinion about political events, and served as political propaganda, for example promoting the idea that the US should not get involved in World War I
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