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  • 1. What is Danish traditional music called in Danish?
A) spillemand
B) sønderhoning
C) spillemandsmusik
D) stadsmusikant
  • 2. What was the term for a town musician in Denmark?
A) stadsmusikant
B) spillemand
C) fannik
D) pols
  • 3. During which centuries were professional music performances monopolized by town musicians?
A) 15th and 16th centuries
B) 19th and 20th centuries
C) 17th and 18th centuries
D) Middle Ages
  • 4. What instrument became the most important in traditional Danish music during the 17th and 18th centuries?
A) drum
B) bagpipe
C) hurdy-gurdy
D) fiddle
  • 5. What type of dances were abandoned in favor of pair dances?
A) minuets
B) contra dances
C) square dances
D) chain dances
  • 6. Until around what year was traditional music the common musical culture of Denmark?
A) 1850
B) 1929
C) 1900
D) 1750
  • 7. What caused traditional music to become marginalized to rural areas?
A) the invention of the radio and gramophone
B) the extinction of the fiddle
C) government bans on town musicians
D) increasing urbanization and the spread of classical music
  • 8. Which instruments accompanied medieval chain dances, processions, and ceremonial dances?
A) pipes, drums and singing
B) guitars and accordions
C) pianos and violins
D) fiddles and hurdy-gurdies
  • 9. What was the official title of the appointed city musicians who held a monopoly on music practice?
A) spillemand
B) minstrel
C) maestro
D) stadsmusikant
  • 10. Which two areas never had the stadsmusikant monopoly?
A) Fanø and Læsø
B) Ærø and Western Jutland
C) Copenhagen and Aarhus
D) Bornholm and Amager
  • 11. How did Fanø maintain a local musical tradition despite the stadsmusikant monopoly?
A) they ignored the laws and played secretly
B) they hired foreign musicians
C) local musicians leased the right to perform from the city musician of Ribe
D) they received a royal exemption
  • 12. Why did city musicians frown on instruments like drums, bagpipes, and hurdy-gurdies?
A) they were too expensive
B) they were too loud for indoor venues
C) they deemed them impure
D) they were associated with foreign enemies
  • 13. Around what year were medieval chain dances displaced by pair dances?
A) 1500
B) 1700
C) 1800
D) 1600
  • 14. What is the oldest known pair dance in Denmark?
A) minuet
B) waltz
C) pols
D) polka
  • 15. The pols is an adapted variant of a dance from which country?
A) Poland
B) England
C) Germany
D) Sweden
  • 16. In the 18th century, what were the most common popular dances?
A) fannik and sønderhoning
B) square dance and contra dance
C) pols and minuet
D) waltz and polka
  • 17. How many parts did Polish dances like the pols usually have?
A) four parts
B) three parts
C) two parts
D) one part
  • 18. How was the second half of a Polish dance often handled by fiddlers in old tune books?
A) it was omitted entirely
B) it was improvised based on the first half
C) it was strictly prescribed by the stadsmusikant
D) it was copied from English tune books
  • 19. What style of dances became popular from the end of the 18th century?
A) French Renaissance dances
B) English-style contra and square dances
C) Southern European court dances
D) American jazz dances
  • 20. What became the most popular dance in the cities during the 19th century?
A) pols
B) minuet
C) waltz
D) polka
  • 21. Around what year did the polka and mazurka enter the popular repertoire?
A) 1900
B) 1750
C) 1850
D) 1800
  • 22. What types of modern dances began to replace the earlier dance tradition at the end of the 19th century?
A) dances from England, Southern Europe and America
B) courtly dances from Russia
C) traditional Asian and African dances
D) medieval chain dances
  • 23. Which tune types from the island of Fanø are remnants of early Polish-derived dances?
A) pols and minuet
B) hopsa and galop
C) sønderhoning and fannik
D) schottish and mazurka
  • 24. When was the Association for the Promotion of Folkdancing founded?
A) 1929
B) 1901
C) 1850
D) 1900
  • 25. What period of popular dances did the Association for the Promotion of Folkdancing focus on preserving?
A) 1850-1950
B) 1500-1600
C) 1750-1850
D) 1600-1700
  • 26. How many members did the folkdancing preservation societies have by 1929?
A) exactly 5,000 members
B) around 1,600 members
C) as many as 16,000 members
D) over 50,000 members
  • 27. What effect did the folkdancing associations have on popular dances?
A) a homogenizing effect
B) an eradicating effect
C) a modernizing effect
D) a diversifying effect
  • 28. What traditional attire did members of the folkdancing associations often wear?
A) courtly royal attire
B) modern urban clothing
C) military uniforms
D) folk dress
  • 29. What was the name of the informal organizations that kept local dance traditions alive in response to the homogenizing guilds?
A) Spillemandsmusik Guild
B) Free Dance Society
C) Old Dance
D) Traditional Folk
  • 30. Which rural areas maintained living traditions of dancing from the late 18th century well into the 20th century?
A) Bornholm, Amager, Copenhagen and Roskilde
B) Funen, Lolland, Falster and Møn
C) Fanø, Læsø, Ærø and parts of Western Jutland
D) North Jutland, Djursland, Zealand and Funen
  • 31. Who created a large collection of tunes around 1760?
A) Svend Grundtvig
B) Evald Tang Kristensen
C) Rasmus Storm
D) A. P. Berggreen
  • 32. When did the collection of Danish folkmelodies begin?
A) Early 20th century
B) Early 19th century
C) Late 18th century
D) Middle ages
  • 33. Who was born in 1824 and died in 1883?
A) Rasmus Storm
B) Evald Tang Kristensen
C) A. P. Berggreen
D) Svend Grundtvig
  • 34. What are the life dates of A. P. Berggreen as mentioned in the text?
A) 1760-1830
B) 1843-1929
C) 1801-80
D) 1824-83
  • 35. Who published significant collections of tunes and songs alongside Svend Grundtvig and A. P. Berggreen?
A) Evald Tang Kristensen
B) Rasmus Storm
C) A modern ethnomusicologist
D) An anonymous monk
  • 36. When was Evald Tang Kristensen born?
A) 1801
B) 1843
C) 1824
D) 1760
  • 37. When did Evald Tang Kristensen die?
A) 1950
B) 1929
C) 1883
D) 1800
  • 38. When did the collection of folk tradition begin in earnest in Denmark?
A) Early 19th century
B) Early 18th century
C) Late 20th century
D) Early 20th century
  • 39. What academic field was established in Denmark in the early 20th century?
A) Ethnology
B) Archaeology
C) Musicology
D) Anthropology
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