Jazz
Love Songs
Sacred Music
Ceremonies & Death
Opera & More
100
A musical form distinguished by its reliance on improvisation and its rhythmic urgency
What is jazz
100
Verbal messages set to music
What are lyrics
100
The original or first people to inhabit a place
Who are aboriginals
100
A song of praise for one's country
What is a National Anthem?
100
A staged drama that is sung, most often with orchestral accompaniment.
What is opera?
200
A form of vocal improvisation on nonsense syllables
What is scat singing
200
Celebration of love, longing for love, lost love
What are the three basic messages communicated by love songs?
200
A hymn tune
What is a chorale?
200
The piece of music that is always played when the queen or king of England appears in public.
What is "God Save the Queen"?
200
The feeling of sympathetic pity or compassion for a character in a play or book.
What is pathos?
300
The special rhythmic character that jazz musicians add to the music
What is swing
300
The use of one idea to represent or stand for another
What is symbolism
300
A series of tones generated by the fundamental tone (Monks are famous for using these)
What are harmonics?
300
The piece of music played at most American graduations
What is "Pomp and Circumstance"?
300
The text of an opera or musical, including dialogue and lyrics.
What is libretto?
400
Brass bands, spirituals, and the blues
What are the roots of jazz
400
The story of an Asian woman who loves an American military man who leaves her. The woman then commits suicide.
What is Madame Butterfly
400
Compositions that served as introductions to the singing by the congregation
What are chorale preludes?
400
A term designation a musical work or set of works to number them in order of composition
What is opus?
400
When and where opera originated
What is Italy in 1600?
500
The "King of Swing", a clarinet virtuoso, and led a highly successful mixed race big band
Who is Benny Goodman
500
An American country singer who has won 41 Grammy nominations and seven wins. She is famous for "I will Always Love You"
Who is Dolly Parton?
500
These two countries with Islamic followers permit the playing of music for religious trance purposes.
What are India and Pakistan?
500
This place has funeral parades and celebrates the life of the one lost
What is New Orleans?
500
Disease, death, poverty, homelessness, and a quest for the meaning of life by Rodolfo and his friends
What are the factors faced in La Boheme (or Rent)
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