La Creation du Monde
This person composed La creation du monde, Overture and Tableau I.
Who is Darius Milhaud?
This reed instrument opens Rhapsody in Blue with a "wail"-like, glissando-heavy solo.
What is the clarinet?
What aspect of Jazz did Burlesque resemble?
What is the old-time jazz in the brothels within New
Orleans’s red-light district?
This person thinks that the violin and piano are "essentially incompatible"
Who is Maurice Ravel?
This woman composed Sicilienne.
Who was (Germaine) Tailleferre?
The harmony of Section C employs this ancient church mode.
What is Phrygian mode?
Although George Gershwin ultimately composed the piece, this bandleader was the first to propose the idea for it, in order to make jazz more accessible.
Who is Paul Whiteman?
This type of chorus is played at a fortissimo level and emulates jazz music.
What is shout chorus?
This major world conflict seriously impacted Maurice Ravel's work.
What was World War I?
What led to the composition of the Sicilienne?
What is The Princesse?
This instrument is credited with launching the fugue subject in Section A.
What is the string bass?
This is the name of a syncopated melody featured in Rhapsody in Blue, which both opens the piece and coda, and means "returning material" in Italian.
What is ritornello?
This woman was Aaron Copland's composition teacher who helped him secure funding as well.
Who is (Nadia) Boulanger?
This type of musician is not the composer of this piece.
What is a blues musician?
What did Tailleferre call a "relief" in her memoirs?
What is the death of Arthur?
These three instruments imitate the fugue subject (must be in the correct order!).
What are the trombone, saxophone, and trumpet?
This term is used to describe when the notes of a chord are played in succession rather than simultaneously, and it is used often by the piano in Rhapsody in Blue.
What was MacDowell (Colony)?
This was explored in the Blues
What is polytonality?
What was the issue with the Baroque composers thinking they were composing folk music of Sicily?
One component of the polymeric section in Section B is a ___ - pulse ostinato in the right hand and a ___ - pulse ostinato in the left hand.
What is six; four?
The "Love Theme" melody from Rhapsody in Blue closely resembles the melody from this Tchaikovsky opera about two doomed lovers.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This movement comes after Burlesque and is the last in Music for the Theatre.
What is Epilogue?
The violin performs THIS up to a G flat
What is a glissando?
What is the form of this piece?
What is ternary form/ABA?