Composers
The first African-American composer to have a work performed by a major American orchestra.
Who is William Grant Still?
This technique uses the chromatic scale in specific patterns, also called serialism.
What is twelve-tone?
Duke Ellington was a bandleader and composer in this musical movement of the 1930s.
What is swing?
Also acceptable - What is big band music?
This American art form combined theatre, music, and dance.
What is musical theatre?
Individuals doing their own version of hit songs.
What are covers?
The music for West Side Story, a modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, was written by this American composer.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
Speech-like singing, used often in German Expressionism
What is sprechstimme?
This movement sought to refocus literary and art on African-American culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
This subgenre of rock and roll was a combination of R & B and Country/Western music.
What is rockabilly?
This Stravinsky ballet caused a riot upon its opening in Paris.
What is Rite of Spring?
George Gershwin was employed on Tin Pan Alley as this, before becoming a famous composer.
What is a song plugger?
A repeated pattern, often used in minimalism.
What is an ostinato?
This movement in Mexico sought to embrace Mexico's traditional culture after the Mexican Revolution.
What is Aztec Renaissance?
This composer's ballets used folk melodies, primarily from the Appalachian region, to create a uniquely American sound.
Who is Aaron Coplan?
This jazz singer was known as "Lady Day".
Who is Billie Holiday?
This composer created works for "prepared piano", using bolts, rubber, etc.
Who is John Cage?
This Wagnerian technique uses a melody or theme to indicate a character or event.
What is leitmotif?
This German movement was influenced by artists such as Munch and led to much atonality in music.
What is expressionism?
In rhythm and blues, the name for emphasis on the 2nd and 4th beats in each measure.
What is the backbeat?
This record producer fostered the mix of African American blues with Anglo-American country songs to great success.
Who is Leonard Chess?
Known as the creator of twelve-tone technique.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
Music coming from an unseen source in a film
What is underscoring?
Composers of this movement experimented with not just music, but how sounds could be music.
What is avante garde?
This style of jazz was led by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk.
What is bebop?
The American DJ who coined the term "rock and roll".
Who is Alan Freed?