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100
When a performer makes up the melody while they are playing it.
What is improvisation?
100
This composer is known as the King of Ragtime.
Who is Stravinsky?
100
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" was recorded for this record label.
What is Motown?
100
Name the genre of "Maple Leaf Rag"
What is Ragtime?
100
This piece is about two feuding gangs.
What is "West Side Story"?
200
When the accents beats of a measure are shifted to the beats that would normally be accented.
What is syncopation?
200
This composer wrote the ballet "The Rite of Spring," where the audience rioted at the premier of the performance.
Who is Stravinsky?
200
This song was about racial tension in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
What is "Fight the Power"?
200
This is the genre of Debussy's piano piece "Voiles."
What is character piece?
200
This song is a general play by play description of a student's day in classes.
What is School Day?
300
The style that dominated classical music and the arts during the 20th century.
What is Modernism?
300
This composer sought to create a unique "American Sound" with his music.
Who is Aaron Copland?
300
The musical evolved from this genre.
What is operetta?
300
Name one piece we studied that would be classified as Jazz.
What is "Cotton Tail" or "Take the A-Train"?
300
This ballet is about a girl who dances herself to death as a sacrifice to the gods for them to grant spring on pagan Russia.
What is "The Rite of Spring"?
400
This genre is a style of music from the early twentieth century that emphasizes rhythmic syncopation while continuing many of the characteristics of marches, cakewalks, two-steps, and popular songs from the late nineteenth century
What is Ragtime?
400
This composer wrote much of his music in the style of Impressionism, although he disliked the term.
Who is Debussy?
400
The melody of this piece is unique because it doesn't appear in its entirety until almost 1 minute after the movement starts.
What is "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo?
400
Name the genre of Chuck Berry's song "School Day."
What is Rock-n-Roll?
400
This ballet is about a cowgirl trying to win the heart of the head wrangler, who is unimpressed with her.
What is "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo?
500
The term that describes a short solo piece for piano that captures a particular mood.
What is a character piece?
500
This composer was the first African American to conduct a major American orchestra.
Who is William Grant Still?
500
Name the three major accomplishments of William Grant Still. (Daily Double)
First African American to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra First African American to conduct a major American orchestra First African to have an opera performed by a major American opera company
500
Name the genre of Aaron Copland's "Hoe-Down" from Rodeo.
What is Ballet?
500
This character piece's title means "sails" or "veils" and vaguely invokes the image of being at sea in the listener's mind.
What is "Voile"?
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