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What year was Ella Fitzgerald born?
1917.
What style of music did Ella Fitzgerald sing?
Jazz.
What is the name of a jazz group that has a piano, drummer, bassist, and one or two horn players?
Jazz Combo.
What international event was happening when Ella Fitzgerald was born?
World War I.
How long did Claude Debussy and Ella Fitzgerald's lives overlap?
One year.
Who composed the "Sunken Cathedral", a piece based on a legend about a cathedral under the ocean that only comes to the surface once a year?
Claude Debussy.
What was the name of the popular style of music and art in the late 1800s in France?
Impressionism.
What famous event was taking place in the USA when Claude Debussy was born?
The Civil War.
What year did Claude Debussy die?
1918.
Who was another famous French Impressionist composer besides Claude Debussy?
Maurice Ravel.
What is the name of a larger jazz group that features several brass and woodwind instruments?
Big Band.
What famous elementary music teacher was in Kindergarten when Ella Fitzgerald died?
Mr. Pollock
What year was Claude Debussy born? Hint: During the American Civil War. (If you are within 10 years, you can earn half points)
1862.
Who was the Impressionist painter who experimented with the use of light in his paintings, and who painted a famous scene of a bridge over water lilies?
Which kind of music features improvisation and solos: jazz or Impressionism?
Jazz.
For a hundred points each, name instruments that are commonly in a jazz combo!
Drums, bass, piano, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, trombone.
What year was Maurice Ravel born?
What are some important features of Claude Debussy's music?
Soft, subtle, small instrumentation, emphasis on painting an image rather than telling a grand story.
What kind of music and art were Debussy and Monet both reacting against?
Loud, epic, narrative, Romantic music.
What was the name of the theater where Ella Fitzgerald got her start?
Apollo Theater.