'Merican composers
They introduced notation and music theory through shape note and compiled the New-England Psalm-Singer Songbook.
Who is William Billings?
Built on the misrepresentation of African American music and culture and its practice is highly frowned upon today.
What are blackface/minstrel shows?
Improvisation created what kind of texture?
What is Polyphonic?
Sousa's Marine Band toured here.
Where is North America and Europe?
Though rejected by Calvinist-inspired Puritans, this method helped those who could not read music and increased equal participation in musical worship.
What is Lining Out?
They broke the color barrier by singing in public with a white orchestra.
Who is Lady Day; Billie Holiday
Distinctly American modernist works based on their New England childhood; used dissonances, polytonality, polyharmony, polyrhythms
Who is Charles Ives?
What technique did the right hand employ in rag? What does the left hand do?
What are Right hand=syncopated rhythms, left hand=keeps steady beat?
1920s and 30s movement celebrating African American culture and arts sparked by The New Negro; was a call for racial equality; pride in black cultural heritage
What is the Harlem Renaissance
https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=cb2w2m1JmCY
What jazz instrumentation style do you hear?
What is Big Band?
The most important musical voice of the Harlem Renaissance
Who is William Grant Still?
The use of a variety of sounds, complete freedom. These are some additional names for this along with its most common.
What is Chance music; aleatoric; graphic score?
The standard harmonic progression of blues was ____ bars or ___ bars in length.
What is 12; 16?
Three epicenters of jazz
Where is Harlem; New Orleans; Chicago?
They brought jazz form dense polyphony to an era of solo performance
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Worked in manhattans serving this group ___ ___ ______ and worked as a successful song plugger.
Who is George Gershwin; Tin Pan Alley
Joplin is to _______ as Bessie Smith is to _______ as Billie Holiday is to _______.
What is Ragtime; Blues; Blues?
A player piano works by using a ___ with _____ in a pattern which is thus interpreted.
What is a roll; punched/holes?
Musical theater developed from variety show and _______ operetta.
What is European?
The piano is altered in due to this and thus called this.
What is adding random objects within and on the strings; prepared piano?
Television personality; first American-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
Songs for performance at home.
What is a parlor song?
"Everything we do is music"; this quote mostly likely belongs to...
Who is John Cage?
An inhumane location which sparked work songs and cakewalks.
What is a plantation?
Perceptible processes throughout the sounding of music by slightly altering over time best describes ______ and _____ _______.
What is Minimalism; Phase Music?