By George
Le Jazz Hot
Unsung Composers
Sir Duke
New England Variations
100
Rialto Ripples was his first published piece.
Who is George Gershwin?
100
Said to be the originator of Jazz.
Who is Jelly Roll Morton?
100
Used airplane propellers and player pianos in his work Ballet Mecanique.
Who is George Antheil?
100
This is the train you take when this composer's music is played.
What is "The 'A' Train?"
100
Attended Yale and studied under Horatio Parker.
Who is Charles Ives?
200
"Summertime" is one of the most famous songs from this large scale piece of music.
What is "Porgy and Bess?"
200
Where slaves congregated in New Orleans?
What is Congo Square?
200
Used blocks of sound and sirens in his pieces "Ionisation" and "Ameriques." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TStutMsLX2s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zXaEwWFbnA
Who is Edgar Varese?
200
W.E.B.Du Bois, Langston Hughes and James Weldon Johnson were leaders in this early African-American movement in a New York burrough.
What is the "Harlem Renaissance?"
200
Ives made his fortune selling a life insurance using a method pamphlet using hard sell techniques titled.
What is "The Amount to Carry?"
300
"Oleo",and "Cottontail", are bassed on this Gershwin hit song.
What is "I've Got Rhythm?"
300
European composers influenced by jazz.
Who is Igor Stravinsky and Darius Milhaud?
300
Was based in Paris and worked with writer, Gertrude Stein on the opera, "Four Saints in Three Acts."
Who is Virgil Thompson? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrneAej8rh4
300
This swing symphony was premiered at Carnegie Hall by Ellington in 1943.
What is "Black, Brown and Beige?"
300
This piano sonata was named for a Revolutionary war battle ground.
What is the "Concord Sonata?"
400
Gene Kelly played a starving artist in the film based on this piece of music.
What is "An American In Paris?"
400
This New York stride piano player influenced Duke Ellington.
Who is Willie"The Lion" Smith?
400
Dissonance and "treading the Sun" were hallamrks of this composer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6soFlEZAMYw
Who is Carl Ruggles?
400
This composer was known as Ellington's "right hand" man.
Who is Billy Strayhorn?
400
Using borrowed tunes such as: "Turkey in the Straw", Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean", and "Pig Town Fling", Ives wrote this substantial orchestral work.
What is Symphony #2? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaOVs-6fFk
500
Wrote the lyrics for many of George's songs.
Who Ira Gershwin?
500
This composer was the teacher of Duke Ellington.
Who is Will Marion Cook?
500
He studied with Dvorak and his "American Plantation Dances" were played at the National Conservatory and were the highlight of his classical career.
Who Maurice Arnold Strothotte? There were no videos on YouTube. http://www.unz.org/Pub/StrothotteMaurice-1896
500
Bubber Miley introduced the "growling trumpet" on this first recorded hit by the Ellington band.
What is "East St. Louis Toodle-oo?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNF8PSWgc_0
500
In "Three Places In New England" and other works Ives uses abstract rhythms and dissonance to simulate the sound of these types of groups passing one-another in a parade.
What are marching bands? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnAyaOjNUfw
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