What That Word Mean?
(Vocabulary)
(Vocabulary)
I Know That Person!
(Famous People)
(Famous People)
Sounds Familiar...
(Piece Identification)
(Piece Identification)
That's Weird...right?
(Odd Facts & Tidbits)
(Odd Facts & Tidbits)
Well, Wudaya Know...
(Miscellaneous)
(Miscellaneous)
100
Type of music that typically has a male singer improvising while playing a guitar, harmonica, or accordion.
What are country blues?
100
Partner to Richard Rodgers, who helped to produce some of the most famous musicals still known today (such as The Sound of Music).
Who is Oscar Hammerstein II?
100
The song The Jazz Singer's alternate name.
What is Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo'bye)? (1923/1927)
100
The name of the second of the four wives of Louis Armstrong.
Who is Lillian (Lil) Hardin?
100
Music label that Bessie Smith recorded with, and her recordings saved the company.
Who is Columbia?
200
This term refers to "collective improvisation."
What is heterophony?
200
French female composer who beat all the boys at the Paris Conservatory and took all the prizes in their classes. (what's this about women not being able to compose? what? thought so.)
Who is Germaine Tailleferre?
200
Originally written as a two-piano work, it was then orchestrated (rewritten for orchestra), and now exists as a piano concerto.
What is Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin? (1924/1942)
200
The type of clothing item that Maurice Ravel had 50 of to travel to America.
What are (pastel) shirts?
200
The country that Darius Milhaud went to and wrote war propaganda there during World War I.
What is Brazil?
300
A popular social dance of the early twentieth century that is performed to music in common time or duple meter. (Hint - Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo'bye) is an example)
What is the foxtrot?
300
Soviet composer who made an orchestral version of Tea for Two in 40 minutes on a bet, also resembles Harry Potter.
Who is Dmitri Shostakovich?
300
A jazz ballet, composed in 1923, by a French composer with six scenarios (overture + 5 tableaux).
What is La creation du monde by Darius Milhaud?
300
Swash-buckling American silent movie star that met with Maurice Ravel in 1928.
Who is Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.?
300
The most famous musical-comedy of the 1920s, produced on Broadway in 1925.
What is No, No, Nanette?
400
The music publishing district centered around 28th Street in New York City at the start of the twentieth century.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
400
This famous band leader began studying piano because he was hit by a baseball bat as a child and his mother wanted him doing something more "safe."
Who is Duke Ellington?
400
A gentle, graceful dance and musical form, often in a pastoral or melancholy mood; this work was composed by a female composer.
What is Sicilliene by Germaine Tailleferre? (1928)
400
The name of the Major League Baseball team also owned by the producer of No, No, Nanette.
BONUS: What is the name of the producer?
Who are the Boston Red Sox?
BONUS ANSWER: Harry Frazee
400
Aaron Copland spent the summer of 1925 at this location working on his Music for the Theatre.
What is the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire?
500
A loud, energetic final chorus, often in heterophonic texture, used as the finale of a jazz piece.
What is a sock-chorus (or out-chorus)?
500
These two members of The Hot Five played banjo and clarinet, and they shared a first name as well.
Who are Johnny St. Cyr (banjo) and Johnny Dodds (clarinet)?
500
Portions of this piece have been used since 1952 for the Harlem Globetrotters' (basketball) theme song.
What is Sweet Georgia Brown? (1925)
500
The "love" theme from Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is famously used as the theme for many commercials since the late 1980s for this airline.
500
It was called "the icebreaker" and this instrument plays it at the opening of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
What is the clarinet?