Keep it Classy
What are two descriptive words of the music of the classical era?
Elegant, Sophisticated, balanced, light, structure, clarity, etc.
What is chromaticism?
Diatonic music uses 7 notes - the major scale. Chromatic music uses the extra notes inbetween them.
Late Romantic Composers spill into the 1900s. Who were some late-romantic era composers? (get more of them than the other team for the points)
Mahler, Humperdink, Richard Strauss, Puccini, Respighi, Debussy, Fuare, Ravel, Dukas, Satie, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Scriabin, Beach, Ives
Who was known as the father of the symphony as well as the father of the string quartet?
Haydn
Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Respeghi, Paganini are all from which country?
Italy
Who are the three main composers of the Classical Era?
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, (Schubert)
What is nationalism?
Writing music of and/or for a specific country or area. Often taken from folk tunes in an area.
What are some ways that tonality was pushed to its limits in the 20th Century
12 Tone Serialism, Atonality, microtonality, experimentalism
Who's music was known for being perfect in form and balance, as well as perfect in melody?
Mozart
Edward Elgar, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams are all composers from which country?
Great Britain (England)
What is the word that describes the texture of most classical era music, meaning: one main sound with supporting sounds underneath?
Homophonic
What is program music?
Music that describes a scene or tells a story.
How did electronics influence music in the 20th century?
Invention of Microphone, Recordings, computer sounds (musique concrete), experimentalism; popularized non-"classical" types of music including ragtime, folk, country, blues, jazz, rock and roll, pop, and eventually hip hop.
Who are the two composers that bridged the gap between Classical and Romantic Eras?
Beethoven and Schubert
Dvorak and Smetana are from which country?
Czech Republic
Describe terraced dynamics?
Switching from one dynamic level to another immediately, without growing or fading away.
What is a virtuoso and who in the Romantic era is an example of one?
Someone who is ridiculously good at their instrument, sometimes seeming other-worldy good. Paganini was crazy good at violin.
Name and describe the point of a work of Experimental music.
<various responses possible>
4'33'' John Cage - "anything" can be music
Birds on a Wire - Paulo Pinto - took a picture of birds on telephone wires and made it into music
As Long As Possible; "In C"; many other possibilities
Who are the three main composers responsible for both 12 Tone Serialism and Atonality?
Name two composers from Hungary
Liszt, Grieg
What are four popular styles of genres of music from the classical era?
Symphony, String Quartet, Sonata, Concerto
Name three or more things that were expanded in the Romantic Era
Dynamic Range, Tonal Range, Orchestra Size, number of different instruments, length of pieces of music, etc.
What are the 8 styles of music in the 20th century?
Impressionism, Neoclassical, expressionism, 12 tone, atonal, experimental, folk/ethnic, minimalism
Correctly name and spell the composer of the following Ballets:
Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty
Tchaikovsky (most commonly spelled as this)
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Worth 1000 Points!
Name all 5 of the "The 5"
Mily Balakirev (the leader), César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin.