Second Viennese School
This is a musical style that is centered around math and matrices.
What is Serialism?
This is city in which jazz was invented.
What is New Orleans?
What is the 1920s?
This was the name of the center of music publishing in New York City in the early 1900's.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
This iconic composition teacher taught both George Gershwin and Aaron Copland.
Who is Nadia Boulanger?
This musical style depicts the inner evil of mankind.
What is Expressionism?
This area is where blues was born
What is the Mississippi Delta region?
This composer is tied to the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is William Grant Still?
This composer was an icon in the Tin Pan Alley scene by composing pieces like White Christmas and God Bless America.
Who is Irving Berlin?
This is the Shaker tune that is the theme of Section 7 in Appalachian Spring.
What is Simple Gifts?
This composer of the Second Viennese School is the teacher of the other two.
Who is Schoenberg?
This iconic blues singer broke the racial barrier by being an African American that recorded with white performers.
Who is Billie Holiday?
What is television and film?
This is where the folk opera Porgy and Bess is set.
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These are the three styles that Copland worked in during his career.
What are Serialism, neo-Classicism, and American Nationalism?
This is an Expressionist Piece and composer.
What is Pierrot Lunaire by Schoenberg?
These are the three musical styles of the early 20th century that originate in the African American community.
What are ragtime, blues, and jazz?
This is the most important literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Who is Langston Hughes?
This piece and composer exemplify the advancements from Tin Pan Alley.
What is Summertime from Porgy and Bess by Gershwin?
This piece and composer exemplify American Nationalism in music.
What is Appalachian Spring by Copland?
This is a serialist piece and composer.
What is Symphony, Op. 21 by Webern?
This piece and composer exemplify the blues style.
What is Billie's Blues by Billie Holiday?
What is Suite for Violin and Piano by Still?
This piece and composer exemplify the Primitivist style in music.
What is the Rite of Spring by Stravinsky?
This piece and composer exemplifies Symbolism in music.
What is Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun by Debussy?