First Half of Jazz
What is the first period of jazz.
Dixieland
Why did the BeBop Era start?
There were a great deal of musicians that felt they were playing at a much higher level. This made them decide to make the music harder to weed out all of the mediocre people.
This composer was seen as the "Modern Beethoven"
Gustav Mahler
Who was the first real popular american composer from the modern period?
Aaron Copland
Name all the jazz periods in order.
Dixieland
Big Band
Be Bop
Cool Jazz
Where in the world do the roots of jazz come from?
Africa
Name me two famous musicians from the big band era.
Gustav Holst wrote a long powerful symphony with different movements representing different.....
Planets
What was Schoenberg's whole goal when writing music?
To break the traditional mold
What kind of works was Igor Stravinsky known for making?
Ballet's
Where was Jazz officially started in the United States?
New Orleans
What did Miles Davis do?
He started the cool jazz period.
There were two instruments family's that became much more used in orchestra's during this time. Name me one of them.
Brass and Percussion
What new kind of new compositional technique did Schoenberg create?
Serialism
During the modern period many new styles of music branched out. Give me two examples.
Jazz, Modernism, Primitivism, Impressionism, ect.
This famous jazz musician paved the way for dixie land and ended up becoming still popular to this day?
Louis Armstrong
Give me two jazz musicians from the bebop period.
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, etc.
Gustav Holst was also know for writing for other ensemble's. Name me one....
Military Band, British Brass Band's, etc.
This ballet by Igor Stravinsky caused a great deal of riots. What was this ballet and why did it cause riots?
The Rite of Spring. It caused riots due to how strange and off putting it was.
This style of music was invented when modern musicians wanted to mix classical music with this more modern sound...
Neo Classical
When did Jazz start to become main stream?
The big band era
What was the goal of cool jazz?
To make the music sound as good as possible while making it much simpler.
Wagner was a very famous composer that wrote many famous works like Tristan and Isolde and Flight of the Valkyrie. What was the main type of group he wrote for?
Music that is created through use of numbers and sequences
This famous composer mixed classical music with jazz...
George Gershwin