Introduction
Name one instrument created/used more often in the Modern Period
Theremin, Synthesizer, Electric guitar, Banjo, Saxophone
What is Atonality?
Music that has no key or tone
What was Charles Ives real job?
Insurance Salesman
What is nationalistic music?
Music that includes sections of traditional folk music. Music inspired by traditional folk music.
Music inspired by folk tales or traditional activities of that country.
Where can the origin of Jazz be traced to?
The Slave Trade
What is the word that best describes the modern period?
Experimentation
This technique uses all 12 notes in the chromatic scale and was invented by Arnold Schoenberg. What is it?
12 tone scale
Who was the most famous Ragtime Composer? Bonus 100 points if you can tell me a reason why
Scott Joplin
How many native folk songs did Zoltan Kodaly and Bela Bartok collect?
over 100,000 folk songs
Name one style of music that was the predecessor to Jazz
Plantation Songs, Spirituals, Ragtime, Blues
When did the Modern Period begin?
1900
What event caused music and many other things to be put under government control in Russia?
The Russian Revolution
Why was Duke Ellington's Big Jazz Band the most popular one in the United States?
His band and music was broadcast on live television.
What are two of the countries that popularized this style of music?
Hungary, England, Spain, US
What is the technique in Ragtime called where you emphasize an off beat rhythm?
Synchopation
Which period of music came before the Modern Period that Claude Debussy was considered the transition composer out of?
Romantic Period
Russian Composers were only allowed to write music about what?
Russian fairytales and folk songs
Which composer wrote the "Rite of Spring" Ballet?
Igor Stravinksy
What is one style of music that inspired United States Nationalistic music?
Military Music, hymns, jazz, and European composers
Beginnings of Jazz began in what city?
New Orleans, Louisiana
What is the style of music that borrowed its name from a painting style and that hinted at something without telling or showing you directly what it is?
Impressionism
Which performance group from Russia travelled throughout the world to perform Russian music?
the Ballet Russes
Which composer was a master of mixing orchestral instruments to create different sounds? hint: they are an Impressionist composer
Claude Debussy
What is the name of one of the two US composers who helped shape this genre of music
Charles Ives and Aaron Copland
What is improvisation, which is used by most jazz players
a technique where the player creates something on the spot during the performance.