GOD BLESS AMERICA
This composer had various jobs other than composing including being a tanner.
Who is William Billings?
The passage between the lines of blues lyrics in which instrumentalists improvised.
What is the break?
A type of music which can stand on its own and does not need to tell a story. Brahms composed this type of music.
What is absolute music?
A ninteenth-century musical trend that may involve folk music or celebrated musical genres of a given country.
What is musical nationalism?
This term refers to an Italian vocal style present in nineteenth-century opera, in which the voice predominates and the vocal line is frequently ornamented. It is exemplified in Vincenzo Bellini's Norma. The term means "beautiful singing."
What is bel canto?
He wrote music in which several melodies in different keys sound at once.
Who was Charles Ives?
It unfolds in a twelve-bar form with an A-A-B scheme per verse.
What is twelve-bar blues?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 3
Name the texture, composer, title, style period, and genre.
Monophonic; Hildegard of Bingen; "Kyrie eleison"; medieval; Mass Ordinary
Wagner used this compositional technique throughout his operas.
What is a Leitmotiv?
This composition was first premiered on Broadway before it was performed at an opera house
What is Porgy and Bess?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 1
Name the whole work, section heard in this excerpt, composer, and style period.
Answer: No need to be in the form of a question
Variations on a Theme by Haydn; Theme; Brahms; Romantic period
The piece by William Grant Still that combines, among other things, sonata form and the blues scale.
What is the Afro-American Symphony?
This significant musical event happened on 29 May, 1913.
What is The Rite of Spring premiere?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 4
Name the composer, full title of work with key, and style period
Answer: No need to be in the form of a question
Mozart; Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550; Classical
He took a play by Shakespeare as an inspiration for a Broadway musical.
Who was Leonard Bernstein?
(West Side Story)
This was one of the first established bands with whom John Philip Sousa worked.
What was the Marine Band?
This composer’s publisher paid him a penny for each copy sold of a piece that sold in the millions, making him a tidy sum.
Who was Scott Joplin?
Robert Schumann embedded this into various movements of his Carnaval.
What are the letters ASCH?
A musical figure that consists of a duple followed by triple pattern in the same phrase of music.
What is hemiola?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 5
Name the title of the work, the composer (first and last names), their nationality, and musical technique used in this piece.
Putnam's Camp; Charles Ives; US American; collage
A form of musical notation common in rural areas of the USA in which the notes may appear as ovals, triangles, squares,...etc.
What is the shape-note notation?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 2
Name the composer, title of work, and style period
Answer: No need to be in the form of a question
Arnold Schoenberg, Mondestrunken (Moondrunk), from Pierrot Lunaire, modernism
Interested in many styles, this French composer was especially drawn to the sound of the Javanese gamelan.
Who was Claude Debussy?
When it came to Russian nationalism in the nineteenth century, this group packed a punch.
What is the Mighty Handful (or the Mighty Five)?
Unexpectedly for this genre, this work focused on racial prejudice.
What is South Pacific?