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 players improvised
What is the break?
What is absolute music?
This type of musical style may involve folk music or historical themes of a given country/region
What is musical nationalism?
The genre of Vincenzo Bellin's Norma
What is Bel Canto opera?
He wrote music in which several melodies in different keys sound at once.
Who was Charles Ives?
This genre consists of a twelve-bar form with an A-A-B scheme per verse.
What is the blues?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 3
Name the texture, composer, title, style period, and genre.
Monophonic; Hildegard of Bingen; "Kyrie eleison"; medieval; chant
Wagner used this compositional technique throughout his operas.
What is a Leitmotiv?
Unexpectedly for this genre, this work focused on racial prejudice.
What is South Pacific?
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
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?
It was one of the first established bands that John Philip Sousa worked with.
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 his hometown into various movements of Carnaval using these letters as notes.
What are the letters ASCH?
The musical figure is a rapid alternation of triple and duple meter.
What is hemiola?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE
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)?
Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Who were composer-lyricist teams writing Broadway musicals?