COMPOSERS
This composer of Rhapsody in Blue sometimes collaborated with lyricist brother Ira Gershwin
Who was George Gershwin
Stravinsky's ballet about a prehistoric human sacrifice
What is The Rite of Spring
A collection of songs by a composer with words by the same poet
What is a song cycle
An early 20th century artistic "-ism" which emphasized heightened or distorted emotional conditions
What is expressionism
Music with no tonal center or key relationship
What is atonal music
He wrote film music including Jaws, Star Wars and Schindler's List
Who was John Williams
Alban Berg wrote this expressionistic opera about an abused soldier and his murder of his girlfriend
What is Wozzeck
Music and dance are the primary art forms making up this staged multi-media genre
What is ballet
This approach to art and music was influenced by the cultures of faraway, "primitive" cultures
What is primitivism
Not speech, not singing, but something in between
What is Sprechstimme
He wrote for film, concert hall and stage including West Side Story
Who was Leonard Bernstein
Charles Ives through every American musical style into this kitchen sink of a composition
What is Country Band March
African-American songs of sadness and troubles
What is blues
Music which uses minimal initial material but generates complex effects or changes over time
What is minimalism
Stravinsky uses these clashing rhythmic patterns in The Rite of Spring
What are polyrhythms
He wrote atonal music including a song cycle about a "moonstruck clown"
Who was Arnold Schoenberg
This work features live electric guitar in counterpoint with 12 pre-recorded electric guitar tracks
What is Electric Counterpoint
A multi-media genre featuring songs, spoken dialog and popular music
What is American musical theater
Patriotic music
What is musical nationalism
John Cage got this "ready" before playing Sonatas and Interludes
What is the prepared piano
A composer arranger in Duke Ellington's band, this person wrote Ellington's signature tune
Who was Billy Strayhorn
This collection of short piano pieces is essentially a keyboard-controlled Javanese gamelan percussion ensemble
What is Sonatas and Interludes
More of a way of playing than what is played, this genre is America's only real indigenous music
What is jazz
"Method of composition in which various musical elements may be ordered in a fixed series"
What is serialism
French electronic music style that records natural sounds on magnetic tape then manipulates the tape to create sound/noise collages
What is musique concrete