Postmodernism & Technology
This musical approach mixes past and present styles freely.
→ What is postmodernism?
This composer wrote Rhapsody in Blue.
→ Who is George Gershwin?
This composer collected thousands of Hungarian folk songs for research.
→ Who is Béla Bartók?
This composer wrote Wozzeck.
→ Who is Alban Berg?
This piano style used syncopation and preceded jazz.
→ What is ragtime?
This invention turns electricity into sound and became central to modern music.
→ What is the synthesizer?
This composer used musical collage and experimental layering of tunes.
→ Who is Charles Ives?
This movement revived balance, clarity, and Classical-era forms.
→ What is Neo-Classicism?
This composer wrote Psalm 24 and died at a young age.
→ Who is Lili Boulanger?
This “King of Ragtime” wrote Maple Leaf Rag.
→ Who is Scott Joplin?
This early electronic music style originated in Paris using recorded sounds.
→ What is musique concrète?
This composer developed the “American sound” with open harmonies.
→ Who is Aaron Copland?
This Brazilian composer blended Bach with local musical traditions.
→ Who is Villa-Lobos?
This musical style emphasizes emotional intensity and dissonance.
→ What is Expressionism?
This jazz musician helped develop bebop.
→ Who is Charlie Parker?
Postmodernism blurred the line between these two categories of music.
→ What are high art and popular music?
This famous piece features a clarinet glissando at the opening.
→ What is Rhapsody in Blue?
This Mexican composer incorporated folk and protest elements in his music.
→ Who is Silvestre Revueltas?
This musical system organizes pitches without traditional tonality.
→ What is atonality (or twelve-tone technique)?
This singer was known for expressive jazz and blues phrasing.
→ Who is Billie Holiday?
These components of a synthesizer shape and control sound after it is generated.
→ What are filters or LFOs?
This ballet includes variations on the Shaker tune “Simple Gifts.”
→ What is Appalachian Spring?
This field studies and documents musical traditions across cultures.
→ What is ethnomusicology?
This school included Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern.
→ What is the Second Viennese School?
This symphony blends classical form with blues elements.
→ What is the Afro-American Symphony?