Music Theory
Sound organized in music
What is music?
Hoedown was used in an advertisement for this meat industry council
What is beef?
Hebrew prayer sung during the "grandiose moment"
What is Shema Yisroel?
Plantation-owning Frenchman from South pacific
Who is Emile?
War Requiem interwove 9 poems by this author
Who is Wilfred Owens?
Sachs and Hornboste classification for an instrument that has a body that vibrates when struck
What is an idiophone?
Man who commissioned both Symphony 1933 and Symphony No, 5 from Roy Harris
Who is Serge Koussevitzky?
Innovative and revolutionary change to centuries of music-making by Arnold Schoenberg
What is 12-tone serialism?
Rodgers and Hammerstein's 3rd play that flopped
What is Allegro?
Two things that Benjamin Britten focused on while writing War Requiem
What are end the cruelty of war and move towards reconciliation?
Lowest note of a triad
What is the root?
Form present in Symphony No. 5
What is Binary (AB)?
Type of singing used by the narrator in which words are half-spoken half-sung
What is sprechstimme?
Alternating tonic and dominant chords creating a duple meter effect on a piece that is triple meter
What is hemiola?
Three original soloists in War requiem? (some bonus point for nationalities/voice type)
Who are Peter Pears (English Tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (german Baritone) and Galina Vishnevskaya (Russian soprano)?
Two separate and different melodies which are in different registers but have the same progression
What is counterpoint?
The four folk songs were definitely used as material for "Hoedown" by Aaron Copland? (Bonus 50 for one that was maybe used)
What are Bonyparte, MIss Mcleods Reel, Gilderoy, and Tip-toe Betty Martin (Bonus: Arkansas traveler)?
City in which Survivor from Warsaw premiered
What is Albuquerque New Mexico?
4 reasons why Oklahoma! was unpromising
What are: Hammerstein wasn't previously successful, the budget was small, the choreographer was new to Broadway, the play used as a basis was unsuccessful?
When the male voices in War Requiem perform the same syllables at the same time but sing different pitches with but their rhythmic values are identical
What is Homorhythm?
This twelve-measure chord progression is repeated, with variations in the melodic material, for several minutes or more.
What is 12-bar Blues?
What are the 5 parts of hoedown? (Bonus 50 points if in order)
1. Buckaroo holiday 2. Corral Nocturne 3. Ranch house party 4. Saturday night 5. Hoedown
The day Survivor from Warsaw premiered
What is November 4, 1948?
A second naval veteran who Hammertsien worked with to blend the characters from several of the stories into a cohesive plot for the stage musical
Who is Joshua Logan?
The five subparts of "Libera Me"
What are a. Libera me” b. “Strange Meeting” c. “In paradisum” d. “Requiem aeternam” e. “Requiescant in pace”