Renaissance
Rebirth of human creativity
What is the Renaissance?
Person responsible for creating and teaching the dance routines in a musical
Who is the Choreographer?
Handel's most famous oratorio
What is the Messiah?
Imitation of the Beatles in music and dress
What is Beatlemania?
Vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables
What is Scat Singing?
Intellectual movement focusing on human life and its accomplishments
What is Humanism?
Like opera in demand, but musical theater in spectacle about a haunted opera house
What is the Phantom of the Opera?
Drama that is sung to orchestral accompaniment
What is Opera?
A cable television network broadcasting music videos
What is MTV?
A style of jazz having "blue" notes in the scale; vocal blues has a poetic form of a a b
What is the Blues?
Choral music without instrumental accompaniment
What is A Cappella?
Freelance musicians hired to record film soundtracks
Who are Studio Musicians?
Orchestral composition, usually in four movements, lasting between 20-45 minutes, using a wide range of tone color and dynamics
What is a Symphony?
3 day music and arts fair held in August of 1969 having over 300,000 people in attendance
What is Woodstock?
Jazz style in which the instruments improvise melodies at the same time with a rhythm section keeping time and chords
What is New Orleans Style or Dixieland?
Musical representation of specific poetic ideas: examples laughing, sighing, descending, running
What is Word Painting?
(b.1948): Born in England; multi-millionaire musical theater composer who wrote Phantom of the Opera and Cats
Who is Andrew Lloyd Webber?
(1756 - 1791) : Born in Austria and was a child prodigy. By the age of 6 was playing the violin and at age 8 wrote his first symphony.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
(b. 1958 - 2009): Known as the "King of Pop", was in the Jackson 5 at age 4; mimicking James Brown
Who is Michael Jackson?
Creation of music at the same time it is performed
What is Improvisation?
Invention of printing with movable type ; education becomes more important due to print. Previously, books had been rare due to hand copies until 1450.
What is the Printing Press?
(b.1932): an American composer, conductor and pianist who is considered one of the greatest film score composers in history
Who is John Williams?
(1770 - 1827) : Born in Germany and from a family of musicians. Desired perfection in all his works and was crushed to grow deaf later in his life. His music was very passionate.
Who is Ludwig Van Beethoven?
(1935 - 1977): known as the King of Rock and Roll; also starred in 33 films
Who is Elvis Presley?
(1901-1971) Satchmo: Trumpet and cornet player who was born in New Orleans and learned the cornet in reform school; he played higher than anyone had before and introduced scat singing
Who is Louis Armstrong?