Vocabulary
Cadenza-like improvisations by a jazz instrumentalist or singer that were inserted between ensemble passages.
What is a break?
The great jazz trumpet player credited with being the creator of swing
Who is Louis Armstrong?
Instrumental music that tries to convey a specific idea without using lyrics/
What is program music?
In the Renaissance, the rise of humanism and a decline in the power of the church led composers to write this type of music.
What is secular music?
This piece is Antonio Vivaldi's most famous and beloved composition.
What is The Four Seasons?
A scale with the pattern of whole step, half, whole, whole, whole, half, whole.
What is the Dorian mode?
The first great jazz composer. He played the piano and lived in New Orleans.
Who is "Jelly Roll" Morton?
A very popular musical style in the 1960s and 1970s.
What is rock music?
The tune "When the Saints Go Marching In" is a classic of this kind of jazz.
What is Dixieland?
This is the instrument that defined the swing era.
What is the saxophone?
Tonal melodies combined with exotic textures or timbres to make this music.
What is New Romanticism?
The composer of Orfeo, one of the earliest operas.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
B.B. King is a star performer of this style of music.
What is the rhythm and blues?
A large orchestral work which contrasts the tutti, or full orchestra sections, and the concertino sections for a soloist or small group of soloists.
What is a concerto grosso?
American composer David del Tredici was inspires for more than a decade by this literary work.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
A contemporary type of meditative, mostly instrumental music.
What is New Age?
The first big rock and roll hit titled "Rock Around the Clock" was made by this band in 1955.
Who is Bill Haley and the Comets?
What is rap?
This style was exuberant and emotional, with heavy ornamentation, exaggerated emotion, and vivid movement.
What is Baroque?
A Baroque accompaniment consisting of a harp sounding the chords and a viola da gamba reinforcing the bass line/
What is a continuo?
Development of a culture that is the result of the crowding and intensity of a city lifestyle.
What is urbanization?
The Baroque composer that created names for basic harmonies.
Who is Jean-Philippe Rameau?
The pedal steel, or Hawaiian, guitar is characteristic of this style of music.
What is country and western?
The symphony came of age as a major instrumental form in this period.
When music portrays the literal meaning of the text, the composer is using this technique.
What is word painting?