Chapter 1
This musician is the contemporary trumpeter from a musical family.
Who is Wynton Marsalis?
The rebirth and revitalization of human creativity.
What is the Renaissance?
A pictorial or descriptive orchestral work in several movements.
What is a program symphony?
A style of music that stresses the element of repetition with changes dictated by a rule or a system.
What is minimalism?
The term used for the combination of jazz and rock.
What is fusion?
The basic rhythmic pattern that provides the foundation for the complex rhythms played on multiple drums.
What is clave?
The term for the method of assigning a syllabic name to each tone of the scale
What is solmization?
A composition for solo piano and voice.
What is art song?
A musical style that combines tonal melody with exotic textures and timbres.
What is New Romanticism?
The special rhythmic character that jazz musicians add to the music.
What is swing?
Johann Sebastian Bach was famous for playing, improvising, and composing on this instrument.
What is the pipe organ?
These are polyphonic choral compositions based on sacred texts.
What are motets?
A short concluding section of a piece of music that essentially ties together the main thematic threads.
What is a coda?
Discord in music, suggesting a state of tension.
What is dissonance?
A measure or two where everyone stops playing except the soloist.
What is a break?
This musician is credited with composing "Canon in D"
Who is Johann Pachelbel?
Music with no strict meter or accompaniment, sung by a single voice or unison choir.
What is plainsong?
A work in several movements for one or more instruments.
What is a sonata?
Music in which composes deliberately leave parts of the composition and performance undetermined.
What is aleatory music?
A musical scale consisting entirely of half steps.
What is a chromatic scale?
This man was the head of a twentieth century musical dynasty.
Who is Ellis Marsalis?
A compositional method in which two voice parts sing the same melody, one a perfect fourth or fifth higher than the other.
What is parallel organum?
A composition consisting of a recurring theme alternating with contrasting sections.
What is a rondo?
A series of notes comprising the 12 tones in the chromatic scale.
What is a tone row?
The King of Swing.
Who is Benny Goodman?