Russian Ballets
Bromantic Period
Party like it's 1929
"It don't mean a thing..."
20th Century Fox
100
Firebird is a story about Prince Ivan finding an ogre whose soul was kept in this magical object
What is an egg?
100
Wagner and Brahms both call this country their home.
What is Germany?
100
Economic fallout of the 1930s
What is the Great Depression?
100
This style of jazz was a source of optimism in response to the Great Depression.
What is swing?
100
This style of atonal music uses every note in a chromatic scale.
What is 12 tone music?
200
This composer experienced a riot during the premiere of his Rite of Spring
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
200
This composer featured "Ode to Joy" in his final symphony.
Who is Beethoven?
200
The blues came from the pain and injustice of this 19th century practice
What is slavery?
200
This city was the birthplace of jazz.
What is New Orleans?
200
This American composer was the author of "Fanfare for the Common Man"
Who is Aaron Copland?
300
This Tchaikovsky ballet is also the title of a Disney movie.
What is Sleeping Beauty?
300
This composer was considered to be a perfectionist.
Who is Brahms?
300
In contemporary music, composers began experimenting with this, which did not exist in the Romantic era
What is electronic sound?
300
Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and this big band leader were all prominent in the swing era of jazz.
Who is Duke Ellington?
300
Atonal music is described as music without this.
What is a tonal center?
400
This Tchaikovsky ballet features "Waltz of the Flowers" and "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"
What is the Nutcracker?
400
Wagner created gesamtkunstwerk and this, which is giving a character a melodic theme.
What is a leitmotif?
400
This composer best represents the Impressionism style of music.
Who is Claude Debussy?
400
This style of jazz, developed in the 1940s, was jazz for intellectuals. It involved more complex harmonies and faster tempos.
What is bebop?
400
Impressionism is named after the title of a painting by this artist.
Who is Monet?
500
The "Infernal Dance" refers to the enchantment of monsters by what fictional being?
What is the Firebird?
500
Romantic composers often composed overtures, operas, song cycles, and what other form discussed in class?
What is a tone poem?
500
This famous blues guitarist still performs today at the age of 88.
Who is B.B. King?
500
Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich were musicians that helped bring this new instrument to the forefront of the big band era.
What is the drumset?
500
Stravinsky and Copland were composers of this style of 20th century music, which held ideals of form and order.
What is Neo-Classicism?
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