Maurice Ravel and Violin Sonata “Blues”
What year was Violin Sonata?
1927
What year was Sicilienne?
1928
What year was Whiteman's concert?
1924
What is Violin Sonata?
Chamber work
What is the MacDowell Colony? Where is it located?
A summer retreat for artists to devote themselves without interruption to their creative projects, Peterborough, New Hampshire
What society helped promote the music of "Les six"?
Independent Musical Society
What meter is Sicilienne?
Compound duple
What did Paul Whiteman want?
Make art music easy for popular fans
Some of the earliest chamber or solo works to feature aspects of the new American style also were written by what composers?
French
Who owned property on lake Placid?
Copland’s former piano teacher, Clarence Adler
During his American tour in ____, Maurice Ravel met Paul Whiteman and heard his jazz orchestra play
1928
What is the form of Sicilienne?
Ternary
What is Rhapsody in Blue called?
Piano concerto
Milhaud's female colleague ______________ also incorporated aspects of the imported style into her Sicilienne (1928) for ________.
Germaine Tailleferre, piano
"The Clouds" is a shack built especially for Copland by who?
Adler
What are the instruments incompatible in "Violin Sonata"?
Violin and piano
What key is "Sicilienne" in?
F major
What is the glissando nickname?
Icebreaker
What instruments are in the violin sonata movement? What layering? What harmonies?
violin and piano, three-part, jazz chords
After how many years did Olin Downes attitude towards "Music for the Theatre" change?
7 years
What key is violin pizzicato? What layering is used? What is the key of piano?
G major, three-part, Ab major
What notes in measure 2 are blue? What chord ends the A section? What is in the B section climax?
Db and Eb, E major over Bb major, triplet sixteenth notes
What is Whiteman’s concert called? What did it do for jazz? What instrument in glissando? Who added it? What is it in?
Experiment in Modern Music, legitimize jazz, clarinet, Ross Gorman, two and a half octaves
Ravel’s interest in what music made him sympathetic to the views of what group?
Foreign music, les six
Who wrote, "Music for the Theatre is a sort of super jazz. . . . The conductor exploded a tonal bombshell that left in its wake a mingling of surprise, perplexity, indignation, and enthusiasm."?
Warren Stoney Smith