improvised strophic folk song containing a succession of 3 line stanzas, each sung to a twelve-measure phrase and using a standard harmonic progression
What is blues?
100
most popular professional blues singer of her time
Who is Bessie Smith?
100
uses five notes
What is pentatonic
100
Composer who never left his home country
Who is Shostakovich?
100
dissonant chord made sounding all the tones in a specific boundary interval
What is tone cluster
200
metric irregularity by displacing beats
What is syncopation?
200
Known for composing rags
Who is Joplin?
200
division of a line into two parts so that the ratio of lengths of teh smaller to larger equals the larger to the whole
What is Golden Section
200
emphasis on strict formal principles or patterns in music
What is formalism?
200
Seeger coined this term; the rules of counterpoint are reversed
What is dissonant counterpoint?
300
American popular music with a syncopated melody accompanied by rhythmically regular accompaniment
What is ragtime?
300
first important scat singer
Who is Louis Armstrong?
300
commissioned the Concerto for Orchestra
Who is Koussevitsky?
300
Prokofiev's main instrument
What is piano?
300
Created pieces specific to the player piano. Used complex polyrhythms not possible for humans
Who is Nancarrow?
400
American religious song
What is spiritual?
400
number of phrases in a typical blues
What is 3
400
"soloist" of the Concerto for Orchestra
What is the orchestra itself
400
Number of symphonies Shosty wrote
What is 15
400
Married to other famous composer. Together they taught the ideas of dissonant counterpoint
Who is Ruth C. Seeger?
500
style of ragtime piano playing in which the pianists left hand moves from low to mid range in the chordal structure
What is stride or stride piano?
500
name the melody and rhythmic instruments in a New Orleans style Jazz band