Musical Terms
Accelerando
getting faster
Name a Romantic composer
Liszt, Chopin, Mendelssohn
What song was among Duke Ellington's most popular works?
Take the A Train
Who composed during the Romantic period?
Chopin, Mendelssohn
Cantabile
Singing style
Who wrote the revolutionary etude
Chopin
Which piece was inspired by the November Uprising?
The Revolutionary etude
Who was born first, Mendelssohn or Chopin?
Mendelssohn
Rubato
pushing and pulling tempo
Who was inspired by Shakespeare and wrote program music about it
Mendelssohn
Which piece was inspired by Shakespeare's plays?
A Midsummer Night's Dream
When did LeCaine begin experimenting with electronic music?
the 1940s/around WW2
Sonata Form
Exposition, Development, Recapitulation
Who created the Petrushka chord
Stravinsky
What piece did Lecaine use musique concrete to compose?
Dripsody
Which composer lived the longest?
Stravinsky
program music
music inspired by literature, art, scenery
Who is one of the most important jazz pianists of the 20th century
Duke Ellington
What ballet did Stravinsky write based on a puppet?
Petrushka
State the dates for all five composers.
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Duke Ellington (1899-1974)
Hugh LeCaine (1914-1977)