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French music focused on impressions, daydreams, and reveries.
What is Impressionism?
Home of Impressionism, Berlioz, and many of Gluck's opera output.
What is France?
This German Rmantic composer wrote operas like his "Ring" cycle with large orchestras, loud singers, and elaborate theatrical machinery.
Who was Richard Wagner?
Dmitri Shotokovich wrote an opera about this body part.
What is the Nose?
Made Ragtime popular.
Who was Scott Joplin?
Writing music that represents one's national style.
What is nationalism?
City of Mozart, the Sound of Music, and the Salzburg festival.
What is Salzburg?
French Impressionist composer of "Claire de Lune."
Who was Claude Debussey?
Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" features armored screaming sopranos riding these creatures.
What are flying horses?
King of Pop.
Who was Michael Jackson?
German music focused on expressions of pain, anger, torment, and angst.
What is Expressionism?
Country of Bach, Wagner, and Expressionism.
What is Germany?
Russian composer of "Rite of Spring," "The Firebird," and other 20th century neo-Classic works.
Who was igor Stravinsky?
Igor Stravinsky collaborated with this Hollywood animator for the 1940 feature "Fantasia."
Who is Walt Disney?
Best film composer of the last 50 years, who wrote, Jaws, Harrry Potter, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Home Alone.
Who is John Williams?
Emotional style that was a reaction to the balance of Classicism.
What is Romanticism?
Country of opera's origins, Verdi, Vivaldi, and Gabrieli.
What was Venice?
German composer of nine famous symphonies and many other works who went deaf and couldn't hear his own compositions.
Who was Ludwig von Beethoven?
This ballet score by impressionist Maurice Ravel features the same melody played in the same key for almost all of the piece's 14 minute duration.
What was Bolero?
Edward Grieg hailed from this Scandinavian country.
What is Norway?
Composing technique involving heavy use of chromatic notes.
What is Chromaticism?
Scott Joplin lived and wrote ragtime music in this country.
What is the United States?
This French composer favored oversized orchestras; din class we listened to one with four timpanists, several brass bands, and a chorus of 350.
Who was Hector Berlioz?
Sachertorte comes from this Austrian city (also famed for sausages) where Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart (born elsewhere) made music.
What is Vienna?
This German invented the 12 tone system for insuring that no one note was more important than another. His papers are at UCLA, who also named their music building for him.
Who was Arnold Schonberg?