Music composed with a preconceived narrative to evoke a specific idea and atmosphere.
What is program music?
100
Italian Opera composer known for composing "William Tell" and "The Barber of Seville".
Who is Giochino Rossini?
100
This Romantic era composer wrote 9 symphonies and lost his hearing, but did not stop him from composing music.
Who is Beethoven?
100
A new kind of opera designed to appeal to the new well-to-do middle-class audiences looking for excitement and entertainment in France.
What is Grand opera?
100
Inventor of the first tinfoil cylinder phonograph
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
Debussy was called this by analogy to painters.
What is impressionistic?
200
The composer of the 2001 Space Odyssey Theme or "Also Sprach Zarathustra"
Who is Richard Strauss?
200
Polish composer most famous for composing nocturnes for piano.
who is Chopin?
200
Mid-19th Century successful traveling shows that had white performers that blackened their faces to impersonate African Americans in jokes, skits, songs, and dances.
What are minstrel shows?
200
The First "Talking Film" in 1927.
What is the Jazz Singer?
300
little themes and motives that are each associated with a particular character, thing, event, or emoition.
What is Leitmotif?
300
"O Fortuna" is a popular song from what large work for orchestra and chorus?
What is Carmina Burana?
300
German piano virtuoso credited with inventing the symphonic poem.
Who is Franz Liszt?
300
This genre stems from rural work songs and other African American Traditions. Lyrics typically speak of disappointments, mistreatment, or other troubles.
What is Blues?
300
a genre of musical theatre popular in France and in German speaking areas since the 1770s where spoken dialogue with background music was combined.
What is melodrama?
400
During this musical era of the 19th Century composers were promoting individuality, originality, fantasy, and expression of emotion.
What is Romantic era?
400
Beethoven's Third Symphony was originally dedicated to Napolean Bonaparte. What is this symphony named?
What is Eroica?
400
This clarinetist and band leader hosted the radio show Camel Caravan.
Who is Benny Goodman?
400
German Romantic poems set to music.
What is lieder?
400
One of "The Five" that wrote Night on Bald Mountain and Pictures at Exhibition.
Who is Modest Mussorgsky?
500
Music that is heard or performed by characters in a movie.
What is source music?
500
Berlioz's March to the Scaffold appears in this major work that showcases program music with a main character being guillotined.
What is Symphonie Fantastique?
500
He composed the famous ballets Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty.
Who is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky?
500
Most Popular music form from 1930s to 1940s. Music of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Benny Goodman.