Composer
Although he died at the age of only 33, this Classical composer wrote over 600 works, many of them considered among the most influential compositions of all time.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
This musical term describes a polyphonic work (often for organ) with multiple voices in "conversation" revolving around a single theme.
What is a fugue?
Music publishers street in Manhattan
What is Tin Pan Alley?
In the early 1940’s jazz music changed from dance music to a more complicated form of music, what was this form of music called?
What is Bebop?
The Baroque artists incorporated what texture in their work ?
What is polyphonic texture?
Romantic composers looked to, and sometimes lived in the shadow of, this German composer's nine symphonies and highly dramatic style.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
A short piece that sets a certain mood or style with specific title.
What is a "character piece"?
New keyboard instrument that plays loud and soft. (full name)
What is the pianoforte?
The musical style refers to the use of foreign land elements.
What is Exoticism?
What is ornaments?
This composer's "Der Ring der Niebelungen" lasts for over sixteen hours.
Who is Richard Wagner?
Franz Schubert wrote many of these works for piano and voice.
What are Lieder?
Name four main Baroque musicians ?
Who are George Friederich Handel Johann Sebastian Bach, Vivaldi, Corelli
What is "Avant-Garde" music?
The musical line that most of the bassists play in a jazz band.
What is Walking Bass?
This "national composer of Italy" wrote many famous operas including "Rigoletto" and "Nabucco."
Who is Giuseppe Verdi?
This baroque form of music that sets a stage play to music quickly became a worldwide phenomenon for the next three hundred years.
What is opera?
Birthplace of jazz
What is New Orleans?
Is one types of rock music. it creates massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion sound.
What is Heavy Metal Music?
The creative activity of immediate music.
What is Improvisation?
Sang "Hotter Than That"
Who is Louis Armstrong?
What is Ragtime?
The name of the first impressionism painting by Monet.
What is "Impression: Sunrise"?
Musical style refers to the use of musical ideas from the composer's own country.
What is Nationalism?
It is refers to overall plan of a piece of music.
What is musical form?