French Modernism
Movement Debussy is associated with (though he preferred Symbolism).
Impressionism
The leading composer of American Ragtime.
Scott Joplin
Inventor of the first playable sound recording.
Thomas Edison
Successful Norwegian composer at the end of the 19th century.
Edvard Grieg
The influential modernist group of French poets.
The Symbolists
The primary rhythmic trait of Ragtime music.
Syncopation
The medium the phonograph originally played on.
Wax Cylinders
Sibelius's technique of gradually growing a musical idea from fragments.
Teleological Genesis
The composer who poked fun at Beethoven in Embryons desséchés.
Erik Satie
The most popular 19th-century theatrical entertainment in the US.
Minstrelsy (Minstrel Shows)
Emile Berliner’s major contribution to recording technology.
The Flat Disc (Gramophone)
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s primary musical influence.
English Folk Song
Maurice Ravel's primary interest that differed from Debussy.
Classicism and Traditional Forms
The US city known as the "Cradle of Jazz."
New Orleans
The 1920s invention that allowed for "crooning" and higher fidelity.
The Electric Microphone
The Futurist who wrote the manifesto The Art of Noises.
Luigi Russolo
The specific formal structure of Debussy's Nuages.
Rotational Form (or ABA')
The formal structure used for the Maple Leaf Rag.
Multisectional March Form
Digital technology invented in the 1980s that changed music delivery.
The Compact Disc (CD)
Alexander Scriabin's belief about the true purpose of music.
A Mystical or Transcendental vehicle