Name the Composer1
This composer wrote "Prelude a L'Apres-midi d'un faune" and "Images"
Who is Claude Debussy
This Spanish composer wrote the ballet "El Amo brujo" (Love, the Sorcerer).
Who is Manuel de Falla?
This composer developed a method of providing unity and variety in works by transforming the thematic material to reflect the diverse moods needed to portray a programmatic subject. Name the composer and the method.
Who is Franz Liszt? and What is thematic transformation?
This composer wrote 13 symphonic poems, was a famous virtuoso pianist, and in his mid-fifties became a Catholic clergyman
Who is Franz Liszt
These five composers are part of the Mighty Handful.
Who are Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Musorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov?
Composer of Treemonisha
Who is Scott Joplin
This famous composer wrote the opera "Pelleas et Melisande"
Who is Claude Debussy?
The term for the style represented by Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin.
What is neoclassicism?
This composer, like many, studied music at an early age. He also traveled to Russia, which had a significant influence on him. He became friends with symbolist poets and artists. He went to Bayreuth and hear Wagner's operas. His primary occupation was being a composer.
Who is Debussy?
This movement's primary literary work lays out the argument for music based on noise rather than musical pitches.
What is "The Art of Noises: A Futurist Manifesto" by Luigi Russolo?
A few of this composer's musicals are "Strike Up the Band" and "Of Thee I Sing"
Who is George Gershwin
This Boston composer wrote "Gaelic Symphony" in the late 19th century
Who is Amy Beach?
While French nationalists embraced neoclassicism, Ravel saw neoclassicism as also including this.
What is the universal, or internationalism?
This composer collected and arranged Spanish folk songs.
Who is Manuel de Falla
What are the characteristics of African American music that can be traced back to Africa?
-call and response style singing
-improvisation based on simple formulas with wide-ranging variation
-syncopation
-repetition of short rhythmic or melodic patterns
-multiple rhythmic layers, polymetrical
-bending pitches
-moans, shouts and other vocalizations
-instruments like the banjo, based on a west African stringed instrument
This composer wrote several operas including "La Boheme" and "Turandot"
Who is Puccini?
This composer was a classmate of Alexander Scriabin at the Moscow Conservatory and wrote many works for piano, including "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini".
Who is Sergei Rachmaninov
Debussy's music is often confused with this style which seeks to evoke moods and visual images through colorful harmony and instrumental timbre.
What is impressionism?
This composer began his life as a civil servant, but later studied with Anton Rubinstein. In part due to being troubled about his homosexuality and its affects on his life, this composer suffered from bouts of depression and attempted suicide more than once. Later in life, he was able to resign his teaching position and devoted himself fully to composition due to the generosity of a patron. He was a famous conductor, but died at the peak of his fame due to an unexplained illness.
Who is Piotr Tchaikovsky?
In what ways are Liszt's, Debussy's, and Strauss's tone poems the same? In what ways are they different?
Let's discuss this
This composer collected and edited folk music from his native region of Moravia. His most famous work is his opera "Jenufa"
Who is Leos Janacek?
This composer wrote "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Who is Ralph Vaughan Williams
This style seeks to overthrow established aesthetics and challenges the notion of the "classics." This style of music is iconoclastic, irreverant, antagonistic, and nihilistic.
What is the avant-garde?
This composer's success was helped out by Brahms who persuaded his own publisher to publish his works. This composer became the artistic director for a new musical academy in New York and is known for encouraging American composers to look to their heritage, and to native American heritage, for source material for their works.
Who is Antonin Dvorak?
Arnold Schoenberg used this term to describe Brahms's compositional style where he continuously built on a germinal idea.
What is developing variation?