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100

Is Sousa's piece a standard or non-repetitive march?

Non-repetitive 
100

What is Brahms rhythmic trademark?

Hemiola

100

briefly define progressive tonality 

start in one key, end in another

100

what is the instrumentation of piano quintet

standard +piano

100

name a stylistic feature of ragtime


syncopation, uses march and trio form

200

Whats another way to say for symphonic poem? (hint: its the key term we use)

tone poem

200

Which composer do we link to tone poems?

Strauss

200

what does a 3 key exposition look like?

1T = tonic

2T = moving away (usually V)

Closing Theme (CT) = dominant 

200

by 1850, is the public more focused on new or old music?

old - reviving old styles rather than new and bold (like Wagner for example... Brahms said yo chill dont reinvent the wheel)

200

what is tin pan alley?

Nickname for music publishing district in NYC

Made famous in hit shows, songs sold as sheet music, publishers and songwriters counted on recordings to popularize tunes

Songs were developed and categorized as a commodity for mass distribution 


300

What is the genre of Amy Beach's work?

Symphony

300

Name a Gregory Spears Opera 

Castor and Patience, Fellow Travelers, etc

300

what is a tone poem?

Single movement programmatic work that includes sections of contrasting character and tempo

300

Mahler: give a characteristic of his style - anything you can think of

(hint: I'm thinking about orchestra/instrumentation/texture)

  • Unlike Strauss, treats the orchestra like a chamber group. Rather than throw full orchestral texture at you, picks pairings of instruments 

300

which piece features cake walk rhythms?


Will Marion Cook, In Dahomey (1903), “Swing Along”


400

What was the genre of the Mahler piece we covered?

Orchestral songs (cycle)

400

What is the key term related to Mahlers style? (think about tonality perhaps...)

progressive tonality 

400

Give a brief definition of: developing variation

initial kernal of a theme, everything is based on that

400

what happens in the variations of DQ?

Variation 1: windmills, DQ falls off his horse

Variation 2: "sheep battle"

400

Name a contrast between the two performances of maple leaf rag we listened to

Jelly Roll Morton’s performance of Maple Leaf Rag Omits the repetitions of the first 2 strains to keep the piece under the 3-4 min limit for 78rpm records

Joplin's is played on the piano roll

500

What does Brahms do to the exposition of piano quintet? What's that key term called

3 key exposition 

500

What was Beach's Gaelic Symphony in response to? Who was that composer/name of piece

Dvorak New World Symphony 

500

Break Strain

- describe it or link the piece 

A device used in marches and piano rags to introduce a contrast in style and break the flow of the composition with a loud and intense musical statement

Sousa - Stars and Stripes 

March - trio - break strain - trio

500

How can you remember what don quioxte looks like if you got it as a score id?

despite the title, MANY german markings

500

who were the fisk jubliee singers and what did they sing?

Fisk University: HBCU in Tennessee

Concert arrangements in 4-part harmony 

Promoted spirituals in US and England during 1870s (running out of money, went on concert tour… wildly successful)