Musical Styles
This style differed from Ragtime in that it was played in a more improvisatory, whereas Ragtime was played in a “straight” way by observing the rhythms and textures of a fully notated piece.
What is Early Jazz?
If you were there when Symphony No. 41 in C Major (Jupiter) was composed, you would be in this musical period
What is the Classical period?
If you're playing the snare drum part on this piece of music, you'll need to really concentrate!
What is Bolero by Maurice Ravel?
This composer wrote about unresolved longing in Tristan und Isolde
Who is Richard Wagner?
This term refers to a lowered note, particularly on the third, fifth, or seventh step of the scale
What is a blue note?
New Orleans musicians used this term to describe their style to audiences in northern cities like Chicago and New York
What is Jazz?
This music that was popular in the 1960s featured intense emotional expression and melismatic vocalizations
What is a soul music?
Written in 1899, this is the most well-known example of Ragtime music
What is Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin?
This composer wrote I Got Rhythm
Who is George Gershwin?
This type of singing features vocalizing with nonsense syllables to an improvised or composed melody.
What is scat singing?
When you see syncopated rhythms with a regular bass line, you know it is this type of music
What is Ragtime?
This is the decade you would be in if you went to the store to buy a new kind of music recording called a "compact disc" or "CD"
What is the 1980s?
The ballet for this piece of music matches the jerky, staccato sounds that you hear
What is The Rite of Spring, Danse des adolescents by Igor Stravinsky?
She was the first African American Woman to have her symphony performed by a major orchestra
Who is Florence Price?
This is the study of music in its social and cultural contexts
What is ethnomusicology?
This type of music refers to musical traditions outside the classical concert hall and opera house.
What is Vernacular Music?
In the 1950s, record companies capitalized on the popularity of urban black music among white teenagers in the 1950s by doing this
Who is producing covers of rhythm and blues music by white singers like Elvis Presley?
This piece of music is a great example of program music from the Romantic period, and the 5th movement would be good mood music for Halloween
What is Symphonie Fantastique, Fifth movement, “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath” by Hector Berlioz?
Well, So What? Played this composer
Who is Miles Davis?
This term refers to the idea of treating aspects of music other than pitch according to the principles of Schoenberg's twelve-tone composition
What is total serialism?
Opera and operetta, especially the use of leitmotives, were important influences on this type of music
What is Film Music?
In the 20th century, this type of ensemble developed into a respected, stand-alone ensemble, comparable to the symphony orchestra
What is wind band?
This piece of music features dream-like harp sounds and was written by a composer who bridged the Romantic and Modern periods, often referred to as an Impressionist composer
What is Prélude à L’áprѐs-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) by Claude Debussy?
This composer wrote Appalachian Spring
Who is Aaron Copland?
In this type of music, the first phrase stays on the tonic, the second phrase moves from subdominate to tonic, and the third phrase moves from dominant to tonic.
What are the twelve-bar blues?