GOD BLESS AMERICA
This composer had various jobs other than composing, including being a tanner?
William Billings
The passage between the lines of blues music lyrics in which players improvise.
The compositional type of music to which Rossini's "William Tell" overture and Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" do NOT belong.
What is absolute music?
Wanger used this compositional technique throughout his operas?
What is a Leitmotiv?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 5
Name the title of the work, the composer (first and last names), their nationality, and the musical technique used in this piece. (No need to be in the form of a question)
Putnam's Camp; Charles Ives; US American; collage
He wrote music in which several melodies in different keys sound at once.
Who was Charles Ives?
This genre unfolds in twelve-bar form with an A-A-B scheme per verse.
What is the blues?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 3
Name the texture, composer, title, style period, and genre. (No need to be in the form of a question)
Monophonic; Hildegard of Bingen; "Kyrie eleison"; middle-ages; chant
This Bohemian composer wrote a furiant with a lively hemiola.
Who is Bedrich Smetana?
These theatrical genres use spoken dialogue, and they never include a recitative.
What are operetta and the musical?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 1
Name the whole work, section heard in this excerpt, composer, and style period. (No need to be in the form of a question)
Variations on a Theme by Haydn; Theme; Brahms; Romantic period
The piece by William Grant Still combines, among other things, the sonata form and the blues scale.
What is the Afro-American Symphony?
This significant musical event happened on 29 May, 1913.
What is The Rite of Spring premiere?
When it came to Russian nationalism in the nineteenth century, this group packed a punch.
What is the Mighty Handful (or the Mighty Five)?
He took a play by Shakespeare as an inspiration for a Broadway musical.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
It was one of the first established bands that John Philip Sousa worked with.
What was the Marine Band?
This composer is known as the "King of Ragtime" and his publisher paid him a penny for each copy sold of a piece that sold in the millions, making him a tidy sum.
Who was Scott Joplin?
Interested in many styles, this French composer was especially drawn to the sound of the Javanese gamelan.
Who was Claude Debussy?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 4
Name the composer, the full title of the work with key, and the style period (No need to be in the form of a question)
Mozart; Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550; Classical
This composition premiered on Broadway before being performed at an opera house.
What is (George Gershwin's), Porgy and Bess?
A form of musical notation common in the rural areas of the USA in which notes may appear as ovals, triangles, squares,... etc.
What is shaped-note notation?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 2
Name the title of the work, the composer of it, and its arranger for Jazz.
(No need to be in the form of a question)
"Lady be Good" by Gershwin, arranged by Charlie Parker
The composer and the title of his work that "Casta Diva" belongs to.
Who is Bellini, and what is Norma?
This composer wrote the music of Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, and he used this tune in this piece by himself before.
Who is Haydn, and what is the Emperor String Quartet?
Unexpectedly for musical, this particular work focused on racial prejudice.
What is South Pacific? (Music by Richard Rodgers set to lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein)