AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE
Name the texture, composer, title, style period, and genre.
In piano music, it involves syncopating a right-hand melody over a steady left hand.
What is ragging?
A vocal technique between speaking and singing used in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire
What is Sprechstimme?
A Polish dance typically in triple meter.
What is a Mzurka?
The German word for song.
What is Lied?
This genre of music emerged as an oral tradition before it was written down and standardized.
What is the spiritual?
It unfolds in twelve-bar form with an A-A-B scheme per verse.
What is the blues?
He wrote music in which several melodies in different keys sound at once.
Who was Charles Ives?
This Bohemian composer wrote a furiant with a lively hemiola.
Who was Bedrich Smetana?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE
Name the composer, full title of work with key, and style period
Mozart; Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550; Classical
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The name of this work refers to a song, to a Broadway musical, and to a jazz version by a famous saxophonist.
What is "Lady Be Good?"
There was a near riot at the premiere or this work on 29 May, 1913.
What is The Rite of Spring?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE
Name the whole work, section heard in this excerpt, composer, and style period.
Variations on a Theme by Haydn; Finale; Brahms; Romantic period
A short reoccurring musical phrase associated with a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a leitmotif?
This genre of music involves call and response, a stick player, body percussion, and cross rhythms
What is Ring Shout?
This composer wrote a symphony based on the Blues
Who was William Grant Still?
Interested in many styles, this French composer was especially drawn to the sound of the Javanese gamelan.
Who was Claude Debussy?
Although she was born in a country suffering from a cultural inferiority complex, she wrote music that has been compared to that of Brahms rather than nationalist works.
Who was Amy Beach?
A composer associated with serialism.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE
Name the title of the work, the composer (first and last names) and their nationality.
Putnam's Camp; Charles Ives; US American
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE
Name the composer, title of work, and style period
Claude Debussy; La soirée dans Grenade; Modernism/Impressionism
A mode of aesthetic idealization that either emulates or aspires to recreate an "uncivilized" experience
What is primitivism?
Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and Alexander Borodin.
Who were the Mighty Handful?
An opera house built by Wagner for his ring cycle
What is Bayreuth (festspielehaus)?