GOD BLESS AMERICA
This composer had various jobs other than composing including being a tanner
Who is William Billings?
200 points: name the song by Billings that's in our repertoire/audio list.
(David's Lamentation)
The passage between the lines of blues lyrics in which players improvised
What is the break?
A compositional type of music, which Brahms composed, which does not require context.
What is absolute music?
100 points: name the "opposite" type of music that we have discussed as a foil to absolute music.
(program music)
This type of musical style may involve folk music or historical themes of a given country/region
What is musical nationalism?
The genre & specific style of Vincenzo Bellin's Norma
What is Bel Canto opera?
100 points: name the aria from Norma that we need to know for this class.
(Casta Diva)
He wrote music in which several melodies in different keys sound at once.
Who was Charles Ives?
100 points: Ives was financially well-off through his innovations in which industry?
(Insurance)
This genre consists of a 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.
Monophonic; Hildegard of Bingen; "Kyrie eleison"; medieval; chant
Wagner used this compositional technique, where specific musical themes are associated with important characters or dramatic themes, throughout his operas.
What is a Leitmotiv?
This composition was first premiered on Broadway before it was performed at an opera house
What is Porgy and Bess?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 1
Name the whole work, section heard in this excerpt, composer, and style period.
Answer: 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 that combines, among other things, 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?
300 Points: name the choreographer for the Rite
(Nijinsky)
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE
Name the composer, full title of work with key, and style period
Answer: No need to be in the form of a question
Mozart; Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550; Classical
He took a play by Shakespeare as an inspiration for a Broadway musical.
Who was Leonard Bernstein?
It was one of the first established bands that John Philip Sousa worked with.
What was the Marine Band?
This composer’s 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?
200 points: Name the rag in our repertoire/audio list by Scott Joplin.
(Maple Leaf Rag)
Robert Schumann cryptically embedded this into various movements of his 'Carnaval'
What are the letters ASCH?
200 Extra Points: What was the significance of these letters to Robert Schumann?
(Asch is the town where his then-fiancee was from)
The musical figure is a rapid alternation of triple and duple meter.
What is hemiola?
200 Points: name the Bohemian dance that we used to first learn of this musical device in class.
(Furiant, specifically one by Smetana)
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE
Name the title of the work, the composer (first and last names), their nationality, and musical technique used in this piece.
Putnam's Camp; Charles Ives; US American; collage
A form of musical notation common in rural areas of the USA in which the notes may appear as ovals, triangles, squares,...etc.
What is the shape-note notation?
300 Extra Points: Name the tradition/movement and eponymous 1844 tunebook which popularized this notation!
(Sacred Harp)
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE 2
Name the composer, title of work, and style period
Answer: No need to be in the form of a question
Arnold Schoenberg, Mondestrunken (Moondrunk), from Pierrot Lunaire, modernism
Interested in many styles, this French composer was especially drawn to the sound of the Javanese gamelan.
Who was Claude Debussy?
100 Extra Points: Name the musical "movement" that Debussy is associated with even though he rejected the label.
(Impressionism)
When it came to Russian nationalism in the nineteenth century, this group packed a punch.
What is the Mighty Handful (or the Mighty Five)?
100 Points Each: Name any/all of the Mighty Five.
(Mussorgsky, Cui, Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Borodin)
Unexpectedly for this genre, this work focused on racial prejudice.
What is South Pacific?
100 Extra Points: Name the composer/lyricist duo who created this musical.
(Rodgers and Hammerstein)