GOD BLESS AMERICA
His real name was Jakob Gershowitz.
Who was George Gershwin?
In piano music, it involves syncopating a right-hand melody over a steady left hand.
What is ragging?
This Mexican composer wrote a piece for symphony orchestra that was greatly influenced by The Rite of Spring.
Who was Silvestre Revueltas?
When it came to Russian nationalism in the nineteenth century, this group packed a punch.
What is the Mighty Handful (or the Mighty Five)?
Unexpectedly for this genre, this work focused on racial prejudice.
What is South Pacific?
He wrote music in which several melodies in different keys sound at once.
Who was Charles Ives?
It unfolds in twelve-bar form with an A-A-B scheme per verse.
What is the blues?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE
Name the texture, composer, title, style period, and genre.
This Bohemian composer wrote a furiant with a lively hemiola.
Who was Bedrich Smetana?
He took a play by Shakespeare as an inspiration for a Broadway musical.
Who was Leonard Bernstein?
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
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?"
This significant musical event happened on 29 May, 1913.
What is The Rite of Spring premiere?
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?
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
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?
Interested in many styles, this French composer was especially drawn to the sound of the Javanese gamelan.
Who was Claude Debussy?
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
Both of these theatrical genres use spoken dialogue instead of recitative.
What are operetta and the musical?
Lerner and Loewe, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Who were composer-lyricist teams writing Broadway musicals?
AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE
Name the composer, title of work, and style period
Claude Debussy; La soirée dans Grenade; Modernism/Impressionism
Played without direct contact by the performer, this early electronic instrument with one antenna for frequency and another for amplitude, was important in avant-garde music and was taken up by popular artists such as the Beach Boys.
What is the theramin?
His simple language and hollow-sounding chords are often associated with a quintessentially American spirit.
Who was William Billings?
This famous lyricist-composer team wrote South Pacific.
Who were Rodgers and Hammerstein?