Genres
This type of one-movement piano solo is inspired by night
What is a nocturne?
A type of composition in which all verses are sung to the same music
What is strophic form?
The Father of art song
Who is Schubert?
This through-composed art song has four characters and ends with a child’s death
What is Schubert’s Erlkönig?
This thin stick is used by a conductor to direct an orchestra
What is a baton?
Flexibility of tempo
What is rubato?
This woodwind instrument looks like it belongs in the brass family
What is the saxophone?
Music inspired by non-musical subjects
What is program music?
A type of solo piano music that was a predecessor to jazz
What is ragtime?
This piano virtuoso was the first to perform entire recitals by memory
Who is Liszt?
This technique of “beautiful singing” defined 19th century Italian opera
What is bel canto?
This transitionary composer who lived from 1809-1838 wrote the Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Who is Mendelssohn?
A German art song
What is a Lied?
The simultaneous use of two or more keys in a music composition
What is polytonality?
This type of short piano solo is based on a single idea
What is a character piece?
This composition form in three sections (exposition, development, and recapitulation) has two or more themes that are explored
What is sonata form?
This half of a compositional duo is the author of an opera’s text
Who is the librettist?
The composer of this piece
Who is Stravinsky?
This type of composition is music for music’s sake
What is absolute music?
A set of related songs intended to form a single musical entity
What is a song cycle?
This group of composers, consisting of Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern, wrote twelve-tone music
What is the Second Viennese School?
This type of one-movement piece for orchestra is based on a non-musical theme
What is a tone poem?
One of the predecessors to American musical theatre; for example, Die Fledermaus
What is operetta?
The country of origin of this piece’s composer
What is England?
This type of singing
What is scat?
The predecessor to the modern piano
What is the fortepiano?
Wagner’s recurrent musical themes associated with a character, place, or emotion
What is a leitmotif?
The center of music publishing in early 20th century New York City
What is Tin Pan Alley?
The genre of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
What is jazz opera / folk opera?
The form of this piece
What is a fugue?
This American composer made his living as an insurance salesman
Who is Charles Ives?
The German name for Wagner’s music dramas
What is Gesamtkunstwerk?
The most often performed piece of Western art music in the world (composer and title)
What is Handel’s Messiah?
The composer of this aria
Who is Verdi?
The title of this piece
What is Rhapsody in Blue?