New Styles & Ensembles
Music produced through synthesizers and electroacoustic instruments.
What is electronic music?
A sentimental type of song popular in the nineteenth century performed in private homes.
What is a parlor song?
A forerunner of jazz, usually for piano in a march like style championed by Scott Joplin.
What is ragtime?
A composer from the Classical Period who composed more than 600 works, but died at the age of 35.
Who was Mozart?
A quartet written by Antonin Dvorak while he was living in Iowa that was nationalistic in nature because it uses features of his native Bohemian music.
What is The American Quartet?
Music in which some or all of the events are left to fate, so no piece is ever performance the same way twice. This music was championed by American composer, John Cage.
What is chance music?
A name associated with the popular music industry that sold sheet music for the latest compositions.
What is Tin Pan Alley?
A jazz style for a small group of players, consisting of two beats per measure and a lively tempo that developed in New Orleans and was championed by musicians like Louis Armstrong.
What is Dixieland?
An important composer of the Medieval period who lived as a nun.
Who was Hildegard von Bingen?
The programmatic work that Hector Berlioz wrote for actress Harriet Smithson, which whom he was obsessed.
What is Symphonie Fantastique?
A style of composition based on a row of pitches that uses each of the twelve tones in an octave, creating a work with no tonal center. This style of music was championed by Arnold Schoenberg.
What is tone row?
A type of song associated with African American sin which a solo singer sings about some hardship.
What is blues?
A type of popular music containing many jazz influences that was arranged for big bands by musicians like Duke Ellington.
What is swing?
An important composer of the Baroque Period who wrote the oratorio called The Messiah.
Who is Handel?
Music that was written to accompany a play or drama.
What is incidental music?
An ensemble developed in the USA by John Philip Sousa that is comprised of wind and percussion instruments.
What is the wind band?
A popular type of stage entertainment in the early 20th century consisting of music and other variety acts.
What is vaudeville?
A jazz piano style featuring a repeated figure in the bass part and highly decorated melody line that was developed during the Great Depression.
What is boogie-woogie?
An Austrian who is the most significant composer of art song.
Who is Schubert?
The 20th Century musical written by Jonathan Larson that is based on the opera La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini.
What is Rent?
A type of theater that features music as well as acting, scenery, and costumes that developed out of the styles of minstrelsy and vaudeville of the nineteenth and early 20th century.
What is musical theatre?
African American popular music developed in the 1950's from the styles of blues and jazz and championed by Motown records.
What is rhythm and blues?
An important composer of Romantic piano music who revolutionized piano recitals by changing the direction that the piano faces so listeners could better see his profile.
Who is Franz Liszt?
A Shakespeare play on which the American musical West Side Story by Leonard Berstein is based.
What is Romeo and Juliet?