Songs of Faith
This kind of monophonic music was sung in Catholic Church services during the Middle Ages.
What is chant?
This is the name for a polyphonic composition based on a subject that is introduced, imitated, and overlapped by several voices.
What is a fugue?
This Broadway musical and film retells the story of Romeo and Juliet in a modern New York setting.
What is Bernstein's West Side Story?
This American city, home to a mix of European immigrants and descendants of American slaves in the early 1900s, is often described as the birthplace of jazz.
What is New Orleans?
This man is an American icon and composer of soundtracks including Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, E.T., Schindler's List, and the Harry Potter films.
Who is John Williams?
"A Mighty Fortress is Our God" is an example of a Lutheran chorale composed by this protester.
Who is Martin Luther?
One of the most recognizable features of Baroque music is the use of this type of chordal, partly improvised accompaniment that is usually performed by harpsichord and/or cello.
What is the basso continuo?
This Italian opera composer wrote music that inspired nationalist sentiments and later became a deputy to the first Italian parliament.
Who is Guiseppi Verdi?
This style of music, influential in the creation of jazz, is based on a 12-measure repeating chord structure and an aa'b vocal structure.
What is the blues?
This composer, born in Texas, is known as "The King of Ragtime."
Who is Scott Joplin?
Bach wrote these large-scale works for church services nearly every week. They featured arias, recitatives, and choruses and often were "flavored" by Lutheran chorales (like an onion flavors a casserole).
What are cantatas?
This is the name of technique perfected by Gabrieli of using different groups of vocalists and/or instrumentalists performing from different areas within a venue.
What is cori spezzati?
The first great opera was "Orfeo," composed in the early 1600s by this Renaissance/Baroque transitional composer.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
This "First Lady of Song" was known for her scat singing and her performances of music by composers like George Gershwin and Cole Porter.
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
This American composer, conductor, and educator hosted a prime-time television show entitled Young People's Concerts on CBS.
Who is Leonard Bernstein?
This mass is notable as the first polyphonic setting of all five movements of the mass ordinary as a complete work.
What is Machaut's Notre Dame Mass?
Seeking to imitate the dramas of the ancient world, the Florentine Camerata advocated for this form of flexible, declamatory singing with sparse accompaniment to advance the narrative in early operas.
What is recitative?
This man, whose name sounds like a president's, composed a minimalist opera about another president's efforts at diplomacy.
Who is John Adams?
This style of jazz involved larger bands and written arrangements that could be heard in a noisy dance hall.
What is swing?
This composer wrote a symphony with the goal of proving that the blues could be elevated to the highest form of musical expression.
Who is William Grant Still?
This genre is a short polyphonic choral work with a sacred Latin text, popular in the Renaissance.
What is a motet?
This forerunner to the symphony featured multiple movements that were in dance forms, even though they weren't actually intended for dancing.
This opera by Mozart featured a grave statue that dragged a unrepentant nobleman into the inferno.
What is Don Giovanni?
Collective improvisation is representative of which style of jazz.
What is Dixieland?
This Connecticut businessman didn't rely on income from his polytonal, experimental compositions. For years, they piled up in his barn before he achieved acclaim as a composer.
Who is Charles Ives?