Debussy is considered this type of composer.
What is impressionistic?
The first Black composer to have his music performed by a major American professional orchestra?
Who was William Grant Still?
This genre is stripped-down form of rock & roll that lyrics expressed the dark aspects of life.
What is punk?
This piece of music was featured in The Shining.
What is Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste?
The epicenter of early jazz?
What is New Orleans?
The organization of rhythm, dynamics, timbre, or other elements of music is called this.
What is serialism?
Bartok's String Quartet No. 4 features this technique entirely through the piece.
What is pizzicato?
This genre is a dance style popular in nightclubs in the 1970s.
What is disco?
This piece uses a prepared piano, or a piano that has been modified with other objects.
What is Sonatas and Interludes, Sonata V by John Cage?
32-bar AABA is typical of this specific type of jazz genre.
What is swing?
The premiere of this piece sparked a violent riot.
What is Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring)?
A composer we listened to in class associated with the serialist music.
Who is Milton Babbitt?
This genre of music sprang from political and social concerns in Jamaica.
What is reggae?
This piece is an example of Neoclassicism and was written by Stravinsky.
This term is used when a composer writes for a vocalist to speak the text in a song-like manner.
What is sprechstimme?
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima is an example of this type of music.
What is Sound Mass Music?
Gerswhin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with this solo instrument.
What is clarinet?
This piece is a precursor to psychedelic rock and features alternative instrumentation in its introduction.
What is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles?
This piece is one of the earliest examples of electronic music.
What is Poeme electronique (Electronic Poem) by Edgard Varese?
A genre of popular music that is meant to be listened to, not danced to.
What is bebop or bebop jazz?
This piece about the Holocaust features 12-tone music.
What is Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw?
Who was Bessie Smith?
In Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, Miranda combines these three genres of music together.
What are R&B, soul, and pop?
This piece features atonality, sprechstimme, and a demented clown.
The technique where string players are asked to play on the wood of their bows rather than the strings.
What is col legno?