Genres
A Russian Style of Dance.
What Is Ballet?
Composer of many popular film scores.
Who is John Williams
What Is Modernism?
The war that began the entire Modernist Movement. (1914-1917.)
What is World War 1?
This Big Band Jazz piece makes use of five themes, including a ritornello.
What Is Rhapsody In Blue?
Genre that originated from the Deep South of the United States by African-Americans. Incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads.
What is Blues?
The Father of Serialism.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
A German style of music that favors hyper-expressive harmonies, extraordinarily wide leaps in the melody, and the use of instruments in their extreme registers.
What Is Expressionism?
One of the largest musical riots in history took place here.
What is The Rite Of Spring Premiere?
This piece combined several American Folk Songs, Hymns, and Children Songs.
What Is Country Band March?
A patriotic genre of music that quotes folk songs, hymns, and other patriotic songs, and are often incorporated into Military Ranks.
What are Marches?
Critically-Acclaimed African-American Jazz Singer.
Billie Holiday
Characterized by a style in which composers utilize all twelve notes in an octave without using one twice; can be seen in retrograded inversions.
What is Serialism?
A massive, global economic downturn that was catalyzed by the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
What is The Great Depression.
A song-cycle composed of a collection of poems about a drunk clown who is slowly going mad. The song-cycle makes use of Sprechstimme.
What Is Pierrot Lunaire?
A well-known genre, originating in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, characterized by heavy syncopation, improvised performances, bent notes/modes, and is rooted in blues/ragtime.
What is Jazz?
Painted Water Lily's, La Bassin du Commerce. Began the Impressionism Movement.
Who is Claude Monet?
A style of Music that combined elements of 18th century objective form with elements of 19th century nationalism.
What Is Neo-Classicism?
A revitalization of African-American Musical Culture.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Composer Aaron Copland and choreographer Martha Graham collaborated together, resulting in this ballet.
What is Appalachian Spring?
A genre or style that combined many previously known single genres such as rock, jazz, and blues. Sub-genres include Operettas, Melodramas, Burlesque, and Vaudeville. Over the decades of its influence, it began to evolve into many multi-million dollar industries.
What is Musical Theatre?
Composer of The Rite Of Spring.
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
A rhythm-oriented, truth-centered genre that Igor Stravinsky is most known for popularizing, especially in the Ballet "Rite of Spring."
What is Primitivism?
This all-whites club was opened in 1923 and hosted many acclaimed musical artists, including Duke Ellington.
What is the Cotton Club?
A German Opera about an abused soldier who is slowly driven insane, ending with the murder of his own wife.
What is Wozzeck?