Show:
The Basics
Impressionism and Expressionism
Changes in American Music
Ragtime, Jazz, and Blues
Reaction to WWI
100
This musical characteristic occurs when two or more notes sound simultaneously
What is harmony?
100
This term originally referred to a piece that introduced another piece
What is a prelude?
100
This style of singing involves four voices with tight harmonies and no musical accompaniment
What is barbershop singing?
100
This device couldn’t capture the intensity of a piece but was the main way to record
What is a piano role?
100
This significant day was when Germans and Allies put down their weapons and sang Christmas songs together
What is The Christmas Truce of 1914
200
This is a note with a sharp or flat not written in the key signature
What is an accidental?
200
This music style depicted strong emotions in an attempt to convey the struggle of human reality
What is expressionism?
200
This was the first U.S. operetta
What is Merry Widow?
200
Country, folk tradition, and classic are all types of this
What is blues?
200
Gustav Holst taught soldiers this at the YMCA
What are music skills?
300
This harmonic quality describes a tense, unstable pitch, tone, or chord
What is dissonance?
300
This is the technique when the performer half-sings, half-speaks the notes
What is Sprechstimme?
300
This is when a song is added to a show after it had began its Broadway run
What is interpolation?
300
Folk music falls under this category
What is vernacular?
300
Two composers that collected folk songs from soldiers during the war
Who are Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, George Butterworth, or Ralph Von Williams?
400
This phrase refers to crisp, separated articulation of a musical note
What is staccato?
400
The use of erratic and forceful rhythms and dissonance provoked this in the listeners of Expressionism
What is emotion?
400
Giacomo Puccini, the composer of this opera, complained about restaurant orchestras playing his pieces without his permission
What is Madame Butterfly?
400
He was the "king" of ragtime and put ragtime into readable music.
Who is Scott Joplin?
400
This term is used to describe animated pieces that sound improvised
What is toccata?
500
A consequent phrase sounds complete for this reason
What is ending on a tonic tone?
500
Impressionism, originally an art movement, began with a painting by this artist
Who is Claude Monet?
500
This refers to a New York City street that housed the major American music publishers
What is Tin Pan Alley?
500
He was the first successful white guy in ragtime music
Who is Joseph Lamb?
500
This German-American composer was arrested and incarcerated for the remainder of WWI
Who is Karl Muck?