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Basics
20th Century
Rock and Stuff
Classical
Other Stuff
100
These are a group of tones that sound "good"
What is consonance
100
There was a famous riot in 1913 for this Stravinsky ballet
What is The Rite of Spring
100
Early Rock and Roll music grew mainly from this African American dance music
What is rhythm and blues
100
This is the most important form of classical chamber music
What is the string quartet
100
This is the organization of musical ideas in time
What is form
200
This is the central tone around which a musical composition is organized.
What is the tonic
200
This German artistic movement focused on dreams and hallucinations.
What is expressionism
200
Rock has been defined as a combination of popular music and what other related form?
What is Rhythm and Blues
200
This classical form is considered to be a sonata for orchestra
What is a Symphony
200
This is the texture when two or more melodic lines are performed at the same time
What is polyphonic
300
This musical texture consists of a single melodic line without accompaniment.
What is monophonic
300
The American band tradition, the blues, and ragtime all contributed to this form.
What is jazz
300
This saxophonist is considered one of the greatest of all jazz improvisers and bebop musicians
Who is Charlie Parker
300
This is the typical order of movements for a classical concerto
What is fast, slow, fast
300
This is the absence of key or tonality
What is atonality.
400
This is a group of tones that sounds unstable and tense.
What is dissonance
400
Around 1940, composer John Cage developed this type of piano composition
What is prepared piano
400
This bebop musician spearheaded developments in cool jazz and then jazz rock
Who is Miles Davis
400
In the sonata form, the three main sections are often followed by this closing section
What is a coda
400
This is the deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds
What is primitivism
500
Another term for tone color.
What is timbre
500
This electronic music was composed for the 1958 World's Fair by Edgard Varese
What is Poeme Electronique
500
He was the most important impressionist composer
Who is Claude Debussy
500
This was the favored solo instrument in the classical era
What is the piano
500
This is a brilliant solo section played in a concerto designed to display the performer's virtuosity
What is a cadenza