Music Theory
This is defined as "sound organized in time"
What is music?
This work's name.
What is You've Got to be Carefully Taught?
Roy Harris caught flak decades after releasing his Symphony No. 5 because it celebrated this country, once an ally, now an enemy.
What is the Soviet Union?
This classification system is used to identify instruments based on how they make sound; some examples are idiophones, aerophones, and the newly created electrophones.
The composer of this work.
Who is Benjamin Britten?
Benjamin Britten's War Requiem was first played in this cathedral, reconstructed after being bombed in World War II.
What is St. Michael's Cathedral?
Any set of notes played at the same time is known as one of these-- even laying your entire arm on the keyboard.
What is a chord?
Porgy and Bess, Take the "A" Train, You've Got to be Carefully Taught, and many similar works are significant because they addressed this touchy corner of American politics.
What is Civil Rights/Racial Equality?
How often a wave repeats in a given amount of time is known as its this.
What is its frequnecy?
This work's publishing year.
What is 1961?
This organization was made up of music critics who decided whose music was fit to represent America abroad-- often selecting their own.
What is the Music Advisory Panel?
Despite "oct" meaning "eight" in Latin, an octave is made up of these many half-steps.
What is 12?
This Latin motif is found in various works in pop culture.
What is Dies Irae?
This musician publicly admonished the US government for allowing Arkansas to ignore the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Who is Louis Armstrong?