Vocal Rep Final Jeopardy

Tell me more! (Quotes)

200

This French composer said, "I love the human voice." 

Poulenc

400

This German composer said, "I have come into the world for no purpose but to compose." 

Schubert 

600

This American composer said, "It is the ability to feel how the text of a song is assimilated by the music which distinguishes the singer of real interpretive insight from the vocal virtuoso." 

John Duke

800

This French composer said, "Musicians who don't understand anything about poetry ought not to set it to music.  They can only ruin it." 

Debussy

1000

This British composer said, "One of my chief aims is to try to restore to the musical setting of the English language brilliance, freedom, and vitality that have been curiously rare since the death of Purcell." 

Britten

Do you hear what I hear? (Songs)

200

This American composer wrote "Sure On This Shining Night".

Barber

400

This British composer wrote "Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite"

Dowland

600

This German composer wrote "Gretchen am Spinnrade"

Schubert 

800

This American composer wrote "General William Booth Enters into Heaven".

Ives

1000

This French composer wrote "Le temps des lilas"

Chausson

Biographical Tidbits

200

This American composer's Cabaret Songs are a unique blend of popular and classical idioms.

Bolcom

400

This German composer wrote 380 lieder and was highly influenced by folk song and folk music.

Brahms

600

This French composer studied with the famous Bizet and was not allowed to attend the Paris Conservatoire due to their gender. 

Chaminade

800

This British composer was known almost exclusively for vocal music, gave recitals of their own music, toured widely, and made broadcasts and recordings of their music.

Michael Head

1000

This German composer was the editor of the "Neue Zeitschrift fur Music"

Robert Schumann

Literary Connections

200

This French composer was considered a 'father' to the Les Six, a group of French composers. 

Satie

400

This German composer's songs are published in collections named after the poet. (For example, Eichendorff Lieder and Moricke Lieder.) 

Wolf

600

This British composer set the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson in his cycle "Songs of Travel".

Ralph Vaughan Williams

800

This American composer is known for his collection of songs set to the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

Copland

1000

This French composer often wrote songs for a young singer named Mme. Vasnier, resulting in it being called his "Vasnier Songbook". 

Debussy 

Tidbits Part 2

200

This French composer once said he didn't want his music interpreted, just performed.  

Ravel

400

This German composer wrote over 600 lieder. 

Schubert

600

This British composer was the composer-in-ordinary to the King and the organist at Westminster Abbey.

Purcell

800

This German composer often included a musical motive in his compositions that spelled out the name of his wife. 

Robert Schumann

1000

This African-American composer was a child piano prodigy. 

Florence Price