24: Vernacular Music in America
This genre is characterized by its distinctive use of slide guitar and harmonica, reflecting upon life's struggles and features an implied defiance.
What is the blues?
This composer wrote The Rite of Spring.
Who is Igor Stravynski?
The composer to Carmina Burana.
Who is Carl Orff?
This style of music was built in the early 1940s around virtuosic soloists fronting small combos known as bebop, or bop.
What is Jazz?
This technique consists of creating new compositions by patching together digital chinks of previously recorded music.
What is sampling?
Improvisation is a prevalent element of this genre.
What is Jazz?
This composer was committed to continuing the German classical tradition, and did so by moving from tonality to atonality -- utilizing the twelve-tone method.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
This composer combined modernism with national American idioms, featuring works such as Rodeo and Appalachian Spring.
Who is Aaron Copland?
This French composer sought to embody in music an aesthetic of ecstatic contemplation such as meditation and mantra.
Who is Olivier Messiaen?
This device/instrument uses software to produce and record sounds as streams of numbers so that music can be reproduced and controlled precisely.
What is a digital synthesizer?
This genre features songs and dance numbers in styles drawn from popular music in the context of a spoken play with a comic or romantic plot.
What is Musical Theater?
This opera, written atonally (NOT twelve-tone), represents a soldier as a hapless victim, forced by poverty to submit to a doctor's experiments.
What is Wozzeck?
This composer was often called The Dean of African American Composers.
Who is William Grant Still?
This composer wrote numerous pieces for percussion, including preparing a piano to be played with objects such as pennies, bolts, screws, pieces of wood, rubber, plastic, weather stripping, slit bamboo, etc.
Who is John Cage?
This style of music is reduced to simplified procedures so that all aspects are immediately apparent.
What is minimalism?
This genre, distinct from Jazz, features a syncopated rhythm against a regular, marchlike bass, reflecting the complex cross-rhythm common in African music.
What is Ragtime?
This composer is famous for integrating peasant music with classical music and emphasized the traditions and their commonalities.
Who is Béla Bartók?
Absorbing a strong influence of neoclassicism, this group consisted of Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre, Georges Auric, and Louis Durey.
Who are Les Six?
Professor of music and mathematics at Princeton University, this composer argued that just as scientists do, composers engage in research that advances knowledge and should be supported.
Who is Milton Babbitt?
This style adopted tonal idioms from the nineteenth-century, incorporating sounds and gestures of the time.
What is Neo-Romanticism?
This composer was one of America's most prolific and best-loved popular songwriters, featuring works such as God Bless America and White Christmas.
Who is Irving Berlin?
Famous for "The Unanswered Question," this person was the first modernist American composer and synthesized international and regional musical traditions.
Who is Charles Ives?
After Stalin took power in 1929, this group was formed from the 1933 merge of "The Association for Contemporary Music" with "The Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians."
What is The Union of Soviet Composers?
George Crumb composed this string quartet, quoting the chant Dies irae and Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet.
What is Black Angels?
Bright Sheng implemented this nationalistic style when writing pentatonic tune in works such as his solo cellu suite Seven Tunes Heard in ***** (censored to conceal answer).
What is China?