Modern Music Around the World ; 1920's-Now (Unit Four)

WHICH COMPOSER FROM WASHINGTON D.C. WROTE PATRIOTIC WIND BAND MUSIC AND WAS KNOWN AS THE "MARCH KING"?

SOUSA

WHICH COMPOSER FROM CONNECTICUT ATTENDED YALE FOR MUSIC, THEN BECAME AN INSURANCE SALESMAN, BUT CONTINUED TO WRITE MUSIC THAT WOULD GO UNDISCOVERED UNTIL THE 40S?

IVES

WHAT IS THE TERM FOR MUSIC THAT USES FRAGMENTS OF OTHER PIECES?

SECOND MOVEMENT

WHICH JEWISH COMPOSER FROM NY WROTE IN A SIMPLE, AMERICAN NATIONALISTIC STYLE?

COPLAND

WHAT GENRE FEATURES MOSTLY SHORT PIECES FOR BRASS AND PERCUSSION?

NATIONALISM

WHICH NEOCLASSICAL COMPOSER FROM FLORIDA WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO WIN THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR COMPOSITION?

ZWILICH

WHICH STYLE, UNIQUE TO AMERICA, IS REPETITIVE, SOMETIMES CALLED "PROCESS MUSIC" & IS A REACTION AGAINST PREVIOUS CENTURIES OF MUSIC IN WHICH COMPOSERS SEE HOW LITTLE THEY CAN DO IN THEIR MUSIC AND STILL MAKE IT INTERESTING?

MINIMALISM

WHICH MINIMALISTIC COMPOSER FROM MASSACHUSETTS ATTENDED HARVARD AND IS NOW THE COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY?

ADAMS

WHICH 19TH C GENRE FOR VOICE AND PIANO WAS USUALLY IN MAJOR KEYS, SENTIMENTAL, NOSTALGIC, AND PRINTED AS SHEET MUSIC FOR HOME USE?

PARLOR SONG

WHICH COMPOSER FROM PENNSYLVANIA WROTE SUCH PARLOR SONGS AS OH SUSANNA AND CAMPTOWN RACES?

FOSTER

WHICH STYLE FROM NYC, THE "HOLLYWOOD" OF TURN OF CENTURY MUSIC, FEATURED MOSTLY SHORT LIVED SONGS IN THE STYLE OF A WALTZ?

TIN PAN ALLEY

WHAT FORERUNNER OF JAZZ FEATURED UPBEAT, SYNCOPATED PIECES MOSTLY FOR SOLO PIANO?

RAGTIME

WHICH TEXAS RAGTIME COMPOSER WROTE AN OPERA THAT WON THE PULITZER DECADES AFTER HIS DEATH?

JOPLIN

WHICH STYLE, FEATURING THE UNIQUE "AAB" FORM, BEGAN AS FOLK MUSIC, WAS 1ST PUBLISHED IN 1912, AND REACHED A HIGH POINT IN 20S / 30S?

BLUES

WHICH BLUES SINGER FROM TENNESSEE EVENTUALLY SIGNED WITH COLUMBIA RECORDS TO BECOME THE HIGHEST PAID BLACK PERFORMER IN 1920S?

SMITH

WHICH STYLE; A MIX OF BLUES, AFRICAN, CREOLE, LATIN, RAGTIME STYLES; BEGAN IN NEW ORLEANS WITH THE BRASS BAND STREET FUNERAL PROCESSION?

JAZZ

WHICH JAZZ STYLE OF THE 20S SOUNDS "BUSY" AND FEATURES SMALL GROUPS, OFTEN W/O DRUMS?

DIXIELAND

WHAT SINGING STYLE OF IMPROVISED SOLO VOCALS W/RANDOM SYLLABLES IS ASSOCIATED W/ ELLA FITZGERALD?

SCAT

WHICH DIXELAND TRUMPET PERFORMER FROM NEW ORLEANS, KNOWN AS "SATCHMO," WAS THE 1ST GREAT IMPROV SOLOIST?

ARMSTRONG

GIVE THE 2 NAMES FOR THE POST-1935 JAZZ STYLE FEATURING LARGER GROUPS, COMPLEX HARMONY?

SWING ERA ; BIG BAND ERA

WHICH SWING COMPOSER FROM WASHINGTON DC STUDIED ART AND MUSIC, AND PERFORMED AT EXPENSIVE HARLEM CLUBS?

ELLINGTON

IDENTIFY THE VARIOUS PERIODS OF JAZZ DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CORRECT CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER.

NEW ORLEANS, DIXIELAND, BOOGIE-WOOGIE, SWING

WHICH URBAN BLUES STYLE OF THE 1950S FEATURED ELECTRIC GUITAR, DRUMS, SAX, BACKUP VOCALS, AND WAS ASSOCIATED WITH MOTOWN?

RYTHEM AND BLUES

WHICH STYLE OF FOLK-SINGING AND SIMPLE MUSIC FEATURED FIDDLE, GUITAR, BANJO, AND WAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE GRAND OLE OPRY?

COUNTRY

WHICH STYLE OF THE 50S AND 60S WAS A COMBINATION OF BLUES AND COUNTRY?

ROCK

WHICH SOPHISTICATED JAZZ STYLE OF THE 50S FEATURED SMALLER GROUPS, AND COMPOSERS SUCH AS MILES DAVIS AND DAVE BRUBECK?

BEBOP "BOP

WHICH GENRE FOR THEATER, FEATURING MUSIC THAT IS DEPENDENT ON DRAMATIC ELEMENTS, REACHED A HIGH POINT BETWEEN THE 20S AND 50S?

MUSICAL COMEDY

WHICH JEWISH COMPOSER FROM MASSACHUSETTS ATTENDED CURTIS INSTITUTE, BECAME THE CONDUCTOR OF THE NY PHILHARMONIC, AND WAS AN ECLECTIC COMPOSER?

BERNSTEIN

WHICH COMPOSER FROM BROOKLYN STARTED AS A TIN PAN ALLEY PERFORMER, WROTE SONGS WITH HIS BROTHER AND LYRICIST IRA, AND WROTE SOME ART MUSIC?

GERSHWIN

LIST 5 FUNCTIONS OF FILM MUSIC.

CREATES CONVINCING ATMOSPHERE FOR TIME AND PLACE
GIVES CUES ABOUT UNSPOKEN THOUGHTS
NATURAL FILLER/BACKGROUND NOISE
SUPPORTS AND CONTRIBUTES TO THE BUILDUP OF A SCENE
BUILDS A SENSE OF CONTINUITY

LIST 4 WAYS FOLK AND ETHNIC MUSIC ARE DIFFERENT FROM CLASSICAL MUSIC.

FOLK-MUSIC OF THE COMMON PEOPLE OF PARTICULAR NATION OR ETHNIC GROUP, ETHNIC- IDENTIFIES WITH GROUP OF PEOPLE BUT IS NOT CREATED BY THE PEOPLE. THEY REFLECT THE ATTITUDES AND VALUES OF A CULTURE. LACK OF UNIFORMITY BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS. CREATOR IS RARELY KNOWN. EACH INDIVIDUAL CAN BECOME A CO-CREATOR THROUGH IMPROV.

WHICH STYLE OF FOLK MUSIC IS UNIQUE FOR THE PRESENCE OF HARMONY?

EUROPEAN

WHAT IS THE TERM FOR THE 5-NOTE SCALE (BLACK KEYS) COMMON IN MOST FOLK MUSIC?

PENTATONIC

WHAT IS THE TERM FOR THE FORM FEATURING DIFFERENT WORDS TO THE SAME MELODY?

STROPHIC

WHICH GENRE FOR SOLO SINGER FEATURES AN EPIC STORY ABOUT SADNESS AND LOVE?

BALLAD

WHICH ETHNIC STYLE, FEATURING MOSTLY FUNCTIONAL DRUM MUSIC, HAS BOTH GIVEN AND RECEIVED LITTLE INFLUENCE DUE TO ITS CULTURAL ISOLATION?

NATIVE AMERICAN

WHICH ETHNIC STYLE FEATURES SPIRITUALS, BLUES, AND VARIOUS PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS?

AFRICAN AMERICAN

WHICH ETHNIC STYLE HAS A WIDE VARIETY DUE TO SPAIN'S ECLECTIC INFLUENCES?

LATIN AMERICAN

WHAT IS THE TERM FOR URBAN INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC WITH STRINGS AND PERCUSSION?

SON

WHICH ETHNIC STYLE, RESTRICTED TO THE SUB-SAHARAN REGION, FEATURES POLYRHYTHM, PERCUSSION, AND CALL AND RESPONSE?

AFRICAN

WHICH ETHNIC STYLE OF NASAL SINGING WITH ORNAMENTATION IS BANNED IN MOSQUES, AND IS SEEN IN MOSTLY CAF�-STYLE PERFORMANCES?

MIDDLE EASTERN

WHICH ETHNIC STYLE STARTED W/PRAYERS ONLY, BUT SINCE 1948, HAS SEEN NEW STYLES BROUGHT IN BY INCOMING IMMIGRANTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD?

JEWISH

WHICH ETHNIC STYLE FEATURES A 2000 YEAR OLD "CLASSICAL MUSIC" TRADITION?

INDIAN

GIVE THE TERM FOR INDIA'S LONGER SCALES W/SPECIAL ROLES.

RAGA

GIVE THE TERM FOR INDIA'S LONG AND COMPLEX RHYTHMIC CYCLES.

TALAS

WHICH ETHNIC STYLE, WHERE ART MUSIC IS BANNED BY THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT, USES PENTATONIC MELODIES AND GONGS, BUT NO BRASS INSTRUMENTS?

CHINESE

WHICH ETHNIC STYLE WAS INHERITED FROM CHINA AND KOREA, BUT IS NOW DOMINATED BY WESTERN STYLES?

JAPANESE

WHICH ETHNIC STYLE OF ONE INDONESIAN ISLAND IS KNOWN FOR ITS LARGE INSTRUMENTAL GROUP?

BALINESE

WHAT BALINESE ENSEMBLE OF 4-30 PERCUSSION AND WIND PLAYERS HAS A UNIQUE, COLORFUL SOUND?

GAMELAN