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