feb 17

Question 1

type of theater that uses script acting and spoken dialogue with music singing dancing scenery and costumes

Answer 1

musical or musical comedy

Question 2

conductor pianist author lecturer and composer

Answer 2

Leonard bernstein (1918-1990)

Question 3

uses elements of jazz in orchestration and syncopated rhythms. texture: homophonic/ polyphonic

Answer 3

tonight from west side story

Question 4

certain elements are not precisely specified by the composer, but left to chance- in a way that is usually specified by the composer

Answer 4

chance music

Question 5

american composer- creator of chance music

Answer 5

john cage (1912-1992)

Question 6

shortly after WWII composers began incorporating the sounds of life into their compositions

Answer 6

music concrete

Question 7

greater exploitation of noise like sounds

Answer 7

liberation of sound

Question 8

electronic music with slide show films or light shows

Answer 8

mixed media

Question 9

born in france moved to US
electronic music
Poème électronique

Answer 9

edgard varese ( 1883-1965)

Question 10

major african american performance style that had influenced all of 20th century popular music began around 1910

Answer 10

jazz

Question 11

a spontaneous creation of music

Answer 11

improvisation

Question 12

some of the accents in music are moved away from the main beat

Answer 12

syncopation

Question 13

percussion, piano, and string bass emphases meter forcefully

Answer 13

rhythm section

Question 14

play syncopating music that cuts across the rhythm

Answer 14

melody instruments

Question 15

accents are moved just a fraction of a beat ahead of metrical points swing

Answer 15

beat syncopation

Question 16

a style of piano playing developed by black musicians playing in bars, dives and brothels. left hand is strictly on the beat. right hand has syncopated rhythm in a crisp cheerful way

Answer 16

ragtime

Question 17

leading rag composer; Maple leaf Rag

Answer 17

scott joplin

Question 18

right hand plays the melody and the left hand alternates between the bass notes on the strong beats and chords on the weak beats

Answer 18

stride piano

Question 19

black folk song whose subject is loneliness, trouble, depression, and lost love. emerged in the 1900’s

Answer 19

blues

Question 20

A- line of text
A- line of text
B- new line with last word rhyming with the last word of A

Answer 20

12 bar blues

Question 21

first important center of jazz

Answer 21

new orleans

Question 22

1901-1971– born in poverty in new orleans. cornet, trumpet, and singer

Answer 22

louis armstrong

Question 23

improvising simultaneously

Answer 23

jamming`

Question 24

10-25 players, improvisation was more limited. band orchestration was developed based on the contrast between brass and reeds

Answer 24

big band

Question 25

1899-1974
washington DC
a major bandleader who also composed and arranged

Answer 25

duke ellington

Question 26

jazz style of the 1940s. return to improvisation. new technical virtuosity, very fast playing, percussive sounds and sharp snap rhythms. complex harmonies and difficult to follow chord changes

Answer 26

bebop

Question 27

small group of players trumpet sax rhythm section and piano

Answer 27

combo

Question 28

(the bird) saxophonist bebop’s greatest genius

Answer 28

charlie parker