Music Final Flashcards
What was the song that we listened to in class from the musical “Showboat”?
Old Man River
Who in invented the electric guitar?
George Beauchamp, (Adolph Rickenbacker)
Who sung “Ragtime” Jazz?
Scott Joplin
Who sung “Blues”?
Bessie Smith
Who sung Dixieland Jazz?
Louis Armstrong
Who created the song “Willie The Weeper”?
Louis Armstrong
What type of music features syncopation?
Ragtime
What type of music features 12 bar blues progression and improvisation?
Blues
What type of music features solos and collective improvisation?
Dixieland
Blues is thought to come over from where?
slaves
What is it when all the performers play together and improvise simultaneously?
collective improvisation
Who was the greatest of the “BEBOP” and was also a saxophone virtuoso?
Charlie Parker , sometimes called “Bird”
Who started “Cool Jazz”, was a trumpet player, and featured jazz improvisation?
Miles Davis
What was the first true American musical and when did it come out?
“Showboat” (1927), ( Broadway musical)
Who wrote “Showboat”?
Jerome Kern
What was the first sound film and when did it come out?
The Jazz Singer (1927)
When was the Big Bands and the “Swing” era?
1930s to WW2 (1945)
What did George Gershwin write?
“The Man I Love” (broadway song), “Porgy and Bess”, and “Rhapsody Blue”
Who wrote the musical “West Side Story”?
Leonard Bernstein
When was “West Side Story” made and when was the movie of it made?
Created (1956), Movie in (1959)
What was the musical “West Side Story” based on?
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Who created the genre of operettas?
Offenbach
The operettas of who became the precursors of Broadway?
Gilbert and Sullivan
What are the names of the operettas created by Gilbert and Sullivan?
“The Pirate of Penzance”, “HMS Pinafore”, and “The Mikado”
