Week 12 The Color of American Nationalism I

Question 1

H. T. Burleigh

Answer 1

Harry T. Burleigh became a pioneer in arranging spirituals as art music for solo performance

Question 2

Dvorak

Answer 2

Czech composer; He used elements from Czech traditional music to achieve a national idiom. Yet he avoided quotation of Czech tunes, preferring to invoke national styles by using dance rhythms and his own folk-like melodies.

Question 3

Foster

Answer 3

One of the first distinctly American voices
Foster Synthesis
English and Scottish influences in his music. But the main reason he sounded different from his counterparts is because he used African spirituals

Question 4

Gottschalk

Answer 4

Pianist in the nineteenth-century tradition who was creole
Gottschalk synthesis
Includes the virtuoso Romantic tradition of Europe, Native American, and includes Latin American elements

Question 5

Joplin

Answer 5

Leading ragtime composer
Was involved in making operas