Music appreciation Final

Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the

1920s

The first opera created for Television was Gian Carlo menotti’s

Amahl and the night visitors

Recordings of much lesser known music multiplied in 1948 through

the appearance off long playing discs

The most influential organization sponsoring new music after World War 1 was

The international society for contemporary music

The best known American Ensemble created in the 1930s by a radio network to broadcast live music was

The NBC Symphony Orchestra

One of the most important teachers of musical compositions in the twentiethcentury was

Nadia Boulanger

Minimalistic music was characterized by

A steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns

Many composers associated with the serialist movement is

Milton Babbitt

Intervals smaller than the half step are called

Microtones

twelve tone compositional techniques used to organize rhythm, dynamics, tone color, and other dimensions of music to produce totally controlled and organized music are called

Serialism

In chance or aleatoric music, the composer

chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods

Poeme Electronic was designed for the 1958 Brussels World fair in 1958 and was composed in collaboration with the famous architect

Le corbusier

Ellen taaffe zwilich won the 1983 pultizer prize for which of her compositions

symphony no.1

A dominant characteristic of elliott carters musical style is

A precisely regulated tempo changes

around 1940, John Cage invented the Prepared piano, a

Grand piano whose sound is altered by objects like bolts, screws, rubber bands, pieces of felt paper, and plastic inserted in between the strings

John Adams "Short ride in a fast machine" is written for a large orchestra that includes

two synthesizers, a sizzle cymbal, and crotales

Elliott Carter referred to his technique of using precisely regulated tempo changes in his music as

Tempo modulation

Ellen taaffee zwilish’s concerto grosso 1985 is an example of

quotation music

The argentinean composer Astor piazzolla

Created a unique style of concert tango music

John Cage’s Best known work for prepared piano, and one of his most widely performed works is

Sonatas and interludes

Elliot Carters composition shard is written for guitarr and uses a compositional device called a dyad, which is

two tones sounded simultaneously

Ragtime flourished in the united states when

from 1890 to about 1915

a bebop performance generally began and ended with

a statement of the main theme by one or two soloists in unison

The "Front line" of a dixieland group included

clarinet, cornet, trombone, drums, bass, piano and banjo

Cool Jazz

was related to bob but was calmer and more relaxed in character

one of the most important solo instruments of the swing era was the

Saxophone

The most famous blues singer of the 1920s known as the "Empress of blues" was

Bessie Smith

Bebop was

music with sophisticated harmonies and unpredictable rhythms, usually played by a small jazz groups, meant for attentive listening, not dancing

Two notable blues compositions are Memphis blues and St. Louis Blues by

William C. Handy

ragtime is

a style of composed piano music, generally in duple meter, and performed at a moderate march tempo

The most distinctive feature of New Orleans Jazz

it disreguarded regular forms and established chord patterns

Blues music was written in what time

4/4

short repeated melodic phrases frequently used during the swing era are called

riffs

The "King Of Ragtime" is acknowledged to be

Scott Joplin

In bebop, the beat of the music was mainly marked by the

pizziacato bass

A major figure in the development of jazz rock or fusion was

miles davis

the chord progression usually used in the blues involves only three basic chords, tonic, dominant, and

subdominant

The main section of a musical comedy song

Chorus

Type of theatre that fuses script, acting, and spoken dialog with music, singing and dancing and with scenery, costumes, and spectacle

Musical

The introductory section of a musical comedy song

Verse

A variety show without a plot but with a unifying idea

Revenue

Musical theatre work that combines song, spoken dialogue, dance, with sophisticated musical techniques

Operretta

A variety show with songs, comedy, juggling, acrobats, and animal acts, but no plot

Vaudeville

Music synchronized with images on a movie screen

Film Music

Leonard Bernstein was a well known

Conductor, author-lecturer, and composer of orchestral and vocal works

Slaughter on tenth avenue, the ballet used in the climax of on your toes what choreographed by

George Balanchine

West Side Story

Is loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, is set in the slums of New York, and deals with the conflict between gang rivalry and youthful love

The lyrics for west side story were written by

Stephen sondheim

During the Silent Film era various performing media were used to heighten the emotional effect of the movie, They were

Pianists, organists, and orchestras

The sound for the first talking movie, The jazz singer, was recorded on

vinyl Discs

A musical Passage used to accompany film scenes is referred to as an

Cue

In movie scores, musical themes that are associated with specific characters, objects, emotions, or ideas in the film are referred to as

Leitmotiffs

Country and western music

Folklike, guitar based style associated with rural white americans

Heavy metal music

Basic rock with sexually explicit lyrics, bizarre costumes, and tremendous volume

Motown

Blend of Rhythm and blues with popular music

Rhythm and Blues (R&B)

Dance music of African Americans that fused blues, jazz and gospel music

Rap

Rhythmic talking accompanied by recordings creating a collage of rhythmic effect

a typical rock group consists of

Two electric guitars, electric bass, percussion and electric keyboard

The beatles influence on american rock music may be seen through later performers use of

"Classical" and nonwestern instruments, unconventional chord progressions, new electronic and instrumental sounds

The harmonic progression of rock are usually

Quite simple

Rock is based on a powerful beat in quadruple meter with strong accents on

The second and fourth beats of each bar

A method of singing used by males to reach notes higher than their normal range is called

Falsetto

The dominant dance of the 1970s was

Disco