Unit 6

Front 1

_______ consist of syncopated melody that was related to a favorite dance called the Cakewalk

Back 1

Ragtime

Front 2

The revolutionaries who have radically altered not only the traditional methods of composing and presenting music but also the very concept of what constitutes music as opposed to noise are called

Back 2

Experimentalist

Front 3

It is the ______ of much 20th century music that many listeners find particularly challenging.

Back 3

Dissonance

Front 4

______ studied composition with three important revolutionaries: Schoenberg, Varese, and Cowell

Back 4

John Cage

Front 5

In the mid -1930s, Aaron Copland went through a change of style that included all of the following except

Back 5

Incorporating jazz elements into his music

Front 6

An instrument that allows a composer to produce imitative, altered, or original sounds is called a(n)

Back 6

Synthesizer

Front 7

Music in which there is no dominance of or momentum toward a tonic pitch, like that written by Schoeberg, is called

Back 7

Atonal

Front 8

In addition to his talents as a composer and scholar, Bartok was also an accomplished

Back 8

Pianist

Front 9

Boogie - woo guess has an improvised, syncopated melody over a distinctive, rhythmic _________ repeated in the bass

Back 9

Ostinato

Front 10

______ is considered the first modern jazz

Back 10

Bebop

Front 11

Philip Glass has evolved a style of music which is sometimes referred to as

Back 11

Minimalism

Front 12

In 1912, Schoenberg wrote a ______ called Puerto Lunaire (The Moonstone Pierrot).

Back 12

Song cycle

Front 13

_______, best known for his powerful symphonies, used a huge orchestra and extensive range of orchestra colors

Back 13

Gustav Mahler

Front 14

Is often referred to as America's only truly original music, representative of its personality and soul

Back 14

Jazz

Front 15

The father of 20th century Neoclassical is

Back 15

Igor Stravinsky

Front 16

Singer before he became a composer

Back 16

Samuel Barber

Front 17

The classic form of the blues

Back 17

Is strophic

Front 18

The following were all characteristics of French composer Debussy except

Back 18

He scrupulously maintained the distinction between major and minor modes

Front 19

A definition of music concrete is music

Back 19

In which all sounds are considered valid

Front 20

All of the following facts are true regarding William Grant Still except

Back 20

He was accepted as a serious composer right from the beginning

Front 21

Although it was closely related to the vocal model the piano Blues also known as, is happy in mood and brisk in tempo

Back 21

Boogie- woogie

Front 22

An inventive nature plus an unconventional upbringing destined ____ to become an experimentalist who made his living selling insurance

Back 22

Charles Ives

Front 23

Compose far-reaching experiments that extended the range of timbres that may be produced by a grand piano

Back 23

Henry Cowell

Front 24

Evolved in the American South sometime after the Civil War as newly emancipated black struggling in a hostile environment lamented their hard lot in a new firm of solo song

Back 24

The blues

Front 25

For Bela Bartok, the folk music of _____ provided the most refreshing and provocative stimulus for the composition of art music

Back 25

Eastern Europe