Music Appreciation Final

An art song is a musical composition for ______.

Who composed the score for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone?

_ began as a kind of accented poetic recitation accompanied by a disk jockey who manipulated recordings on two turntable

A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called ____.

In electronic music, there is no need for ______.

Clara Wieck was _______.

City Scape is a work for orchestra composed by ______.

A ________________ is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was ______.

In chance, or aleatory music, what does the composer do?

A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the ______.

A ____________ is an instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.

Some of Puccini's operas feature exoticism, as in his use of elements from Japanese and Chinese music in his operas ___.

Which rap artist was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music in 2018?

Alan Freed is best remembered as the person who did what?

What was the first big rock and roll hit song?

To what does ostinato refer?

Who was the most famous blues singer of the 1920s, known as the "empress of the blues?"

A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as ______.

What is the typical instrumentation of a rock group?

Which musical is loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

The Habañera and the Toreador Song are two famous arias from which opera?

In music, the early twentieth century was a time of ______.

The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's ______.

How has rock been defined?

Neoclassicism was a reaction against _______.

The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of _______.

Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and ______.

Minimalist music is characterized by ______.

Expressionist composers _______.

Debussy's music tends to ______.

Appalachian Spring originated as a _______.

What city was the epicenter of jazz from about 1900 to 1917?

Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of ______.

The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig ( The Erlking) unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the ______.

Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique______.

The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was ______.

Leonard Bernstein was a well-known _______.

The citizen's sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by ______.

Georges Bizet composed _________, one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the world.

The most important impressionist composer was ______.

The word ___________ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.

Composer John Adams believes that today's composers can draw from ______.

Charles Ives's music contains elements of _______.

The fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a ______.

What is program music?

What does the acronym EDM stand for?

By the age of thirteen, Mendelssohn had written ____________ of astounding quality.

Liszt created the _________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.