Music Periods 2 Part 1

Duke Ellington moved to what city to pursue a career as a bandleader?

Neo-Classical composers returned to the ideas of form and order from what earlier time period?

Brahms is famous for what piece, which is used to calm young infants?

When a performer makes up music as he/she goes, they are doing what?

What does "bel canto" translate to?

Jazz in the 1930's was a distraction from what low point in American history?

What element of music received the greatest emphasis in the Romantic period?

Monet's paintings were used to create the name of what 20th Century style of music?

To get dreamlike sounds, Debussy used what scale?

What city is associated with the birth of jazz?

What improved how instruments were made in the 19th century?

What word, created by Wagner, means "total art work"?

What did composers in the 20th century begin experimenting with in music?

A tone poem was a Romantic form used to portray what through music?

Brahms and Wagner were both from what country?

What type of atonal music used all notes of the chromatic scale?

Wagner created themes for characters.  What were these called?

What composer is both a Classical AND Romantic composer?

What composer was one of the first Russian composers to be known world-wide?

Beethoven's 9th symphony was the first symphony to feature what?

Who is the main character in the Firebird ballet?