Music Appreciation

Leonard Bernstein was a well known ______

In modern music ____

Bebop differed from earlier jazz forms in that it ____

The deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds is known as _____

Three big influences on early jazz were band music, ragtime and ____

While not rejecting any influence, Bela Bartok emphasized that the strongest influence on his music was ____

The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called ____

Minimalism as an artistic movement was a ____

In chance music, what does the composer do?

Impressionist painters were primarily concerned with the effect of light, color, and _____

Duke Ellington was an important figure in _____

To what does ostinato refer?

The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet _____

One of the greatest of all jazz improvisers and a towering figure among bebop musicians was the saxophonist ____

Expressionist composers ______

The composer, conductor, pianist who started as substitute conductor in New York Philharmonic on only a few hours notice

In music, the early twentieth century was a time of ___

Impressionism in music is characterized by ____

The twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion was called ____

The most important impressionist composer was ____

The following can be said about free jazz

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with ____

The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by ____

Cool Jazz ____

The bebop musician who spearheaded developments in cool jazz and then jazz rock is ____

The use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time is known as ____

Charles Ives's father was a(n) _____

Bela Bartok was a leading authority on ____

Early Rock grew mainly out of __ a dance music of African Americans that fused blues, jazz, and gospel styles

A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading ethnomusicologist of his native land was _____

The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as ____

The immediate sources of jazz include _____

Aaron Copeland was born in _____

The major center of jazz from about 1900 to 1917 was ____

Minimalist music is characterized by _____

Around 1940, John Cage invented the prepared piano, a(n) _____

the most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of ___

The twelve-tone composer whose style was most imitated in the 1950's and 1960's was ____