American Music Crossword

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  1. 5. The genre of music where even the composer doesn’t know what the performance will sound like.
  2. 6. Taylor ____________ monopolized the first 14 positions of the Billboard Hot 100 earlier this year.
  3. 7. What kind of man was honored in an extremely popular 1942 fanfare by Aaron Copland?
  4. 9. Who tricked Gershwin into writing Rhapsody in Blue?
  5. 11. What award did Arleen Auger’s recording of Libby Larsen’s Sonnets from the Portuguese win in 1994?
  6. 13. Who is credited with inventing the concept of playing “inside” the piano by touching strings directly without using the keys?
  7. 15. What were the most common instruments among all North American indigenous tribes?
  8. 18. Composer who wrote “nothing” and called it music.
  9. 20. The musical fragment that was the building block of Count Basie’s Kansas City style swing.
  10. 21. What musical activity does the beginning (and ending) of David del Tredici’s Final Alice represent?
  11. 22. What war featured simple music units with just a few drums and fifes?
  12. 23. Where did you get hit in the opening movement of David Lang’s “Are You Experienced”?
  13. 25. What does Woody Guthrie’s guitar kill?
  14. 27. Who was on Robert Johnson’s trail?
  15. 28. What physical infirmity did Art Tatum overcome with his virtuosic keyboard artistry?
  16. 30. To whom was Quincy Jones’ daughter Kidada engaged?
  17. 31. Steve ___________’s Come Out demonstrates the use of recorded clips of speech to create rhythm.
  18. 32. __________ Shaw won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for her Partita for 8 Voices.
  19. 33. Which Creole rhythm was popularized by Louis Moreau Gottschalk in his piano composition of the same name?
  20. 36. What instrument of African origin was played by Taylor Swift in her “Mean” recording and by Rhiannon Giddens in Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold Em’”?
  21. 38. What society first sang the melody that eventually became the Star Spangled Banner?
  22. 40. What was Bessie Smith’s blues royalty title?
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  1. 1. What was the racially offensive entertainment style that dominated much of the popular American music-making of the 19th century?
  2. 2. What barrier did Benny Goodman break by inviting Duke Ellington Count Basie Johnny Hodges and Lionel Hampton to play with his band in Carnegie Hall on January 16 1938?
  3. 3. Composer who created his own instruments and wrote for 53 tones per octave.
  4. 4. Who composed “Chester” and is considered the first important American composer?
  5. 8. John Philip Sousa was considered the king of which musical genre?
  6. 9. What is the last name of the composer of Ain’t Misbehavin’?
  7. 10. What was the district in New Orleans from 1897-1917 where jazz flourished?
  8. 12. What tragedy/crisis serves as the inspiration for John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1?
  9. 14. What kind of question did Charles Ives ask with an aleatoric composition where the string instruments represented the “Silences of the Druids”?
  10. 16. Where Meredith Monk went in Turtle Dreams.
  11. 17. What HBCU is credited with the popularization of the choral spiritual?
  12. 18. What midwestern college granted composer Michael Daugherty an honorary doctorate when he conducted their band playing a movement of his Metropolis Symphony?
  13. 19. What prize did Ellen Taffe Zwilich win with her 1983 Symphony No. 1?
  14. 24. Who wrote the St Louis Blues and the Beale Street Blues?
  15. 26. Terry Riley’s In C represents one of the first works in this genre.
  16. 29. What is the technique of taking a portion of an existing recorded sound and incorporating it into a new musical composition?
  17. 34. Ben Franklin made this musical instrument out of glass and water
  18. 35. What solo piano genre was dominated by Scott Joplin?
  19. 37. John Coltrane wrote this composition based on the rhythms of a speech by Martin Luther King to commemorate four little girls slain in a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1963.
  20. 39. Composer of Ancient Voices of Children with singing into the piano, paperthreaded harp, and musical saw.