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