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Terms
This art form is defined as “sound organized in
time.”
music
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Terms
This style of music is composed during performance.
improvisation
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3
Styles And
Genres
The curriculum focuses on this musical tradition.
music of the Western World
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4
Terms
These two variables affect sound waves.
amplitude and frequency
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5
Terms
Sound waves are louder when this sound variable is
higher.
amplitude
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6
Terms
The greater the frequency, the higher this sound
characteristic becomes.
pitch
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7
Sounds
The human ear hears sounds in this range as single
sustained tones.
20 to 20,000 Hz
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8
Sounds
Orchestral musicians commonly tune to this
frequency.
440 Hz
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9
Terms
This unit of measurement describes the frequency of
sound waves.
Hz (cycles per second)
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10
Terms
These two categories describe the quality of the pitch
content of a musical sound.
pitched and non-pitched
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11
Terms
This term refers to scholars who study music from
other cultures or compare musical cultures.
ethnomusicologist
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12
People
These two people created the commonly used
instrument classification system.
Curt Sachs and Erich von
Hornbostel
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13
Instruments
This Hornbostel-Sachs category includes string
instruments.
chordophone
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Instruments
This Hornbostel-Sachs category includes the oboe.
aerophone
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Instruments
This Hornbostel-Sachs category contains instruments
whose sound is caused by vibrating a stretched
membrane.
membranophone
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Instruments
This Hornbostel-Sachs category includes the
vibraphone.
idiophone
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Instruments
This Hornbostel-Sachs category contains instruments
that create a sound wave mechanically and require
electricity.
electrophone
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Instruments
This orchestral family includes instruments that are
bowed or plucked.
strings/string instruments
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Instruments
This orchestral family contains the French Horn.
brass instruments
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Instruments
This orchestral family includes membranophones and
idiophones.
percussion instruments
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21
Instruments
This orchestral family contains the saxophone.
woodwind instruments
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People
This person invented the theremin.
Leon Theremin
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Styles And
Genres
This style of composition uses manipulated
recordings of live sounds.
musique concrète
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24
Places
The first practitioners of musique concrète lived in
this city.
Paris
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25
Terms
These two techniques are fundamental to tape music.
looping and splicing
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Terms
An isolated musical sound has these four properties.
pitch, duration, volume, and
timbre
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Terms
This characteristic describes the highness or lowness
of a sound.
pitch
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Terms
This definition describes a pitch.
a single tone whose frequency
remains constant
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29
Sounds
The pitch an octave below A-440 has this frequency.
A-220
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Terms
This interval is sounded when a string is plucked,
divided in half, and plucked again.
an octave
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Terms
This interval is the distance between a C and the
next-higher C.
an octave
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Items
This side of the keyboard contains the lower pitches.
the left
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Terms
This interval is the distance between two adjacent
keys on a keyboard.
a half step or semi-tone
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Terms
This definition describes a scale.
a sequence of notes in ascending
or descending order
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Terms
This interval is equal to two half steps.
whole step
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Terms
Whole steps, half steps, fifths, and octaves are all
examples of this term.
intervals
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Terms
This term is synonymous with a half step.
semi-tone
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Notation
The # sign represents this accidental.
sharp
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Notation
The b sign represents this accidental.
flat
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Notation
Adding the # sign to a note signals this pitch
alteration.
raises the pitch by a half step
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Notation
Adding the b sign to a note signals this pitch
alteration.
lowers the pitch by a half step
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Items
C, D, E, and F are all examples of this color of key on
the keyboard.
white keys
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Items
C#, A#, Gb, and Eb are all examples of this color of
key on the keyboard.
black keys
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Sounds
This tone is the strongest sound wave generated
when a string is plucked.
the fundamental
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Sounds
These other frequencies are faintly present when a
note is sounded.
partials or overtones
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Terms
This term is synonymous with partials.
overtones
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Sounds
The fundamental is equivalent to this ordinal
harmonic.
first harmonic
11,Figure 1-3
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Sounds
The third harmonic is equivalent to this ordinal
overtone.
second overtone
11,Figure 1-3
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Sounds
The second overtone is this interval above the
fundamental.
an octave and a fifth (thirteenth)
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Sounds
The fourth harmonic is this interval above the
fundamental.
two octaves
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Terms
This tuning system is used in the Western tradition
after 1750.
equal temperament
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Terms
Equal temperament divides an octave into this many
equal parts.
twelve
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Terms
This interval is the distance between B and C.
half step
12,Figure 1-5
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Terms
This interval is another term for a minor second
(m2).
half step or semi-tone
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Terms
This scale contains the twelve pitches in ascending
order.
chromatic scale
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Terms
These two terms are used to describe a diminished
fifth (d5).
augmented fourth (aug4), tritone
(TT)
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Terms
This term describes the relationship between Db and
C# or F# and Gb.
enharmonic pitches
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Sounds
In Western music, most scales consist of this many
pitches.
seven
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Sounds
This scale is the most common scale in Western
music.
C Major
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Terms
This pitch in a major scale must resolve up to an
octave.
leading tone
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Terms
This term describes scale degree seven.
leading tone
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Terms
This term describes the most important pitch in a
major or minor scale.
the tonic, scale degree 1
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Sounds
This pitch is the tonic of an F major scale.
F
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Terms
This term describes E in an E major scale.
tonic pitch
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Terms
This term describes the second most important pitch
in a major scale.
dominant pitch
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Terms
This pitch is a point of repose in a scale or melody.
tonic pitch
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Sounds
This pitch is the dominant in the key of C major.
G
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Sounds
This pitch is the leading tone in the key of C major.
B
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Terms
This term is defined as the distance between two
pitches.
interval
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Terms
This unit of measurement can be used to describe
any interval.
half step
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Terms
This interval spans five half steps.
perfect fourth (P4)
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Terms
The major sixth (M6) contains this many half steps.
nine
13, Table 2
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Terms
This pitch is a perfect fifth (P5) above B.
F#
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Terms
This interval describes the distance from Eb up to
Gb.
minor third (m3)
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Terms
This pitch is a major third (M3) above A.
C#
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Terms
Two pitches sound simultaneously in this type of
interval.
harmonic
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Terms
Two pitches sound successively in this type of
interval.
melodic
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Terms
Melodic intervals include these two directional types.
ascending and descending
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Terms
The interval spanning an octave and a minor third
has this number of half steps.
15
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Terms
The interval spanning an octave and a major second
has this number of half steps.
14
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Terms
A scale can be described as a succession of these two
intervals.
whole steps and half steps
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Sounds
These two scale degrees contain the first whole step
in a major scale.
scale degrees 1 and 2
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Sounds
These two scale degrees contain the first half step in
a major scale.
scale degrees 3 and 4
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Sounds
These two scale degrees contain the second half step
in a major scale.
scale degrees 7 and 8
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Sounds
This pitch is the seventh scale degree in a G major
scale.
F#
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Sounds
This sequence of intervals is used to build any major
scale.
WWHWWWH
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Details
These two reasons explain why the seventh scale of
D major is spelled C#.
use of a different letter for every
pitch of scale and distance of a
whole step between B and C#
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Sounds
This pitch is the third scale degree in an A major
scale.
C#
15,Figure 1-8
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Sounds
The A major scale has this many sharps.
3
15,Figure 1-8
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Sounds
This many different major scales exist in Western
music.
12
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Terms
Minor scales exist in these three varieties.
natural minor, harmonic minor,
melodic minor
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Sounds
All three varieties of minor scale feature this lowered
scale degree.
lowered scale degree 3
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Sounds
All three minor scales contain half steps in these two
places.
between 2 and 3, and 5 and 6
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Sounds
This sequence of intervals is used to build any
natural minor scale.
WHWWHWW
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Terms
This variety of minor scale has an augmented second
(aug2) between scale degrees 6 and 7.
harmonic minor
16,Figure 1-9
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Terms
This variety of minor scale’s ascent involves different
pitches from its descent.
melodic minor
16,Figure 1-9
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Terms
This term describes the relationship of C minor to
Eb major.
relative minor
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Terms
This term describes the relationship of Eb major to
C minor.
relative major
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Terms
This term describes the relationship of A minor to A
major.
parallel minor
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100
Terms
This term describes the relationship between C
major and C minor.
parallel major
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Details
Relative scales are more closely related than parallel
scales for this reason.
same pitch content
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Terms
This term describes a scale containing both major
and minor scale elements.
scale with blues inflections
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Terms
This type of scale may feature pitches unplayable on
a piano.
blues scale
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Terms
This term describes a series of consecutive pitches
that are heard as complete.
melody
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Terms
One of these two elements is present if multiple
pitches sound simultaneously in a melody.
harmony or counterpoint
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Terms
This type of scale is used in the song “Happy
Birthday.”
major
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Terms
This method moves a melody into a new key.
transposition
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Terms
This term refers to a melody’s shape or profile.
contour
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Terms
This term describes a smooth, stepwise melody.
conjunct
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Terms
“The Star Spangled Banner” contains this kind of
melodic motion.
disjunct
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Terms
This term describes a melody with frequent leaps.
disjunct
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Terms
“Row, Row, Row Your Boat” contains this kind of
melodic motion.
conjunct
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Sounds
This pitch interval is the largest interval that is not a
melodic leap.
major second (M2)
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Terms
A melody has these three possible directions.
ascending, descending, wave-like
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Terms
This term describes an instrument’s possible pitches.
range
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Terms
This term describes a portion of an instrument’s
range.
register
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Terms
This term describes a melody with many pitches in
the high register.
high tessitura
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Terms
A melody with a low tessitura mainly uses this
portion of a performer’s range.
low register
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Terms
The first notes played by the bassoon in Rite of
Spring are in this register.
high register
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Terms
This musical characteristic describes music’s
organization over time.
rhythm
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Terms
This term describes the steady pulse underlying most
music.
beat
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Terms
This term describes the speed of the beat in a
musical work.
tempo
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Terms
This tempo marking means “slow” in Italian.
adagio
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Terms
This tempo marking means “very fast” in Italian.
presto
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Terms
The tempo marking andante has this meaning.
at a walking tempo
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Terms
The tempo marking allegro has this meaning.
happy/fast
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Terms
The markings lento, moderato, and allegro describe
this musical characteristic.
tempo
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Terms
This term indicates a decrease in tempo.
ritardando
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Terms
This term indicates an increase in tempo.
accelerando
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Terms
This phrase indicates a gradual musical change.
poco a poco
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Terms
This term indicates a sudden musical change.
subito
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Terms
This term describes music without a steady tempo.
unmetered
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Terms
This term describes music with a pulse that
fluctuates for expressive effect.
rubato
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Terms
This term describes a group of beats.
measure, bar
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Notation
These marks separate measures.
bar lines
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Terms
This beat of a measure is always the strongest.
first beat, downbeat
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Terms
The downbeat of a measure occurs on this beat.
first beat
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Terms
This term describes the pattern of emphasis in a
group of beats.
meter
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Terms
This meter occurs in music using groups of two and
four beats.
duple meter
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Terms
This beat is the second strongest in a measure with
four beats.
beat 3
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Terms
The song “It’s a Long Way to Tipperary” is in this
meter.
duple meter
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Terms
The song “Happy Birthday” is in this meter.
triple meter
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Terms
The song “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” is in this
meter.
triple meter
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Terms
This term is used for music that begins before the
downbeat.
pickup, anacrusis
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Terms
This term is another word for a pickup.
anacrusis
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Notation
This musical characteristic is notated in the note’s
head color and flags.
rhythm/duration
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Notation
This symbol indicates the meter of a musical work.
time signature
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Notation
The lower number of a time signature indicates this
characteristic.
durational value of beat
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Notation
The upper number of a time signature indicates this
characteristic.
number of beats in a measure
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Notation
A black note head with a stem but no flag represents
this rhythmic value.
quarter note
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Notation
A black note head with a stem and one flag
represents this rhythmic value.
eighth note
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Notation
A white note head with a stem represents this
rhythmic value.
half note
19,Figure 1-13
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Notation
A white note head with no stem represents this
rhythmic value.
whole note
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Notation
This many quarter notes equal the value of a whole
note.
4
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Notation
This many sixteenth notes equal the value of an
eighth note.
2
19,Figure 1-13
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Notation
This rhythmic value is equal to three half notes.
dotted whole note
19,Figure 1-13
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Notation
This rhythmic value is equal to eight thirty-second
notes
quarter note
19,Figure 1-13
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Notation
This rhythmic value is equal to a half note and a
quarter note.
dotted half note
19,Figure 1-13
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Terms
Simple meter divides the beat into this number of
equal parts.
two equal parts
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Terms
Compound meter divides the beat into this number
of equal parts.
three equal parts
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Terms
A 6/8 time signature is considered this type of
meter.
compound meter
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Sounds
This time signature reflects the meter actually
performed in a swing piece notated in 4/4.
12/8
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Terms
This style of meter is used in pieces that frequently
change time signature.
mixed meter
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Terms
This style of meter features different meters
alternating in an irregular pattern.
irregular or asymmetrical meter
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Terms
This rhythmic characteristic is present in music with
multiple simultaneous meters.
polymeter
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Terms
In this rhythmic characteristic, emphasized notes fall
on weak beats.
syncopation
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Terms
Ragtime heavily features this rhythmic characteristic.
syncopation
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Terms
This characteristic is present in music with two
simultaneous conflicting rhythmic patterns.
polyrhythm/cross-rhythm
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Terms
This characteristic of polyrhythm differs from
polymeter.
unchanged meter
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Terms
This musical characteristic occurs when multiple
notes sound simultaneously.
harmony
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Terms
This system of pitch and harmonic organization is
the most intuitive to Western cultures.
common-practice tonality
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Terms
This harmony occurs when three or more pitches
sound together.
chord
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Terms
This type of chord uses three notes presented as
stacked thirds.
triad
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Terms
This triad type has a major third on the bottom and
minor third on top.
major triad
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Terms
This triad type has a minor third on the bottom and
major third on top.
minor triad
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Terms
This triad type has two minor thirds.
diminished triad
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Terms
This triad type has two major thirds.
augmented triad
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Terms
This pitch is the lowest in a root position triad.
the root
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Terms
This pitch is the middle pitch in a root position
triad.
the third
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Terms
This pitch is the highest in a root position triad.
the fifth
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Terms
The chord is in this inversion when the root is on
the bottom.
root position
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Terms
The chord is in this inversion when the third is on
the bottom.
first inversion
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Terms
The chord is in this inversion when the fifth is on
the bottom.
second inversion
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Terms
This pitch is on the bottom in a first inversion
chord.
the third
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Terms
This pitch is on the bottom in a second inversion
chord.
the fifth
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Notation
This symbol indicates a first inversion chord.
6 following the chord
22,1,2
6
4
following the chord
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Notation
This symbol indicates a second inversion chord.
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Terms
This pitch determines the inversion of a triad.
the bottom pitch
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Terms
A C major triad with a G on the bottom is in this
inversion.
second inversion
22,Figure 1-18
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Sounds
This key is used in pieces based on an E major scale.
E major
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Terms
This term determines the pitch relationships in a
musical piece or section.
key
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Items
This definition applies to chromatic pitches.
pitches foreign to the key
signature
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Terms
This term refers to the set of accidentals at the
beginning of a musical work.
key signature
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Terms
An F# in the key signature has this meaning.
all Fs are F#s unless otherwise
indicated
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Notation
A single sharp in the key signature may represent
these two keys.
G major and E minor
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Notation
These four types of scales have the same key
signatures.
natural minor, harmonic minor,
melodic minor, and relative major
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Notation
This major key signature has one flat.
F major
23,Figure 1-19
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Notation
This major key signature has two sharps.
D major
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Notation
This major key signature has two flats.
Bb major
23,Figure 1-19
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Notation
This major key signature has three sharps.
A major
23,Figure 1-19
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Notation
This major key signature has three flats.
Eb major
23,Figure 1-19
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Terms
This diagram shows the relationship between key
signatures.
circle of fifths
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Terms
This term describes a series of chords or intervals
that moves towards resolution.
harmonic progression
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Terms
This harmonic quality describes a tense unstable
pitch, interval, or chord.
dissonance
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Terms
This harmonic quality describes a restful pitch,
interval, or chord.
consonance
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Terms
A major triad sounds restful because of this
harmonic quality.
consonance
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Terms
A tritone needs to resolve because of this harmonic
quality.
dissonance
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Terms
This term means “within the keys.”
diatonic
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Terms
This indicator shows that a triad is diatonic.
no accidentals outside key
signature
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Terms
This term is the opposite of diatonic.
chromatic
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Terms
The tonic triad is built on this scale degree.
scale degree 1
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Sounds
These diatonic triads are major in major keys.
I, IV, V
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Sounds
These diatonic triads are minor in major keys.
ii, iii, vi
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Sounds
The triad built on scale degree 7 in a major key has
this quality.
diminished
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Notation
Major triads are labeled with these symbols.
capital Roman numerals
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Notation
Minor triads are labeled with these symbols.
lower-case Roman numerals
27,1,0
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Terms
This chord is the most important chord in a key.
tonic chord
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Terms
This chord is the second most important chord in a
key.
dominant chord
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Sounds
These two pitches in the dominant chord resolve to
the tonic.
the root (scale degree 5) and the
third (scale degree 7)
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Terms
These harmonies lead to the dominant.
pre-dominant harmonies
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Sounds
These two chords are the most common predominant harmonies.
ii and IV
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Terms
The supertonic refers to this scale degree.
scale degree 2
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Terms
This term refers to scale degree 4.
subdominant
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Terms
This term refers to a chain of triads.
chord progression
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Terms
These two chord progressions are examples of predominant-dominant-tonic progression.
ii-V-I and IV-V-I
27,1,3
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Terms
Chords are often inverted to improve this
characteristic.
voice leading
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This line is the lowest voice in a series of chords.
bass line
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Sounds
The strongest sounding bass line descends from this
scale degree to the tonic.
scale degree 5
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Terms
This chord type results from adding a stacked third
on top of a dominant triad.
dominant seventh chord
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Terms
A dominant seventh chord consists of these four
scale degrees.
scale degrees 5, 7, 2, and 4
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Sounds
This interval creates tension in dominant seventh
chords.
tritone
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Sounds
Scale degree 4 in a dominant seventh chord always
resolves to this scale degree.
scale degree 3
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Terms
Using chords from the parallel minor results in this
harmonic characteristic.
modal mixture
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Terms
An F minor triad in C major is an example of this
harmonic characteristic.
modal mixture
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Terms
This type of minor scale has no leading tone.
natural minor
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Terms
This term refers to a change of key in a piece.
modulation
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Terms
Modulating from C major to F major is simple for
this reason.
closely related keys
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Terms
Modulating from C major to B major is difficult for
this reason.
not closely related keys
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Sounds
Romantic composers created harmonic complexity in
these two ways.
more chromatic harmonies and
delaying resolution to tonic
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Genres
This period’s main harmonic concern was the
resolution of dissonance.
common practice period
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People
This composer called for the “emancipation of the
dissonance.”
Arnold Schoenberg
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This type of music lacks a fixed tonal center.
atonal music
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Terms
Arnold Schoenberg developed this system of pitch
organization to replace scales.
twelve-tone method
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Terms
This term describes an ordering of the twelve
chromatic pitches for 20th century music.
tone row
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People
These two composers were the most famous
protégés of Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg and Anton Webern
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Terms
This harmonic characteristic occurs when common
practice chords are used but not resolved.
non-functional harmony
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Terms
Music with two different keys occurring
simultaneously has this trait.
polytonality
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Terms
This musical texture consists of a single,
unaccompanied melodic line.
monophony
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Terms
This musical texture consists of a melodic line with
accompaniment.
homophony
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Terms
This musical texture consists of two or more
simultaneous melodic lines.
polyphony
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Terms
This musical characteristic describes the number of
melodic lines occurring simultaneously in a piece.
texture
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Terms
This term refers to multiple instruments playing the
same pitches at the same time.
unison
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Terms
This musical texture features multiple instruments
playing slightly different versions of a melody.
heterophony
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Terms
This texture is very rare in Western music, but
occurs in “Dippermouth Blues.”
heterophony
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Terms
This type of polyphony has independent melodies
following the same beat and chord progressions.
counterpoint
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Terms
This type of polyphony features one melody played
by multiple people at staggered intervals.
imitative polyphony
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Terms
This musical feature refers to the array of
instruments involved in a piece of music.
instrumentation
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Terms
This type of composition rescores a pre-existing
piece for a different instrumentation.
arranging
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Terms
This musical characteristic changes based on the
materials and shape of the instrument used.
timbre
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Terms
This musical characteristic deals with the relative
volume of sounds in a piece of music.
dynamics
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Terms
This musical term describes a gradual increase in
dynamics.
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This musical term describes a gradual decrease in
dynamics.
decrescendo
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Terms
This musical dynamic marking means “quietly” in
Italian.
piano
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Terms
The abbreviation mf stands for this musical dynamic
marking.
mezzoforte
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Terms
This musical dynamic marking means “very loud” in
Italian.
fortissimo
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Terms
The abbreviation ppp stands for this musical
dynamic marking.
pianississimo
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Terms
The musical dynamic marking mezzopiano has this
meaning
“somewhat quietly”
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Terms
The musical dynamic marking forte has this
meaning.
“loud”
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Terms
This musical characteristic describes the way a note
is started and ended.
articulation
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Terms
This term refers to a crisp, separated articulation on
a musical note.
staccato
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Terms
This term refers to a smooth, connected articulation
on a musical note.
legato
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Terms
This term refers to a stressed but unaccented
articulation on a musical note.
tenuto
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Terms
This term refers to an articulation caused by
plucking a bowed string instrument.
pizzicato
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Terms
This term refers to embellishments added to a
melody.
ornamentation
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Terms
This term refers to the large-scale structure of a
musical work.
form
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Terms
This term refers to a small recurring musical idea.
motive
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Terms
This melodic or rhythmic motive repeats multiple
times in immediate succession.
ostinato
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Terms
This term refers to a cohesive musical thought.
phrase
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Terms
This term refers to the first inconclusive phrase in a
phrase pair.
antecedent phrase
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Terms
This term refers to the second conclusive phrase in a
phrase pair.
consequent phrase
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Terms
An antecedent phrase sounds inconclusive for this
reason.
ending on a dominant harmony
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Terms
A consequent phrase sounds conclusive for this
reason.
ending on a tonic harmony
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This term describes a resting point in music, or a
conclusive phrase end.
cadence
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Terms
This cadence type ends in a dominant harmony.
half cadence
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Terms
This cadence type ends in a tonic harmony.
authentic cadence (full cadence)
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Terms
This term refers to a set of phrases that make up a
complete melody.
theme
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Terms
This musical section precedes the first theme of a
piece.
introduction
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Terms
This concluding section follows the main body of a
piece of music.
coda
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Terms
This musical element occurs when a motive is
repeated in a different pitch.
sequence
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Notation
Sections of music are labeled in this manner when
describing musical form.
capital letters
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Forms
This musical form begins with a theme that is
repeated several times with significant changes.
theme and variations
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Notation
Variations of a theme are labeled with this notation.
prime marking (‘) on the capital
letter
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Forms
This variation is common in blues music.
twelve-bar blues
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Terms
This chord progression describes the basic 12-bar
blues pattern.
I-I-I-I-IV-IV-I-I-V-V-I-I
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Forms
This term refers to a simple form using contrasting
sections.
ternary form
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Forms
These capital letters describe a ternary form.
ABA
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Forms
This form is common in the middle movements of
multi-movement musical works.
ternary form
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Forms
First movements of larger musical works often use
this form.
sonata form
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Forms
This form consists of contrasting sections with one
recurring section.
rondo form
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Forms
The chorus of “I Got Rhythm” has this musical form.
32-bar form
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Forms
These capital letters represent a 32-bar form.
AABA
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Forms
The formal scheme aBaBaB represents this form.
verse-chorus form
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Terms
This term refers to the primary theme in a fugue.
fugue subject
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Terms
A fugue primarily uses this developmental technique.
imitative counterpoint
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Terms
These three sections make up a sonata form
movement.
exposition, development, and
recapitulation
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Sounds
The sonata form involves this many main musical
ideas.
two
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Sounds
The first theme of a sonata form is presented in this
key.
tonic
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Sounds
The second theme of a sonata form is usually
presented in this key.
dominant
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Terms
This part of a sonata form occurs between the
themes in the exposition.
transition
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Terms
This section of a sonata form presents the main
themes and modulates.
exposition
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Terms
This section of a sonata form is harmonically
unstable and ends on a dominant chord.
development
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Terms
This section of a sonata form presents both themes
in the tonic without modulation.
recapitulation
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Terms
This term refers to a shorter, distinct part of a larger
musical work.
movement
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Forms
This multi-movement form is the most common in
Western art music.
sonata cycle
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Forms
The third movement of a sonata cycle frequently has
this form.
minuet and trio
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Terms
This subfield studies how music sounded when it
was written.
performance practice
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Styles And
Genres
This musical period lasted from 800 to 1400.
Middle Ages/Medieval period
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Terms
The Middle Ages musical period is dated from 800
for this reason.
emergence of the earliest music
notations
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Details
The Catholic Church led the development of music
notation for this reason.
desire to standardize music across
Holy Roman Empire
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Styles And
Genres
This musical style period lasted from 1400 to 1600.
Renaissance period
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Styles And
Genres
This musical period is traditionally considered to
range from 1600 to 1750.
Baroque period
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Styles And
Genres
Johann Sebastian Bach composed during this musical
period.
Baroque period
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Styles And
Genres
This musical period lasted approximately from 1750
to 1830.
Classical period
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Styles And
Genres
This musical period lasted approximately from 1830
to 1900.
Romantic period
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Styles And
Genres
This musical period began in 1900.
Modern era
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Terms
This term refers to the group of enduring concert
pieces that audiences continue to enjoy.
the canon
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Styles And
Genres
This classification includes the music of Gustav
Mahler, Richard Strauss, and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
post-Romantic
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Terms
Timbre is also referred to by this name.
tone color
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People
This Philadelphia Orchestra conductor was
particularly influential in shaping American musical
tastes.
Leopold Stokowski
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Items
Prior to speech, wireless technology was capable of
sending these signals.
Morse code
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People
This person is considered to have presented the first
radio broadcasts.
Lee De Forest
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People
This singer performed in the first radio broadcasts.
Enrico Caruso
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Items
1910 saw the introduction of these kinds of wireless
transmissions.
radio broadcasts
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Events
This event caused the passage of the “Radio Act of
1912.”
sinking of the Titanic
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Events
The American government shut down private radio
operations on April 7, 1917 for this reason.
World War I
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Items
1920 saw the introduction of this kind of radio
broadcasts.
commercial radio
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People
This person created the first known acoustic
recording.
Thomas Edison
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Items
This type of recording was prevalent in the 1890s,
wax cylinders
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Items
This type of recording was prevalent by 1910.
78 rpms
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Works
This piece became the first album.
Beethoven’s Symphony #5
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Groups
This symphony orchestra recorded the first album.
the Berlin Philharmonic
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Items
Soldiers listened to musical recordings in World War
I with this device.
portable gramophone
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Groups
This manufacturer marketed a “trench model”
portable gramophone during World War I.
Decca
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People
This person recorded over 2,000 Native American
melodies.
Francis Densmore
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Details
Folk or ethnic music on early recordings may not be
“authentic” for this reason.
sped up or truncated because of
limited space on the device
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Details
Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók had these two
professions.
ethnomusicology and composition
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People
This inventor was one of the first successful
experimenters with moving pictures.
Thomas Edison
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Items
This Edison invention allowed one person to view
silent images.
Kinetoscope
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Items
This Edison invention allowed one person to view
silent images while hearing music on headphones.
Kinetophone
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Sounds
Music often was provided with silent films in this
way.
live musicians
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Items
This type of technology attempted to coordinate a
silent film projector with a gramophone.
“sound-on-disc”
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Items
This type of technology attempted to embed sound
in a filmstrip.
“sound-on-film”
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Items
This Lee De Forest invention permitted louder sound
amplification.
vacuum tube
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Works
This feature film was the first to have spoken
dialogue.
The Jazz Singer
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Items
In 1927 this new feature was added to feature films.
sound
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Styles And
Genres
This musical period has the least amount of broad
stylistic coherence.
Modern era
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Works
Erik Satie wrote this piece in response to criticism
that his pieces lacked form.
Three Pieces in the Form of A
Pear
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People
This early twentieth-century French composer wrote
music that deliberately mocked musical expectations
of the past.
Erik Satie
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Terms
This term refers to musical compositions that
consciously attempt to break with the past.
avant-garde music
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Styles And
Genres
Widespread interest in experimentation characterizes
this musical period.
Modern era
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People
This composer used tone clusters in The Tides of
Manaunaun.
Henry Cowell
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Terms
This compositional technique uses tight groups of
pitches.
tone clusters
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People
This painter initiated the French Impressionist
movement.
Claude Monet
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Works
This 1872 Monet painting began the Impressionist
movement.
Impression: Sunrise
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Styles And
Genres
Manet, Renoir, Degas, and Turner belonged to this
artistic movement.
Impressionism
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Styles And
Genres
This artistic movement privileges light and color over
line and often features landscapes.
Impressionism
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People
This art critic strongly denounced Impressionist
paintings.
Louis Leroy
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Terms
This scale is common in Impressionist music and
does not contain any half steps.
whole-tone scale
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Sounds
The whole tone scale has no pull to the tonic for this
reason.
no half step between scale
degrees 7 and 8
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Styles And
Genres
Musical Impressionism is often linked to this literary
movement.
Symbolism
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People
These four poets were the major Symbolist writers.
Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine,
Stéphane Mallarmé, and Albert
Giraud
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People
This Frenchman is the composer most closely
associated with Impressionism.
Claude Debussy
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Works
This Debussy orchestral piece is based on a Mallarmé
poem.
Prelude to the Afternoon of a
Faun
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People
This composer was the first woman to win the
prestigious Prix de Rome.
Lili Boulanger
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People
This famous French contemporary of Claude
Debussy also composed Impressionist works.
Maurice Ravel
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People
This Italian composer used Impressionist ideas in his
piece Fountains of Rome.
Ottorino Respighi
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Places
“The White Peacock” is a piece by a composer from
this country.
United States
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People
This American composer introduced Impressionist
music to the United States.
Charles Griffes
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Works
In 1909, Claude Debussy composed this book of solo
piano pieces.
Préludes, Book 1
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Works
Debussy’s “Voiles” is a piece from this book of
Préludes.
Book 1
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Works
These three pieces are particularly famous
movements of Debussy’s Préludes.
“Voiles”, “The Sunken Cathedral”
and “The Girl with the Flaxen
Hair”
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Styles And
Genres
The descriptive titles of the movements of Debussy’s
Préludes classify them as this kind of music.
character pieces
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Terms
Character pieces are often called by this name
because of their length.
miniatures
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People
Claude Debussy acknowledged this composer in
titling some solo piano music Préludes.
Frédéric Chopin
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Events
Claude Debussy published the first Préludes book in
1910 to mark this event.
Frédéric Chopin’s 100th birthday
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Details
The meaning of the title of Debussy’s “Voiles” is
unclear for these two reasons.
its ending of a movement with
ellipses and the word being either
a plural of veil or sail
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Forms
The form of Debussy’s “Voiles” falls into this
common structure.
ABA
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Sounds
The middle section of Debussy’s “Voiles” features this
scale.
pentatonic
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Terms
This term describes a rapid sweeping gesture of
notes often used on the harp.
glissando
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Styles And
Genres
This early twentieth-century artistic movement
depicts extreme, distorted emotions.
Expressionism
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Styles And
Genres
This artistic movement features non-naturalistic
colors and exaggerated or distorted shapes.
Expressionism
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Works
This painting is the most widely known Expressionist
artwork.
The Scream
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People
This Expressionist composer was also a painter.
Arnold Schoenberg
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People
This composer felt that “art comes not from ability
but from necessity”.
Arnold Schoenberg
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Styles And
Genres
This musical style features dissonance, avoidance of
clear cadences, and erratic or forceful rhythms.
Expressionism
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Places
This city was the center of Expressionism.
Vienna
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Works
Schoenberg wrote this piece for singer and orchestra
in 1909.
Erwartung
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Groups
Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Alban Berg
were known collectively by this name.
the Second Viennese School
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Works
This piece is Webern’s most famous Expressionist
work.
Five Pieces for Orchestra, op. 10
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Works
This piece is Berg’s most famous Expressionist work.
Wozzeck
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Works
In 1912, Schoenberg composed this song cycle.
Pierrot Lunaire
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Terms
The name Pierrot comes from this theatrical
tradition.
commedia dell’arte
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Details
This theme is a central concern of Schoenberg’s
Pierrot Lunaire.
madness
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Works
Schoenberg’s “Nacht” belongs to this song cycle.
Pierrot Lunaire
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People
This Symbolist poet wrote the poems Schoenberg set
in Pierrot Lunaire.
Albert Giraud
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People
Schoenberg used this person’s translation of Giraud’s
poetry for Pierrot Lunaire.
Otto Erich Hartleben
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Terms
This term describes a set of vocal pieces that are
linked textually or musically.
song cycle
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People
This performer commissioned Schoenberg’s Pierrot
Lunaire song cycle.
Albertine Zehme
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Instruments
Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire features this
instrumentation.
singer (reciter) with cello, piano,
flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass
clarinet, and violin/viola
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Terms
This Baroque term appears as a subtitle in Arnold
Schoenberg’s “Nacht.”
passacaglia
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Details
“Nacht” occupies this position in the movements of
Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire.
first song of the second set
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Details
In the poem for Schoenberg’s “Nacht,” these
creatures block out the sun.
giant black moths or butterflies
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Terms
This term describes a vocal style that is half-spoken,
half-sung.
Sprechstimme
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Terms
This term describes a Baroque variation form with a
repeated bass line.
passacaglia
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Forms
The poetic structure of Schoenberg’s “Nacht” is in
this form.
rondo (ABACA)
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Sounds
The passacaglia in Schoenberg’s “Nacht” generally
features these three pitches.
E-G-Eb
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Instruments
Schoenberg’s “Nacht” features this instrumentation.
singer (reciter) with piano, cello,
and bass clarinet
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Notation
This musical notation tells performers to sustain a
note longer than the note value given.
fermata
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Terms
This command makes the cello timbre in
Schoenberg’s “Nacht” sound glassy and chilly.
“on the bridge”
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Terms
This term describes a literal musical interpretation of
a word.
word painting
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Terms
This term describes a general association of a text
with a musical setting.
text expression
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Styles And
Genres
This artistic movement uses bold colors and simple
lines to contrast humans and nature.
Primitivism
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People
This Primitivist painter was inspired by his trips to
Martinique and Tahiti.
Paul Gauguin
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Styles And
Genres
This musical style focuses on rhythmic patterns and
avoids elegant techniques or sounds.
Primitivism
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Works
This Béla Bartók piece is a major example of
Primitivism.
Allegro barbaro
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Works
This ballet is the most famous example of musical
Primitivism.
The Rite of Spring
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Works
This 1913 piece caused a riot at its Parisian premiere.
The Rite of Spring
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People
This person composed The Rite of Spring.
Igor Stravinsky
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Details
This storyline describes the plot of Stravinsky’s The
Rite of Spring.
a young girl ritually dancing
herself to death as a spring
sacrifice in pagan Russia
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Places
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring premiered in this city.
Paris
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Terms
This term refers to the manager or leader of an
artistic organization like a ballet or opera company.
impresario
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People
This person introduced the Ballets Russes to Paris.
Sergei Diaghilev
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433
Groups
This ballet company premiered Stravinsky’s The Rite
of Spring.
the Ballets Russes
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434
Works
This 1910 work was Igor Stravinsky’s first ballet
composition.
The Firebird
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435
Works
This ballet tells the story of a puppet Pierrot coming
to life.
Petrushka
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436
People
Petrushka’s first performance featured this famous
Vaclav Nijinsky
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dancer.
437
Works
This piece was Igor Stravinsky’s third ballet for the
Ballets Russes.
The Rite of Spring
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438
People
This painter created the sets and costumes for
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
Nikolai Roerich
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439
People
This person choreographed Stravinsky’s The Rite of
Spring.
Vaclav Nijinsky
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440
Styles And
Genres
Igor Stravinsky used at least 12 of these melodies in
The Rite of Spring.
Slavic folk tunes
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441
Terms
This term describes two simultaneous, distinct
harmonies.
polychord
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442
Sounds
The most famous chord from “Omens of Spring”
superimposes these two harmonies.
Fb major triad and Eb dominant
seventh
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443
Terms
These articulations destroy the sense of meter in
“Omens of Spring.”
syncopated accents
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444
Terms
This repeated rhythmic device contributes to the
Primitivist atmosphere of The Rite of Spring.
ostinato
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445
Terms
This musical style is tied to patriotism and
expressions of allegiance or identity.
nationalism
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446
People
This composer helped found the Société Nationale de
Musique.
César Franck
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447
Events
The Société Nationale de Musique was founded
following this war.
Franco-Prussian War
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448
Terms
This phrase was the motto of the Société Nationale
de Musique.
“Ars gallica”
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Groups
This group of 20th century French composers
rejected Germanic musical characteristics and
promoted French music.
“Les six”
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450
People
English composers in the early 20th century
rediscovered these five major Renaissance composers.
William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons,
Thomas Tallis, Thomas Weelkes,
and John Wilbye
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451
People
This composer used old English music as the basis
for his Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
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452
People
This composer wrote Somerset Rhapsody to
showcase a specific geographic area of England.
Gustav Holst
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453
Works
This Jean Sibelius piece galvanized Finnish
nationalism and made Sibelius a national hero.
Finlandia
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454
People
These two early twentieth-century French composers
wrote large pieces glorifying Spain.
Claude Debussy and Maurice
Ravel
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455
People
This composer wrote the Spanish nationalist piece
Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
Manuel de Falla
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456
People
This early twentieth-century Spanish composer wrote
a piano suite glorifying Francisco Goya.
Enrique Granados
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457
People
This early twentieth-century American composer
frequently quotes hymns and patriotic music in his
works.
Charles Ives
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458
Works
This Charles Ives piano sonata has movements
named after American Transcendentalist writers.
Piano Sonata no. 2: Concord
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Mass., 1840-1860
459
Items
Portable audio recording devices enabled the
production of this musical artifact.
field recordings
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460
Styles And
Genres
The 1924 volume published by Béla Bartók contained
over 8,000 of these melodies.
Hungarian folksongs
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461
People
This person composed Romanian Christmas Carols.
Béla Bartók
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462
Works
Béla Bartók published this collection of teaching
pieces from 1908 to 1909.
For Children
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463
Works
In 1915, Béla Bartók composed this collection of piano
pieces.
Romanian Christmas Carols
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464
Details
Romanian Christmas Carols was originally considered
Before borders changed, Hungary
included many ethnic groups, and
Romanians third largest
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a Hungarian nationalist piece for this reason.
465
Details
This feature allows people with small hands to easily
play Romanian Christmas Carols.
no intervals exceeding an octave
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466
Works
Béla Bartók collected the colinda for this work in
1909.
Romanian Christmas Carols
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Items
Béla Bartók published these three items alongside the
scores of Romanian Christmas Carols.
carols list, transcription of first
phrase with Romanian text, and
place of collection
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468
Terms
This word is Romanian for ‘carols’.
colinde
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469
Sounds
These three modal scales appear in Romanian
Christmas Carols.
Dorian, Phrygian, and Mixolydian
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470
Terms
Béla Bartók uses this kind of scale in Romanian
Christmas Carols.
modal
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471
Details
Modal scales sound different from major and minor
scales for this reason.
different pattern of half steps and
whole steps
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472
Terms
This term is the modal name for the minor scale.
Aeolian
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473
Terms
This term is the modal name for the major scale.
Ionian
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474
Terms
This rhythmic characteristic in Romanian Christmas
Carols is Romanian.
flexible meter
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475
Terms
This accompaniment imitates a rustic bagpipe in
Romanian Christmas Carols.
drone
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476
Styles And
Genres
This type of music lacks a key or tonal center.
atonal music
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477
Styles And
Genres
Atonal music is frequently compared to this artistic
movement.
Cubism
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478
Terms
Arnold Schoenberg preferred this word to the term
“atonal.”
pantonal
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479
Details
Schoenberg’s “Emancipation of the Dissonance”
argued that dissonance no longer needed to perform
this function.
resolution to consonance
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480
Works
The Viennese premiere of this Berg piece caused a
scandal.
Altenberg Lieder, op. 4
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481
Events
Berg’s Altenberg Lieder premiered in this year.
1913
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482
Terms
Atonal music is radical in its harmony but often uses
these two elements in a traditional manner.
rhythm and instrumentation
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483
Styles And
Genres
Atonal music is likened to this literary device used by
James Joyce and T. S. Eliot.
abandonment of linear narrative
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484
Works
During 1911 to 1913, Anton Webern composed this
string quartet work.
Six Bagatelles for String Quartet,
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op.9
485
Works
This famous song cycle by Schoenberg is an example
of atonal music.
“Nacht” Pierrot Lunaire
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486
Works
“Äußerst langsam” belongs to this larger work.
Six Bagatelles for String Quartet,
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op.9
487
Terms
“Äußerst langsam” has this English meaning.
“extremely slowly”
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488
Terms
This word is a synonym for bagatelle.
trifle
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People
This composer wrote Six Bagatelles for String
Quartet, op. 9.
Anton Webern
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490
Terms
Atonal composers often use this term to describe the
chromatic scale.
the aggregate
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491
Terms
Anton Webern favored this length in musical pieces.
miniatures
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492
Terms
Anton Webern predominately focused on this
musical characteristic.
timbre
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493
Items
This device limits a string instrument’s ability to
vibrate.
mute
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494
Details
Webern’s “Äußerst langsam” is a good example of
“pantonality” for this reason.
all twelve notes of the chromatic
scale occur in the first seven
measures
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495
Terms
This term describes a light texture with great
separation between the notes.
pointillism
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496
Terms
This term describes a piece in which timbre is more
important than melodic contour.
Klangfarbenmelodie
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497
Details
This description characterizes the first section of
Anton Webern’s “Äußerst langsam.”
aggregate unfolded by string
quartet
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498
Terms
This description characterizes the second section of
Anton Webern’s “Äußerst langsam.”
tone color canon
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499
Terms
This word is a synonym for canon.
round
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500
People
This composer wrote a preface praising Anton
Webern’s Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, op. 9.
Arnold Schoenberg
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501
Terms
This term is another name for folk or popular music.
vernacular music
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502
Details
Folk music is harder to document than other
contemporary traditions for this reason.
rarely written down because oral
tradition
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503
Details
Preserving folk music was a priority for early
ethnomusicologists for these three reasons.
the threats of industrialization,
mass communication, and
urbanization
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504
Items
Collections of folk music from the 18th and 19th
centuries focused on this aspect of the music.
vocal melodies
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505
Terms
This type of music exists for purposes beyond that of
entertainment.
functional music
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506
Items
This invention renewed interest in traditional and
ethnic music.
phonograph
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507
Styles And
Genres
This theatrical music form was invented in the 17th
century.
opera
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508
Details
Opera theaters shifted to this business model in
1637.
selling tickets to public
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Terms
This term refers to the lead female singer in an
opera.
prima donna
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Terms
This term refers to the lead male singer in an opera.
prima uomo
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511
Places
Ballad operas originated in this country.
England
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512
Styles And
Genres
This German term refers to a sung play.
Singspiel
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513
Places
Opéra-ballets developed in this country.
France
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514
Styles And
Genres
This French style of opera has a heavy emphasis on
dance.
Opéra-ballets
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515
Styles And
Genres
Italian opera in the Classical period belonged to
these two genres.
opera seria and opera buffa
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516
Styles And
Genres
This type of French comic opera was produced at a
large, government- licensed theater.
opéra-comique
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517
Styles And
Genres
This type of French comic opera was produced at a
small theater.
opéra-bouffe
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518
People
This composer wrote the first opéra-bouffe.
Jacques Offenbach
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519
Works
This work composed by Jacques Offenbach was the
first opéra-bouffe.
Orpheus in the Underworld
(1858)
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520
People
These two collaborators produced many famous
satirical British operettas.
William Gilbert and Arthur
Sullivan
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521
Works
This Gilbert and Sullivan operetta premiered in 1878.
H.M.S. Pinafore
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522
Details
William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan travelled to the
United States in 1879 for this reason.
to stage an authorized production
of H.M.S. Pinafore
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523
Styles And
Genres
This kind of opera was performed in the earliest
American musical stage productions.
ballad opera
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524
People
This English actor is the first known blackface
performer.
Charles Matthews
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525
Places
Charles Matthews began performing in blackface
after visiting this country.
United States
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526
Terms
American entertainers initially used this phrase to
describe their blackface performances.
“Ethiopian delineators”
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527
Styles And
Genres
These shows involving racist portrayals of AfricanAmericans were popular in 19th century United
States.
minstrel shows
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528
People
This nineteenth-century actor created a fictional
African-American named Jim Crow.
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
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Styles And
Genres
This American theatrical tradition, like commedia
dell’arte, used stock character types.
minstrel shows
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530
Styles And
Genres
This challenge dance commonly featured in minstrel
shows.
cakewalk
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531
People
This person’s minstrel troupe originated the “Why
did the chicken cross the road” joke.
Charles Hicks
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532
People
This American was the most famous minstrel song
composer.
Stephen Foster
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533
People
This person composed both “My Old Kentucky
Home” and “Old Folks at Home.”
Stephen Foster
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534
Styles And
Genres
Songs like “Oh! Susannah” and “Camptown Races”
belong to this musical genre.
minstrel songs
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535
Places
Blackface performance was performed in Great
Britain at this type of venue.
music hall
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536
Styles And
Genres
“It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” belongs to this
musical genre.
music hall
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537
Works
This 1892 Cockney song refers to the singer’s wife as
a “Dutch plate.”
“My Old Dutch”
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538
Works
This Cockney song became a number-one hit when
revived by Herman’s Hermits in the 1960s.
“I’m Henery the Eighth, I Am”
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539
Styles And
Genres
This musical genre contains elements of both
minstrel shows and music hall.
variety show
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540
Styles And
Genres
This term is another name for the variety show.
vaudeville
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541
Terms
This term refers to a musical act in a vaudeville
show.
turn
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542
Terms
This term refers to a group of vaudeville theaters.
circuit
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543
Terms
This term describes a list of turns for a variety show.
bill
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544
Styles And
Genres
Babe Ruth and Helen Keller both appeared in this
kind of theatrical show.
variety show
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545
People
This Prohibitionist simulated the destruction of
saloons in vaudeville.
Carrie Nation
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546
Terms
A performer gave this document to vaudeville
musicians to indicate the music they needed.
cue sheet
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547
People
This vaudeville duo used the nicknames “Mutt and
Jeff.”
Drane and Alexander
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548
Styles And
Genres
The Marx brothers, Jack Benny, and Judy Garland all
gained experience in this theatrical form.
vaudeville/variety
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Terms
This kind of variety performer specialized in ethnic
stereotypes.
“dialect comedians”
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550
People
This American production team broke the theatrical
color barrier in 1883.
Harrigan and Hart
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551
Terms
This kind of band consists only of brass and
percussion instruments.
brass band
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552
Terms
This kind of band consists of brass, woodwinds, and
percussion.
wind band
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553
Terms
United States had more than 10,000 of these official
bands in 1889.
military bands
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554
People
This man formed an African-American band to
support the 369th Infantry Regiment during World
War I.
James Reese Europe
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555
People
This American twentieth-century popular musician
was arrested for delinquency at the age of 11.
Louis Armstrong
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556
Instruments
Women playing these two instruments could
participate in male bands in the early twentieth
century.
violin or harp
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557
Groups
This early twentieth century American ensemble was
a famous all-female band.
Helen May Butler’s Ladies Brass
Band
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558
People
This person is the most famous American
bandleader.
John Philip Sousa
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559
People
This musician nicknamed “Miss Sousa Jr.” led a
famous all-female band.
Helen May Butler
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560
People
This man composed over 100 marches and was
known as “the March King.”
John Philip Sousa
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561
Details
These three musical style characteristics describe a
march.
duple meter, tempo sets pace for
marching soldiers, played by band
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562
Sounds
This tempo is the usual march tempo in the United
States.
120 bpm
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563
Sounds
This tempo is the usual march tempo in Europe.
100 bpm
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564
Forms
This term refers to the common march structure.
multi-thematic form
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Terms
This term refers to a melody in a march.
strain
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566
Details
A march typically has this musical form.
two strains in the tonic, a third
strain in the subdominant key,
and a “break” strain
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567
Terms
This term refers to the third strain of a march.
trio
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568
Terms
The fourth strain of a march goes by these two
names.
“break” strain or dogfight
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Details
The trio of a march differs from the first two strains
in these three ways.
its subdominant key, quieter and
more melodic tone, and use of
woodwinds
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570
Works
This piece is the national march of the United States.
“The Stars and Stripes Forever”
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571
People
This composer wrote “The Stars and Stripes
Forever”.
John Philip Sousa
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572
Works
John Philip Sousa composed this famous march in
1896.
“The Stars and Stripes Forever”
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573
Styles And
Genres
This dance was often called “the Washington Post.”
two-step
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574
Works
This piece was one of the favorite marches of the
British World War I forces.
“Colonel Bogey”
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575
People
This person composed “Colonel Bogey.”
Kenneth J. Alford (Lt. Frederic J.
Ricketts)
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576
Works
These two pieces are the best-known early concert
band pieces.
First Suite in Eb and Second
Suite in F
79,1,2
577
People
This composer wrote First Suite in Eb for concert
bands.
Gustav Holst
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578
Works
This book was the first publication in the New
England colonies.
The Bay Psalm Book
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579
People
This composer wrote hymns for 18th century singing
schools.
William Billings
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580
Works
These two hymnals introduced the term “gospel.”
Gospel Songs and Gospel Hymns
and Sacred Songs
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581
Groups
The Vaughan Music Publishing Company founded
this type of ensemble in 1910 to market gospel music.
a professional vocal quartet
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582
Works
These two songs were the most popular gospel songs
in the early 20th century.
“His Eye On the Sparrow” and
“The Old Rugged Cross”
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583
Works
Charles Ives heard this hymn break out
spontaneously in reaction to the Lusitania tragedy.
“In the Sweet Bye and Bye”
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584
Places
These four countries had official national anthems at
the beginning of the 19th century.
Great Britain, France, Spain, and
Austria-Hungary
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585
Works
This tune is the national anthem of Great Britain.
“God Save the King/Queen”
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586
Works
This tune is the national anthem of France.
“La Marseillaise”
80,1,4
587
People
This composer wrote the melody of the
“Kaiserhymne”.
Joseph Haydn
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588
Works
Germany used this tune as its national anthem prior
to 1922.
“God Save the King”
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People
This author wrote the poem of “The Star-Spangled
Banner.”
Francis Scott Key
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590
Works
“The Star-Spangled Banner” uses the melody of this
English drinking song.
“To Anacreon in Heav’n”
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591
Works
“My Country ‘tis of Thee” uses the same tune as this
piece.
“God Save the King”
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592
People
This American president designated “The StarSpangled Banner” as the military’s national air.
Woodrow Wilson
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593
Groups
This official body confirmed “The Star-Spangled
Banner” as the American national anthem In 1931.
United States Congress
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594
Groups
These three major types of group used songs to
support their causes in the early 19th century.
temperance movement, labor
unions, and women’s suffrage
movement
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595
Works
This name describes the songbook published by the
Industrial Workers of the World.
The Little Red Songbook
81,1,1
596
Works
This song was the most popular song published by
the Industrial Workers of the World.
“Solidarity Forever”
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597
People
This person wrote the words to “Solidarity Forever.”
Ralph Chaplin
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598
Works
“Solidarity Forever” uses this folk melody.
“John Brown’s Body”
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599
Groups
The Industrial Workers of the World had this
nickname.
the Wobblies
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600
Works
“We Shall Overcome” originated as this gospel hymn.
“I’ll Overcome Someday”
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601
Groups
This group used “We Shall Overcome” prior to the
civil rights movement.
Industrial Workers of the World
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602
People
This woman composed a choral work for the
International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1908.
Catarina van Rennes
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603
Works
The finale of this work is called “The March of the
Women.”
Songs of Sunrise
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604
People
This woman composed “The March of the Women”
in 1911.
Dame Ethel Smyth
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605
Places
This country gave women above 30 the right to vote
in 1918.
Great Britain
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606
Details
Women above this age gained the right to vote in
England in 1928.
twenty-one
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607
Works
Dame Ethel Smyth composed this British suffragette
anthem.
“The March of the Women”
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608
Terms
American authors in the 1920s used this term to
describe the 1890s.
the “Gay Nineties”
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Events
This 1893 United States economic disaster led to a
multi-year depression.
Panic of 1893 railroad investment
collapse
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610
Places
This city hosted the 1893 World’s Columbian
Exposition.
Chicago
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611
Styles And
Genres
The 1893 World’s Exposition introduced this new
musical style associated primarily with AfricanAmericans.
Ragtime
81,2,2
612
Events
Jesse Pickett’s ragtime work “The Dream” was
performed at this 1893 event.
the 1893 Chicago World’s
Exposition
81,2,2
613
Terms
Ragtime is associated with African-Americans
because of this rhythmic feature.
syncopation/ “ragged” rhythms
81,2,2
614
Styles And
Genres
This pre-ragtime American genre made use of
rhythmic syncopation.
minstrel shows
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615
Instruments
Ragtime was initially associated with this instrument.
piano
82,1,1
616
Styles And
Genres
Ragtime incorporates traits from these four styles of
music.
African-American music, brass
band marches, European piano
music, and South American music
82,1,1
617
Details
The bass line of a ragtime work generally has this
characteristic.
steady eighth or quarter note
“oom-pah” pulse
82,1,2
618
Details
The melody line of a ragtime work generally has this
characteristic.
syncopated patterns
82,1,2
619
Terms
This American popular music style began appearing
in the south in the 1880s.
ragtime
82,1,2
620
People
This person wrote the earliest published rag by a
black composer.
Tom Turpin
82,2,1
621
People
This composer wrote the sophisticated 1897 work
“Harlem Rag.”
Tom Turpin
82,2,1
622
People
This composer was known as “the King of Ragtime.”
Scott Joplin
82,2,1
623
People
This St. Louis saloonkeeper and composer hosted
many early ragtime players.
Tom Turpin
82,2,1
624
Works
Scott Joplin dedicated this 1905 work to Tom Turpin.
“Rosebud March”
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625
Places
Scott Joplin studied music at this Missouri college.
George P. Smith College
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626
Works
This 1899 work by Scott Joplin was his first
published rag.
“Oriental Rag”
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Details
Scott Joplin received this amount of compensation
for his first published rag.
flat fee of $25
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Works
This 1899 work was Scott Joplin’s second published
rag.
“The Maple Leaf Rag”
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Details
Scott Joplin received this compensation arrangement
for his second published rag.
royalty of a penny per copy sold
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People
This Missouri friend of Scott Joplin also published
rags in the early twentieth century.
James Scott
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People
This person was the first successful white ragtime
composer.
Joseph Lamb
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Works
In this 1909 work Scott Joplin criticizes fast
performances of ragtime.
“Euphonic Sounds”
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Details
Scott Joplin died of this ailment.
syphilis
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Terms
This tempo marking is the first indication in the
score of “The Maple Leaf Rag.”
tempo di marcia
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635
People
This composer insisted that “it is never right to play
Ragtime fast.”
Scott Joplin
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Items
This perforated scroll recording technology predates
acoustic recordings.
piano rolls
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637
Styles And
Genres
Ragtime music follows a similar form to this style of
music.
march
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Sounds
“The Maple Leaf Rag” begins in this key.
Ab major
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Sounds
The third strain of “The Maple Leaf Rag” is in this
key.
Db major
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Styles And
Genres
In this early 20th century “animal dance,” dancers
pumped their arms and shrugged their shoulders.
turkey trot
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Terms
Waltzes have this meter.
triple-meter
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Styles And
Genres
This triple-meter couple dance dominated social
ballrooms at the end of the 19th century.
waltz
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Styles And
Genres
These two dance styles became highly popular in the
1920s.
tango and foxtrot
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Styles And
Genres
The Pope prohibited this dance for Catholics in 1913.
tango
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Works
Raymond Hubbell composed this 1916 foxtrot.
“Poor Butterfly”
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People
This Pope declared the tango immoral in 1913.
Pope Benedict XV
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Styles And
Genres
Raymond Hubbell’s 1916 work “Poor Butterfly” is this
kind of dance.
foxtrot
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Works
This 1916 Broadway show contained “Poor Butterfly.”
The Big Show
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Works
Raymond Hubbell’s “Poor Butterfly” alludes to this
opera.
Madama Butterfly
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People
This composer wrote Madama Butterfly.
Giacomo Puccini
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Styles And
Genres
This performance style lengthens the first note and
shortens the second note of a pair.
swing
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Terms
This piano performance style added swing rhythms
to ragtime pieces.
stride piano
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Details
The left hand part of stride piano features these
three characteristics.
steady eighth note or quarter
note beat, large leaps, and heavy
chords
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Details
The right hand part of stride piano features this
characteristic.
swing rhythms
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655
People
This pianist and composer was known as “the Father
of Stride Piano.”
James P. Johnson
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Works
This 1923 work by James P. Johnson is his most
famous composition.
“The Charleston”
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Works
Claude Debussy concluded his 1908 piano suite with
this movement.
“Golliwog’s Cakewalk”
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Works
“Golliwog’s Cakewalk” is a movement from this
Claude Debussy work.
Children’s Corner
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Places
“Golliwog’s Cakewalk” was composed in this country.
France
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People
This composer wrote Tristan und Isolde.
Richard Wagner
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People
This composer wrote A Soldier’s Tale.
Igor Stravinsky
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Works
This 1918 piece features a magic violin, the devil, and
an enchanted princess.
A Soldier’s Tale
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Styles And
Genres
The soldier heals the princess in A Soldier’s Tale
with these three dances.
the tango, waltz, and a ragtime
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People
This composer inscribed “Day of deliverance. The
Germans have surrendered,” in a 1918 composition.
Igor Stravinsky
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Works
These two 1918 pieces by Igor Stravinsky reference
ragtime.
A Soldier’s Tale and “Ragtime for
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Terms
This musical characteristic involves one leader
presenting a motif and an answering chorus.
call-and-response
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Styles And
Genres
This vocal style influenced the music of many African
cultures.
Muslim call to prayer and
recitation of the Qur’an
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Terms
This musical embellishment sets one syllable of text
with multiple pitches.
melisma
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Terms
This musical embellishment occurs in the “Gloria”
portion of “Angels We Have Heard on High.”
melisma
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Groups
This group of people originated the blues.
African-American slaves
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Details
This color has been historically associated with
melancholy.
blue
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Terms
This phrase was a common synonym for depression
in the 16th century.
the “blue devils”
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Details
Singing the blues had this primary function for the
singer.
purging or catharsis of depressive
emotions
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Styles And
Genres
This African-American musical genre is traditionally
associated with grief and religion.
spirituals
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Styles And
Genres
This African-American musical genre is traditionally
optimistic and performed energetically.
“shouts”
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Styles And
Genres
These two improvised genres were ways for slaves to
express emotions in their work.
work songs and field hollers
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Styles And
Genres
This improvised slave genre is sung at a steady
tempo, generally in a call-and-response fashion.
work songs
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678
Styles And
Genres
This improvised slave genre tends to be a long,
flexible lamentation by an individual singer.
field holler
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Places
Many of the first blues singers lived in this region of
the United States.
the Mississippi Delta
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Sounds
These three chords are used in the basic twelve-bar
blues progression.
tonic (I), dominant (V), and
subdominant (IV)
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Forms
These capital letters describe the form of blues
poetry.
AAB
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People
This composer wrote Starlight Express.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
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683
Works
This Andrew Lloyd Webber song directly spoofs
blues conventions.
“Poppa’s Blues”
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684
Terms
This term refers to inflected notes in the blues scale.
blue notes
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685
Terms
This term is the more common designation for
“Delta blues.”
Country blues
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686
Instruments
This instrumentation is the most commonly used in
Country blues.
male singer with guitar or
harmonica
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People
This person was the earliest blues singer to be
captured on commercial recording.
“Papa” Charlie Jackson
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Details
Blind Lemon Jefferson was a musician in this genre.
Country blues singer
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689
People
This blues singer was known by the nickname “Lead
Belly.”
Huddie Ledbetter
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Places
Country blues performers often performed in these
kinds of settings.
informal venues
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People
This Country blues singer supposedly sold his soul to
the Devil for better guitar skills.
Robert Johnson
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Styles And
Genres
This blues style was predominately a rural folk
tradition.
Country blues
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Styles And
Genres
This blues style displayed urban characteristics.
Classic blues
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Terms
This term is the more common designation for
“vaudeville blues.”
Classic blues
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Places
Classic blues performers often performed in these
kinds of venues.
theatrical venues
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Instruments
This instrumentation is the most commonly used in
Classic blues.
female singer with piano or small
ensemble accompaniment
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Terms
This term refers to a small ensemble of players in a
blues or jazz setting.
combo
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Styles And
Genres
The earliest blues sheet music generally represented
this blues style.
Classic blues
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699
People
This singer had the nickname “Mother of the Blues.”
Gertrude “Ma” Rainey
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Groups
This vaudeville circuit booked many classic blues
singers in its 67 South and Midwest theaters.
the Theater Owners Booking
Association (T.O.B.A)
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Works
This 1923 song was one of the first pieces “Ma”
Rainey recorded.
“Southern Blues”
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People
“Ma” Rainey heavily influenced this famous female
blues singer.
Bessie Smith
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People
This singer helped pay for a headstone for Bessie
Smith’s grave
Janis Joplin
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People
. This blues singer was known as the “Empress of the
Blues.”
Bessie Smith
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705
People
This person styled himself the “Father of the Blues.”
W. C. Handy
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706
Works
This 1958 film features W. C. Handy’s life.
St. Louis Blues
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707
Works
This blues song by Hart Wand and Lloyd Garrett was
published in 1912.
“Dallas Blues”
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708
Details
The 1912 work “Dallas Blues” was unusual for this
reason.
one of first blues ever published
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709
People
This person composed the 1912 piece “Memphis
Blues.”
W. C. Handy
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710
Details
Blues caught on in Europe slower than ragtime for
this reason.
Sheet music cannot fully convey
the blues performing style.
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711
People
This person composed the 1914 piece “St. Louis
Blues.”
W. C. Handy
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People
These three people performed the 1925 recording of
“St. Louis Blues.”
Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong,
and Fred Longshaw
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Instruments
The 1925 recording of “St. Louis Blues” had this
instrumentation.
Female singer, cornet, and reedpipe organ
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People
This performer played the cornet in the 1925
recording of “St. Louis Blues.”
Louis Armstrong
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People
This performer played the organ in the 1925
recording of “St. Louis Blues.”
Fred Longshaw
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716
Details
The “St. Louis Blues” recording had only one C
melody statement for this reason.
the time limit of the recording
technology
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717
Styles And
Genres
The 1925 recording of “St. Louis Blues” blends these
two music styles.
Classic blues and ragtime
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Forms
The 1925 recording of “St. Louis Blues” has this form.
AABBC
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Places
The earliest form of jazz originated in this city.
New Orleans
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People
This person limited prostitution in New Orleans to a
single district in 1897.
Sidney Story
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Places
This place was the red-light district in New Orleans
from 1898.
Storyville
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Details
Musicians were employed in Storyville, New Orleans
in the early twentieth century for this reason.
to help attract customers to a
particular brothel
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Instruments
New Orleans Jazz contained some combination of
these six instruments.
cornet, trombone, clarinet, piano
(or banjo or guitar), bass/tuba,
and drums
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Terms
New Orleans Jazz predominately featured this
texture.
heterophony
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725
Styles And
Genres
This heterophonic music style originated in
Storyville.
New Orleans Jazz
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726
Styles And
Genres
This term refers to early jazz music performed by
white musicians.
Dixieland
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Details
These four features are differences between early
jazz as performed by blacks and whites.
more energy and improvisation in
New Orleans jazz, more training
and notation in Dixieland
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Groups
This group made the first known jazz recording.
the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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Groups
The group that made the first known jazz recording
was of this race.
white
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Works
This 1917 piece was the first known recorded jazz
composition.
“Livery Stable Blues”
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Events
This event caused the end of musical activity in
Storyville, New Orleans in 1917.
American entry into World War I
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People
This person demanded the closure of Storyville, New
Orleans.
Newton W. Baker
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Details
Storyville, New Orleans was closed for this reason.
open prostitution not wanted
near army training camp
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Groups
This group influenced the Secretary of War’s
decision to close Storyville, New Orleans.
the American Social Hygiene
Organization
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Places
Unemployed New Orleans musicians flocked to this
city upon the closure of Storyville.
Chicago
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Terms
This term refers to a section in jazz in which a
soloist is featured.
solo break
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737
Terms
This term is a synonym for strain in jazz.
chorus
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Styles And
Genres
This term refers to the type of music New Orleans
jazz became after moving north.
Chicago jazz
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Details
These four features describe the main changes from
New Orleans jazz to Chicago jazz.
less heterophony, less
improvisation, more solos, and
more polish
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People
This musician participated in New Orleans and
Chicago jazz, and began recording in 1923.
Joe “King” Oliver
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Groups
Joe “King” Oliver led this New Orleans jazz band.
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
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742
Terms
This nickname was commonly given to lead cornet
players in New Orleans jazz combos.
King
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743
Places
“King” Oliver’s 1923 “Dippermouth Blues” was
recorded in studio.
Gennett studio
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Places
The Gennett recording studio was located in this
city.
Richmond, Indiana
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745
Details
The Gennett recording studio was this travelling
time from Chicago.
four-hour bus ride
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People
The title “Dippermouth Blues” refers to a lesserknown nickname of this musician.
Louis Armstrong
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747
People
The nickname “Satchmo” refers to this person.
Louis Armstrong
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Instruments
“King” Oliver’s 1923 recording of “Dippermouth
Blues” used these eight instruments.
two cornets, trombone, clarinet,
drums, banjo, pianist, and vocalist
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749
People
This person performed lead cornet in the 1923
recording of “Dippermouth Blues.”
Joe “King” Oliver
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People
This person performed second cornet in the 1923
recording of “Dippermouth Blues.”
Louis Armstrong
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751
People
This musician played the trombone in the 1923
recording of “Dippermouth Blues.”
Honoré Dutry
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752
People
This musician played the clarinet in the 1923
recording of “Dippermouth Blues.”
Johnny Dodds
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People
This musician played the drums in the 1923
recording of “Dippermouth Blues.”
Warren “Baby” Dodds
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Instruments
“Baby” Dodds uses this instrument for the 1923
“Dippermouth Blues” recording.
woodblock
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755
People
This musician played the banjo and sang in the 1923
recording of “Dippermouth Blues.”
Bill Johnson
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756
People
This musician played the piano in the 1923 recording
of “Dippermouth Blues.”
Lil (Lillian) Hardin
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People
Lil Hardin was the second wife of this musician.
Louis Armstrong
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758
People
This musician was nicknamed the “Jazz Wonder
Child.”
Lil (Lillian) Hardin
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Terms
This jazz term refers to the performers playing short
downbeat chords under a soloist.
stop-time
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760
Forms
The choruses of “King” Oliver’s 1923 recording of
“Dippermouth Blues” have this structure.
twelve-bar blues
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761
Items
This mute makes a cornet sound human-like, and is
made from a plunger.
wah-wah mute
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762
People
This “Les Six” member incorporated swing rhythms
into The Creation of the World.
Darius Milhaud
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Works
This 1923 composition by Darius Milhaud uses swing
rhythms from jazz.
The Creation of the World
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764
People
This composer wrote Rhapsody in Blue in 1924.
George Gershwin
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765
Works
This 1924 American piece by George Gershwin
blends elements of jazz with a classical orchestra.
Rhapsody in Blue
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Works
This 1905 Viennese operetta became popular in the
United States after its New York premiere.
The Merry Widow
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Works
This dance from The Merry Widow became
immensely popular after its premiere.
“The Merry Widow Waltz”
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768
People
This composer wrote the 1903 operetta The Wizard
of Oz.
Victor Herbert
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769
People
This composer wrote the 1903 operetta Babes in
Toyland.
Victor Herbert
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770
Works
This 1910 operetta introduced the hit song “Ah!
Sweet Mystery of Life.”
Naughty Marietta
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771
People
This composer wrote the 1910 operetta Naughty
Marietta.
Victor Herbert
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772
Details
This distinction is the major musical difference
between operettas and musical comedies.
operettas featured waltzes and
tunes for dance orchestra,
musical comedies featured
popular music
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People
This English composer experimented with musical
comedy in the late 19th century.
George Edwardes
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People
This person was one of the first American composers
to succeed in musical comedy.
George M. Cohan
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Works
This piece was George M. Cohan’s third musical
comedy.
Little Johnny Jones
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776
Works
This opening number from Little Johnny Jones
features quotations from American patriotic songs.
“Yankee Doodle Dandy”
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777
Events
George Cohan discovered the popularity of jingoistic
songs in the United States after this event.
the Spanish-American war
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778
Places
This place is the main theater district in New York.
Broadway
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Places
This place is the London equivalent of Broadway.
West End
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Works
This 1902 musical comedy written by AfricanAmericans succeeded on Broadway and the West
End.
In Dahomey
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781
People
This person composed the music for In Dahomey.
Will Marion Cook
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782
People
These two people wrote the script for In Dahomey.
Paul Laurence Dunbar and Jesse
Shipp
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People
These two actors were the main stars of In Dahomey.
Bert Williams and George Walker
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784
Details
“I Wants to Be (An Actor Lady)” was added to In
Dahomey for this reason.
to provide more spotlight time
for the actress
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785
Terms
This term refers to a showpiece for a star in
vaudeville or musical comedy.
star-turn
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786
Terms
This term refers to a number added to a musical
comedy after its premiere.
interpolation
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787
Works
Cook and Dunbar did not write this piece from In
Dahomey.
“I Wants to Be (An Actor Lady)”
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788
People
These two people wrote “I Wants to Be (An Actor
Lady)” from In Dahomey.
Harry von Tilzer and Vincent
Bryan
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789
People
“I Wants to Be (An Actor Lady)” from In Dahomey
was composed for this actress.
Aida Overton Walker
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790
People
This name was Aida Overton Walker’s character in In
Dahomey.
Rosetta Lightfoot
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791
People
This person wrote the poem “Maiden’s Prayer”
referred to in In Dahomey.
Edith Nesbit
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792
Terms
This term refers to a short motif that is repeated
until a performer is ready.
vamp
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Forms
“I Wants to Be (An Actor Lady)” from In Dahomey
has this form.
verse-chorus form
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Terms
This term refers to a musical theatrical
entertainment that satirizes current events.
revue
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Places
Revues originated in this city.
Paris
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Styles And
Genres
This musical genre has no continuous plot, but uses
the same actors in each scene.
revue
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797
Details
Revues and vaudeville have this main difference.
revues use the same actors for
each scene, vaudeville has a series
of turns by different performers
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798
Places
This country began to imitate French revues in 1825.
Great Britain
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799
Works
This 1894 American revue became a hit and inspired
many competitors.
The Passing Show
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800
People
This person produced the early 20th century Follies
revue.
Florenz Ziegfeld
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801
Works
This revue was the first American revue to produce a
“hit” song.
Ziegfeld Follies
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Works
This song from 1908 was the first hit from Ziegfeld
Follies.
“Shine On, Harvest Moon”
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803
People
These two people wrote and premiered “Shine On,
Harvest Moon.”
Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth
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804
Details
It was easy to keep revues fresh and contemporary
with interpolations for this reason.
ease of adding songs as revues
had no plot
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805
Works
The Passing Show of 1917 added this song after
General Pershing led American troops overseas.
“Goodbye Broadway, Hello
France”
101,1,1
806
People
This composer wrote “Lafayette (We Hear You
Calling.”
Reinald Werrenrath
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807
Works
This revue contained the unfortunately timed song
“The Man Who Put the Germ in Germany.”
The Cohan Revue of 1918
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808
Places
The leading American publishers had their offices on
this street in the early 20th century.
28th Street in New York City
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809
Places
New York City’s 28th Street had this nickname in the
early 20th century.
Tin Pan Alley
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810
Details
Tin Pan Alley acquired its name for this reason.
noise created by people trying
out sheet music
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811
Terms
These people were hired by publishers in the early
20th century to promote new songs.
song-pluggers
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Styles And
Genres
This popular early 20th century vocal style uses four
voices in tight harmony without accompaniment.
barbershop
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Terms
Irving Berlin and George Gershwin began their
popular music careers in this job.
song-pluggers
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814
People
This opera composer inspired Raymond Hubbell to
form ASCAP.
Giacomo Puccini
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815
People
This composer testified before Congress in 1909 to
justify composers receiving royalties for recordings.
Victor Herbert
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816
Groups
The acronym ASCAP stands for the title of this
organization.
the American Society of
Composers, Authors, and
Publishers
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817
Details
ASCAP was formed for this purpose.
to collect royalties for public
performances of a composer’s
work
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818
People
This person wrote the lyrics to “Take Me Out to the
Ball Game.”
Jack Norworth
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People
This person wrote the music for “Take Me Out to
the Ball Game.”
Albert Von Tilzer
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820
Places
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” gained its initial
popularity in this type of venue.
“magic-lantern” shows in
nickelodeon movie houses
103,1,1
821
Groups
This company published Albert Von Tilzer’s music.
the York Music Company
103,1,1
822
Works
The American and National Baseball Leagues adopted
this song as their official song in 1933.
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
103,1,2
823
Works
This 1908 Tin Pan Alley song is the third-mostrecognizable song in America.
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
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824
Forms
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” has this form.
verse-chorus
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825
Terms
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” has this meter.
triple-meter
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826
Items
The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition featured the
debut of this baseball snack.
“Cracker Jack”
105,1,1
827
Groups
Jack Norworth donated his royalties to this
organization in his will.
the ASCAP foundations
105,2,0
828
Places
These two cities presented the first public film
showings in 1895.
Berlin and Paris
106,1,1
829
People
This German filmmaker screened films for the public
in Berlin in 1895.
Max Skladanowsky
106,1,1
830
People
These two French filmmakers screened films for the
public in Paris in 1895.
the Lumière brothers
106,1,1
831
Detail
Vaudeville theaters were easily able to provide music
for films for this reason.
stock cues suitable for films too
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Works
This book was the first anthology of music intended
specifically for film.
Motion Picture Piano Music
(1909)
106,1,2
833
Places
The first commercial film showings occurred
primarily in these two types of venues.
vaudeville theaters and music hall
106,1,2
834
Places
This term refers to an early venue built especially for
film showings.
nickelodeon
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835
Places
The first nickelodeon opened in 1905 in this city.
Pittsburgh
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836
Details
Using vaudeville musicians to accompany early films
presented this drawback.
lack of consistency in the music
played
106,2,1
837
People
This filmmaker was the first to use a newly
composed score for his film.
Georges Méliès
106,2,1
838
Works
This 1903 Georges Méliès film was the first to
include a newly composed score.
Kingdom of the Fairies
106,2,1
839
Terms
These two terms refer to a score newly composed for
a particular film.
original or custom score
106,2,1
840
Instruments
Most early custom film scores were written for this
instrumentation.
solo piano
106,2,1
841
People
This composer wrote the first original orchestral film
score.
Camille Saint-Saëns
106,2,1
842
Works
This 1908 film had the first original orchestral film
score.
The Assassination of the Duke of
Guise
106,2,1
843
People
This composer wrote the first original score for an
American movie.
Victor Herbert
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844
Works
This 1916 movie was the first American film to have
a fully original score.
The Fall of a Nation
106,2,1
845
Works
The title of The Fall of a Nation (1916) refers to this
film.
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
106,2,2
846
People
This person directed The Birth of a Nation.
D. W. Griffith
106,2,2
847
Events
This massive battle is portrayed in The Birth of a
Nation.
the battle of Petersburg
106,2,2
848
Works
This person prepared the score for The Birth of a
Nation.
Joseph Carl Breil
106,2,3
849
Works
This piece accompanied scenes of the galloping KuKlux-Klan in The Birth of a Nation.
Ride of the Valkyries
106,2,3
850
Works
This piece was the first hit song to come from a
movie.
“The Perfect Song”
107,1,1
851
People
This person composed the first hit song to come
from a movie.
Joseph Carl Breil
107,1,1
852
Items
Film producers settled on this approach to syncing
sound with film in 1928.
“sound-on-film”
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Details
Maurice Ravel served in World War I in this capacity.
driver for the motor transport
corps
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854
Details
Maurice Ravel had this initial attitude to military
service in World War I.
eager to join
109,1,3
855
Details
Maurice Ravel was hospitalized during his military
service for this reason.
dysentery
109,1,3
856
People
This prominent Austrian composer was initially
rejected from military service due to his poor
eyesight.
Anton Webern
109,2,0
857
Details
Anton Webern had this initial reaction to military
service in World War I.
eager to join
109,2,0
858
Details
Béla Bartók did not serve in the military during
World War I for this reason.
deemed physically unfit
110,1,1
859
Details
This task was assigned to Béla Bartók and Zoltán
Kodály in lieu of military service in World War I.
collecting folksongs from soldiers
110,1,1
860
Details
George Butterworth demonstrated his nationalism
before World War I in these two ways.
collecting English folksongs and
belonging to the English Folk
Dance Society
110,1,1
861
Details
George Butterworth served in World War I in this
capacity.
officer in the 13th Durham Light
Infantry
110,1,2
862
People
This English composer received the Military Cross
and was killed by a sniper in 1916.
George Butterworth
110,1,2
863
People
This English composer oversaw amateur music
production among British troops in World War I.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
110,1,3
864
Details
Gustav Holst served in World War I in this capacity.
music organizer for the YMCA’s
army educational scheme for
demobilized troops
110,2,1
865
People
This famous composer dropped the “von” from his
name during World War I to sound less German.
Gustav Holst
110,2,1
866
Details
Lili Boulanger contributed to the World War I war
effort in this manner.
founded the Franco-American
Committee of the National
Conservatory
110,2,2
867
Details
Lili Boulanger founded the Franco-American
committee of the National Conservatory for this
purpose.
to provide moral and monetary
support to musicians fighting in
the war
110,2,2
868
People
This composer wrote the opera Wozzeck.
Alban Berg
110,2,2
869
People
This Austrian composer developed a 15-point peace
plan in response to World War I.
Arnold Schoenberg
111,1,2
870
Details
Alban Berg was called up to serve in World War I
despite this physical condition.
asthma
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People
These two Second Viennese School composers
strongly disliked their experience in military service.
Alban Berg and Arnold
Schoenberg
110,2,2
872
Works
This 20th century opera features a soldier driven to
murder and suicide by army personnel.
Wozzeck
110,2,2
873
People
This American composer wrote “Oh! How I Hate to
Get Up in the Morning.”
Irving Berlin
111,2,1
874
Works
Irving Berlin wrote this revue during World War I to
raise money for a community house.
Yip, Yip, Yaphank
111,2,1
875
Works
Irving Berlin’s Yip, Yip, Yaphank was revived during
World War II under this name.
This is the Army
111,2,1
876
Details
During World War I, the Berlin Philharmonic played
works by composers from enemy countries under
this condition.
that the composer died before
1914
111,2,3
877
Details
The Pittsburgh symphony adopted this policy on
German music during World War I.
all German music banned
111,2,3
878
Details
The Chicago symphony adopted this policy on
German music during World War I.
performed German music until
the 1917 season
111,2,3
879
Details
Jean Cocteau used this adjective to describe a world
without Beethoven or Schubert’s music.
“unthinkable”
112,1,1
880
Details
Claude Debussy had this response to the
proclamation banning German music during World
War I.
refusal to sign
112,1,1
881
Details
Performers like Basil Hindenburg changed their
names during World War I for this reason.
to avoid xenophobia by sounding
less German
112,2,1
882
Details
Fritz Kreisler stopped performing in America during
World War I for this reason.
his enlistment in the Austrian
army
112,2,2
883
Terms
The term “hyphen-Americans” has this meaning.
naturalized American citizens that
acknowledge their ancestry
113,1,0
884
Details
Baltimore refused to host the Boston Symphony
Orchestra in 1917 for this reason.
erroneous belief that the
conductor refused to perform
“The Star-Spangled Banner”
113,1,1
885
People
This Boston conductor was falsely accused of being a
German spy during World War I.
Karl Muck
113,2,0
886
People
This composer led a performance of Beethoven’s
Missa Solemnis in Paris during World War I.
Vincent d’Indy
113,2,1
887
People
This German composer learned of Debussy’s death
while playing his string quartet.
Paul Hindemith
113,2,2
888
Events
Soldiers sung carols like “Silent Night” during this
1914 event.
Christmas Truce
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Works
This title refers to the poetry of the German version
of the “Kaiserhymne.”
“Deutschland, Deutschland über
alles”
114,1,0
890
People
This composer wrote “Home, Sweet Home.”
Henry Bishop
114,1,0
891
People
This person was Claude Debussy’s publisher.
Jacques Durand
114,2,1
892
People
This person was King of Belgium during World War
I.
King Albert
115,1,2
893
People
This writer organized the 1914 charity book King
Albert’s Book.
Hall Caine
115,1,2
894
Items
This British newspaper helped organize the 1914
charity book King Albert’s Book.
Daily Telegraph
115,1,2
895
Items
Sales from the 1914 King Albert’s Book went to this
organization.
the Belgian Fund
115,1,2
896
People
This composer submitted the choral piece Carillon to
King Albert’s Book.
Edward Elgar
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897
Works
This phrase is the refrain to Elgar’s choral piece
Carillon.
“Sing, Belgians, Sing!”
115,1,3
898
Works
Claude Debussy wrote this piece for King Albert’s
Book.
Berceuse héroïque
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899
Works
This piece is the Belgian national anthem.
“La brabançonne”
115,1,3
900
People
This novelist organized the charity book The Book of
the Homeless.
Edith Wharton
115,1,4
901
Items
The proceeds of The Book of the Homeless went to
these two recipients.
American hostels for refugees and
the Children of Flanders Rescue
Committee
115,1,4
902
Works
Igor Stravinsky submitted this work to The Book of
the Homeless.
Recollection of a Kraut March
115,1,4
903
Works
This 1915 piece by Claude Debussy commemorates
friends who died in battle.
En blanc et noir (In white and
black)
115,2,1
904
Works
This piece was the last work Claude Debussy
composed before he died.
“Noël des enfants qui n’ont plus
de maisons” (“Christmas Carol of
the Homeless Children”)
115,2,1
905
People
This composer wrote the 1917 piece The Spirit of
England.
Edward Elgar
116,1,0
906
Works
These dedications are the three movement titles of
Edward Elgar’s The Spirit of England.
“To the Fallen,” “To Women,” and
“The Fourth of August”
116,1,0
907
People
This composer wrote Le Tombeau de Couperin in
1917.
Maurice Ravel
116,1,1
908
Terms
This French word means “grave” or “tombstone” and
can describe a lament.
tombeau
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People
The last movement of Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau
de Couperin is dedicated to this person.
Captain Joseph de Marliave
116,1,1
910
People
This pianist premiered Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau
de Couperin.
Marguerite Long
116,1,1
911
Terms
This Baroque term describes virtuosic, fast-moving
pieces that sound improvised.
toccata
116,1,1
912
Works
This song from Maurice Ravel’s 1915 Three Songs for
Unaccompanied Mixed Chorus references wartime.
“Three Beautiful Birds from
Paradise”
116,1,3
913
People
This famous pianist lost his arm fighting with the
Austrian army in World War I.
Paul Wittgenstein
116,2,1
914
Styles And
Genres
Paul Wittgenstein commissioned this kind of piece
after his injuries in World War I.
piano pieces for the left hand
only
116,2,1
915
People
This friend and duet partner of Paul Wittgenstein
composed several pieces for him after the war.
Richard Strauss
116,2,1
916
People
This composer dedicated his Concerto no. 4 to Paul
Wittgenstein.
Sergei Prokofiev
116,2,1
917
People
This composer wrote Concerto for the Left Hand for
Paul Wittgenstein after World War I.
Maurice Ravel
116,2,1
918
Items
This newspaper published the August 1918 editorial
entitled “New Songs of War.”
New York Evening Post
117,1,1
919
People
This person composed the song “When the Roll is
Called Up Yonder (I’ll Be There).”
James M. Black
117,2,1
920
Works
This 1918 song features a toddler trying to telephone
her father fighting in the war.
“Hello, Central, Give Me No
Man’s Land”
117,2,1
921
People
These three people wrote the 1918 song “Hello,
Central, Give Me No Man’s Land.”
Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young, and
Jean Schwartz
117,2,1
922
Works
This 1918 American song celebrates the brave Red
Cross nurses who saved soldiers in battle.
“The Rose of No Man’s Land”
117,2,1
923
People
These two people wrote the 1918 song “The Rose of
No Man’s Land.”
George Gordon and Robert Bruce
117,2,1
924
Works
The British soldiers adopted this 1912 song by Yale
graduates as a march.
“There’s a Long, Long Trail”
117,2,2
925
People
These two people wrote “There’s a Long, Long Trail.”
Zo Elliot and Stoddard King
117,2,2
926
Events
“There’s a Long, Long Trail” was originally written
for this event.
a college reunion
117,2,2
927
People
This person composed the 1915 song “Keep the Home
Fires Burning.”
Ivor Novello
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People
This person wrote the lyrics for the 1915 song “Keep
the Home Fires Burning.”
Lena Guilbert
117,2,2
929
Details
The 1915 song “Keep the Home Fires Burning” was
unusual for this reason.
one of the few to convey fear war
would not end quickly
117,2,2
930
Details
The popularity of “Keep the Home Fires Burning”
resulted in this benefit for Ivor Novello.
brought home to England by
British Home Office to write
songs for London revues
117,2,2
931
Places
“It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” originated in
this type of venue.
music hall
117,Lc11,1
932
People
These two people wrote, “It’s a Long, Long Way to
Tipperary.”
Jack Judge and Harry Williams
117,Lc11,1
933
Works
This 1912 song became famous when an Irish
regiment sang it while marching through France.
“It’s a Long, Long Way to
Tipperary”
117,Lc11,1
934
Works
The sheet music for “It’s a Long, Long Way to
Tipperary” features this declaration.
“The Marching Anthem on the
Battlefields of Europe”
118,Lc11,0
935
Forms
“It’s a Long, Long Way to Tipperary” has this
structure.
verse-chorus form
118,Lc11,2
936
People
This person made a famous 1914 recording of “It’s a
Long, Long Way to Tipperary”.
John McCormack
118,Lc11,2
937
Events
The song “Cathédrale de Reims” laments this event.
the 1914 destruction of Rheims
Cathedral by the Germans
120,1,2
938
Works
The song “Cathédrale de Reims” uses this French
tune.
“C’est si joli la femme”
120,1,2
939
Events
The London newspapers described this 1914 event as
“The Kaiser’s Crowning Infamy.”
destruction of Rheims Cathedral
120,1,2
940
People
This American soldier collected folk songs among
African-American troops during World War I.
John Jacob Niles
120,2,1
941
Places
French kings were consecrated at the altar of this
cathedral.
Rheims Cathedral
120,1,2
942
People
These two people composed the 1915 song “The
Bravest Heart of All.”
Arthur J. Lamb and Henry Clique
121,1,0
943
People
The song “The Bravest Heart of All” is a tribute to
this Red Cross nurse.
Edith Cavell
121,1,0
944
Places
Edith Cavell was a Red Cross nurse during World
War I in this city.
Brussels
121,1,0
945
People
These three people wrote “After the War Is Over
(Will There Be Any ‘Home Sweet Home’).”
E. J. Pourmon, Joseph Woodruff,
and Henry Andrieu
121,1,1
946
People
These two people wrote the World War I-era song
“The Boys Who Won’t Come Home.”
Harry Hamilton and Ed Thomas
121,1,1
947
People
This person wrote the melancholy song “They Sleep
in Fields of Battle.”
Duncan J. Muir
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People
This person wrote the melancholy song “Where is
the Boy Who Went Over the Sea?”
Marie Rich
121,1,1
949
People
This person wrote the sad song “Beneath the
Battlefields of France a Boy Lies Sleeping.”
Nellie Dean
121,1,1
950
Works
Canadian doctor John McCrae wrote this famous
poem about World War I.
“In Flanders Field”
121,1,1
951
People
These two people wrote the 1914 humorous song
“Quand Madelon.”
Camille Robert and Louis
Bousquet
122,1,1
952
Places
The 1914 song “Quand Madelon” originated in this
kind of venue.
music hall
122,1,1
953
Terms
The 1914 song “Quand Madelon” has this meter.
duple meter
122,1,1
954
Details
The Madelon named in “Quand Madelon” had this
profession.
tavern waitress
122,1,1
955
Works
During World War I, the hymn “When the Roll Is
Called Up Yonder,” became this new song.
“When the Guns are Rolling
Yonder”
122,1,2
956
Works
During World War I, the song “Sing Me to Sleep”
became this new song.
“Far, Far from Wipers [Ypres]”
122,1,2
957
Works
“Kind Thoughts Can Never Die” was reborn as this
new song during World War I.
“Old Soldiers Never Die”
122,1,2
958
People
This American general quoted the song “Old Soldiers
Never Die” during the Korean War.
General MacArthur
122,1,2
959
People
This composer wrote the war song “They Were All
Out of Step But Jim.”
Irving Berlin
122,1,3
960
Details
Soldiers in the trenches of World War I acquired
instruments in these three ways.
scavenging, makeshift
construction, or transport from
home
122,1,4
961
People
This person served as propaganda minister in
Germany during the Third Reich.
Joseph Goebbels
122,2,1
962
People
These two people wrote the 1915 song “Don’t Take
My Darling Boy Away.”
Will Dillon and Albert von Tilzer
123,1,1
963
Details
The 1915 song “Don’t Take My Darling Boy Away”
advocated this political position.
pacifism
123,1,1
964
Works
Irving Berlin wrote this quirky 1914 pacifist song.
“Stay Down Here Where You
Belong”
123,2,1
965
People
This character’s point-of-view is represented in the
1914 song “Stay Down Here Where You Belong.”
the Devil
123,2,1
966
People
This person wrote the lyrics to “I Didn’t Raise My
Boy to Be a Soldier.”
Alfred Bryan
123,Lc12,1
967
People
This person wrote the music to “I Didn’t Raise My
Boy to Be a Soldier.”
Al Piantadosi
123,Lc12,1
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Works
This phrase subtitles the 1915 song “I Didn’t Raise My
Boy to Be a Soldier.”
“A Mother’s Plea for Peace,
respectfully dedicated to every
Mother—everywhere”
123,Lc12,1
969
Terms
“I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” has this
beginning tempo indication.
marziale
123,Lc12,1
970
People
This person published “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a
Soldier.”
Leo Feist
123,Lc12,1
971
People
This Brooklyn principal angered the American
military by teaching his students pacifist songs
during World War I.
Alexander Fichandler
123,Lc12,2
972
Events
The popularity of pacifist songs waned after this
World War I event.
sinking of the Lusitania
124,Lc12,0
973
Events
Victor Records withdrew “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to
Be a Soldier” after this event.
United States entry in World War
I
124,Lc12,0
974
People
This person wrote the lyrics for the song “The
Minstrel Boy.”
Thomas Moore
124,Lc12,1
975
Works
The song “The Minstrel Boy” uses this Irish melody.
“The Moreen”
124,Lc12,1
976
Works
Al Piantadosi’s “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a
Soldier” has this musical form.
verse-chorus form
124,Lc12,1
977
People
This musician composed the 1914 song “Your King
and Your Country Want You.”
Paul A. Rubens
125,2,0
978
Places
“Your King and Your Country Want You” was
frequently sung in this kind of venue.
British recruitment rallies
125,2,0
979
Works
The sheet music for this 1917 Irving Berlin song
declares it “The Official Recruiting Song.”
“For Your Country and My
Country”
126,1,0
980
Works
This French patriotic song dates back to the
Revolution alongside “La Marseillaise.”
“Chant du départ”
126,1,1
981
Works
Great Britain’s national anthem is in this meter.
triple meter
126,2,1
982
Works
This 1918 American song promoted fuel conservation
by declaring the patriotism of walking.
“Keep Cool! The Country’s Saving
Fuel (And I Had to Come Home
in the Dark)”
126,2,2
983
Works
This 1917 marketing song encouraged American
civilians to send cigarettes to overseas troops.
“The Makin’s of the U.S.A. (A Plea
in Song for Tobacco for the Boys
Over There)”
126,2,3
984
Groups
This company manufactured the “Bull Durham”
cigarette.
the American Tobacco Company
127,1,0
985
People
These two people wrote the 1905 song “In My Merry
Oldsmobile.”
Victor Bryan and Harry von
Tilzer
127,1,0
986
People
This German soldier wrote the “Hymn of Hate
against England.”
Ernst Lissauer
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People
This musician wrote “Sabre and Spears” and “Solid
Men to the Front.”
John Philip Sousa
127,2,0
988
Works
This piece was the United States Field Artillery
March during World War I.
“Over Hill, Over Dale”
127,2,0
989
Details
Theatrical entertainments were organized near army
encampments during World War I for this reason.
to build morale
127,2,1
990
People
This famous French actress had a leg amputated in
1915.
Sarah Bernhardt
128,1,0
991
People
This musician wrote the 1917 song “Over There.”
George M. Cohan
128,Lc13,1
992
Events
This major World War I event occurred on April 6,
1917.
American declaration of war on
Germany
128,Lc13,1
993
People
This famous artist created the cover image for the
sheet music for “Over There.”
Norman Rockwell
129,Lc13,0
994
Instruments
The opening phrase of the chorus to “Over There”
imitates this instrument.
bugle
129,Lc13,1
995
Items
George Cohan was given this national award in 1936.
the Congressional Medal of
Honor
129,Lc13,2
996
Forms
The 1917 song “Over There” has this musical form.
verse-chorus form
130,Lc13,0
997
Terms
The 1917 song “Over There” has this meter.
duple meter
130,Lc13,0
998
People
This American told the French military during World
War I not to treat African-Americans equally.
Colonel Linard
132,1,1
999
People
These two people wrote the 1918 song “You’ll Find
Old Dixieland in France.”
Grant Clarke and George W.
Meyer
133,1,1
1000
People
This person introduced “You’ll Find Old Dixieland in
France” in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1918.
Bert Williams
133,1,1