Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
American Composers
YGK These American Composers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The composer whose "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Concerto in F" both feature solo piano and orchestra | George Gershwin |
| Gershwin’s 1935 opera that features an entirely African-American cast | Porgy and Bess |
| The "Populist" works by Aaron Copland based on folk themes, including Billy the Kid and Rodeo | Ballets |
| The teacher in Paris with whom both Aaron Copland and Philip Glass studied | Nadia Boulanger |
| The longtime music director of the New York Philharmonic who gave televised “Young People’s Concerts” | Leonard Bernstein |
| The jazz clarinet concerto premiered by Benny Goodman and composed by Leonard Bernstein | Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs |
| The leading figure of the “Second Viennese School” who developed the twelve-tone method | Arnold Schoenberg |
| Schoenberg’s innovation meaning “tone-color melody” | Klangfarbenmelodie |
| The minimalist composer known for the "Portrait Operas" Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, and Akhnaten | Philip Glass |
| The vocal technique used in Einstein on the Beach in place of a standard libretto | Solfege syllables and numbers |
| The composer of "Adagio for Strings" who maintained a long romantic relationship with Gian-Carlo Menotti | Samuel Barber |
| The Samuel Barber opera that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 | Vanessa |
| The modernist composer who worked in the insurance industry and utilized polytonality | Charles Ives |
| The Charles Ives piano sonata that depicts leading figures of the transcendentalist movement | Concord Sonata |
| The John Cage piece created entirely from ambient sounds while the performer sits silently | 4′33″ |
| The Chinese text used by John Cage to determine musical content through chance | I Ching |
| The composer of the opera Nixon in China and the 9/11 memorial work "On the Transmigration of Souls" | John Adams |
| The John Adams opera centered on the Manhattan Project | Doctor Atomic |
| The musical theater giant who was mentored by Oscar Hammerstein II and wrote the lyrics for West Side Story | Stephen Sondheim |
| The Sondheim musical about painter Georges Seurat that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Sunday in the Park with George |
Created by:
divyap
Popular Quiz Bowl sets