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Who was the leading American composer and conductor of band music?
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John Philip SousaThe leading American composer and conductor of band music was John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), nicknamed the march king. His best-known marches include The Stars and Stripes Forever, The Washington Post, and Semper Fidelis. From 1892 to 1931 the famous 50-person Sousa Band toured across America and during the early 1900s it performed in Europe as well.
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Charles Ives's music contains elements of
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All answers are correct.Like his country, Ives's music is a polyglot, deeply rooted in the folk and popular music he knew as a boy: revival hymns, ragtime, village bands, church choirs, patriotic songs, and barn dances.
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George Gershwin grew up in
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New York, New York.he American composer George Gershwin grew up on the lower east side of Manhattan, New York.
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Gershwin left high school at the age of fifteen to
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become a pianist demonstrating new songs in a publisher's salesroom.
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George Gershwin usually collaborated with the lyricist
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ira Gershwin George Gershwin usually collaborated with his brother, Ira, who was a lyricist.
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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with
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solo clarinetRhapsody in Blue opens with a now-famous clarinet solo that starts from a low trill, climbs the scale, and then slides up to a high wailing tone.
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As a composer, William Grant Still
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wrote film scores, concert works, operas, and band arrangements.In 1935, after Still was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, he moved to Los Angeles, where he wrote film scores, concert works, and operas. He was the first African American to conduct a major symphony orchestra—the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in 1936. He was also the first to have an opera performed by a major opera company—Troubled Island, about the Haitian slave rebellion, in 1949.
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In 1925, after Copland returned from France, American music meant
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jazz.When Copland returned to New York from Paris, in 1925, American music was associated with the jazz style. There was no unique American sound, something Copland helped to define over the next decades.
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Aaron Copland's name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of
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All answers are correct.Copland's music drew on American folklore, jazz, revival hymns, cowboy songs, and other folk tunes. His scores for films and his patriotic works also reached a mass public, and his name became synonymous with American music.
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Appalachian Spring originated as a
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ballet score.We now know Appalachian Spring as a symphonic concert piece, but it originated as a ballet score for Martha Graham, the great modern dancer and choreographer.
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Copland depicted Scenes of daily activity for the Bride and her Farmer-husband in Appalachian Spring through
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five variations on the Shaker melody Simple Gifts.The section of Appalachian Spring that originally accompanied Scenes of daily activity for the Bride and her Farmer-husband features the Shaker melody, Simple Gifts.
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One of Ginastera's early works, Estancia Suite, is
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nationalistic and uses Argentinean folk material, including popular dances.Estancia Suite, by Alberto Ginastera, was a work rooted in Argentinean folk tradition. It has a distinct national flavor because of its setting on an Argentinean ranch, and its use of musical idioms associated with the gaucho, or horseman of the plain.
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Alberto Ginastera's Estancia Suite uses a large orchestra and is in ________ movements.
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4the Estancia Suite has four movements: (1) Los trabajadors (The Land Workers), (2) Danza del Trigo (Wheat Dance), (3) Los Peones de Hacienda (The Cattlemen), (4) Danza Final (Final Dance): Malambo.
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In 1945 Ginastera moved to the United States where he had the opportunity to study with the well known American composer
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Aaron Copland.In 1945 Ginastera went with his family to the United States, where he studied with Aaron Copland at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood.
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Serialism is a compositional technique in which
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a series of rhythms, dynamics, or tone colors could serve as a unifying idea.The techniques of the twelve-tone system, also known as serialism, came to be used to organize elements of music other than just pitch, such as rhythm, dynamics, and tone color. Recall that in early twelve-tone music the system was used primarily to order pitch relationships. After 1950, a series of durations (rhythmic values), dynamic levels, or tone colors also could serve as a unifying idea. A rhythmic or dynamic series might be manipulated like the series of twelve tones.
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Twelve-tone compositional techniques used to organize rhythm, dynamics, tone color, and other dimensions of music to produce totally controlled and organized music are called
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serialismThe use of a series, or ordered group of musical elements (e.g., pitch, rhythm, dynamics, and tone color), to organize several dimensions of a composition is called serialism.
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in chance, or aleatory music, the composer
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chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods.In chance music, composers choose pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods such as throwing coins. They may also ask performers to choose the ordering of the musical material, or even to choose much of the material itself.
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Minimalist music is characterized by
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a steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns.Minimalist music is characterized by steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns. Its dynamic level, texture, and harmony tend to stay constant for fairly long stretches of time, creating a trancelike or hypnotic effect.
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In electronic music, there is no need for
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performersElectronic instruments let composers control tone color, duration, dynamics, and pitch with unprecedented precision. Composers are no longer limited by human performers. For the first time, they can work directly in their own medium—sound. There is no more need for intermediaries, that is, performers.
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Intervals smaller than the half step are called
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microtonesIntervals smaller than the half step are known as microtones. Such intervals, like quarter tones, have long been used in nonwestern music, but they have only recently become an important resource for western composers.
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Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique
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all the above Varèse's Poème électronique, one of the earliest masterpieces of electronic music, was created in a tape studio. The 8-minute work was designed to be heard within the pavilion of the Philips Radio Corporation at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Varèse worked in collaboration with the architect Le Corbusier, who selected a series of images—photographs, paintings, and writing—that were projected on the walls as the music was heard.
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Ellen Taffee Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985 is an example of
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quotation musicZwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985 is an example of quotation music. In the outer movements of the work, Zwilich juxtaposes parts of a Handel sonata with original passages.
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the twelve-tone composer whose style was most imitated in the 1950s and 1960s was
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anton Webern.Many composers of the 1950s and 1960s chose to write music that was stylistically reminiscent of Anton Webern. Webern's style answered the needs of the post-World War II generation: his music had a lean, modern sound, in which melodic lines are atomized into tiny fragments that are heard in widely separated registers and framed by moments of silence.
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Who is the composer of this piece?
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-araon copland -edgar vare'se
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