10a. Early 20th Century Music Part 1 Name:______
Each question is worth up to 4 points each (70%). The first essay is worth up to 30pts (30%). Your first and last name is 10pts (10%).
1. One of the 19th century’s most popular forms of music was the march. Who was declared “the March King”?
2. To entertain their white masters, slaves created a dance that secretly made fun of their masters called what?
3. What form of traveling entertainment was popular in the 19th and early 20th century American theatre, but is considered unacceptable and offensive today?
4. Which composer is often considered to be the end of Romanticism and the start of 20th century modernism?
5. What country embraced dance and by doing so became a new musical power?
6. What do we call a story told only through music and dance?
7. According to legend, how did the audience react to the 1913 Paris premier of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “The Rite of Spring”?
8. What country started a musical reaction against the emotional exuberance and epic themes of German Romanticism?
9. Claude Debussy, Gabrielle Faure, and Maurice Ravel are associated with what style of music?
10. The invention of recorded sound in 1877 transformed music in multiple important ways. Who is traditionally credited for its invention?
11. Recording allowed the preservation and exposure of traditional music and folk music. Which ethnic group’s music advanced the most from this exposure?
12. What political party rose to prominence in Germany after World War I and banned modern music?
13. The Blues, Ragtime, and Jazz all began in the first part of the 20th century from what country?
14. The first African-American songs that the rest of the world finally got to hear was what style of music?
15. What rhythmic technique characterizes Ragtime Music like that of Scott Joplin?
Essay: Choose one and write a minimum of one complete paragraph. Use your own words. Make your answer clear and accurate.
A. What is the title, composer, plot/story of one of the ballets we watched? B. Compare/contrast the styles of Russian Romantic composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Modernist Igor Stravinsky? C. Explain nationalism/ institutional racism and its effects on music and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bonus: Choose another essay. Get up to 5 points per extra essay.
BBC Howard Goodall's Story of Music 5of6 The Age of Rebellion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxzvVGlVZqE
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 "The Titan" / Bernstein · Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQFjDBFXN58
Gustav Mahler-Piano Quartet in A minor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPXinFjtIyg
Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra / Dudamel · Berliner Philharmoniker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szdziw4tI9o
Strauss - Renée Fleming & Christian Benda, "Morgen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qURtlClAkGU
Richard Strauss: Salome - Baden-Baden, 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umMeLSNlYMU (English subtitles)
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 / Bernstein New York Philharmonic (1975 Movie Live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d1Me2gRZIQ
The Nutcracker New York City Ballet, 1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ofysvpgv7o
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake - The Kirov Ballet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rJoB7y6Ncs
The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) – Tchaikovsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6eA4PjWhws
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake - four little swans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gApOfm4qd0
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky / Nina Kaptsova - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy / 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_f9B4pPtg
Igor Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps Vaslav Nijinsky Version 1913 Ballett Mariinski Theater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvVKWapctX4&t=1347s
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition + Encore / Solti Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1990 Movie Live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syLm-9JyhuY
BORIS GODUNOV - Nesterenko, Arkhipova - Bolshoi, 1978, English subtitles, Годунов, Большой https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfz7IJtzijs
Anna Tsybuleva plays Claude Debussy "Voiles" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15gE1qu30c
Claude Debussy, Estampes - Anna Zassimova, Piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5JuUJ77LHo
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Gergiev · Vienna Philharmonic · Salzburg Festival 2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNymNaTr-Y
Stravinsky - Ballet "L'Oiseau de feu" - Diana Vishneva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxzvVGlVZqE (Firebird Suite)
Le Sacre du printemps / The Rite of Spring - Ballets Russes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOZmlYgYzG4
African Suite: IV. Danse Negre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9kLMaeGEfE
SOUSA The Washington Post - "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxrh1CrMmTY
Maple Leaf Rag on a 1915's Piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE86FR2SzBo
A Brief History of The Minstrel Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ptQYcWyRL0
Race Melodrama and Minstrel Shows: Crash Course Theater #30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3K9uKIMob0
FIRST EVER SOUND FILM OF A MINSTREL SHOW 1913 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqAiAsMOCIk
Al Jolson Blackface Minstrel Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhavaXOynO8
Minstrel shows https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79D447ZyP38