20th Century Music Beginnings

Contemporary musical style featuring the repetition of short melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns with little variation.

• Expressionism
• Neoclassicism
• Minimalism
• Blues

Religious folk songs that blended biblical themes with the realities of slavery

• blues
• Spirituals
• Crooners
• Ragtime

type of music that blended African-American songs and European musical forms characterized by syncopation in the melody.

• Ragtime
• Jazz
• Blues
• Spirituals

the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

• The Prohibition
• The Depression
• The Motive
• The End of WW1

The revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music. Emotional restraint, balance, and clarity.

• Minialism
• Ragtime
• Neoclassicism
• Impressionism

musical style that stresses tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity.

• Crooners
• Impressionism
• Neoclassicism
• Minimalism

a singer, typically a male one, who sings sentimental songs in a soft, low voice. The first pop vocalists.

• Ragtime
• Crooners
• Gramophone
• Scatters

A part of New York City where songwriters and publishers did business.

• Hokum Blues
• Vaudeville
• Tin Pan Alley
• Impressionism

the first version of the "record player", it used a flat disc rather than a cylinder to record sound.

• Gramophone
• Ragtime
• Crooners
• Quadraphonic

a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.

• Expressionism
• Neoclassicism
• Minimalism
• Impressionism