DollyWood | Lisztomania | Woody Guthrie | Ragtime | Mendelsohn Siblings |
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What is Joshua?
This single was Dolly’s first number 1 hit in 1971. Not Jolene, but it’s a classic J-name used for men.
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What is the Romantic Period?
In this period of music, Franz Liszt was alive and creating music.
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Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Woody Guthrie was named for this American President.
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What is the piano?
The popularity of ragtime boosted the sales of this instrument.
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What is "Midsummer Nights' Dream"?
Felix Mendelsohn was the composer for the overture of the piece with the same name as a Shakespeare comedy.
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What is "I Will Always Love You"?
Made popular by another female artist with the last name of a city in Texas, Parton is the songwriter of this chart topping song.
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What is fame?
Liszt’s showmanship and virtuosity led to this, which was unprecedented in his time.
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What is New York City?
In this great American city, Guthrie recorded his first album, Dust Bowl Ballads, and his career took off.
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What is ragged time?
Ragtime is a conjunction of these two words that describe the syncopated rhythm.
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What is Judaism?
Mendelsohn’s family practiced Lutheranism but was ethnically of this religion and culture, suppressed by Prussian culture.
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What is "9 to 5"?
Parton goes multimedia: the title we’re looking for is of Dolly’s first movie and its title song.
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What is Hungary?
Though born in a German speaking village in present-day Austria, Liszt remained deeply tied to and proud of his roots in this ethnic group, also a present-day country.
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Who is Alan Lomax
Guthrie’s first collaborator: an American Folk Song assistant from the Library of Congress.
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What is popularity?
Portability and this other P noun of the banjo, guitar, mandolin, and violin made these the instruments of choice for traveling ragtime musicians.
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What is Hansel and Gretel?
Fanny Mendelsohn’s married name is one letter off from the first name in this fable of two children and a candy house.
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What is the Nashville Songwriters' Hall of Fame
In 1986, Dolly Parton was inducted into which Hall of Fame?
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What is an affair?
Liszt’s finest works were inspired by this modern day relationship scandal.
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What is "Round and Round Hitlers' Grave"?
In addition to being apart of the Merchant Marines and being drafted to the Army, Guthrie wrote this song during WWII.
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What is Missouri?
This state, nicknamed the show me state, is the heartland of ragtime.
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What is gender?
Fanny Mendelsohn was also a virtuosic composer and pianist, but this constraint led her to not have her talent as socially accepted as her brother, Felix.
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What are folk, bluegrass, and country
These 3 genres influence Parton’s music.
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What is a symphony?
Composed at Weimar, Liszt developed the genre of the symphonic poem, comparable to this similarly named genre of classical music.
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What is Huntingtons'?
Guthrie was diagnosed with this hereditary degenerative disease that affects the nervous system and eventually results in death.
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What is Vaudeville?
The popularity of ragtime was heavily featured in this precursor to broadway.
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What is a composer?
Fanny Mendelsohn Hensel was one of the first women to have their musical works published, fulfilling her dream of being a serious ____.
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