20th Century Piano Literature

T or F: There is virtually always a tonal center in Debussy's music.

"Reflets dans l'eau" is from

Harmonic boundaries were pushed to their limits in Debussy's

This Debussy prelude is reminiscent of autumn

He never was successful at winning the Prix de Rome

Debussy employed this mode the least in his music

Style of music in which the artist or writer seeks to express subjective emotional experience

He wrote ten piano sonatas

He believed every piece should only have one "culminating point"

He briefly lived in Hollywood for a while

A famous pop psychiatrist in the early 1900's that helped Rachmaninoff recover from depression

Impressionism can be defined as:

Who would most likely have included "leitmotifs" in his compositions?

Who said "Music is silence between the notes"?

"Estampes" means

Slow Cuban dance characterized by dotted rhythms

Rachmaninoff's Moments Musicaux comes from works of the same title by:

Debussy died of:

Debussy's Etudes were dedicated to

These composers wrote 24 preludes except

This composer was primarily a church organist his entire life

The Alhambra is located in:

Most of Debussy's pieces can be thought of structurally as

How does Debussy link tonal centers in his music?

Glazunov unsuccessfully conducted his first symphony

What are some onomatopoetic sounds typically found in Rachmaninoff's music?

How old was Debussy when he first began to write for solo piano?

Born near St. Petersburg, Russia

His father was a gambler

Ravel's "Morning Song of the Jester" is from

Ravel's Jeux d'eau musically depicts:

Rachmaninoff's favorite chopin piece was:

What event had a profound effect on Debussy's music?

Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 has similarities to which piece?

David Dubal: "his music is often dense in number of notes per measure"

He wrote nine piano sonatas

A famous violinist that played with Rachmaninoff

Ravel's Alborada del Gracioso contains everything except

T or F: The Revised version (1931) of Rachmaninoff's Sonata No. 2 (1913) is played most often

True or False: Most endings in Debussy pieces 'fade away'

The revival of a classical style or treatment in art, literature, architecture, or music.

His most famous sonata is called the "Night Wind", Op. 25, no. 2

He mentioned Balakirev's Islamey as a model of virtuosity for his own solo piano work

Oiseaux tristes is described by the composer as:

The "War Sonatas" of Prokofiev were comprised of the

A movement in art closely following Impressionism

The Alhambra is referenced in this Debussy prelude

Ravel's Le Tombeau is an example of:

Debussy was considered an impressionist for his music's: