Romantic and Post Romantic Orchestral Music

Question 1

This composer made a 12x12 "box" to write his tone row music. Like a punnett square, only much bigger

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Milton Babbitt

Question 2

This Post-Romantic German Composer wrote only 1 tone poem (Sigfried Idyll) but made his mark in the opera world.

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Richard Wagner

Question 3

Leonard Bernstein, Gustav Mahler, Zubin Mehta, Alan Gilbert, Kurt Mazur and Jaap van Zweden all have what in common?

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All of the Above

Question 4

He is the tone poem hero! 2 of the 10 are Alpine Symphony, and Till Eulenspeigel's Merry Pranks. Who is this composer?

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Richard Strauss

Question 5

Composers of the 1950's denounced atonality and brought back classicism with new sound, but using forms.

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Neo-Classicists

Question 6

Who is considered to be the first romantic period composer? He wrote compositions in both Romantic and Classical style.

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Ludwig von Beethoven

Question 7

Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Peter I. Tchaikowsky and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov are all composers from what country?

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Russia

Question 8

Impressionistic music has its origins in what country?

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France

Question 9

Arnold Schoenberg is said to be the father of what type of music?

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Atonal

Question 10

This Impressionist wrote La Mer (The Sea) and Sunken Cathedral

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Claude Debussy

Question 11

Conductor of the NY Phil from 1909-11. He wrote Das Lied von de Erde, Holst left it out of his suite of Planets. (Earth)

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Claude Debussy

Question 12

Composer of Les Preludes, this composer most well know for his piano works is known as the father of the Tone Poem.

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Franz Liszt

Question 13

West Side Story ends differently from the traditional story of Romeo and Juliet. How?

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Maria does not die

Question 14

Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Bernstein have all written music based on the story of

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Romeo and Juliet

Question 15

Leonard Bernstein's version was written first as a

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Broadway Musical

Question 16

The music for Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikowski and Prokofiev were written for which idiom?

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Ballet

Question 17

The music from these composers is said to the the opposite of the impressionists. They are considered

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Expressionists

Question 18

Hector Berlioz is an early Romantic Period composer known for the Programmatic Symphony. Which is the one we studied?

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Symphony Fantastique

Question 19

She was the first Puerto Rican born actress to win an Oscar for her portrayal of Anita (supporting actress 1962)

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Rita Moreno

Question 20

He wrote the Ballets "Firebird" in 1909 and Rite of Spring in 1913. Firebird was well received, the other, not.

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Igor Stravinski

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