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Stravinsky, Picasso, WWI, WWII, Hitler, Modern art, Billie Holiday
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1
Name the piece of music that was broadcast on Christmas even in 1906.
Handel's "Largo"
Beethoven's "Eroica Symphony"
Bach "Adagio"
Corelli's "Christmas Concerto"
2
Identify the composer for the following piece.
Ravel
Schoenberg
Stravinsky
Orff
3
Who was the last great Italian opera composer?
Bela Bartok
Maurice Ravel
Claude Debussy
Giacomo Puccini
4
Name the composer of "Rhapsody in Blue"
Fats Waller
Irving Berlin
Igor Stravinsky
George Gershwin
5
The song "Strange Fruit" is about...
food sent to the starving in Central America in the 1920s
a term used for illegal drugs in 1920s Chicago Jazz Clubs
the lynching of African Americans
a derogatory term for modern art in 1930s Vienna
6
Approximately how many people died during the siege of Leningrad?
800,000
500,000
200,000
1,000,000
7
Name the Ballet
Petrushka
The Rite of Spring
Parade
Les Noces
8
The Leningrad Symphony was composed by...
Bela Bartok
Karl Orff
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Dmitri Shostakovich
9
The song (aria) "Summertime" comes from the musical...
Threepenny Opera
Rhapsody in Blue
Parade
Porgy and Bass
10
Approximately how long did the siege of Leningrad last?
1,200 days
600 days
900 days
300 days
11
In what time period was this manuscript written?
1st century Roman
Ancient Greece
Medieval
Renaissance
12
You'll recognize the music to the ballet Les Noces.
True
False
13
Name the ballet that was first referred to as "surrealist."
Petrushka
The Firebird
Swan Lake
Parade
14
You will recognize music from Carmina Burana
True
False
15
The term "Les Noces" in English means...
the dreams
the wedding
the novice
the runaway
16
Name this ballet.
Parade
Les Noces
Petrushka
Camina Burana
17
What happened to Jesse Owen's German friend who helped him at the Olympics?
Hitler has him executed
He died during World War II
He was murdered by a Nazi sympathizer
He had to escape to Switzerland
18
You will recognize music from The Threepenny Opera.
True
False
19
In what year did the Spanish flu begin?
1934
1918
1901
1911
20
What is "bone music?"
recording made on medical X-Rays
Music that inspires a person deep down
Very basic music without and frills
Primitive drumming technique used by Stravinsky
21
You will be able to recognize the costumes to the ballet Parade.
True
False
22
The Threepenny Opera's music was composed by...
Kurt Weill
Igor Stravinsky
Karl Orff
Frédéric Chopin
23
Name this piece of music
Carmina Burana
Les Noces
Threepenny Opera
Leningrad Symphony
24
You will be able to identify the music of Arnold Schoenberg.
True
False
25
Who or what were the "flappers?"
a percussion device for early jazz
A mechanical device needed for radio broadcast
Young women from the 1920s
a style of painting in Paris around 1900
26
You will be familiar with this painting: name, artist, subject, when
True
False
