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What did Copland compose for?
What is serialism?
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What is serialism?
Tones arranged in order
Tones that fall in between the well tempered intervals
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What did Copland compose for?
Romantic Era and 20th Century
Concert hall and movie screen
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Where was one of the best places to hear classical music in the 20th century?
Movie Theater
In the streets
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What was Ives the most individual figure of?
Western music
Dean of American composers
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What was Strauss most known for being the master of?
Operas and orchestral tone poems
Jazz and concert works
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Who did Berg study with?
Sergei Prokofiev and Dimitri Shostakovich
Schoenberg and Webern
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What did the third stream combine?
The whole tone scale
Jazz and concert works
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What composers wrote in the form of Impressionism?
Ives, Stravinsky and Milhaud
Debussy, Ravel, Szymanowski
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What happened in 1913 during a concert featuring Berg's music?
Dancing and singing in the streets
Continually interrupted by an outraged audience
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Who were composers of the minimalist style?
Gustav Mahler and Jean Sibelius
Glass, Reich, and Adams
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During what years did Claude Debussy create his most celebrated works?
1890-1915
He is still creating them
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What were the works that Bernstein and Sondheim created?
Extreme dissonances and jagged rhythms
West Side Story, Candide and Sweeney Todd
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Who were the most influential serial composers of the 20th century?
Williams and Bernstein
Stockhausen, Babbitt and Boulez
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What were Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg pioneers of?
Atonal music
Concrete music
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Who were composers that pioneered the concept of microtonality?
Stravinsky, Bartok and Williams
Bartok, Ives, Carrillo and Blackwood
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What is a polytonal composition?
Written in two or more keys simultaneously
Rigid system of composition also known as the 12 tone method
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Did the 20th century have a specific musical style?
Yes
No
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Who were the most innovative film composers?
Bartok, Ives, Carrillo and Blackwood
Korngold,Steiner,Tiomkin,Hermann, Bernstein & John Williams
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What did Schoenberg introduce?
Rigid system of composition known as the 12 tone method
Whole tone system
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What were the songs we listened to in class by Copland?
Fanfare for the Common Man, Appalachian Spring and Hoe Down
The Rite of Spring
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What is Stravinsky's most notorious composition?
The Rite of Spring
Themes from American folk and religious music
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What did Copland and Ives introduce to their music?
The best known and most influential pieces
Themes from American folk and religious music
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What was Puccini's claim to fame?
12 tones of the chromatic scale are used once in each order
Composer of popular operas, primarily in the Romantic style
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What are Ravel's best known works?
Don Juan
Bolero
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How did composers breathe new life into opera?
Judiciously integrating other 20th century movements
Letting the performers choose the notes they want to play
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What is a minimal composition based on?
Melodic motif, repeated numerous times with modifications
Concrete music
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Who were composers that worked with polytonality?
Igor Stravinsky
Ives, Stravinsky, and Milhaud
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What did the styles known as neoclassicism and neoromanticism mark a return to?
Judiciously integrating other 20th century movements
All elements of a composition should contribute to the piece
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What composers were most notable for musical theater compositions?
John Williams and Stravinsky
Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
30
What two periods did Giacomo Puccini bridge?
Romantic Era and 20th Century
Concert hall and movie screen
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What were songs that represented the third stream music?
Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris and Sketches of Spain
Variations on "America"
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What did his Third Symphony win in 1947?
Grammy
Pulitzer Prize
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What does music concrete mean?
Concrete music
Atonal Music
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What were the songs we listened to by Ives in class?
Both A and B
Variations on a National Hymn "America"
Concord
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What is polytonality?
The whole tone scale
Used more than one tonality at the same time
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What is Fauvism?
Extreme dissonances and jagged rhythms
Artists imaginatively used deep color and simplified shapes
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Who was one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century?
Williams
Stravinsky
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What were Debussy's most famous works?
Also sprach Zarathustra and Don Quixote
Arabesque, Clair de lune, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
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What were the most notable works by Wagner that we listened to?
Jazz and concert works
Also sprach Zarathustra and Don Quixote
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What did musical theater evolve from?
Operettas of the romantic era and from American vaudeville
12 tones of the chromatic scale
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When did Schoenberg become an American citizen?
1890-1915
1941
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What two wars happened in the 20th century?
American Revolution
World War 1 and World War 2
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What did Pierre Schaeffer do?
Used the tape recorder to record everyday sounds for music
Created the whole tone scale
44
What proved to be a turning point for 20th century opera?
World War 2
World War 1
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What was Puccini's first opera and what happened to it?
Edgar - was a failure
William Tell - they loved it
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What composer was the foremost proponent of the neoclassical style?
Ives, Stravinsky, and Milhaud
Igor Stravinsky
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What came to define Debussy's works?
Chromatic notes and dissonanes
The whole tone scale
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Who were some other composers of the neoclassical style?
Vivaldi, Bach and Beethoven
Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Hindemith
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What was Aaron Copland known as?
Dean of American Composers
Developed the 12 tone system
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What is indeterminacy?
Reducing role of the composer and performer chooses notes
Used more than one tonality at the same time
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What are notable works by Schoenberg that we listened to?
Themes from American folk and religious music
Suite for Piano Opus 25 and Serenade Op. 24
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What are microtones?
Tones that fall in between the well tempered intervals
Tiny tones that produce music
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What has the Rite of Spring become known as?
The best known and most influential piece in 20th century
A beautiful ballet
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What did Stravinsky do during World War 1?
Went to fight in the war
Broke with the Soviet Union and moved to Paris
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What did the Rite of Spring cause when it debuted?
Anger in the audience
Rioting in the theater
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What was the most notorious ballet of the 20th century?
Appalachian Spring
The Rite of Spring
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What symphonic poem established Strauss as the natural successor to Wagner?
Don Juan
Wozzeck
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Where was Richard Strauss born?
Austria
Germany
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What were representative works of the new nationalistic style?
Appalachian Spring and London Symphony
Rhapsody in Blue and Sketches of Spain
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What were the notable works we listened to by Berg?
Don Quixote
Wozzeck
