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52 Cards in this Set
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Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du Printemps caused a riot at its first performance
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True
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George Gershwin performed Piano Concerto in F himself.
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True
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Large numbers of artists, writers, composers, and performing musicians came from Europe to America, making the United States the most prominent center of Western culture after WWII
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True
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Postmodernism was a term given to jazz music
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False
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Music of the twentieth century embodied more experimentation and diversity than in previous eras
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True
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The Modernist movement was centered in Paris
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False
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Claude Debussy was a talented pianist as a child and was accepted as a student at the Paris Conservatory of Music at the age of ten
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True
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Debussy’s music was discovered and performed by the time he was twelve
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False
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The musical equivalent of Picasso was Stravinsky
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True
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The connections between painting and music did not exist during this era as they had in the past
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False
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The most important Expressionist composer was Arnold Schoenberg
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True
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Schoenberg wrote a cantata entitled A Survivor from America
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False
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Schoenberg moved to Los Angeles and taught composition at the University of California, even though he did not have any formal music education.
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True
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Berg had no formal training before he began writing music
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True
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Benjamin Britten was a child prodigy and began composing at the age of 5
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True
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Henry Burleigh taught spirituals to Antonin Dvorak when he visited the United States
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True
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Charles Ives was not the first Modernist composer whose work was distinctively American
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False
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Aaron Copland wrote Lincoln Portrait and Fanfare for the Common Man in 1942 to provide patriotic encouragement at a time of national anxiety
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True
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In 1928 Gershwin composed An American in Paris, which is a programmatic symphonic poem
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True
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John Cage’s work and philosophy influenced the rock group the Grateful Dead
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True
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Minimalist music borrows from rock music the idea of harmonic simplicity and repetitive rhythm
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True
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Who were greatest composers during the period of experimentation and excitement from 1930-1939?
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Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky
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The Musical West Side Story was composed by
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Leonard Bernstein
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Dmitri Shostakovich spent most of his life under which political system?
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Soviet system
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Which American composer was an insurance salesman who composed as a hobby and won a Pulitzer Prize
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Charles Ives
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Major early ‘ism’ movements associated with Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg.
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- Impressionism, symbolism (Debussy)
- primitiesm (Stravinsky) - expressionism (Schoenberg) |
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‘New’ Scale patterns in the early 20th century included…?
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Pentatonic, octatonic, whole-tone
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What was Debussy’s most famous orchestral work (English translation).
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Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
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Rhapsody in Blue is what kind of composition combined which jazz idiom with what?
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Concert Music
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Gershwin’s opera, Porgy and Bess, was composed when in his life; and what elements did it combine; and what was distinctive about its cast.
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End of his life; jazz, church meetings, street cries, lullabies, and spirituals; contained “It Ain’t Necessarily So” & “Summertime”
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Why did Benjamin Britten’s compose The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra?
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display all the different instruments of a symphony orchestra
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Who was America’s most significant composer before 1800?
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William Billings
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Igor Stravinsky’s father was an opera singer, but insisted that his son become a ____:
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Lawyer
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All of Stravinsky’s ballets for the Ballets Russes were inspired by
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Primitivism
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What system did Schoenberg ‘invent?’
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twelve-tone system or “Serialism”
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Berg’s experience of war is reflected in his opera _____.
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Wozzeck
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What religion was Bernstein?
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Jewish
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How would one describe Bernstein’s to life style?
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Very versatile and never slept
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What was the Vienna-based movement in which inner feelings were depicted through vivid art and twelve-tone music?
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Expressionism
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Berg and Webern were students of whom?
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Schoenberg
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On which Shakespeare play did Bernstein base West Side Story?
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Romeo and Juliet
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Ballet suites: Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring and Rodeo were written by which American composer?
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Copland
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‘Serialism’ is another the term first given for____?
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Twelve-tone system
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Bartók and his wife were professional _____?
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Concert pianists
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Which city was the musical capital of the United States around 1900, and was home to the New England Conservatory of music?
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Boston
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Schoenberg studied which important German composers while living in Vienna?
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Brahms and Mahler
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You can easily compose your own pentatonic scale by improvising on the ______ ________ of a piano
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Black Keys
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___________ had three simultaneous careers as an ethnomusicologist, a concert pianist and a composer
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Bernstein
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Like Copland and Gershwin, Bernstein was _____________.
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Jewish
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Bernstein’s most popular work is the musical ___ _______ _______.
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West Side Story
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______________ music refers to the classical music that is contemporary and tries to break down the formality that accompanies most classical concerts
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Downtown
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The music of the twentieth century can be divided into three periods, which the text refers to as ____________, ___________ and __¬¬¬¬_____-___________.
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Early (modernism), Middle (serialism), Late (Postmodernism)
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