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what is dodecaphony/twelve tone music?
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a form of atonality based on the systematic ordering of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale into a row that may be manipulated according to certain rules
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what is a row?
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in twelve tone music, an ordering of all twelve pitch-classes that is used to generate the musical content.
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what is a series?
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sometimes the same as a "row", if being applied to pitch, or it could be applied to specific durations, dynamic levels, or other non-pitch elements as well, in Serial Music.
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what is Klangfarbenmelodie?
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German for "tone color melody" - term coined by Arnold Schoenberg to describe a succession of tone colors that is perceived as analogous to the changing pitches in a melody.
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Who wrote Transfigured Night?
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A. Schoenberg
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Who wrote The Book of the Hanging Gardens?
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A. Schoenberg
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Who wrote a treatise on harmony called Harmonielehre?
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A. Schoenberg
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Who wrote Pierrot Lunaire?
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A. Schoenberg
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Who wrote Suite for piano op. 23?
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A. Schoenberg
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who wrote string quartet no. 4 in 1936?
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A. Schoenberg
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What type of music was Schoenberg writing during his first period?
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"tonal" music
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What type of music was Schoenberg writing during his 2nd period?
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"atonal" music
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what term is often used to describe the atonal music and paintings from schoenberg's second period?
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expressionism
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What was the speaking voice in schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire called?
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Sprechstimme
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In which period did Schoenberg write Transfigured Night and Gurrelieder (oratorio)?
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first period
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In which period did schoenberg write Five Pieces For Orchestra, Book of the Hanging Gardens (song cycle)
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2nd
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In which period did schoenberg write Book of the Hanging Gardens (song cycle)
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2nd
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In which period did schoenberg write Erwartung?
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2nd
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In which period did schoenberg write Pierrot Lunaire?
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2nd
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What type of music was schoenberg writing during his third period?
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"twelve-tone" music
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During which period did schoenburg write String quartet no. 4?
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3rd
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During which period did schoenburg write Ode to Napoleon?
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3rd
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During which period did schoenburg write A Survivor from warsaw?
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3rd
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During which period did schoenburg write Moses and Aron?
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3rd
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Which two composers studied composition with schoenberg?
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Alban Berg and Anton von Webern
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Who wrote the opera Wozzeck?
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A. Berg
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Who wrote the unfinished opera Lulu?
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Berg
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Who wrote Passacaglia op. 1?
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A. von Webern
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who wrote Variations for orchestra?
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A. von Webern
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who's last piece was Cantata no. 2?
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A. von Webern
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what is neoclassicism?
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trend in music from the 1910s to the 1950s in which composers revived, imitated, or evoked the styles, genres, or forms of pre-romantic music, especially those of the eighteenth century.
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what is Gebrauchsmusik?
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"utilitarian music" or "music for use". in other words, socially relevant and useful music, especially for amatuers, children, or workers to play or sing.
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Who studied with Rimski-Korsakov?
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Stravinsky and Prokofiev
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Who wrote the Firebird ballet?
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Stravinsky
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Who wrote the Petrushka ballet?
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Stravinsky
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who wrote the Rite of Spring ballet?
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Stravinsky
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who wrote The Soldier's Tale?
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Stravinsky
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Who wrote Oedipus Rex?
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Stravinsky
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Who wrote Symphony of Psalms?
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Stravinsky
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Who delivered Norton lectures at Harvard that later would constitute the book "poetics of music"?
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Stravinsky
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who wrote the opera The Rake's Progress?
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Stravinsky
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Who wrote In Memoriam Dylan Thomas?
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Stravinsky
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Who was commissioned to compose The Flood for CBS TV?
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Stravinsky
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Who wrote Requiem Canticles?
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Stravinsky
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What was Stravinsky's first creative period known as?
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"Primitivism" or "russian" period
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What was NOT a characteristic of Stravinskys first period:
A. Complex meters B. Ostinati C. Serialism D. Use of a large orchestra |
C. Serialism
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What type of music was stravinsky writing during his second period?
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Neo-classical
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During which period did stravinsky return to smaller orchestration, borrowing from jazz and classical resources instead of folk music?
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second period
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During which period did stravinsky use classical forms and genres and a restraint of emotions?
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second period
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During which period did stravinsky use complex meters?
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first
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during which period did stravinsky write Firebird?
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first
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during which period did stravinsky write Petruschka?
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first
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during which period did stravinsky write Rite of Spring?
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first
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during which period did stravinsky write the soldiers tale?
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second
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during which period did stravinsky write symphony of psalms?
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second
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during which period did stravinsky write symphony in three movements?
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second
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during which period did stravinsky write oedipus rex?
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second
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during which period did stravinsky write the rake's progress?
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second
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what type of music did stravinsky write during his third period?
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Serial
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during which period did stravinsky write In Memoriam Dylan Thomas?
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third
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during which period did stravinsky write The Flood?
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third
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during which period did stravinsky write Requiem Canticles?
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third
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Who were rival composers?
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Stravinsky and Schoenberg
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When the musical world became divided into two camps, who represented Atonality?
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Schoenberg
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When the musical world became divided into two camps, who represented tonality?
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Stravinsky
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who trained at budapest academy as a pianist?
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Bela Bartok
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Who traveled with Zoltan Kodaly collecting folk songs from eastern europe and northern africa?
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Bela Bartok
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who was appointed professor of piano at the Budapest Academy of Music?
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Bela Bartok
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who wrote the opera Bludebeard's Castle?
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Bela Bartok
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who wrote the ballet The Wooden Prince?
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Bela Bartok
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who wrote the ballet The Miraculous Mandarin?
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Bela Bartok
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Who wrote Cantata Profana?
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Bela Bartok
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who wrote Music for string percussion and celesta?
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Bela Bartok
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who wrote Mikrocosmos?
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Bela Bartok
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who was influnced by impressionism?
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Bela Bartok
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who was influenced by folk music besides stravinsky?
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Bela Bartok
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who used fourths and fifths and seconds in their counterpoint?
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Bela Bartok
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who wrote the opera Hary Janos?
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Zoltan Kodaly
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who wrote Carmina Burana?
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Carl Orff
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who was the greatest british composer of the 20th century?
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Benjamin Britten
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who wrote Peter Grimes?
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Benjamin Britten
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who wrote Billy Budd?
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Benjamin Britten
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who wrote the Turn of the Screw?
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Benjamin Britten
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who wrote the opera a Midsummer night's dream?
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Benjamin Britten
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who wrote the opera Albert Herring?
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Benjamin Britten
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who wrote the opera Death in Venice?
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Benjamin Britten
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who wrote The War Requiem?
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Benjamin Britten
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who wrote The Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings?
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Benjamin Britten
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who wrote Les Illuminations?
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Benjamin Britten
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who wrote Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra?
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Benjamin Britten
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who's work was attached to the term Gebrauchmusik?
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Paul Hindemith
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who tried to bridge the gap between composer and performer, as well as composer and audience?
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Paul Hindemith
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who wrote a number of important theoretical books on music, including the Craft of Musical Composition?
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Paul Hindemith
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who wrote Concertmusik for Strings and Brass?
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Paul Hindemith
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who wrote Mathis der Maler?
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Paul Hindemith
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who wrote Symphonic Metamorphosis on the themes of Weber?
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Paul Hindemith
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who wrote Das Marienleben?
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Paul Hindemith
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who wrote Sancta Susanna?
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Paul Hindemith
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who wrote Peter and the Wolf?
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S. Prokofiev
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who wrote the operas "The Love of Three Oranges" and "War and Peace"?
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S. Prokofiev
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who wrote the film score Alexander Nevsky?
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S. Prokofiev
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who wrote the film score Lt. Kije?
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S. Prokofiev
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who wrote the ballet Cinderella?
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S. Prokofiev
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who wrote the ballet Romeo and Juliet?
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S. Prokofiev
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Who, besides Prokofiev had a biting satiric edge to their music?
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D. Shostakovitch
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who was accused by the Soviet government of displaying "formalism" in his music, and asked to change his approach?
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D. Shostakovitch
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how many symphonies and string quartets did D. Shostakovitch write?
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15 of each
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how many cello, violin, and piano concerti did D. Shostakovitch write?
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2 of each
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how many piano sonatas did Prokofiev write?
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10
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how many symphonies did Prokfiev write?
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7
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how many string quartets did Bartok write?
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6
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who wrote the ballet The Age of Gold?
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D. Shostakovitch
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who wrote the opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk?
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D. Shostakovitch
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who wrote the opera The Nose?
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D. Shostakovitch
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what is a collage?
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work or pasage that use multiple quotations without following standard procedure for doing so, such as quodlibet or medley
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what is total serialism?
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the application of the principles of the twelve-tone method to musical parameters other than pitch, including duration, intensities, and timbres.
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what is indeterminacy?
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an approach to composition, pioneered by John Cage, in which the composer leaves certain aspects of the music unspecified. should not be confused with chance.
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what is chance?
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another approach to composition pioneered by John Cage, in which some of the decisions normally made by the composer are instead determined through random procedures, such as tossing coins.
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what is prepared piano?
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an invention of John Cage in which various objects are stuck in between the strings of a piano, creating percussive sounds
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what is minimalism?
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One of the leading musical styles of the late twentieth century, in which materials are reduced to a minimum and procedures simplified so that what is going on in the music is immediately apparent. often characterized by a constant pulse and many repetitions of simple rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic patterns.
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who invented prepared piano?
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John Cage
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what is polystylism?
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combination of newer and older musical styles created through quotation or stylistic allusion
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who coined the term polystylism?
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Alfred Schnittke
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what is neo-Romanticism?
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a trend of the late twentieth century in which composers revived, imitated, or evoked the styles, genres, and forms of pre-Romantic music, especially those of the eighteenth century.
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who wrote The Unanswered Question?
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Charles Ives
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who wrote Three Places in New England?
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Charles Ives
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who wrote "Concord", his second piano sonata?
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Charles Ives
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who published all 114 of his songs at his own expense?
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Charles Ives
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who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony no. 3?
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Charles Ives
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who was the first truly American nationalistic composer?
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Charles Ives
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who believed that one should not live by their compositions, to avoid the temptation of writing for money?
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Charles Ives
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who was scornful of "systems" in music composition?
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Charles Ives
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who included humor, hymns, folksongs, and even "noise" in their compositions?
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Charles Ives
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Which was Ives' most ambitious work?
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Symphony no 4
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what did movement number 1 in Ives' symphony no. 4 ask?
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"What is the meaning of life?"
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how many movements were in in Ives' symphony no. 4?
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4
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how many symphonies did Ives write?
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4
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who wrote The Holidays Symphony?
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Charles Ives
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who taught John Cage and was one of the first to appreciate the music of Charles Ives?
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Henry Cowell
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who else did John Cage study with besides Cowell?
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Schoenberg
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Who was famous for using Aleatoric music, best exemplified in his work 4'33'?
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Cage
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