2008 Music Memory Set 1

Front 1

Who is the composers of Rodeo: "Hoe-Down" ?

Back 1

Aaron Copland

Front 2

In what year did Aaron Copland compose Rodeo: "Hoe-Down" ?

Back 2

1942

Front 3

What years did Aaron Copland live?

Back 3

1900 - 1990

Front 4

What famous American choreographer created the dances for the ballet Rodeo ?

Back 4

Agnes DeMille

Front 5

Which is the best known movement from the ballet Rodeo?

Back 5

"Hoe-Down"

Front 6

Which selection was used for a TV commercial (the beef council)

Back 6

Rodeo: "Hoe-Down"

Front 7

Who did Aaron Copland study composition with in France?

Back 7

Nadia Boulanger

Front 8

Which composer was born of parents who moved from Russia to New York City? The family lived above their store in Brooklyn, and he took piano lessons from his older sister.

Back 8

Aaron Copland

Front 9

Which composer got teased on his way to school for carrying music books?

Back 9

Aaron Copland

Front 10

Which composer was inspired to use American folk song material in his compositions -- including folk songs,d jazz, ragtime, and cowboy songs???

Back 10

Aaron Copland

Front 11

Which composer created popular music for ballets based on American folklore and using American folk songs? (He also composed music for concerts and films and is considered a uniquely Americna composer.)

Back 11

Aaron Copland

Front 12

Which composer was the first classical music composer to win a Kennedy Center Award?

Back 12

Aaron Copland

Front 13

Which selection is about a cowgirl who competes in a rodeo with her riding and wrangling skills in hopes of trying the impress the Head Wrangler?

Back 13

Rodeo: "Hoe-Down"

Front 14

How old was Rachmaninoff when he composed "Prelude in c# minor" ?

Back 14

19

Front 15

Who composed "Prelude in c# minor"?

Back 15

Rachmaninoff

Front 16

When did Rachmaninoff live?

Back 16

1873 - 1943

Front 17

Which selection was originally performed at the Electrical Exposition in Moscow?

Back 17

"Prelude in c# minor"

Front 18

Which selection is filled with melodies of Russian melancholoy and has been arranged for many instruments including banjo and trombone quartet?

Back 18

"Prelude in c# minor"

Front 19

Which composer was born to a wealthy Russian family in 1873?

Back 19

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Front 20

Which composer knew early in life that he was musically gifted and entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory on scholarship at age nine?

Back 20

Sergei Rachmnaninoff

Front 21

Which composer failed his exams at St. Petersburg Conservatory because he was upset by the separation of his parents and was moved by his mother to school in Moscow?

Back 21

Rachmaninoff

Front 22

Who learned phenomenal piano technique under strict instruction in Moscow?

Back 22

Rachmaninoff

Front 23

Which composer used hypnotism to get his composition carreer back on track?

Back 23

Rachmaninoff

Front 24

Which composer left Russia in 1917 when the revolution started and moved to America?

Back 24

Rachmaninoff

Front 25

What is the correct title and punctuation for the selection by Rachmaninoff?

Back 25

"Prelude in c# minor"

Front 26

What is the correct title and punctuation for the selection by Copeland?

Back 26

Rodeo : "Hoe-Down"

Front 27

Who composed West Side Story: "Tonight (Quintet and Chorus)" ?

Back 27

music by Leonard Bernstein and words by Stephen Sondheim

Front 28

What is the correct title and punctuation for the selection by Bernstein and Sondheim?

Back 28

West Side Story: "Tonight (Quintet and Chorus)"

Front 29

Which selection is based on Shakespeare's classic Romeo and Juliet?

Back 29

West Side Story: "Tonight (Quintent and Chorus)"

Front 30

When did West Side Story premier on Broadway?

Back 30

1957

Front 31

Which American composer lived from 1918 to 1990 and was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts?

Back 31

Leonard Bernstein

Front 32

Which composer made their conducting debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1943 and created educational programs with symphony orchestras in the belief that everyone was entitled to enjoy classical music?

Back 32

Leonard Bernstein

Front 33

Which composer received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1985 after composing symphonies, musicals, an opera, song cycles, ballets, a mass, film music and pieces for chorus and orchestra?

Back 33

Leonard Bernstein

Front 34

Which (still living) American composer was born in 1930 in New York City and is known for his contributions to musical theater?

Back 34

Stephen Sondheim.

Front 35

Which composer has written music and lyrics for 31 shows including Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, Company, and Into the Woods?

Back 35

Stephen Sondheim

Front 36

Which selection centers on the conflict between the Sharks and the Jets?

Back 36

West Side Story: "Tonight (Quintet and Chorus)"

Front 37

What instruments are featured in West Side Story: "Tonight (Quintet and Chorus)"

Back 37

trumpets and saxophones

Front 38

What instrument is featured in "Prelude in c# minor"?

Back 38

piano

Front 39

What kind of group would perform the music to Rodeo: "Hoe-Down" ?

Back 39

an orchestra

Front 40

Who composed "Concerto for Vilin in E flat Major, "Il Ritirio" : Allegro?

Back 40

Vivaldi

Front 41

When did Vivaldi live?

Back 41

1678 - 1741

Front 42

What is the correct title and punctuation for the selection by Vivaldi?

Back 42

Concerto for Violin in E flat Major, "Il Ritiro": Allegro

***NOTE --- the word "flat" should be the symbol instead of the word, but Mrs.B can't make it on this program...***

Front 43

Which composer was known as "the Red Priest"?

Back 43

Antonio Vivaldi

Front 44

Which composer is Italian and performed in the streets of Venice with his father?

Back 44

Antonio Vivaldi

Front 45

Which composer was known as a fantastic solo violinist?

Back 45

Antonio Vivaldi

Front 46

Which composer became a priest in order to make a living as a musician, being the music master at the Ospedale della Pieta, an orphanage for young girls in Venice?

Back 46

Antonio Vivaldi

Front 47

Which composer suffered all his life from sever asthma and died from it in 1741?

Back 47

Antonio Vivaldi

Front 48

Which composer wrote nearly five hundered concertos for different instruments?

Back 48

Anontnio Vivaldi

Front 49

Which selection's title means "a retreat, especially a place of withdrawal for contemplation or rest"?

Back 49

"Il Ritiro" in Concerto for Violin in Eb Major, "Il Ritiro": Allegro

Front 50

Which selection has a solo which highlights tricky string-crossing figures, rapid bowing techniques and shows off the skill and artistry of the solo violinist?

Back 50

Concerto for Violin in Eb Major, "Il Ritiro" : Allegro by Vivaldi

Front 51

Which selection is written in an unusual key for violin?

Back 51

Concerto for Violin in Eb Major, "Il Ritiro": Allegro by Antonio Vivaldi

Front 52

Who composed Estancia: "Malambo" ?

Back 52

Alberto Ginastera

Front 53

When did Alberto Ginastera live?

Back 53

1916-1983

Front 54

What is the correct title and punctuation for the selection by Ginastera?

Back 54

Estancia: "Malambo"

Front 55

What does "malambo" mean?

Back 55

It is a traditional Argentine dance from the pampas, or plains of South America

Front 56

Which composer was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1916

Back 56

Alberto Ginastera

Front 57

Which selection is basded on the epic poem "Martin Fierro" by Jose Hernandez, which tells the story of Argentine cowboys or Gauchos?

Back 57

Estancia: "Malambo"

Front 58

What does "estancia" mean in Spanish?

Back 58

ranch

Front 59

Which selection is the final dance in a ballet suite and features fancy "tap dancing" done with heavy boots of the gaucho dancer, in a combination of tapping, brushing, and stamping of feet?

Back 59

Estancia: "Malambo"

Front 60

Which composer entered the Buenos Aires music convservatory when he was twelve?

Back 60

Alerto Ginastera

Front 61

Which composer visited the United States in 1945 and studied with Aaron Copland?

Back 61

Alberto Ginastera

Front 62

Which composer's works were strongly nationalistic using triadtional Argentine tunes and rhythms?

Back 62

Alberto Ginastera

Front 63

Which composer was one of the most influential Latin American composes of the 20th century and moved to Switzerland in 1968?

Back 63

Alberto Ginastera

Front 64

Who composed Carmen: "Les voici" ?

Back 64

Georges Bizet

Front 65

When and where did Bizet live?

Back 65

1838 - 1875 in France.

Front 66

What is the correct title and punctuation of the selection by Bizet?

Back 66

Carmen: "Les voici"

Front 67

What kind of composition is Carmen?

Back 67

It is an opera

Front 68

What composer was a child proginey entering the Paris conservatory at age nine?

Back 68

Bizet

Front 69

Which composer was never financially successful, teaching piano, arranging the music of other composers to make ends meet?

Back 69

Bizet

Front 70

Which selection is the most often performed opera in the world today?

Back 70

Carmen

Front 71

Which selection was initially considered a failure, partly because the audience expected a happy ending, and saw a tragic one? It was not a success until after the composer's death.

Back 71

Carmen

Front 72

Which selection is about a Spanish gypsy girl, a soldier, and a bullfighter?

Back 72

Carmen: "Les voici"

Front 73

Which selection takes place in a bullfighting arena and is a chorus of excited specatators saying "Here they come!" as the bullfighters enter?

Back 73

Carmen: "Les voici"

Front 74

Who composed "Shepherd's Hey"?

Back 74

Percy Grainger

Front 75

When and where did Percy Grainger live?

Back 75

From 1882 - 1961; Born in Australia, sdtudied music in Germany, moved to London, and eventually immigrated to American and became a U.S. citizen after World War I.

Front 76

Which composer was often thought of as a "nationalist" composer because of his interest in the folk music of Great Britain?

Back 76

Percy Grainger - he became fascinated with English fol music during his time in London and traveled the country with a wax cylinder recorder, collecting folk tunes.

Front 77

Which composer was a piano prodigy during his childhood in Australia (paying for his music education in Germany from a series of concerts he gave when only 12)?

Back 77

Percy Granger

Front 78

What kind of performance group was "Shepherd's Hey" written for?

Back 78

Originally for chamer orchestra (1913), then arranged for concert band in 1918. [our recording is a band]

Front 79

What is the correct title and punctuation for the selection by Granger?

Back 79

"Shepherd's Hey"

Front 80

Which selection is based on three different traditional Morris Dance melodies ( a Morris dance is an English rural traditional dance performed by men in colorful costumes decorated with bells - lively and vigourous)

Back 80

"Shepherd's Hey"

Front 81

Describe the form of composition of "Shepherd's Hey"

Back 81

Starts quietly with the first theme, then the second, then a more elaborate A theme -- the piece grows in volume and intensity, and we hear the C Theme. The pice grows faster and faster until the final flourish at the coda.

Front 82

Who composed Ein Kleine Nachtmusik: 1st Movement ?

Back 82

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Front 83

When did Mozart live?

Back 83

1756 - 1791

Front 84

What is the correct title and punctuation for the selection by Mozart?

Back 84

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: 1st Movement

Front 85

Which selection means, when translated to English, "A Litlle Night Music" ?

Back 85

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: 1st Movement

Front 86

Which selection is a light orchestral composition written to be played at a garden party or any such event where background music was needed?

Back 86

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: 1st Movement

Front 87

Which selection ws origianlly written for a string quartet, but today is performed by major string orchestras all over the world? It is an excellent example of traditional form used in the Classical Period?

Back 87

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: 1st Movement

Front 88

Which composer was considered a child genius: learning to play keyboard instruments and the violin as a toddler and already composing symphonies and sonatas at age ten?

Back 88

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Front 89

When and where did Mozart live?

Back 89

1756 - 1791; born in Salzburg, Austria.

Front 90

Was Mozart financially successful as a composer?

Back 90

No, he made very little money composing and had extravaganet spending. He had to devote much time to concert tours and giving lessons to make enough money to survive.

Front 91

Which composer felt ill while writing a Requiem Mass in 1791 and felt as if he was writing his own funeral music (dying later that year)

Back 91

Mozart

Front 92

Which composer fell in and out of popularity during his short life, but is consdered by many as the greatest composer who ever lived?

Back 92

Mozart