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Front 1

Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du Printemps caused a riot at its first performance

Back 1

True

Front 2

George Gershwin performed Piano Concerto in F himself.

Back 2

True

Front 3

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

Back 3

True

Front 4

Postmodernism was a term given to jazz music

Back 4

False

Front 5

Music of the twentieth century embodied more experimentation and diversity than in previous eras

Back 5

True

Front 6

The Modernist movement was centered in Paris

Back 6

False

Front 7

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

Back 7

True

Front 8

Debussy’s music was discovered and performed by the time he was twelve

Back 8

False

Front 9

The musical equivalent of Picasso was Stravinsky

Back 9

True

Front 10

The connections between painting and music did not exist during this era as they had in the past

Back 10

False

Front 11

The most important Expressionist composer was Arnold Schoenberg

Back 11

True

Front 12

Schoenberg wrote a cantata entitled A Survivor from America

Back 12

False

Front 13

Schoenberg moved to Los Angeles and taught composition at the University of California, even though he did not have any formal music education.

Back 13

True

Front 14

Berg had no formal training before he began writing music

Back 14

True

Front 15

Benjamin Britten was a child prodigy and began composing at the age of 5

Back 15

True

Front 16

Henry Burleigh taught spirituals to Antonin Dvorak when he visited the United States

Back 16

True

Front 17

Charles Ives was not the first Modernist composer whose work was distinctively American

Back 17

False

Front 18

Aaron Copland wrote Lincoln Portrait and Fanfare for the Common Man in 1942 to provide patriotic encouragement at a time of national anxiety

Back 18

True

Front 19

In 1928 Gershwin composed An American in Paris, which is a programmatic symphonic poem

Back 19

True

Front 20

John Cage’s work and philosophy influenced the rock group the Grateful Dead

Back 20

True

Front 21

Minimalist music borrows from rock music the idea of harmonic simplicity and repetitive rhythm

Back 21

True

Front 22

Who were greatest composers during the period of experimentation and excitement from 1930-1939?

Back 22

Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky

Front 23

The Musical West Side Story was composed by

Back 23

Leonard Bernstein

Front 24

Dmitri Shostakovich spent most of his life under which political system?

Back 24

Soviet system

Front 25

Which American composer was an insurance salesman who composed as a hobby and won a Pulitzer Prize

Back 25

Charles Ives

Front 26

Major early ‘ism’ movements associated with Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg.

Back 26

- Impressionism, symbolism (Debussy)
- primitiesm (Stravinsky)
- expressionism (Schoenberg)

Front 27

‘New’ Scale patterns in the early 20th century included…?

Back 27

Pentatonic, octatonic, whole-tone

Front 28

What was Debussy’s most famous orchestral work (English translation).

Back 28

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Front 29

Rhapsody in Blue is what kind of composition combined which jazz idiom with what?

Back 29

Concert Music

Front 30

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.

Back 30

End of his life; jazz, church meetings, street cries, lullabies, and spirituals; contained “It Ain’t Necessarily So” & “Summertime”

Front 31

Why did Benjamin Britten’s compose The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra?

Back 31

display all the different instruments of a symphony orchestra

Front 32

Who was America’s most significant composer before 1800?

Back 32

William Billings

Front 33

Igor Stravinsky’s father was an opera singer, but insisted that his son become a ____:

Back 33

Lawyer

Front 34

All of Stravinsky’s ballets for the Ballets Russes were inspired by

Back 34

Primitivism

Front 35

What system did Schoenberg ‘invent?’

Back 35

twelve-tone system or “Serialism”

Front 36

Berg’s experience of war is reflected in his opera _____.

Back 36

Wozzeck

Front 37

What religion was Bernstein?

Back 37

Jewish

Front 38

How would one describe Bernstein’s to life style?

Back 38

Very versatile and never slept

Front 39

What was the Vienna-based movement in which inner feelings were depicted through vivid art and twelve-tone music?

Back 39

Expressionism

Front 40

Berg and Webern were students of whom?

Back 40

Schoenberg

Front 41

On which Shakespeare play did Bernstein base West Side Story?

Back 41

Romeo and Juliet

Front 42

Ballet suites: Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring and Rodeo were written by which American composer?

Back 42

Copland

Front 43

‘Serialism’ is another the term first given for____?

Back 43

Twelve-tone system

Front 44

Bartók and his wife were professional _____?

Back 44

Concert pianists

Front 45

Which city was the musical capital of the United States around 1900, and was home to the New England Conservatory of music?

Back 45

Boston

Front 46

Schoenberg studied which important German composers while living in Vienna?

Back 46

Brahms and Mahler

Front 47

You can easily compose your own pentatonic scale by improvising on the ______ ________ of a piano

Back 47

Black Keys

Front 48

___________ had three simultaneous careers as an ethnomusicologist, a concert pianist and a composer

Back 48

Bernstein

Front 49

Like Copland and Gershwin, Bernstein was _____________.

Back 49

Jewish

Front 50

Bernstein’s most popular work is the musical ___ _______ _______.

Back 50

West Side Story

Front 51

______________ music refers to the classical music that is contemporary and tries to break down the formality that accompanies most classical concerts

Back 51

Downtown

Front 52

The music of the twentieth century can be divided into three periods, which the text refers to as ____________, ___________ and __¬¬¬¬_____-___________.

Back 52

Early (modernism), Middle (serialism), Late (Postmodernism)