Music in Western Civ Test 3
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- Which conservatory did DeBussy attend?
- Paris Conservatory of Music
- Did Debussy follow the rules of composition?
- Nope
- Who rejected the Germanic and Romantic style of composing?
- DeBussy
- Did DeBussy use unique scales?
- Yes
- Who was somewhat influenced by Far East Music?
- DeBussy
- "Clouds" by DeBussy was the first of three of what style of composition?
- Nocturnes
- Who used lots of knife chords?
- DeBussy
- "Festivals" was the second of this type of compostition by DeBussy.
- Nocturne
- Who wrote two books of preludes?
- DeBussy
- Who titled all of his preludes?
- DeBussy
- Who wrote two symphonic sketches titled "Le Mer," and this was as close as this composer came to writing a symphony?
- DeBussy
- What nationality was Ravel?
- French
- Who Wrote Balero and what kind of dance is it?
- Ravel, and it is a Spanish dance with a characteristic rhythm.
- Ravel wrote this piece which was commisioned by the Ballet Russes?
- Dapnis and Chloe
- Who was the director of the Ballet Russes?
- Sergie Diaghilev
- What nationality was Starvinsky?
- Russian
- Who wrote Petrushka and what was it about?
- Stravinsky, and it was about puppets at a carnival having a love triangle
- bitonality
- writing in two keys at once
- polytonality
- writing in more than two keys at once
- Who wrote "Rite of Spring?"
- Stravinsky
- What instruments were included in the large orchestra required for "Rites of Spring"
- 8 horn, 5-6 trumpets and lots of percussion
- What ballet company was Rite of Spring written for?
- The Ballet Russes
- The Firebird was this composers second big ballet?
- Stravinsky
- Which piece's first performance caused a riot in the hall, and how did the composer escape?
- The Firebird, and Stravinsky snuck out the back window
- Rite of Spring did what to the instruments ranges?
- Strethed them out by taking them to the extremes.
- ostinato
- a ryhthm repeated over and over
- What insturment opens up Rite of Spring and what nationality is the folk tune from?
- Basson, and Lituanian
- Who conducted the first performance of Rite of Spring?
- Pierre Monteux, who was the Ballet Russes's primary conductor
- Many other composers mimicked the styles of this piece.
- Rite of Spring
- Who was Pergo Lesli?
- An 18th century composer which Diagilev showed to Stravinsky
- Stravinsky arranged this piece by Pergo Lesli for orchestra, but added new rhythms and melodies?
- Pulcinella
- Commendra Dell'arte
- small production of puppet shows with stock characters
- Pulcinella was this type of piece
- Commandra Dell'arte
- neoclassical
- taken from the past but modernized or made more contemporary
- Stravinsky came to this country during WW2
- USA
- Which city did Stravinsky live in?
- Hollywood, CA
- Who wrote Ballet Scenes for a Broadway Show?
- Stravinsky
- Who commissioned Ballet Scenes for a Broadway Show?
- Commissioned by Billie Rose
- What nationality was Bartok?
- Hungarian
- Who used lots of Hungarian connotations
- Bartok
- Kodaly
- Bartok's companion who listened to peasants folk tunes and notated them
- Bartok and Kodaly used what to document this songs?
- primitive recording equipment
- Bartok published a collection of these
- Hungarian folk tunes
- Who wrote Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta?
- Bartok
- antiphonal
- plays on the oppisite side of the stage
- tremolo
- playing very fasdt
- Bartok came to which country during WW2
- USA
- Who would not allow his music to be played in Hungary as they sided with Germany
- Bartok
- Bartok settled in this city?
- New York
- Who taught ethnomusicology at Columbia?
- Bartok
- This composer was diagnosed with luekemia
- Bartok
- The conductor of this symphony visited Bartok in the hosital and asked him to write a piece?
- Boston Symphony
- In response to the hospital visit, Bartok wrote this piece?
- Concherto for Orchestra, consisting of 5 movements
- True of False: After Bartoks death he became one of the top performed composers
- True
- What nationality is Shoenburg?
- Austrian
- Which composers earlier works were in a late romantic style but became an expressionist composer?
- Shoenburg
- Who wrote "Five Orchestral Pieces"
- Shoenburg
- In "Five Orchestral Pieces," what are the titles of movements one and three
- preminitions and colors
- klangfarbenmelodie
- tone color melody
- Who is known for the twelve tone system?
- Shoenburg
- Variations for Orchestra was written by who and was the first piece to use this.
- Shoenburg, and the twelve tone system
- Shoenburg taught at these two schools
- Webern abd Berg
- Where did Shoenburg move during WW2?
- Hollywood, CA
- Where did Shoenbrug teach during WW2?
- UCLA
- atonal
- no tonality
- Who wrote Pierrot Lunaire?
- Shoenburg
- Pierrot Lunaire is composed of how many small songs?
- 21
- Who wrote Peter and the Wolf?
- Prokifieff
- Each animal or character in Peter and the Wolf is represented by what?
- An instrument or section
- Was Prokofieff a great pianist?
- yes
- Was Prokofieff a young prodigy?
- Yes, he wrote songs at a very young age
- What was Prokofieff first symphony called?
- The 1st Symphony
- Where did Prokofieff live?
- Paris, and USA
- Where did Prokofieff live before Paris?
- Russia, but he left before the revolutuion
- When did Prokofieff return to Russia?
- The late 1930's which was under the soviet government
- Was Prokofieff's music censored by the government?
- Yes
- Who wrote the ballet of Romio and Juliet
- Prokofieff
- Where did Shostakovish live?
- Russia
- Many of Shostakovich's friends did what after displeasing the government?
- disappear
- Who wrote Lady Macbeth of the Mtsenky Region
- Shostakovich
- Who attended a performed of Lady Macbeth of the Mtsenky Region and was offended, and by what?
- Stalin, and by the sexual connotations
- After offending Stalin, how did Shostakovich rehabilitate himself?
- He wrote the fifth Symphony
- Who liveed in Boston during the colonial times?
- Billings
- Who wrote a lot for choral groups?
- Billings
- Who wrote mainly patriotic music or religious tunes?
- Billings
- Who wrote a sring quartet all on open strings in which the players had to retune their instruments?
- Benjamin Franklin
- Who was a pianist that wrote a lot for the piano and was considered as good as Lizst and stole African rhythms for his compositions?
- Gottshalk
- Who is known as the march king and wrote 100's of marches and had his own band as well as writing Stars and Stripes Forever?
- Sousa
- Who was the first great American composer?
- Ives
- Who was born in Connecticut
- Ives
- Whose father was a local bandmaster?
- Ives
- Who wrote pieces with lots of things going on at the same time?
- Ives
- Who managed and insurance company?
- Ives
- The profit Ives recieved from his insurance company allowed him to do what?
- Publish his music nad hire people to play it
- Ive's 2nd Symphony was never performed entierly until when?
- 1951
- Ive's 2nd Symphony ends with what?
- a tone cluster
- tone cluster
- two or more adjacent notes played together
- Who wrote "Three Places in New England"
- Ives
- Which piece by Ives depicts a place in New England, and uses patriotic tunes, and the second movement is called Putmann's Camp, Redding CT?
- Three Places in New England
- What piece by Ives is a philisophical piece and has no references to patriotic tunes or popular tunes?
- The Unanswered Question
- Who is the most popular American composer?
- Gershwin
- Gershwin started in what field of music?
- Popular music and jazz
- Which American composer had great success writing for Hollywood and Broadway?
- Gershwin
- Who wrote the Opera Porgery and Bess?
- Gershwin
- Porgery and Bess calls for what?
- An all African American cast
- Who debuted Rhasphody in Blue and when?
- THe Paul Whitman Orchestra in 1924
- Who was the first composer to incorporate elements of jazz in his music?
- Gershwin
- Who was the most popular concert composer?
- Copland
- Which American traveled to Europe for further study and studied with Boulanger in Paris?
- Copland
- This composer's early music had a very dissonant quality to it.
- Copland
- Who is best known for 3 ballets; Rodeo, Billy the Kid, and Appalachian Spring
- Copland
- Which Copland Ballet took Cowboy tunes and starts with a piece called Open Prairie?
- Billy the Kid
- Rodeo was this composer's second ballet.
- Copland
- This ballet by Copland is about the Shakers and incorporates the song Simple Gifts
- Appalachian Spring
- This composer was always looking for new sounds.
- Edward Varese
- This composer was interested in science and architecture
- Varese
- One of Varese's most famous pieces
- Ionization
- Ionization is all for this section
- percussion, but there is a piano and a siren in the piece
- Who wrote Peome Electronique
- Varese
- What was Poeme Electronique written for?
- The World's Fair in 1958 and the Phillips Radio Corporation
- Who wrote Adagio for Stings?
- Samuel Barber
- What is the most frequently performed concert piece by and American composer?
- Adagio for Strings
- This composer was the pioneer of minimalism
- John Cage
- Who used the technique of prepared piano quite regularily
- John Cage
- Aleatoric
- music of chance (leaves a lot of options for the performers) which makes no two performances the same
- Whote wrote 4'33''
- John Cage
- Who wrote the operas Einstein on the Beach and The Voyage?
- Phillip Glass
- Who wrote the piece Glassworks?
- Phillip Glass
- Who writes operas inspired by current events?
- John Adams
- What was the Adams opera Nixon in China about?
- Nixons visit to China
- What was Adam's opera The Death of Klinghoffer about?
- Terrorist who took over a cruise ship and threw a Jewish man in a wheelchair overboard
- Which composers father was the 1st chair violinist in the Phil Harmonic Orchestra?
- Corigliano
- Whose 1st symphony was about AIDS and the loss of people to AIDS?
- Corigliano
- Corigliano's first symphony included what for his friend?
- The piece Albeniz which is a tango and one of his friends favorite pieces
- This composer had his first fame as a conductor
- Leonard Bernstein
- This composer was the regular conductor of the Phil Harmonic for 11 years
- Leonard Bernstein
- This composer made an impact on television by televising some of his performances
- Leonard Bernstein
- This composer did programs on CBS explaining music and current issues
- Leonard Bernstein
- This composer gave young peoples concerts
- Leonard Bernstein
- This composers music reflects his Jewish heritage
- Leonard Bernstein
- Bernstein wrote for Broadway, but what is his most famous show?
- West Side Story which was inspired by Romeo and Julie
- Who wrote a comic opera titled Candid?
- Leonard Bernstein
- Candid is inspired by what philosopher?
- Voltaire
- Which composer brought back the music of Mahler?
- Leonard bernstein
- Which conductor/composer performed all of Mahler's symphonies?
- Leonard Bernstein