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History Western Music Final
History Western Music Final
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Undergraduate 4
12/15/2012

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What were Stravinsky's three famous ballets?
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Petrushka, Firebird, Rite of Spring
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Who wrote 4'33"? (certain)
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John Cage
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Who wrote Quartet for the End of Time? (certain)
Definition
Messaien
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Who wrote Bolero? (certain)
Definition
Ravel
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Who wrote Pierrot Lunaire? (certain) What period and tonality?
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Schoenberg, Second Period, Atonal
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Who was the teacher of Berg and Webern? (certain)
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Schoenberg
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Who wrote successful ballets? (certain)
Definition
Stravinsky
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Who studied with Rimsky-Korsakov? (certain)
Definition
Stravinsky
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Who was an ethnomusicologist? (certain)
Definition
Bartock
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Who wrote six whole string quartets? (certain)
Definition
Bartock
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Who wrote "Concerto for Orchestra"? (certain)
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Bartock
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Who mixed tonality with atonality? (certain)
Definition
Berg
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Who invented 12 tone music? (certain)
Definition
Schoenberg
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“a row played backwards from last note to first is _____” (ABSOLUTELY certain)
Definition
retrograde?
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Who wrote "Daphness et Chloe"? (Certain)
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Ravel
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Who wrote "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Fawn"
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Debussy
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What is serialism? (certain)
Definition
putting something in an order (like rown and series)
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How many note rows did Stravinsky? (certain)
Definition
11
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Who wrote a bunch of powerful symphonies, like "Testament"? (certain)
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Shostakovich
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Who were "Les Six" inspired by? What style were they? Who were the three most important? (certain)
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Satie/ neoclassical/ Poulene, Milhaud, and Honegger
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Who was an Aleatoric composer?
Definition
John Cage
Term
What piece answers "What is the meaning of life?" Who wrote it?
Definition
4th symphony of Charles Ives
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What nationality was Debussy?
Definition
French
Term
What nationality was Ravel?
Definition
French
Term
What nationality was Satie?
Definition
French
Term
What nationality was Gershwin?
Definition
American
Term
What nationality was Schoenberg?
Definition
Austrian
Term
What nationality is Berg?
Definition
Austrian
Term
What nationality is Webern?
Definition
Austrian
Term
What nationality is Stravinski?
Definition
Russian
Term
What nationality is Bartok?
Definition
Hungarian
Term
What nationality is Britten?
Definition
English
Term
What nationality is Hindesmith?
Definition
German
Term
What nationality is Prokofiev?
Definition
Russian
Term
What nationality is Shostakovitch?
Definition
Russian
Term
What nationality is Ives?
Definition
American
Term
What nationality is Henry Cowell?
Definition
American
Term
What nationality is John Cage?
Definition
American
Term
What nationality is Messaien?
Definition
French
Term
What nationality is Varese
Definition
French
Term
Who were the minimalist composers?
Definition
Reich, Riley, and Glass
Term
Who wrote La Mer?
Definition
Debussy
Term
Who wrote Pellead et Melisdande?
Definition
Debussy
Term
What word is listed under Debussy?
Definition
Impressionism
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What defines Impressionism?
Definition
Influences of Muggorgsky, Java and Bali music, whole tone and pentatonic scale
Term
Who wrote Mother Goose suite?
Definition
Ravel
Term
Who wrote "String Quartet"?
Definition
Ravel
Term
What term goes with Ravel? What was he influenced by first?
Definition
Neoclassicism, Impressionism
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Who orchestrated Mugorsky's pictures at an exhibition?
Definition
Ravel
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Who had strong anti-romantic tendencies and made often humorous music?
Definition
Satie
Term
Who was important for neoclassicism and influential on "Les Six"?
Definition
Satie
Term
Who wrote Rhapsody in Blue?
Definition
Gershwin
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Who wrote Porgy and Bess?
Definition
Gershwin
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Who wrote American in Paris?
Definition
Gershwin
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Who influenced European composers with his jazz oriented compositions?
Definition
Gershwin
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Who made Transfigured Night? What period and tonality?
Definition
Schoenberg, First period, tonal
Term
Who made Gurrelieder?
Definition
Schoenberg
Term
Who wrote Book of the Hanging Gardens?
Definition
Schoenberg
Term
Who wrote five pieces for orchestra?
Definition
Schoenberg
Term
Who wrote Moses und Aron? What period and tonality?
Definition
Schoenberg, third period, serial
Term
Who invented serialism?
Definition
Schoenberg
Term
What's the "Stravinski Schoenberg" split?
Definition
Somehow those two niggas were friends, and then fought
Term
Define "atonal"
Definition
lacks a tonal center or key
Term
Define "dodecaphonic"
Definition
12 tone music: using all 12 notes to create s row
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Define "serial row"
Definition
a non-repetitive ordering of a set of pitch-classes, typically of the twelve notes
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Define "sprechstimme"
Definition
Speak-singing
Term
Second Vietnammese Classical School
Definition
Schoenberg
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Who wrote Wozzeck? What is it?
Definition
Berg, Opera
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Who made Lulu?
Definition
Berg
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Who made "Lyric Suite"
Definition
Berg
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Who studied with Schoenberg? (2)
Definition
Berg, Webern
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Who adapted the row to yield tonal references?
Definition
Berg
Term
Who wrote five pieces for string quartet?
Definition
Webern
Term
who wrote "Symphonie"?
Definition
Webern
Term
Who wrote Passacagla?
Definition
Webern
Term
Who made extremely short works?
Definition
Webern
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What's a klangfarbenmelodie?
Definition
A musical technique that involves splitting a musical line or melody between several instruments, rather than assigning it to just one instrument (or set of instruments), thereby adding color (timbre) and texture to the melodic line.
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What was Stravinsky's first period? Second? Third?
Definition
Russian period (all ballets were first), neo-classicism, and serialism
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Who made Soldier's Tale? Period?
Definition
Stravinsky, 2nd
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Who made Symphony of Psalms? Period?
Definition
Stravinsky, 2nd
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Who made Rake's Progress? Period?
Definition
Stravinsky, 2nd
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Who made Abraham and Issac? Period?
Definition
Stravinsky 3rd
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Who made Flood? Period?
Definition
Stravinsky 3rd
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Who made In Memoriam Dylan Thomas? Period?
Definition
Stravinsky 3rd
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What's Polytonality?
Definition
More than one key at the same time
Term
What's an Octatonic scale?
Definition
Any 8 note music scale
Term
Who made Miraculous Mandarin? What was it?
Definition
Bartok, ballet
Term
Who made Bluebeard's castle? What is it?
Definition
Bartok, opera
Term
What did Bartok make music for?
Definition
Strings percussion and celestra
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What does Quartal mean?
Definition
harmonic structures based on intervals of a perfect fourth
Term
What does Quintal mean?
Definition
harmonic structures based on intervals of a perfect fifth, diminished fifth, or augmented fifth
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What is Secundal Harmony?
Definition
harmonic structures based on intervals of a second
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Who was influenced by Debussy and impressionism?
Definition
Bartok
Term
Who never wrote serial compositions?
Definition
Bartok
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Who collected folk songs with Zoltan Kodaly?
Definition
Bartok
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Who made Billy Budd? What is it?
Definition
Britten, opera
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Who made Midsummer Night's Dream in this chapter? What is it?
Definition
Britten, opera
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Who made Peter Grimes? what is it?
Definition
Britten, opera
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Who wrote a serenade for tenor horn and strings?
Definition
Britten
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Who wrote "War Requiem?"
Definition
Britten
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Who was famous for his great operas?
Definition
Britten
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Who wrote Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra?
Definition
Britten
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Who wrote concert music for strings and brass?
Definition
Hindemith
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Who wrote Mathis de Maler? What is it?
Definition
Hindemith, opera
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Who wrote a symphonic metamorphosis on the theme of Weber?
Definition
Hindemith
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Who wrote theoretical works and taught at Yale university?
Definition
Hindemith
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What is Gebrauchmusik?
Definition
music made for a specific purpose, like an event, or a dance, or for students
Term
Who wrote Peter and the Wolf?
Definition
Prokefiev
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Who made War and Peace? What is it?
Definition
Prokofiev, opera
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Who did Romeo and Juliet? What is it?
Definition
Prokofiev, ballet
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Who made 7 symphonies?
Definition
Prokofiev?
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Who made Lt. Kije? What is it?
Definition
Prokfiev, film score
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Who was a brilliant Soviet pianist as well as a composer?
Definition
Prokofiev?
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Who wrote 15 symphonies and 15 string quartets?
Definition
Shostakovitch
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Who wrote Lady MacBeth? What is it?
Definition
Shostakovitch, opera
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Who wrote the Nose? What is it?
Definition
Shostakovitch, opera
Term
Who fell in and out of favor with the Soviet government?
Definition
Shostakovich
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Who wrote "Testimony", published after his death?
Definition
Shostakovich
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Who wrote "Concord Sonata"?
Definition
Ives
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Who wrote "Holiday's symphony"?
Definition
Ives
Term
Who wrote "Unanswered Question"?
Definition
Ives
Term
3 Places in New England
Definition
Ives
Term
Who anticipated Europeans with polytonality, graphic notation, polymeters, and tone clusters?
Definition
Ives
Term
Who was the first truly great American composer?
Definition
Ives
Term
Whose fame came in the 1960s, largely thanks to Leonard Bernstein?
Definition
Ives
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Who quotes American patriotic songs, hymns, Stephen Foster, etc.
Definition
Ives
Term
Who made "The Banshee" and what's special about it?
Definition
Henry Cowell, it's played on the inside of a piano
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Who was a teacher of John Cage and tried to promote the music of Charles Ives?
Definition
Cowell
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What is "prepared piano"? Who does it relate to?
Definition
piano with sound altered by objects inside it, John Cage
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What are Aleratoric, Indterminancy, and Chance?
Definition
Done with dice, done by chance
Term
Who was a leading composer of the avant garde?
Definition
John Cage
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Who wrote the Turangalia Symphony?
Definition
Messaien
Term
Who used a wide variety of techniques like bird calls?
Definition
Messaien
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Who made Octandre, Ionization, and Amerique? What are those?
Definition
Varese
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Who was important for electronic usic, sonic blocks, and influenced Frank Zappa?
Definition
Varese
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