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Music History Chapter 23
Music History
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Music
Undergraduate 3
05/01/2013

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The most commonly employed system for the organized composition of atonal music in the period following World War I was the twelve-tone method devised by _________________________
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Arnold Schoenberg
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_________________________ extended the principle of serialization to other elements of music besides pitch organization.
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Anton Webern
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Cubist painters, the Bauhaus school of architecture and design, and neoclassic composers all shared a desire to achieve _________________________.
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objectivity
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An important group of six young neoclassic composers arose in _________________________ around 1920.
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France
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Paul Hindemith espoused the idea of functional music, or _________________________, as he called it.
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Gebrauchsmusik
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The ideal for Soviet music in the postrevolutionary period was _________________________.
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Socialist Realism
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The American composer _________________________ composed several important ballet and film scores in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Aaron Copland
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_________________________was classically trained but had his first successes as a popular composer and later incorporated jazz styles into major orchestral and operatic works.
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George Gershwin
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Ferruccio Busoni's Entwurf einer neuen Aesthetik der Tonkunst (Draft for a new esthetic of music) supported the _________________________ movement.
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avant-garde
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