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Who wrote their first composition at age 6?

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Richard Strauss

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Who was a fan of Wagner’s operas?

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Richard Strauss

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Who initially went along with the Nazi party, but ended up having to protect his Jewish family from them?

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Richard Strauss

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Who gave his first public piano performance at age 10?

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Gustav Mahler

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Who graduated from the Vienna Conservatory?

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Gustav Mahler

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Who directed the New York’s Metropolitan Opera AND the New York Philharmonic?

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Gustav Mahler

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Which style of music focuses on emotion and atmosphere?

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Impressionism

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Which style of music occurred mainly during the 19th and 20th centuries?

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Impressionism

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What did impressionism use to create “color”?

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orchestration, texture, harmonies

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Which composer was born in France with 4 other siblings?

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Claude Debussy

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Who studied at the Paris Conservatoire?

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Claude Debussy

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Who wrote only one opera?

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Claude Debussy

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Whose father was an inventor that instilled in his children a love of music?

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Maurice Ravel

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Who admired Debussy’s music, but also criticized it?

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Maurice Ravel

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Who spent WWI as a truck driver stationed at the Verdun front?

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Maurice Ravel

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Whose brain was injured in a taxi accident and died after an unsuccessful brain operation?

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Maurice Ravel

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What type of music was a rebellion against romanticism?

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Expressionism

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What were some characteristics of expressionism?

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Wide leaps in melody, extreme range of instrumentation

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WHat’s the definition of serialism?

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Not repeating anything until everything has been explored

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Definition of polyrhythm

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Two or more rhythms occurring in a piece. simultaneously

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Definition of polychords

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Two or more chords being played simultaneously on top of one another

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Who studied law because his parents wished him to but still made music on the side?

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Igor Stravinsky

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Who caught the attention of Rimsky Korsakov?

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Igor Stravinsky

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Who was known for experimenting with rhythm?

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Igor Stravinsky

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Who incorporated melodies from Russian folk songs?
Igor Stravinsky
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Who wrote Rite of Spring, during which everyone walked out
Igor Stravinsky
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Three composers that were part of the Second Viennese school?
Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern
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Who moved to USA, and taught at USC and UCLA?
Arnold Schoenberg
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Who converted from Judaism to Lutheranism and then back to Judaism?
Arnold Shoenberg
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Who created "sprechstimme"?
Arnold Schoenberg
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Who was drafted to war in WWII, and served. as a guard?
Alban Berg
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Who wrote Wozzeck opera?
Alban Berg
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Who lived during the height of serialism?
Alban Berg
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Who died from an insect bite and blood poisoning?
Alban Berg
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What did Anton Webern expand?
Serialism
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Who got a phD in musicology?
Anton Webern
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Who spent most of his time lecturing in secret?
Anton Webern
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Who left Vienna for Salzberg, where he was shot to death after. curfew?
Anton Webern
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What did Anton Webern cut himself off from?
tonality
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Who was a Russian Nationalistic composer?
Sergei Rachmoninoff
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Who was a fan of music rooted in a key?
Sergei Rachmoninoff
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Who had big hands?
Sergei Rachmoninoff
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Who were two English 20th century nationalistic composers?
Ralph Vaughn Williams, Benjamin Britten
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Who traveled with Kodaly?
Bela Bartok
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Who studied at the Royal Academy in Budapest?
Bela Bartok
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Bela Bartok's music is very what?
Dissonant
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Bela Bartok's music is what?
Polytonal
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Bela Bartok's music includes what kind of rhythms?
Pounding, stabbing
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Who wrote piano music to sound like percussion?
Bela Bartok
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Who wrote the Afro American symphony?
William Grant Still
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What sounds did Aaron Copland incorporate?
Old West and Mexican dance music and jazz
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Where did Aaron Copland move to study with whom?
To Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger?
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Where did Aaron COpland spend a lot of time?
Mexico city
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Where was John Cage born?
Los ANgeles
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What did John Cage have an interest in?
Non-western music, scales
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Where did John Cage move, to study with who?
Europe to study with Schoenberg
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Who invented prepared piano?
John cage
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Who wrote the song 433?
John Cage
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What is the definition of minimalism?
Stripping music down to the bare bones so you can focus on the essential
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Who went to Harvard?
John Adams
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What kind of composer was John Adams?
A minimalist composer
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Who taught at SF Conservatory of Music
John Adams
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What did John Adams win, for what song?
Pullitzer Prize for On the. Transmigration of Souls n
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Where did Arvo Part come from?
Estonia
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What did Arvo Part shun?
Serialism
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Where did Arvo Part draw a lot of his influence from?
Latin
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What did Arvo Part create and what's the definition?
Tintinnabulation--three elements: one part moving chromatically, another part moving traitically, another part staying on same note
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Samuel Barber was what kind of composer?
New Romantic American
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What did Samuel Barber write?
Adagio for Strings
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Samuel Barber returned to what?
Tonality
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Samuel Barber used lots of what?
Major and minor chords
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What was New Romanticism?
A pop culture movement in the UK in the 1970s
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Shape Note notation
Introduced in late 18th Century England to facilitate congregational and community singing
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Atonality
Music that lacks a tonal center
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Polytonality
the simultaneous use of two or more keys in a musical composition.
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Neoclassicism
The revival of a classical style of music
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What ethnicity was Kodaly?
A Hungarian composer
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What was Kodaly a collector of?
Folk songs
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Where was Kodaly born?
Kecskemet
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What did Kodaly do?
Developed technique to teach young children to read music through folk material
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Where was Stephen Foster born and how many siblings
Born in Pennsylvania with 9 siblings
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What was Stephen Foster famous for?
American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music
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When was Stephen Foster born?
Early 19th century
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What's a tone row?
A particular sequence of the notes of the chromatic scale used for serial music
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What did John Philip Sousa conduct?
The Marine band, the US Army band
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Where was John Philip Sousa born?
Washington DC
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Who started violin lessons at the age of 10?
John Philip SOusa
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When was John Philip Sousa born?
The mid 19th. century
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Where did Charles Ives go to school?
Yale
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What instrument did Charles Ives play?
Became a church organist at. age 14
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What did Charles Ives use?
Dissonance, polyrhythms, polytonality, polytexture
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Where was William Grant Still raised?
Arkansas
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Who was William Grant Still?
first African American to have major productions of both a symphony and opera
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John Williams fact
Conducted and arrranged music for the military
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John Williams fact
Has a son who is a professional singer
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Where was Leonard Bernstein born?
Massachusetts, he was an American composer
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Who died of Pneumonia?
Leonard Benstein
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What was Philip Glass?
Minimalist composer
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Philip glass how many pieces has he made?
Hundres
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Philip Glass
When he first started composing people thought he was crazy

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