FINAL

Question 1

What was John Cage’s philosophy regarding sound?

Answer 1

Sounds are not to invoke feeling or emotion, but to ‘be’ and to be experienced

Question 2

What are Cage’s three strategies to achieve his philosophy regarding sound?

Answer 2

1. Use of chance
2. Use of indeterminacy
3. Blurring boundaries between music, art, and life

Question 3

Where was John Cage from?

Answer 3

Los Angeles, CA

Question 4

What does avant-garde mean?

Answer 4

forward-thinking

Question 5

A prepared piano is

Answer 5

inserted objects between the strings of the piano to create complex percussive sounds

Question 6

What country is Penderecki from?

Answer 6

Poland

Question 7

Which of the following best describes Penderecki’s avant-garde musical style?

Answer 7

use of tonal clusters and unconventional techniques to create supernatural and creepy sounding music

Question 8

What historical event evoked the full title of Penderecki’s Threnody?

Answer 8

the bombing of Hiroshima

Question 9

Who inspired Penderecki to learn the violin?

Answer 9

his father

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a film in which Penderecki’s music has been used?

Answer 10

The Exorcist, The Shinning, Ready Player One

Question 11

What did Stockhausen study at the Cologne University of Music?

Answer 11

music pedagogy, piano, musicology, philosophy, and Germanic’s

Question 12

Which great composers did Stockhausen study with?

Answer 12

Oliver Messiaen and Darius Milhaud

Question 13

How was Stockhausen inspired by John Cage?

Answer 13

inspired by Cage’s “open form” which is open to interpretation to how each person would hear the music

Question 14

Serialism was a large principle in Stockhausen’s work. How did Stockhausen innovate electronic and serial music?

Answer 14

To other musical characteristics like: instrumentation, pitch, melodic form, intensity, and time duration

Question 15

What level of organization was Stockhausen assumed using?

Answer 15

Geometric

Question 16

True or False Laurie Anderson originally studied biology at Mills College in California.

Answer 16

TRUE

Question 17

Where would Anderson perform the violin as a teen?

Answer 17

Chicago Youth Symphony

Question 18

What year did Laurie Anderson perform Duets on Ice in the streets of New York?

Answer 18

1972

Question 19

What was the name of Laurie Anderson’s performance piece that was performed by a symphony of car horns?

Answer 19

Automotive

Question 20

True or False: Laurie Anderson’s work represents a synthesis between the concerns of the different mediums of music, visual art, and performance and reflects the changing nature of spectatorship at the end of the 20th century

Answer 20

TRUE

Question 21

What was Harry Partch’s musical advancement?

Answer 21

combined the exploration of new instrumental sounds with a new approach to pitch

Question 22

What cultures inspired Harry Partch?

Answer 22

Chinese, Japanese, Native American, African and rural American music

Question 23

What was Partch’s 43 tone scale based solely on?

Answer 23

intonation-which notes relate to each other through pure intervals from the harmonic series

Question 24

What instrument did Partch make?

Answer 24

modified guitars, marimbas, tuned cloud-chamber bowls, gourd tree, and large string instrument like the Ancient Greek kithara

Question 25

What is Partch’s largest work?

Answer 25

Oedipus

Question 26

True/False: Philip Glass was a lover of avant garde music

Answer 26

FALSE

Question 27

What did Glass master in at Juilliard?

Answer 27

Composition

Question 28

Philip Glass’s first Opera, “Einstein on the Beach” is different from traditional operas in what way?

Answer 28

5 hours long with no breaks

Question 29

Glass took music inspiration from what part of the world?

Answer 29

India

Question 30

What is Steve Reich’s clapping music?

Answer 30

creating a phasing effect in apiece of music that needed no instrument beyond the human body

Question 31

Who were some of Steve Reich’s influencers?

Answer 31

Perotin, J.S. Bach, Debussy, Bartók, and Stravinsky

Question 32

Where was Steve Reich born and raised?

Answer 32

born in New York, raised in California

Question 33

What was Steve Reich’s degree from Cornell university in?

Answer 33

B.A.in philosophy and minor in music

Question 34

What instrument did George Crumb NOT play?

Answer 34

he DID play flute, piano, and clarinet

Question 35

TRUE or FALSE: George Crumb is dead.

Answer 35

FALSE

Question 36

What instrument does The Ancient Voices of Children NOT ask to be played?

Answer 36

the song HAS: soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified piano, percussion

Question 37

T or F? George Crumb asked for his music to be played in conventional AND unconventional ways.

Answer 37

TRUE

Question 38

What piece brought Sofia Gubaidulina to international prominence?

Answer 38

her violin concerto Offertorium

Question 39

For whom did Gubaidulina compose Offertorium?

Answer 39

for violinist Gidon Kremer

Question 40

When Gubaidulina was told as a young musician that she was on "the wrong path", who encouraged her by telling her "I want you to continue on this path"?

Answer 40

Shostakovich

Question 41

What was Gubaidulina's inspiration in composing The Seven Last Words?

Answer 41

Based on the sayings of Jesus on the cross

Question 42

What musical technique did Gubaidulina use in Offertorium?

Answer 42

no commitment to fine style; abruptness, ripped change, and finished that are rough, raw, and ragged

Question 43

TRUE or FALSE: Peter Schickele grew up in Washington D.C. and Fargo, ND.

Answer 43

TRUE

Question 44

TRUE or FALSE: Peter Schickele was the composer for Los Angeles high schools.

Answer 44

TRUE

Question 45

TRUE or FALSE: P.D.Q. Bach was Schickele’s colleague and best friend.

Answer 45

FALSE

Question 46

Peter Schickele developed an instrument called the

Answer 46

tromboon

Question 47

Peter Schickele was born in

Answer 47

Ames, Iowa

Question 48

At what age did John Adams begin composing?

Answer 48

10

Question 49

Which university did John Adams study at?

Answer 49

Harvard

Question 50

TRUE or FALSE: John Adams disliked John Cage’s experimentalism.

Answer 50

FALSE

Question 51

Which opera of John Adams elicited the most controversy?

Answer 51

The Death of Kinghoffer

Question 52

Who else in Gyorgy Ligetis family survived the holocaust?

Answer 52

his mother

Question 53

Where was Ligeti born?

Answer 53

Dicsöszentmárton, Romania

Question 54

Who influenced Ligeti?

Answer 54

John Cage, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly

Question 55

Which opera did Ligeti compose?

Answer 55

Le Grand Macabre

Question 56

Why was Ligeti arrested?

Answer 56

Jew living during the Nazi regime

Question 57

Who did Ligeti study with?

Answer 57

Ferenc Farakas

Question 58

What Stravinsky piece inspired Carter to be a composer?

Answer 58

The Rite of Spring

Question 59

True/False: Carter’s Cello Sonata was well received

Answer 59

FALSE

Question 60

What piece won Carter his first Pulitzer prize?

Answer 60

String Quartet No.2

Question 61

True/False: Carter wrote over 150 pieces.

Answer 61

TRUE

Question 62

True/False: Bernstein was a major presence in Broadway and Classical music.

Answer 62

TRUE

Question 63

What is Bernstein’s most successful Broadway musical?

Answer 63

West Side Story

Question 64

What unusual styles did Bernstein incorporate into West Side Story?

Answer 64

jAZZ, afro-carribean dance music, Tin Pan Alley melodies | -tritones throughout the score

Question 65

How did Bernstein describe Broadway?

Answer 65

An American form of opera

Question 66

True/False: West Side Story is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

Answer 66

TRUE

Question 67

Where was the conservatory that Arvo Pärt Attended?

Answer 67

Tallinn

Question 68

What 2 things did Pärt do for work while studying in the conservatory?

Answer 68

studied composition with Heino Eller and produced for film and the stage

Question 69

What is Tintinnabulation?

Answer 69

2 types of voices: one arpeggiates the tonic triad and the other moves diatonically in stepwise motion

Question 70

Glass’s music style would be considered as:

Answer 70

minimalistic