Final

Question 1

What was John cages philosophy regarding sound?

Answer 1

Everything has a soul and it can be released by sound.

Sounds are to be experienced.

Question 2

What are cages three strategies to achieve his philosophy regarding sound?

Answer 2

1. Use of chance
2. Use of interdependency
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

It HAS been used in ready player one, the shining, and the exorcist.

Question 11

What did Stockhausen study at the cologne university of music?

Answer 11

Music pedagogy, piano, musicology, philosophy, and Germanic.

Question 12

Which great composer did Stockhausen study with?

Answer 12

Oliver Messiaen and Darius Milhaud

Question 13

How was Stockhausen inspired by John Cage?

Answer 13

Inspired by his “open form” which is open to interpretation to how each person hears the music.

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Added more events like instrumentation, pitch, melodic form, intensity, and time duration.

Question 15

What level of organization was Stockhausen assumes using?

Answer 15

Geometric

Question 16

T/F: 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?

Answer 18

1972

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Automotive

Question 20

T/F: 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 Henry Partchs musical advancement?

Answer 21

He combined the exploration of new instrumental sounds with a new approach to pith

Question 22

What cultures inspired Harry Partch

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What was partchs 43 tone scale solely based 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 Partchs largest work?

Answer 25

Oedipus

Question 26

T/F: Philip glass was a lover of avant-garde music?

Answer 26

False

Question 27

What did glass master in at juliiard?

Answer 27

Composition

Question 28

Philip glasses 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

Glass’s music style would be considered as:

Answer 30

Minimalistic

Question 31

What is Steve Reich’s clapping music?

Answer 31

Creating a phrasing effect in a piece of music that needed no instrument beyond the human body

Question 32

Who were some of Steve Reich’s influencers?

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Where was Steve Reich born and raised?

Answer 33

Born in NY and raised in California.

Question 34

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

Answer 34

B.A. in philosophy and minor in music.

Question 35

What instrument did George crumb not okay?

Answer 35

Violin

Question 36

T/F: George Crumb is dead

Answer 36

False

Question 37

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

Answer 37

HAS: soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified piano, percussion.

Question 38

T/F: George Crumb asked for his music to be played in conventional and unconventional ways.

Answer 38

True

Question 39

What piece brought Sofia Gubaidulina to international prominence?

Answer 39

Violin concerto Offertorium

Question 40

For whom did Gubaidulina compose offertorium?

Answer 40

Violinist Gideon Kremer

Question 41

When Gubaidulina was told aaa young musician that she was on “the wrong path” who encouraged her...

Answer 41

Shostakovich

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Based on the sayings of Jesus on the cross.

Question 43

What musical technique did Gubaidulina use in Offertorium?

Answer 43

Klangfarbenmelodie

Question 44

T/F: Peter Schickele grew up in Washington D.C. and Fargo, Nd.

Answer 44

True

Question 45

T/F: Peter Schickele was the composer for Los Angeles High school

Answer 45

True

Question 46

T/F: PDQ back was Schickele’s colleague and best friend.

Answer 46

False

Question 47

Peter Schickele developed an instrument called the...

Answer 47

Tromboon

Question 48

Peter Schickele was born in

Answer 48

Ames, Iowa.

Question 49

At what age did John Adams begin composing?

Answer 49

10

Question 50

Which university did John Adams study at?

Answer 50

Harvard

Question 51

T/F: John Adams disliked John Cages experimentalism

Answer 51

False

Question 52

Which opera of John Adams elicited the most controversy?

Answer 52

The Death if Kinghoffer

Question 53

Who else in György, Legetis family survived the Holocaust?

Answer 53

Mother

Question 54

Where was Ligeti born?

Answer 54

Transylvania

Question 55

Who influenced Ligeti

Answer 55

John Cage, Bele Bartók, and Kodály.

Question 56

Which opera did Ligeti compose?

Answer 56

Le Grand Macabre

Question 57

Why was Ligeti arrested?

Answer 57

He was Jewish living in the Nazi regime.

Question 58

Who did he study with?

Answer 58

Ferenc Farkas and Pál Kadosa.

Question 59

What Stravinsky piece inspired Carter to be a Composer?

Answer 59

The rite of Spring.

Question 60

T/F: Carter’s Cello Sonata was well received

Answer 60

False

Question 61

What piece won Carter his first Pulitzer Prize?

Answer 61

String Quarter no. 2

Question 62

T/F: Carter wrote over 150 Pieces

Answer 62

True

Question 63

T/F: Bernstein was a major presence in Broadway and classical music.

Answer 63

True

Question 64

What is Bernstein’s most successful broadway musical?

Answer 64

West side Story

Question 65

What unusual styles did Bernstein incorporate into West side story?

Answer 65

Jazz, Afro-carribean dance music, Tim pan alley melodies.

Question 66

How did Bernstein describe broadway

Answer 66

An American form of opera

Question 67

T/F: west side story is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

Answer 67

True

Question 68

Where was the conservatory of Arvo Part?

Answer 68

Tallinn

Question 69

What JS Bach piece does Arvo Part quote in credo

Answer 69

Prelude in C

Question 70

What is tintinnabulation?

Answer 70

One voice moves diatonically, and one voice is chord tones.