Romanian Christmas Carols (Sz.57/Bb 67) First Series

Question 0

How many sovereign nations were there in 1900?

Answer 0

55

Question 1

What musical movement does not have many parallels with the visual arts?

Answer 1

Nationalism

Question 2

How many nations were there in 2000?

Answer 2

192

Question 3

What composer founded the Societe nationale de Musique (1871)?

Answer 3

Cesar Franck 1822-90

Question 4

What was the motto of the Societe National de Musique?

Answer 4

French Art

Question 5

What was the goal of the Societe Nationale de Musique?

Answer 5

To promote French music and reject the Germanic traditions of composers like Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann

Question 6

What was the Societe Nationale de Musique the ancestor of?

Answer 6

Les Six

Question 7

What was the goal of Les Six?

Answer 7

To write music devoid of any Germanic characteristics

Question 8

In addition to Germanic music who else did Les Six reject?

Answer 8

The Impressionistic approach of Debussy and Ravel as well as Stravinsky ad Schoenberg

Question 9

What associations in England were focused on rediscovering and celebrating lost music of the nation?

Answer 9

The Purcell Society, the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society and the Musical Antiquarian Society

Question 10

What Renaissance composers were rediscovered in England?

Answer 10

William Byrd 1540-1623, Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625, Thomas Tallis 1505-1585, Thomas Weelkes 1576-1623, John Wilbye 1574-1638

Question 11

Who used old English materials as the foundation for many of his works?

Answer 11

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Question 12

What was one of Ralph Vaughan Williams best known works?

Answer 12

Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis 1910

Question 13

What composer produced Somerset Rhapsody 1906-7 which highlighted geographical features of England?

Answer 13

Gustav Holst 1874-1934

Question 14

What Finnish composer galvanized his nation with Finlandia 1900?

Answer 14

Jean Sibeliue 1865-1957

Question 15

What became the unofficial national anthem for Finland?

Answer 15

Finlandia

Question 16

When did Finland succeed in declaring its independence from Russia?

Answer 16

In 1917

Question 17

How was Sibelius supported to the end of his days?

Answer 17

By a state stipend

Question 18

What two French composers wrote music that glorified Spain and what were their pieces?

Answer 18

Debussy’s Iberia and Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole and subsequen Blero

Question 19

How did Ravel have some claim to Spanish heritage?

Answer 19

Through his mother who was born in the Basque region that straddles Spain and France

Question 20

What did Mannuel de Falla compose?

Answer 20

Nights in the Gardens of Spain 1909-1916

Question 21

What Spanish composer produced Iberia?

Answer 21

Isaac Albeniz

Question 22

Who created two musical tributes to one of Spain’s greatest painters?

Answer 22

Enrique Granados

Question 23

Who did Granados produce to tributes to?

Answer 23

Franscisco Goya

Question 24

What were the two musical tributes produced by Granados to Goya?

Answer 24

A piano suite Goyescas in 1911 and a subsequent opera Goyescas

Question 25

Where was Goyescas supposed to premiere but was unable to do so because of World War One?

Answer 25

Paris

Question 26

Where did Goyescas make its debut instead of Paris?

Answer 26

At New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1916

Question 27

Who invited the Granados to the White House in 1916?

Answer 27

Woodrow Wilson

Question 28

What was he name of Granados's wife?

Answer 28

Amparo

Question 29

How did Granados die?

Answer 29

Hiis ship was torpedoed by a German submarine and he drowned trying to save his wife

Question 30

What young American composer was met with a marked lack of enthusiasm because American tastes did not embrace Modernist innovations as early as European audiences did?

Answer 30

Charles Ives 1874-1954

Question 31

What American composer supported himself with an insurance business?

Answer 31

Charles Ives

Question 32

What is the subtitle of Ives's Piano Sonata No. 2?

Answer 32

Concord Mass., 1840-1860

Question 33

In Piano Sonata No.2 what are each of Ives's movements named after?

Answer 33

American Transcendentalist writers such as Emerson, Hawthorne, The Alcotts and Thoreau

Question 34

What event caused Charles Ives to start showing hi musical compositions in 1918?

Answer 34

A heart attack as well as a series of strokes

Question 35

Who is the best known proponent of Russian nationalism?

Answer 35

Igor Stravinksy

Question 36

What is ironic about Stravinsky being the best known proponent of Russian nationalism?

Answer 36

He wrote most of his works while he was away from Russia

Question 37

What is the subtitle of The Rite of Spring?

Answer 37

Scenes from Pagan Russia

Question 38

What are irreplaceable documentation of music from distant times and remote places?

Answer 38

Filed recordings

Question 39

Who were the two most notable ethnomusicologist/composers?

Answer 39

Belat Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly

Question 40

How many songs were in Zoltan Kodaly and Bartok's first book in 1906?

Answer 40

20 songs

Question 41

When Bartok published a summery of his and Kodaly's work in 1924 how many melodies were in Hungarian Folksong?

Answer 41

More than 8 thousand melodies

Question 42

What two places outside the Hungarian Empire did Bartok get some music rom?

Answer 42

North Africa and Turkey

Question 43

What are the 5 categories of folk-music adaptations in Bartok's music?

Answer 43

folk songs and invented of secondary importance, folk tune and invented are equals, the folk tune is a motto and invented is greater, the composition is based on an imitation f themes, there is only a spirirt of folk music

Question 44

What scholar classified five levels of folk-music adaptation in Bartok's music?

Answer 44

Benjamin Suchoff

Question 45

What was Bartok's collection of teaching pieces published in 1908-09?

Answer 45

For Children

Question 46

What is For Children?

Answer 46

A collection of Hungarian and Slovak folk songs transcribed for piano

Question 47

What interval does Bartok never exceed in Romanian Christmas Carols?

Answer 47

One octave

Question 48

What is a colinde?

Answer 48

A carol

Question 49

What was included with The Romanian Christmas Carols?

Answer 49

A transcription of the first melodic phrase of each carol and the specific place that he collected each score

Question 50

How many melodies are in Romanian Christmas Carols?

Answer 50

Twenty melodies

Question 51

What instrument is Romanian Christmas Carols for?

Answer 51

Modern Piano

Question 52

What are the tunes in Romanian Christmas Carols?

Answer 52

Modal

Question 53

What modes appear in The Romanian Christmas Carols?

Answer 53

Ionian, Aeolian, Dorian, Phrygian and Mixolydian

Question 54

Why do modal system scales sound strange to our modern ears?

Answer 54

Because they use different patterns of half and whole steps

Question 55

What pitch do many of Romanian Christmas Carols colinde's end with?

Answer 55

A high pitch

Question 56

How did Bartok intend for all ten pieces in Romanian Christmas Carols to be played?

Answer 56

To be played without pause

Question 57

What is it conventional in Eastern European folk music for the rhythm to do?

Answer 57

For it to follow the poetic syllables, so the irregularity makes it hard to tap one's foor during most of the settings

Question 58

What is a Hungarian gesture in Romanian Christmas Carols?

Answer 58

A drone accompaniment by a rustic bagpipe

Question 59

How does Bartok mimic the prolonged sound of a bagpipe?

Answer 59

By having the piano play a single pitch E in both hands letting it resonate for more than four measures