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Who was the first artist to debunk and simplify music?

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Eric Sati

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What was Daniel Foray’s contribution to music?

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Helped simplify it

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What artist wrote 5 poems about the death of children to music?

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Gustav Mahler

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Who wrote the “Salame?”

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Richard Strauss

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What style did Strauss change to?

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Went from a wistful, hopeful manner to a rebellious, dramatic style

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What type of music was Tchaivosky most known for?

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Dance music

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Who did Claude Debussy learn from?

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Musgosroski

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Who was inspired by the Javanese, eastern exotic music at the Paris World Fair?

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Claude Debussy

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Who first allowed “hanging chords” to resonate over each other?

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Claude Debussy

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What type of music was Igor Stravinsky most known for?

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Ballets

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Who wrote about supernatural characters?

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Stravinsky

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What type of scale did Stravinsky use?

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Octatonic

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Who was the most famous orchestrator?

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Ravel

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What was impressionist music?

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French composers playing smooth, seamless music

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What was the most important feature of impressionist music?

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Tonecolor

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Who composed the “Rite of Spring?”

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Stravinsky

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What was the audience’s reaction to the “Rite of Spring” the first time?

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Caused a riot

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Who composed a lot about folk music and nature?

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Gustav Mahler

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What boosted African American music?

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Recording

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What were spirituals?

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Blend of response chants and hymns

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What was the topic of a lot of spirituals?

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Old Testament oppression

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Who was the first person to put spirituals in front of a white audience?

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Samuel Coleridge

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What were “blue notes?”

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Flattened 7 and 3 positions

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Where were blue notes borrowed in part from?

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Hymns and vaudeville

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What is one of the most famous blues songs?
“Ballad of John Henry"
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What genre is known for a intermingling of genres?
Ragtime
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What is syncopation?
Emphasis on wrong notes to create a jerky sound
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What type of music is the “cake walk”?
Ragtime
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What song began jazz?
“Jelly Roll Blues” by Jelly Roll Morton
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What song in Fantasia 2000 was about whales?
Pines of Rome
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What song in Fantasia 2000 depicted Noah and the Ark?
Pomp and Circumstance
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What song in Fantasia 2000 depicted the tin soldier?
Piano Concerto No. 2
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What song in Fantasia 2000 was considered minimalist?
Beethoven's Fifth
34
Who founded “Young Audiences?"
Leonard Bernstein
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Who composed “West Side Story?"
Leonard Bernstein
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What are minstrel shows?
White actors would paint themselves in blackface and parody traditional song and dance
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Why were minstrel shows created?
African Americans would not be allowed on stage as the same time as whites
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What was the first show to define the musical theater genre?
“Showboat"
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What makes music?
Melody, tempo/rhythm, texture
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Who invented the prepared piano?
John Cage
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Who experimented with the barriers/structure of music?
John Cage
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Who was known to compose by crumpling paper and making notes out of the creases?
John Cage
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What was unique about John Cage’s “4 minutes 33 seconds"
It was complete silence
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Who was known for word prompts and highly interpretive music?
Stockhausen
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Who wrote tone poems?
Richard Strauss
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What are tone poems?
1 movement symphonies that tell a story
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What group played “Symphonia Domestica?"
Brass quintet
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How many symphonies did Gustav Mahler write?
9
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Who is the most famous American composer?
Aaron Copland
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Who wrote “Fanfare for the Common Man?"
Aaron Copland
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Where is Pitor Tchaikovsky from?
Russia
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Who composed the Nutcracker and Swan Lake?
Tchaikovsky
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Who composed the “Dance of the Snowflakes"
Tchaiokovksy
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What two French composers instituted impressionism?
Claude Debussy and Ravel
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What was the solo instrument in “Clouds” by Debussy?
English horn
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What is an orchestrator?
Takes a piece for instrument and arranges it for an orchestra
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Who composed “Bolero?"
Ravel
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Where is Bernstein from?
New York
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What instruments are not in a jazz combo rhythm section?
Trumpet or sax
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What instruments are in a jazz combo rhythm section?
Trap set (drums), brass, and keyboard
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Who helped invent “beebop” jazz?
Miles Davis
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What were popular jazz instruments?
Piano, alto/tenor sax, drums
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Who composed “Take Five”?
Dave Brubeck
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What time is “Take Five” written?
5/4
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What is a pentatonic scale?
5 notes
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What instrument does my professor play?
Trumpet
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What happened to harmony in this era?
Became more dissonant
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Who composed “Rodeo”?
Aaron Copland
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What are key features of jazz performance?
Improv and syncopation
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Who composed “Rhapsody in Blue?"
George Girchwin
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What is improv?
Playing over a chord structure
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Where did spirituals come from?
American slaves
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What song from Fantasia 2000 was written for a piano solo?
Rhapsody in Blue
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Who composed “Piano Concerto No 2?
Dmitri Strastakovich
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Who composed “Pomp and Circumstance”?
Edward Elguard

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