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what instruments are in a standard mariachi band

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violin guitar trumpet

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list works by Alban Berg

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Wozzeck Lulu Lyric Suite

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Schoenberg experimented with tone-color melody, or shifting each note of a melody to a different instrument. He called this

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Klangfarbenmelodie

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What French composer developed polytonality and wrote a ballet entitled The Creation of the World?

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Milhaud

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Impressionist music can be seen as a reaction to

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they symphonic tradition of Beethoven the music dramas of Wagner the full sonority of the German Romantic orchestra

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Berg's opera Wozzeck centers on

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a soldier's obsession with unhappy love.

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English composer viewed as one of the foremost twentieth-century opera composer

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Britten

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The composer most closely associated with twelve-tone music is:

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Schoenberg

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Who composed the opera Peter Grimes?

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Britten

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list works by Debussy

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Clair de lune La mer Prelude to The afternoon of a faun

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list works by Ravel

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Bolero Tzigane Spanish Rhapsody

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What Hungarian composer combined native folk music characteristics with main currents of European music?

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Bartok

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The comparative study of musics of the world is called:

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ethnomusicology.

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Carlos Chávez is a noted:

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Mexican art music composer.

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Copland's Appalachian Spring quotes the American tune:

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Simple gifts

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Berg spent the last years of his life trying to complete

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his opera Lulu

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Pierrot lunaire is based on a cycle of poems written by:

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Giraud

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Copland's Billy the kid is

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a ballet

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The element that most decisively separated twentieth-century music from that of the past was

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Harmony

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which German composer created an enduring method of teaching music to children?

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Carl Orff

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The emancipation of dissonance refers to freeing:

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harmony from the necessity of moving from tension to rest.

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For which work was Ives given a Pulitzer Prize?

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Symphony No. 3

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While composing in his spare time, Charles Ives made his living as:

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an insurance executive.

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list works from Ives's Country Band March

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Yankee Doodle Jeanie with Light brown hair london bridge

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which composer represents the twentieth-century Hungarian school?

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Kodaly

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list ballets by Stravinsky

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The firebird petrushka rite of spring

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The \"Aztec Renaissance\" sought to:

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suggest the character of native music

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Son is a Latin American term that refers to:

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a traditional folk dance of Mexico.

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what was a critical new technology that aided the study of folk music in the early twentieth century?

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phonograph

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Name members of the so-called second viennese school of composition

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Arnold Schoeberg Anton Webern Alban Berg

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describe formalism

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Formal considerations are valued over expressive ones.

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Klangfarbenmelodie refers to:

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a style that gives each note of a melody to a different instrument.

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The texts for Carmina Burana are from:

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the middle ages

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william grant till composed

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operas film and tv scores jazz arrangements

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Silvestre Revueltas's compositional style is considered to be representative of:

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mestizo realism.

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characteristics of impressionist music

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whole-tone scales parallel chords ninth chords

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characteristics of Berg's Wozzeck

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atonal-expressionist idiom leitmotifs tonal passages

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The arrangement of the pitches of a tone row in reverse order is called:

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retrograde

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Which was the more radical of Schoenberg's famous students?

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Webern

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How many notes are in the opening chord of Dance of the Youths and Maidens, from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

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eight

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What nationality was Claude Debussy?

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french

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The Rite of Spring is characterized by:

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the percussive use of dissonance polyrhythms polytonality

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The model for Bartók's melodies can be found in:

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Hungarian folk songs

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impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of

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Claude Debussy

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Which element could be considered the most innovative in The Rite of Spring?

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unpredictable rhythms and meters

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describe orchestration in twentieth-century music?

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The string section lost its role as the heart of the orchestra.

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Who was the Paris-based Russian ballet impresario that commissioned Stravinsky to write ballets?

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Diaghilev

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What accompanies the voice in Pierrot lunaire?

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chamber group

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Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as:

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Sprechstimme.

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An important American instrumental ensemble of the nineteenth century was the:

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brass band

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The final, heartbreaking scene of Berg's Wozzeck concludes with:

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the son of Marie and Wozzeck, alone.

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Debussy was highly influenced by the sounds of the gamelan from:

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Java

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describe Orff's O fortuna from Carmina burana?

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It has syllabic declamation

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In his early years, William Grant Still was associated with which artistic movement?

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the Harlem Renaissance

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Who was the Paris-based Russian ballet impresario that commissioned Stravinsky to write ballets?

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Diaghilev

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