NJCU Survey of Music – FINALS REVIEW on Quizzes – Flashcards
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What do Victor Hugo, Alexander Dumas and Leo Tolstoy have in common?
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They are all Novelists
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Which of the following was NOT a new woodwind instrument during the Romantic period?
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Oboe
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Which of the following brass instruments was developed during the Romantic period?
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Saxophone
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What was the new target audience for nineteenth-century musicians?
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Middle Class
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Which song form has the same melody repeated for every stanza of the poem?
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Strophic
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What is the German word for a solo song?
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Lied
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What are Franz Schubert's birth and death dates?
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1797 - 1828
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Schubert was born in a suburb of which city?
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Vienna
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What caused Schubert's death?
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Syphilis
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Which other great composer is Schubert buried near?
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Beethoven
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About how many songs did Schubert write?
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600
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How many symphonies did Schubert compose?
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9
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In Schuberts "Erlking", how many characters must the singer portray?
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4
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What is the form of Schubert's "Erlking"?
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Through-Composed
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Where was Robert Schumann born?
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Zwickau, Germany
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What did Schumann study before going into music?
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Law
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How did Robert Schumann meet his wife, Clara?
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She was the daughter of his piano teacher.
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Where did Robert and Clara Schumann settle after they were married?
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Leipzig
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Robert Schumann attempted suicide by jumping into which river?
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Rhine
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What type of piece is Schumann's "Dicterliebe"?
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Song Cycle
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How many symphonies did Robert Schumann write?
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4
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What type of pieces are Robert Schumann's "Carnaval" and "Scenes from Childhood"?
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Piano Pieces
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What is the form of Schumann's song "In the lovely month of May"?
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Strophic
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What has Frederic Chopin often been called?
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The Poet of the Piano
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Chopin was born in Poland, but his father was from which country?
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France
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Who was Chopin's lover?
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Aurore Dudevant
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What was Chopin's lover's pen name?
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George Sand
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How old was Chopin when he died of tuberculosis?
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39 Years Old
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How many piano concertos did Chopin write?
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2
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Which of the following is NOT a type of piano piece written by Chopin?
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Fugue
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Which type of piece, popularized by Chopin, is derived from a Polish peasant dance?
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Mazurka
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Which Romantic technique allows the performer to take certain liberties with the rhythm?
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Tempo Rubato
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What nationality was Franz Liszt?
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Hungarian
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Liszt's daughter, Cosima, married which famous composer?
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Richard Wagner
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Liszt produced his chief orchestral works while living in which German city?
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Weimar
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What did Liszt do late in life?
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Took Holy Orders
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What musical genre, invented by Liszt, is a one-movement orchestral work with a literary or pictorial program?
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Symphonic Poem
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What compositional technique did Liszt use in order to vary the emotional character of a melody throughout a composition?
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Thematic Transformation
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For what medium are Liszt's "Transcendental Etudes" written?
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Piano
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What was the name of Felix Mendelssohn's talented sister?
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Fanny Mendelssohn
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What was the profession of Fanny Mendelssohn's husband?
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Artist
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Approximately how many compositions did Fanny Mendelssohn write for the piano?
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125
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Approximately how many Lieder did Fanny Mendelssohn write?
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250
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What is instrumental music that has literary or pictorial associations?
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Program Music
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What term describes music performed between the acts of a play and during important scenes?
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Incidental Music
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What is the main difference between a concert overture and a symphonic poem?
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A concert overture is in one of the Classical forms, but a symphonic poem has a much freer structure.
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What nationality was Hector Berlioz?
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French
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Before taking up music, Berlioz studied for what profession?
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Medicine
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Who is the Shakespearean actress that Berlioz fell in love with?
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Harriet Smithson
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Which musical prize allowed Berlioz to live and work in Italy?
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Prix de Rome
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What is Berlioz's most celebrated composition?
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Symphonie Fantastique
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What does the "idee fixe" represent?
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The Beloved
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Which Czech nationalist wrote "The Moldau"?
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Smetana
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What is the Moldau?
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A River
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What is the title of Smetana's most famous opera?
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The Bartered Bride
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Where did Edvard Grieg receive his musical training?
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Leipzig Conservatory
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What was the nationality of Edvard Grieg?
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Norwegian
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For which Ibsen play did Grieg write the incidental music?
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Peer Gynt
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Which of the following was a Spanish nationalist composer? Borodin / Greig / Albeniz / Elgar
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Albeniz
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Who was a Russian nationalist composer? Sibelius / Dvorak / De Falla / Musorgsky
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Musorgsky
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Who was an English nationalist composer? Grieg / Elgar / Tchaikovsky / Albeniz
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Elgar
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Aside from her husband, which composer was a lifelong friend to Clara Schumann?
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Brahms
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Clara Schumann wrote most of her music for what medium?
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Piano
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What is the form of the first movement of Clara Schumann's "Piano Trio in G Minor"?
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Sonata Form
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For which performer did Mendelssohn write his Violin Concerto?
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Ferdinand David
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What profession was Felix Mendelssohn's father in?
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Banking
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Which orchestra was Felix Mendelssohn engaged to conduct at age 26?
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Leipzig Gewandhaus
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In which city did Felix Mendelssohn found a music conservatory?
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Leipzig
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Mendelssohn gained popularity in which country, due to several visits?
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Great Britain
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Of what did Felix Mendelssohn die?
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Stroke
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How many symphonies did Felix Mendelssohn write for full orchestra?
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5
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What genre is Felix Mendelssohn's "Elijah"?
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Oratorio
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What genre is Felix Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words"?
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Piano Music
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Who said, "A symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything"?
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Mahler
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Where was Johannes Brahms born?
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Hamburg, Germany
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TRUE / FALSE: Brahms was from a musical family.
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True
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Which composer published an essay praising Brahms's musical skills, thereby helping to launch his career?
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Schumann
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For whom did Brahms write his Requiem?
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His Mother and Robert Schumann
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Brahms did not write any symphonies until what period of his life?
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His 40's
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Whose declining health inspired Brahms's "Four Serious Songs"?
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Clara Schumann
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How many symphonies did Brahms write?
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4
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In what area of the Czech Republic did Dvorak grow up?
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Bohemia
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Which composer encouraged Dvorak and helped him find a publisher?
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Brahms
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Which New York City institution invited Dvorak to be its director?
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National Conservatory of Music
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Which symphony was inspired by Dvorak's travels in the US?
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New World Symphony
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How many symphonies did Dvorak write?
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9
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Which opera singer was known as the "Swedish Nightingale"?
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Jenny Lind
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Which singing style is characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility and purity of tone?
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Bel Canto
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At which opera house did Giuseppe Verdi have his first success?
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La Scala
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What catastrophe befell Verdi in 1839?
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Loss of his wife and child
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How many operas did Verdi write?
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28
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Which was the first opera Verdi wrote that was based on a Shakespeare play?
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Macbeth
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Which Verdi opera was commissioned for the opening of the Suez Canal?
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Aida
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To whose memory was Verdi's Requiem dedicated?
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Manzoni
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Verdi's "Rigoletto" is based on a play by which writer?
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Hugo
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What is the name of Rigoletto's daughter?
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Gilda
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What is Rigoletto's voice part?
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Baritone
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Who is the assassin in "Rigoletto"?
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Sparafucile
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What is meant by Wagner's "Gesamtkunstwerk"?
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Total Art Work
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In Wagner's operas, what are the recurring themes that represent people, emotions, ideas, objects, etc.?
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Leitmotifs
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Where was Wagner born?
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Leipzig
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Where did Wagner build his theater, to present his music dramas?
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Bayreuth
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How many operas (Music dramas) did Wagner write?
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13
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Which set of four Wagner operas, including "Die Walkure" and "Siegfried", form a complete cycle?
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The Ring of the Nibelung
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What is the name for the nine daughters of Wotan who gather fallen heroes after battle?
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Valkyries
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What is the term used to describe the Romantic interest in far-off lands?
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Exoticism
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Where was Georges Bizet born and raised?
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Paris
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Which composition prize did Bizet win while in school?
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Prix de Rome
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Which was Bizet's greatest work?
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Carmen
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Where does the character Carmen work?
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A Cigarette Factory
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Which soldier falls in love with Carmen?
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Don Jose
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How does Carmen die?
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Stabbed to Death
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What voice part is Carmen?
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Mezzo Soprano
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Which type of Romantic composition consists of a short melodious work for three or four part chorus, often easy enough for amateurs?
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Part Song
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Where was Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky born?
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Votinsk, Russia
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What profession was Tchaikovsky before he turned to musical composition?
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Government Clerk
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Which conservatory did Tchaikovsky attend?
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Saint Petersburg
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Why didn't Tchaikovsky's marriage work out?
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He was a Homosexual
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Who became Tchaikovsky's wealthy patron, stipulating that they were never to meet?
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Nadezhda von Meck
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What type of work are Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" and "Swan Lake"?
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Ballets
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What is the name of the heroine in Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker"?
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Clara
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Which instrument does Tchaikovsky introduce in the "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"?
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Celesta
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In what operatic style are the subjects chosen from everyday life and treated in a "down-to-earth" fashion?
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Verismo Opera
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Where was Giacomo Puccini born?
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Lucca, Italy
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TRUE / FALSE: Puccini was from a musical family.
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True
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Why did Puccini have to stay in bed for six months in 1903?
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Car Crash
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Where did Puccini's "The Girl of the Golden West" have its world premiere?
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Metropolitan Opera
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How many operas did Puccini write?
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12
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What is the real name of the character known as "Madame Butterfly"?
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Cio-Cio-San
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Where was Gustav Mahler born and raised?
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Bohemia
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Although Mahler became known for his compositions only after he died, what was he known as during his lifetime?
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A Conductor
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Which musical position, the most important in the Austrian Empire, did Mahler receive when he was thirty-seven years old?
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Director of the Vienna Opera
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Late in life, Mahler conducted extensively in which American city?
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New York
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How many symphonies did Mahler complete (not including drafts)?
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9
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To which class of painters do Monet, Manet, Degas and Renoir belong?
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Impressionist
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To what class of poetry do Mallarme and Verlaine belong?
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Symbolist
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In what country did Impressionism surface?
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France
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To what "school" of musical thought did Schoenberg, Berg and Webern belong?
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Second Viennese School
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Which musical trend emulated certain style traits of earlier eras?
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Neoclassicism
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Who was the most important Impressionist composer?
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Debussy
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How many pitches are contained in a whole-tone scale, including the octave notes at either end?
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7 Pitches
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At what age did Debussy enter the Paris Conservatory?
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11 Years Old
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Which composition won Debussy the Prix de Rome?
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The Prodigal Son
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Debussy wrote two books of preludes for which instrument?
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Piano
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What is Debussy's best-known orchestral work?
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Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"
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What is a 'faun'?
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Creature: Half Man, Half Goat
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Which instrument solos at the beginning of "Prelude to 'The Afternoon of a Faun'"?
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Flute
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Who was acknowledged as the foremost composer in France at the end of World War I?
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Ravel
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TRUE / FALSE: Ravel was a fan of American jazz.
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True
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What was the condition of the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, for whom Ravel wrote a special concerto?
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He had no right hand.
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What type of composition is Ravel's "Don Quixote to Dulcinea"?
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Song Cycle
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What is the simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns called?
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Polyrhythm
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What is "atonality"?
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Having no tonic
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Which composer invented the Twelve-tone System for writing atonal music?
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Schoenberg
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What is another name for the Twelve-tone System?
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Serialism
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What form of a tone row occurs when it is played backwards?
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Retrograde
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Where was Igor Stravinsky born?
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Near St. Petersburg, Russia
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Stravinsky came from a musical family.
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True
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With which famous Russian composer did Stravinsky study?
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Rimsky-Korsakov
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Which ballet was Stravinsky's first big success, in 1910?
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The Firebird
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At the premiere of which Stravinsky ballet did a riot take place?
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The Rite of Spring
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In which country did Stravinsky and his family take refuge when World War I broke out in 1914?
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Switzerland
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Because of the Russian Revolution, in 1920 Stravinsky settled in which country?
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France
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In 1945, Stravinsky became a citizen of which country?
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United States
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What type of composition is Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress"?
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Opera
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Where was Arnold Schoenberg born?
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Vienna
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What piece of chamber music for strings was an early success for Schoenberg?
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Transfigured Night
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During which war did Schoenberg serve as a soldier?
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First World War
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Where did Schoenberg go to live when Hitler came to power in 1933?
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America
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In which singing style does the singer speak, rather than sing on exact pitches, creating a weird effect?
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Sprechstimme
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What technique is achieved by having each note of a melody played on a different instrument?
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Klangfarbenmelodie
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How old was Alban Berg when he met Arnold Schoenberg?
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19 Years Old
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What type of piece is Berg's "Wozzeck"?
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Opera
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Who kills Marie in "Wozzeck"?
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Wozzeck
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Which composer strove for complete control of all musical elements, inventing "total serialism"?
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Webern
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How did Webern die?
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Shot to Death
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What is the form of the second movement of Webern's "Symphony, Opus 21"?
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Theme and Variations
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Which of the following composers were members of "Les Six"?
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Milhaud, Honneger Poulenc
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Who was the first major Russian composer who was wholly a product of the musical culture of the Soviet Union?
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Shostakovich
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Who was the British composer of the operas "Peter Grimes" and "Billy Budd"?
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Britten
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Which German composer is best known for his "Carmina Burana"?
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Orff
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Bartok and Kodaly were composers of which country?
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Hungary
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Who was one of the first Jewish composers to identify himself musically with his cultural origins?
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Bloch
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In which U.S. city did Bela Bartok settle?
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New York
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Bartok died of which disease?
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Leukemia
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Which composition is regarded by many to be Bartok's greatest masterpiece?
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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celestra
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Which classical form does Bartok use for the first and last movements of his "Concerto for Orchestra"?
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Sonata-Allegro
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Prokofiev lived for a time outside of Russia, in which city?
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Paris
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Which Prokofiev work uses narrator, and has children as its target audience?
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Peter and the Wolf
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Where was the poetry, later used in Orff's "Carmina Burana," discovered?
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In a German Monastery
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Who was America's most famous bandmaster?
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John Philip Sousa
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Where was Charles Ives born?
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Danbury, Connecticut
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How did Ives support himself?
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Selling Insurance
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Which of Ives' compositions earned him a Pulitzer Prize?
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Third Symphony
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Where was Ruth Crawford born?
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Ohio
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Ruth Crawford was the first to receive which prestigious award?
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Guggenheim Fellowship
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In which state was William Grant Still born?
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Mississippi
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Still studied which French composer?
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Varese
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What is the nickname of Still's First Symphony?
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"Afro-American"
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Still preferred this art form to the spiritual because it "does not exhibit the influence of Caucasian music".
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Blues
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Where was Aaron Copland born?
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Brooklyn, NY
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With which famous French teacher did Copland study musical composition?
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Boulanger
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All of the following are ballets of Copland, except for which one?
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The Tender Land
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Which Spanish poet, executed by a Fascist firing squad, was the subject of an orchestral work by Revueltas?
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Lorca
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Which folk music style is often quoted by revueltas?
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Mariachi
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What is the name given to music that leaves decisions up to the performer or to chance?
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Aleatoric
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Which Japanese instrument, resembling a zither, did Henry Cowell compose two concertos for?
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Koto
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Where was John Cage born?
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Los Angeles
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What style of music did John Cage create in 1938?
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Prepared Piano
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What is special about Cage's composition: 4' 33"
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It contains 100% ONLY SILENCE
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What is the term for an orchestra of metallic percussion instruments from Indonesia?
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Gamelan
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What type of tuning, besides "heptatonic" is used by gamelan?
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Pentatonic
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In which country was Ligeti born?
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Hungary
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What term does Ligeti use to describe his complex, shimmering polyphonic musical fabric?
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Micropolyphony
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Where does the drum ensemble "entenga" originate?
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Uganda
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In which Chinese city was Bright Sheng born?
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Shanghai
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Where does Sheng now teach?
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University of Michigan
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Which type of music, originating in France, consisted of naturally occurring sounds recorded onto magnetic tape, and then manipulated?
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Musique Concrete
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The synthesizer developed out of the "electronische Musik" of which German composer?
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Stockhausen
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What nationality was Edgard Varese?
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French
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For which World's Fair was Varese's "Poeme electronique" composed?
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Brussels, 1958
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What New York City born cellist is a pioneer in musical interactivity?
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Tod Machover
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Which postmodern style of music favors lush harmonic styles of the 19th century over structure?
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Neoromanticism
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For which composition did Jennifer Higdon receive her Pulitzer prize in 2010?
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Violin Concerto
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TRUE / FALSE: John Corigliano has won a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, and a Grammy Award for his music.
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True
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What style of music, beginning in the 1970's, strips compositions down to their bare essentials, focusing on a few basic details?
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Minimalism
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Who wrote the opera "Einstein on the Beach" and the film score for "The Illusionist"?
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Philip Glass
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Which composer infuses the minimalist style with traits of Neoromanticism, thereby forging a post-minimalist style?
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John Adams
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In which country was Arvo Pärt born?
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Estonia
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Which composer wrote the operas "Nixon in China," "The Death of Klinghoffer" and "Dr. Atomic"?
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Adams
