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Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from all except:

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American marching band music

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The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as

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a polychord

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Among the unusual playing teechniques that were widely used during the twentieth century is the _____, a rapid slide up or down a scale.

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glissando

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Which of the following composers was not stimulated by the folkore oh his native land?

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Anton Webern

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A chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is known as

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tone cluster

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The absence of the key or tonality in a musical composition is known as

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atonality

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One of the most striking elements of twentieth-century music that is used to generate power and excitement is

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rhythm

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The use of two or more keys at one time is known as

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polytonality

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A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch thoughout a section is called

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ostinato

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In the twentieth-century music, melodies are often difficult to sing because

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of the wide leaps and rhythmic irregularity

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Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the

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1920s

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The first opera created for television was Gian-Carlo Menotti's

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Amahl and the Night Visitors

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Recordings of much lesser-known music multipled in 1948 through

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the appearance of long-playing disks

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The most influential organization sponsoring new music after World War 1 was

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the International Society for Contemporary Music

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The best-known American ensemble created in the 1930s by a radio network to broadcast live music was the

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NBC Symphony Orchestra

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One of the most important teachers of musical composition of the twentieth century was

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Nadia Boulanger

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Impression as a movement originated in

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France

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Which of the following is not considered a sybolist poet?

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Victor Hugo

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When viewed closely, impressionist paintings are made up of

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tiny colored patches

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Debussy's most famous orchestral work was inspired by a poem by

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Stephane Mallarme

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Debussy's music tends to

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sound free and almost improvisational

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The faun evoked in Debussy's famous composition is a

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creature who is half man, half goat

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As a result of his summer sojourns away from France during his teens, Debussy developed a lifelong interest in the music of

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Russia

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Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande is an almost word-for-word setting of the symbolist play by

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Maurice Maeterlinck

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At the Paris International Exhibition of 1889 Debussy was strongly influenced by the

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performances of Asian music

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In which of the following areas did Debussy not create masterpieces?

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symphonies

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The poem which inspired the Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun was written by

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Stephane Mallarme

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In order to drown the sense of tonality, Debussy

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turned to the medieval church modes, borrowed petatonic scales from Javanese music, and developed the whole-tone scale

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Which of the following statements is not true of Ravel?

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He composed a large number of works in all genres

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Ravel's Bolero originated as a(n)

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ballet commissioned by the dancer Ida Rubinstein

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While some of Ravel's music has the fluid, misty, atmospheric quality associated with impressionism, he does not fit neatly into any stylistic category because his

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music is too clearly defined in form and tonality

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Which of the following works is not by Maurice Ravel?

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Voiles

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Bolero reflects Ravel's fascination with

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obessive rhythmic repetition and tone color

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A more appropriate term for "neoclassicism" might be

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neoBaroque

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Neoclassical compositions are characterized by

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forms and stylistic features of earlier periods

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Neoclassicism was a reaction against

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romanticism and impressionism

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Which of the following is not characteristic of neoclassicism?

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misty atmosphere

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Neoclassical composers favored

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tonality

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A painter who went through a neoclassical phase, and who designed sets for Stravinsky's first neoclassical work, was

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Pablo Picasso

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During the period from about 1920 to 1951, Stravinsky drew inspiration largely from

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eighteenth-century music

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Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of

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primitivism

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Sergei Diaghilev was the director of the

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Russian Ballet

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Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is scored for

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an enormous orchestra

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Which of the following ballets is not from Stravinsky's Russian period?

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Pulcinella

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Stravinsky's composition teacher was

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as

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neoclassical

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In the 1950s Stravinsky dramatically changed his style, this time drawing inspiration from

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Anton Webern

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The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet

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The Rite of Spring

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Expressionism is an art concerned with

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social protest

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The expressionist movement flourished in the years

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1905-1925

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The expressionist movement was largely centered in

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Germany and Austria

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Twentieth-century musical expressionism grew out of the emotional turbulence in the works of late romantics such as

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Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of Expressionist music?

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classical tonality

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Edvard Munch was an expressionist

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painter

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The expressionists rejected

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conventional prettiness

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Expressionism stressed

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intense, subjective emotion

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Expressionist painters, writers, and composers used ____ to assault and shock their audience.

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deliberate distortions

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Expressionist composers

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avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions

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Schoenberg's teacher was

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Schoenberg himself

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When Schoenberg arrived in the United States after the Nazis seized power in Germany, he obtained a teaching position at

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UCLA

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Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Schoenberg's

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students

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In addition to being a composer, Schoenberg showed skill as a

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painter

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A Survivor from Warsaw used three languages: English, German, and

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Hebrew

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Schoenberg's third person, in which he developed the twelve-tone system, began around

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1921

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Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called

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Sprechstimme

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Which of the following statements is not true of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method of composition?

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Each tone of a row must be placed in the same register

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Which of the following terms is not used to describe the special ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in twelve-tone composition?

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polychord

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Georg Buchner's play Wozzeck was written in the

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1830s

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The vocal lines in Wozzeck include

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Sprechstimme

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Which musical form provides the basis for the last act of Wozzeck?

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variations

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Which of the following statements regarding Berg is untrue?

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He composed a great quantity of music in all forms

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Webern's melodic lines are

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atomized into two-or three-note fragments

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Webern's twelve-tone works contain many examples of

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strict polyphonic imitation

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The least important element in Webern's music is

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tonality

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Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra are scored for

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a chamber orchestra of eighteenth soloists

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Webern

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earned a doctorate in music history from the University of Vienna

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Bartok's principal performing medium was

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piano

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Bartok evolved a completely individual style that fused folk elements with

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changes of meter and a powerful beat, twentieth-century sounds, and classical forms

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The melodies Bartok used in most of his works are

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original themes that have a folk flavor

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Bartok's six string quartets are widely thought to be the finest since those of

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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While remaining within the framework of a tonal center, Bartok often used harsh dissonances and _____ in his music.

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polychords

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Bartok's string quartets are often compared to those of

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Beethoven

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As a Soviet composer, Shostakovich was required to

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reject modernism

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Shostakovich is best known as a composer of

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an enormous quantity of music in almost every genre

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Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony

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is accessible in style and allowed the composer to regain official favor with the Communist party

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Shostakovich's opera Lady MacBeth of the Mtsensk District

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established the composer as a major figure in the twentieth-century music

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Babi Yar, a poem by the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko about Jews massacred by the Nazis in Kiev,

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was used by Shostakovich as a text of the opening movement of his Thirteenth Symphony

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Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony has been described as

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"a Soviet artist's practical creative response to just criticism"

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Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a child's impression of

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a Fourth of July picnic

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Charles Ives's father was a(n)

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bandmaster

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After graduating from Yale, Ives

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went into the insurance business

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During most of his lifetime, Ives's musical compositions

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accumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farm

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Ives's music contains elements of

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revival hymns and ragtime, patriotic songs and barn dances, and village bands and church choirs

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Ives's large and varied output includes works in many genres, but not

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operas

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Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a movement from Ives's

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Three Places in New England

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Gershwin left high school at the age of fifteen to

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become a pianist demonstrating new songs in a publisher's salesroom

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The Gershwin song that became a tremendous hit in 1920 was

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Swanee

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Porgy and Bess is a(n)

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opera

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In addition to his musical skills, George Gershwin showed talent as a

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painter

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George Gershwin usually collaborated with the lyricist

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Ira Gershwin

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Which of the following works is not by George Gershwin?

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The Desert Song

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Rhapsody in Blue opens with

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a solo clarinet

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"Harlem Renaissance" was the name

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sometimes given to a flowering of African American culture during the years 1917-1935

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William Grant Still's opera dealing with the Haitian slave rebellion is

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Troubled Island

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As a result of his studies in compositions with composers from two opposing musical camps, the conservative George Whitefield Chadwick and the modernist Edgard Varese, Still

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composed in a very conservative style

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Each movement of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony is prefaced by lines from a poem by

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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William Grant Still's works in African American style, such as his Afro-American Symphony, were

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performed to critical acclaim in New York

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After serving in the navy and a brief return to studies at Oberlin College, William Grant Still moved to New York where he

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made band arrangements and played in the orchestras of all-black musical shows

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Copland's name has becomes synonymous with American music because of his use of

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revival hymns, cowboy songs, and other folk tunes

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Copland's turn toward simplicity in the 1930s can be traced in part to

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the great depression

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In 1921 Copland began a three-year period of study in

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France

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Which of the following works was not composed by Copland?

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Concord Sonata

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In addition to his compositions, Copland made valuable contributions to music in America by

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directing composer's groups, writing books and magazine articles, and organizing concerts of American music

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In 1925, and for a few years afterward, Copland's music showed the influence of

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jazz

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An example of Copland's use of serialist technique is

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Connotations

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Appalachian Spring originated as a

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ballet score

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Copland depicted "Scenes of daily activity for the Bride and her Farmer-husband" in Appalachian Spring through

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five variations on the Shaker melody Simple Gifts

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Ginastera's early interest in percussive sounds was fully realized in his work entitled

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Estancia Suite

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During the 1940s and 1950s Ginastera was forced to resign from his teaching positions because

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he opposed the regime of Juan Peron

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The Latin American Center of Advanced Musical Studies, which Ginastera directed, promoted

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avant-garde musical techniques

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of Ginastera's music?

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simple harmonies

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In Final Dance: Malambo, the character of the gaucho is shown through

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energetic melodies and perpetual motion

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Minimalist music is characterized by

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a steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns

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Many composers since the mid-1960s have made extensive use of quotations from earlier music as an attempt to

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improve communication between the composer and the listener

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A major composer associated with the serialist movement is

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Milton Babbitt

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All of the following are major developments in music since 1950 except the

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continued composition of symphonies in the classical style

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Intervals smaller than the half step are called

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microtones

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Twelve-tone compositional techniques used to organize rhythm, dynamics, tone color, and other dimensions of music to produce totally controlled and organized music are called

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serialism

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In chance or aleatoric music, the composer

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choose pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition

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Symphony No. 1

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One of the most widely performed orchestral works by a living American composer is

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Adam's Short Ride in a Fast Machine

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985 is an example of

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quotation music

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"Liberation of sound" refers to

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the use of non-musical sounds, often produced by an electronic instrument

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Which composer used a toy piano in his song cycle?

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George Crumb

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Which composer was known for creating dramatic effects through changes in tempo?

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Elliot Carter

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Rapid slide up or down a scale

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glissando

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Combination of two chords sounded at the same time, used in twentieth-century music

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polychord

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Chord in which the tones are a fourth apart, instead of a third; used in twentieth-century music

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fourth chord

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Chord made up of tones only a half step or whole step apart, used in music after

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tone cluster

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Approach to pitch organization using two or more keys at one time, often found in twentieth-century music

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polytonality

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Approach to pitch organization using two keys at one time, often found in twentieth-century music

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bitonality

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Absence of tonality, or key, characteristic of much music of twentieth and early twenty-first centuries

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atonality

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Use of two more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time, often found in music after 1900

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polyrhythm

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Motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch, used in music of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to stabilize a group of pitches

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ostinato

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Scale made up of five different tones, used in folk music and music of the far east

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petatonic scale

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Scale made up of six different tones, each a whole step away from the next, which conveys no definite sense of tonality; often found in the music of Debussy and his followers

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Whole-tone scale

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Succession of varying tone colors serving as a musical idea in a composition, used by Schoenberg and his followers

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tone-color melody (Klangfarbenmelodie)

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In German, speech-voice; a style of vocal performance halfway between speaking and singing, typical of Schoenberg and his followers

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Sprechstimme

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Method of composing in which all pitches of a composition are derived from a special ordering of the twelve chromatic tones (tone row or set); developed by Schoenberg in the early 1920s

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twelve-tone system

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Particular ordering of the twelve chromatic tones, from which all pitches in a twelve-tone composition are derived

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tone row (set, series)

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Method of composing that uses an ordered group of musical elements to organize rhythm, dynamics, and tone color, as well as pitch; developed in the mid-twentieth century

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serialism

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Music composed by the random selection of pitches, tone colors, and rhythms; developed in the 1950s by John Cage and others

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chance (aleatory) music

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Works which make extensive use of quotations from earlier music; common since the mid-1960s

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quotation music

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Instrument whose sound is produced, modified, or amplified by electronic means

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electronic instrument

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Interval smaller than a half step

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microtune

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Technique in which music is presented together with visual counterparts such as slide projections, films, or theatrical action

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mixed media

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A piano whose sound is altered by placing objects such as bolts, screws, rubber bands, or pieces of felt between the strings of some of the keys

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prepared piano

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Percussion instrument of definite pitch with metal bars, similar to the marimba, with tubular metal resonators driven by electronic impulses

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vibraphone

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Percussion instrument with tuned wooden bars, similar to the xylophone, but larger and having cylindrical acoustic resonators

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marimba

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Composer born in Paris, created one of the most famous piece called Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

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Debussy

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Stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity are characteristics of

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impressionism music

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Debussy uses successions of ____ ____ that do not ____.

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dissonant, chords, resolve

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This composer grew up in Paris, and was a master of orchestral and pianistic tone color

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Ravel

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Besides the clarinet and strings, the French loved

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flutes and harps

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The worst piece ever, by Ravel, that became the most popular was

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Bolero

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The most important composer in the 20th century, wrote 3 famous ballets, and was born in Russia, but moved to Paris was

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Stravinsky

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Stravinsky wrote one of the most important chorale work called

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Symphony of Songs

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Robert Craft was

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Stravinsky's musical assistant

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The deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds

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primitivism

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Stressed intense, subjective emotion

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expressionism

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This composer was born in Hungary and based his symphonies on folk tunes

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Bartok

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Bartok's most popular work. Finished it in 6 weeks.

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Concerto for Orchestra

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This composer was born in Connecticut, and was the 1st significant American composer.

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Ives

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Varese was the first composer to

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abandon an orchestra

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Varese wrote ____, which became the most famous ___ piece in the 20th century.

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Ionisation, percussion

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____ was one of the first to use ____ to create sounds

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Varese, synthesizer

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This compose was born in Buenos Aires, he's Argentinean, and was attracted to percussion

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Ginastera

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Astor Piazzolla was

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Ginastera's first private composition student

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One of Ginastera's most popular work was

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Estancia

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A dance for men only performed by the gaucho

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malambo

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The most famous and influential creator of chance music was the American

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John Cage

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Steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns

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minimalist music

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