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A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land was - Claude Debussy - Samuel Barber - Bela Bartok - Igor Stravinsky

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Bela Bartok

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The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1906 by - Igor Stravinsky - Claude Debussy - Arnold Schoenberg - Aaron Copland

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Arnold Schoenberg

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The most important impressionist composer was - Richard Wagner - Bela Bartok - Arnold Schoenberg - Claude Debussy

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Claud Debussy

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Many of Debussy's songs are set to poems by the symbolist poet - Stephane Mallarme - Paul Verlaine - Jean Paul Sartre - Arthur Rimbaud

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Paul Verlaine

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A dramatic turning point in Debussy's career came in 1902 when - his opera Pelleas et Melisande was premiered - he undertook a series of concert tours - he went to Italy to study - he went to Bayreuth to hear Wagner's music

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his opera Pelleas et was premiered

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Debussy's music tends to - sound free and almost improvisational - have a strong sense of tonality - affirm the key very notably - use the full orchestra for massive effects

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sound free and almost improvisational

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In order to "drown the the sense of tonality," Debussy - turned to the medieval church modes - borrowed pentatonic scales from Javanese music - developed the whole-tone scale - all answers are correct

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all answers are correct

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Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande is an almost word-for-word setting of the symbolist play by - Paul Verlaine - Arthur Rimbaud - Maurice Maeterlinck - Stephane Mallarme

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Maurice Maeterlinck

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In which of the following areas did Debussy not create masterpieces? - symphonies - art songs - chamber music - piano music

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symphonies

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The neoclassical movement in music roughly encompassed the years

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1920-1950

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Igor Stravinsky, at the age of twenty-one, began to study composition privately with - Claude Debussy - Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Maurice Ravel - Arnold Schoenberg

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Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov

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Stravinsky's life took a sudden turn in 1909, when he met the director of the Russian ballet. - Michel Fokine - Sergei Diaghilev - Valclav Nijinsky - George Balanchine

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Sergei Diaghilev

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The immerse success of Stravinsky's 1910 ballet __ established him as a leading young composer - The Firebird - The Rite of Spring - Petrushka - Pulcinella

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The Firebird

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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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Stravinsky's enormous influence on twentieth-century music is due ot his innovations in - Rhythm - Harmony - Tone color - All answers are correct

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rhythm

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Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as

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Neoclassical

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During the period about 1920-1951, Stravinsky drew inspiration largely from - Eighteenth-century music - Webern's serial techniques - Russian folklore - African sculpture

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eighteeth-century-century music

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

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Anton Webern which changed it to the twelve-tone system

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Le Sacre du printempts (The Rite of Spring) is an example of - Primitivism - Neoclassical - Serialism - Romanticism

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Primitivism

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Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is socred for

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An enormous orchestra

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All of the following painters may be considered part of the expressionist movement except - Claude Monet - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Oskar Kokoschka - Edvard Munch

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Claude Monet

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Schoenberg's teacher was

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himself

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Schoenberg's first musical hero was - Johannes Brahms - Richard Wagner - Igor Stravinsky - Claude Debussy

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Johannes Brahms

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Schoenberg acquired his profound knowledge of music by - going to concerts - playing in amateur chamber groups - studying scores - All are correct

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all are correct

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Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Arnold Schoenberg's

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students

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Schoenberg's third period, in which he developed the twelve-tone system, began around - 1874 - 1908 - 1921 - 1933

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1921

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

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Sprechstimme

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When he was nineteen, Alban Berg began to study music privately with - Anton Webern - Igor Stravinsky - Paul Hindemith - Arnold Schoenberg

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Which of the following is not a composition by Alban Berg? - Gurrelieder - Lulu - Lyric Suite - Wozzeck

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Gurrelieder

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The vocal lines in Wozzeck include - distorted folk songs - speaking - Sprechtimme - all answers are correct

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All answers are correct

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Anton Webern - had little formal musical training - taught himself piano and cello - earned a doctorate in music history from the University of Vienna - enjoyed frequent performances of his own music

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earned a doctorate in music history from the University of Vienna

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Webern's melodic lines are

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"atomized" into two or three note fragments

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Anton Webern's twelve tone works contain many examples of

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strict polyphonic imitation

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Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra are scored for

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a chamber orchestra of eighteen soloists

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Bela Bartok's principle performing medium was

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the piano

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Bela Bartok was a leading authority on - peasant music - twelve tone music - jazz - the music of ancient Greece

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peasant music

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Bela Bartok evolved a completely individual style that fused folk elements with - changes of meter and a powerful beat - twentieth century sounds - classical forms - All are correct

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All are correct

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The melodies Bela Bartok used in most of his works are

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original themes that have a folk flavor

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Bela Bartok's ____ are widely thought to be the finest since those of Ludwig van Beethoven.

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string quartets

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Bela Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra

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All the above

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Charles Ive's father was a

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bandmaster

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During most of his lifetime, Charles Ive's musical compositions - were enthusiastically received in public performances - were quickly published by a major firm - accumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farm - were sough after by musicians eager to perform them in public

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accumulated in the barn

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Charles Ive's music contains elements of - revival hymns and ragtime - patriotic songs and barn dances - villages bands and church choirs - all the answers

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all the answers

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Which of the following compositions is not by Charles Ives? - Three Places in New England - An American in Paris - Concord Sonata - 114 Songs

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An American in Paris

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

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opera

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George Gershwin grew up in - New York, New York - Charleston, SC - Anatevka, Russia - Paris, France

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New York

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Gershwin's first piano teacher was

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himself

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Which of the following musicals is not by George Gershwin? - Funny Face and The Desert Song - Funny Girl - Of thee I sing - Lady, Be Good

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Funny Girl and the Desert Song

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The Gershwin song that became a tremendous hit in 1920 was - La, La, Lucille - I got Rhythm - Embraceable You - Swanee

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Swanee

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Gershwin's Rhapsody opens with

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a solo clarinet

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William Grant Still

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played the violin in the university string quartet while a college student

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As a result of his studies in composition with composers from two opposing musical cams, the conservative George Whitfield Chadwick and the modernist Edgard Varese, Still

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turned away from avant-garde styles and wrote compositions with a uniquely African American flavor

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William Grant Still's works in African American style, such as his Afro-American Symphony of 1931, were - never performed during his lifetime - severely criticized by audiences and critics - panned by critics, but popular with audiences - performed to a critical acclaim in New York

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performed to a critical acclaim in New York

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As a composer, Still

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wrote film scores, concert works, operas and band arrangements

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William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony

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uses a blues theme in the first movement which reappears as a unifying thread in various transformations in the three later movements

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William Grant Still's opera dealing with the Haitian slave rebellion is - Trouble in Tahiti - Troubled Island - Emperor Jones - Once on this Island

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Troubled Island

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

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Aaron Copland was born in - Brooklyn, New York - the Appalachian mountains - Anatevka, Russa - Paris, France

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Brooklyn, New York

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In 1921 Copland went to France, where he was the first American to study composition with

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Nadia Boulanger

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In 1925, after Copland returned from France, American music meant - the eclecticism of Ives - the serialism of Schoenberg - primitivism - jazz

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Jazz

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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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Aaron Copland's name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of - revival hymns, cowboy songs, and other folk tunes - jazz, blues, and ragtime elements - subjects from american folklore - all answers are correct

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All answers are correct

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Which of the following works was not composed by Aaron Copland?

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An American in Paris, Concord Sonata

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An example of Copland's use of serialist technique is - Music for the Theater - Connotations for Orchestra - Fanfare for the Common Man - Appalachian Spring

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Connotations for Orchestra

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In addition to his compositions, Copland made valuable contributions to music in America by - directing composer's groups - writing books and magazine articles - organizing concerts of American music - all the answers are correct

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all the answers are correct

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Appalachian Spring originated as a ballet score for the great modern dancer and choreographer

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Martha Graham

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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 n the Shaker melody Simple Gifts

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Alberto Ginastera, one of the most prominent Latin-American composers of 20th century was born in

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Argentina

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One of Ginastera's early works, Estancia Suite, is

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nationalistic and uses Argentinean folk material, including popular dances

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Ginastera's Estancia Suite was originally conceived as a

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ballet

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Alberto Ginastera's Estancia Suite uses a large orchestra is in ___ movements

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four (AA'B)

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In 1945 Ginastera moved to the US where he had the opportunity to work with the well known American composer

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Aaron Copland

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Composer John Adams believes that today's composers can draw from - only their own imaginations - the music o the Classical period - a wide variety of styles and periods - only orchestral instruments

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a wide variety of styles and periods

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The twelve-tone composer whose style was most imitated in the 1950s and the 1960s was - Anton Webern - Arnold Schoenberg - Milton Babbitt - Alban Berg

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Anton Webern

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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 proponents of serialism except

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John Cage

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An example of aleatoric music is

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John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 4 for twelve radios

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Ionisation, the first important work for percussion ensemble, was composed by - John Cage - Edgard Varese - Ellen Taaffee Zwilich - Steve Reich

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Edgard Varese

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Edgard Varese's Poeme electronique - was designed for the 1958 Brussel's World Fair - was one of the earliest masterpieces of electronic music created in a tape studio - was composed in collaboration with the famous architect Le Corbusier - all the above

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all the above

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Ellen Taaffee Swilich is a

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Pulitzer Prize winning American composer for her symphony no 1

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Ellen Taaffee Zqilich's Concerto Gross is an example of - total serialism - quotation music - minimalism - chance music

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quotation music

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John Adam's Short Ride in Fast Machine is scored for a

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large symphonic orchestra and two synthesizers

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Leonard Bernstein was a well known - composer for orchestral and vocal works - author lecturer - conductor

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composer of orchestral and vocal works

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The composer, conductor, and pianist who began his spectacular career as substitute conductor of the New York Philharmonic on only a few hours notice was

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Leonard Bernstein

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In addition to his famous musicals, Leonard Berstein wrote successful - ballets - choral work - symphones - all are correct

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are all correct

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Leonard Bernstein was influenced, particularly in his ballets by - Delibes and Tchaikovsky - Stravinsky and Copland - Bach and Handel - Verdi and Wagner

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Stravinsky and Copland

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Which of the following musicals is not by Leonard Bernstein? - West Side Story - Wonderful Town - On the Town - Cats

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On the Town

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The musical loosely based on Romeo and Juliet is

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West Side Story

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