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Was Bartok def like Beethoven
no
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Was the new music period emotional or motional
Motional
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What year did Schoenberg start the 12 tone method/tone row technique?
1923
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How many symphonies did Roy Harris write?
14
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Was Bessie Smith an outstanding blues player
yes
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What country was Milhaud from?
France
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Fletcher Henderson and his big band from New York
Came from a Georgia plabtation
gifted pianist and arranger
had a 12 piece band
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What jazz movement was Scott Joplin from?
Ragtime
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What was Igor Stravinsky outstanding in?
- Master of Ballets
- Pianist
- composer
- conductor
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Art is the 20th century
Who knows
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The most significant composer from Eastern Europe
Bela Bartok
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Bitonality
The use of 2 keys at the same time
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Where was Lenard Bernstein from and what was his orchestra?
- America
- New York Philharmonic
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Who was the first Native to America to produce a musical composition
Francis Hopkins
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How important was Roy Harris in American music and how was he recognized
- Very important
- Musical spokesman for America
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What did Charles Ives do besides compose music?
Sold insurance
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Neo-classicism
20th century techniques within the framework of 18th century music
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What was the secondary influence on jazz?
Minstrel shows
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Where did composers have to go before they were recognized?
Europe
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Was Europe ahead of America in the realization of jazz?
yes
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Was Virgil Thomson a disciple of Bach?
no
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Walter Piston was from what university?
Harvard
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What was Charles Ives forte?
writing symphonies
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How important was Roy Harris?
very
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Howard Hanson dealt with what kind of music?
romantic
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What was George Gershwin relationship to jazz and classical music?
The first to use jazz idiom in classical music
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What was Aaron Copeland's forte?
writing ballets
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Where did furturism originate?
Italy
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Atonality
destroys the traditional gravity towards a tonal center through application of the tone-row technique
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Polymetrical rhythm vs. polyrhythm
- Polymetrical: two or more meters at the same time
- polyrhythm: two or more rhythmic patterns at the same time
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Who was the musical giant of the 20th century?
Igor Stravinsky
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Howard Hanson became what at the Eastman School of Music?
The director
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What was Richard Strauss's music defined as?
post romantic and realistic
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What kind of music did the rolling stones play?
black soul tunes
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How important was Howard Hanson to Roy Harris?
Hanson gave Harris his first big break
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Expressionism vs primitivism
- Expressionism: musical ideas come from intimate subjective emotions and psychological introspection
- primitivism: Turns to uncivilized cultures for musical ideas, rhythms, and melodies
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Was Howard Hanson's musical primarily romantic?
yes
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Was Virgil Thomson's music of the fringes/out in left field?
yes
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What was Arnold Schonberg branded as?
Charlatan and madman
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Who was the musical giant of the 20th century?
Igor Stravinsky
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Did Stravinsky study with Wagner?
no
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Who was the first USSR composer to be recognized?
Demitri Shostakovitch
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Lenard Bernstein said all music comes from what origin?
Low class origin
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Have American composers written music in regards to the audiences emotions?
no
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Who played with the Austin High Gang?
Benny Goodman
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Who played with the Wolverines?
Tommy Dorsey
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Bop vs. Cool jazz
- Bop is for dancing
- cool is for listening
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Three main styles of jazz
- New Orleans, improv
- Chicago, improv
- New York, written
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what is the heartbeat of jazz?
rhythm
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what is the break in jazz?
the music plays and the singer rests
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Jazz has what other steps besides whole and half?
quarter
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What notes are lowered in the major scale in jazz?
3, 5, 7
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Who is the marching band king?
Souza
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What kind of jazz influenced the pop song movement and when?
blues, tin pan alley area, 1914
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hot rhythms stem from where?
Africa
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Who was Mahalia Jackson and what did she do?
One of the greatest spiritual singers
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Where does the banjo come from?
America
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William Dawson is a famous what composer?
Negro
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How many movements in a symphony?
4
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how many movements in a concerto?
3
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What did Walter piston write and was it programmatic or absolute?
- The incredible flutist
- programmatic
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What did Ralph Vaughn Williams write to bring England into the forefront again?
Fantasia on a theme by tallis
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Who was an outstanding performer of cool jazz?
Dave Brubreck
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If you are playing in a swing band, are you a performer and composer?
no, the music is written
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Where did bop get its start?
New York
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What 2 cities are associated with King Oliver?
New Orleans and Chicago
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Where the Original Dixie Band black or white?
white
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What city did ragtime get its start?
St. Louis
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Where did electronic music get its start?
Colombia University
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Who named Rock'n Roll?
Alan Freed
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What is a synthesizer?
an electronic instrument that makes sounds
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What is a goof example of a plantation song?
Turkey in the straw
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Where did ragtime get its start?
- St. Louis
- remember Fats Waller
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Two outstanding names in New Orleans and Chicago jazz
- Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
- King Oliver
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Cool Jazz if for?
listening
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Musical giant of the 20th century
Igor Stravinsky
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Pandiatonicism
The tonality of one key is strongly established, but dissonance occurs freely
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before the curtain goes up at an opera or broadway musical, what is played?
Prefatory Overture
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Punk rock
- loud playing
- outrages dress
- ugly behavior
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Peter and the wolf
Serge Prokofiev
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Amahl and the night visitors
Gian-Carlo Menotti
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Petrushka
Igor Stravinsky
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Appalachian spring
Aaron Copeland
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Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin
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Adagio for strings
Samuel Barber
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Sacred Music
Ernest Bloch
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Andante for orchestra
Hanson and Harris
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Wozzeck and Lu Lu
Alban Berg
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Dumbarton oaks concerto
Igor Stravinsky
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Grand Canyon Suite
Ferde Grofe
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Dipper mouth blues
King Oliver's group
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Fantasia on a theme by tallis
Ralph Vaughn Williams
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