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True or False. Duke Ellington chose music over a business over a business scholarship to the Pratt institute in Brooklyn, New York

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False

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True or false. Bebop influenced Ellington’s melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic characteristics.

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False

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Which American composer does Duke Ellington rival for the title “Greatest American Composer”

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Charles Ives

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Ellington loved to work with musicians who were outside his band

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True

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5
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What Culture did jazz originate from

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African and European

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Ragtime was popular in what city?

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St. Louis Missouri

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Who was one of the most influential New Orleans jazz artists

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Louis Armstrong

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What musical characteristics made up Jazz- New Orleans style

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Melody shifted from instrument to instrument, varying rhythms and syncopation.

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True or false. Shostakovich started studying at St. Petersburg when he was 13 years old.

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False

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What year did Shostakovich join the communist party?

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1962

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How many symphonies did Shostakovich write?

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15

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Which movement in Shostakovich 5th symphony mixes “charm and venom”

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2nd movement

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Who influenced Shostakovich

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Mahler and Beethoven

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True or false. Charles Ives was the first to create distinctly European art music.

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False

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Charles Ive’s father…

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Music teacher, band master, conductor, church musician.

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True or False. Charles Ives’ music combined American tubes and rhythms with European styles and Form.

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True

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17
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Multiple key signatures played at the same time are called…

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Polytonal music

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18
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True or False. Charles Ives wasn’t recognized for his music until around the time of his death.

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True

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Varèse coined the term…

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Organized sound

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20
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His work Dèserts premiered in 1954 as the first live stereo music broadcast ever in America.

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France

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All but one of Varèses early manuscripts were destroyed.

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False. Destroyed in fire in Paris

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22
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Varèse was given an anonymous gift. What was it?

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Ampex tape recorded

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At the age of 11, Bartók gave his first public recital, among the pieces played, was his first composition.

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The course of the Danube

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Who did Bartók study piano under in 1899 and who did his teacher study under.

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Istavan Thomán. Franz Liszt

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True or False: In January of 1918, a Patriotic concert was put on in Vienna by Bartók and Kodály. Both were instead tasked with collecting Folksongs from soldiers which they used to put on this concert.

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True

26
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In the summer of 1934 Bartók achieved a professional goal he had desired for over two decades, what was his Goal?

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Full time musician and ethnomusicologist

27
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Who was the piece “Mathis de Maler” based upon?

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Matthias Grünewald

28
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In Matthias de Maler, what are the intervalic harmonies used in the beginning of mm2, used to express solemnity and reflectiveness?

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Perfect 5ths

29
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True or False. In Matthias de Maler the movements signify:
1mm- painting and emotions behind his work
2mm- painter faced with turmoil
3mm- return to passion

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False

30
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What did Guggenheim Fellowship enable Ruth Crawford to do?

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Study music in Europe.

31
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Why did Ruth’s husband call her an “ardent feminist”

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She believed in intellect equality for man and women

32
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What was Ruth Crawford’s most famous piece?

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String Quartet (1931)

33
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True or False. Aaron Copeland was taught piano by his older sister, Laurine, who also introduced him to ragtime and opera.

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True

34
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True or False. Copeland had strong socialist sympathies but denied being a communist.

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True

35
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What other famous composer did Copeland mentor?

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Schumann and Bernstein.

36
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Though best known as an orchestral suit, Appalachian Spring was originally…

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A ballet

37
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Which song by George Gershwin is Anthropology a contrafact to?

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I got Rhythm

38
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True or False. Cool jazz had more relaxed tempos, soft timbres, and rhythmic subtleties, while bebop jazz was faster, brighter, and more technical. Cool jazz focused on arrangement and bebop focused on soloist.

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True

39
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Why did Horace Silver and Art Blakey start the Jazz Messengers, and ultimately hard bop?

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Wanted to get away from “birdland” scene of New York.

40
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How was modal jazz unique from other jazz styles?

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Used modes as harmonic framework.

41
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True or false. Ornette Colemans turned away from the free jazz movement and brought about a return to contrafact use with amazing soloists. This was done for financial reasons

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False

42
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Samuel barber called himself a “living dead composer”

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Music was popular, but know one knew his name.

43
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When did Samuel barber write his first piece?

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7 years old

44
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Samuel barbers most famous composition was?

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Adagio for strings

45
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True or false. Samuel barbers opera Antony and Cleopatra was successful when it first premiered in 1966.

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False.

46
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Britten was known for his use of neotonality. What does this mean?

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Establishes a single pitch as tonal center, but doesn’t follow traditional tonal rules.

47
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How did his partner, Peter Pears, contribute to Britten work?

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Personal and professional partner. Wrote his librettos.

48
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Britten wanted the audience of “Peter Grimes” to relate to what character?

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Fisherman… (mime the persecution felt by homosexuals)

49
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What was Brittens war requiem written for?

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Creation of a Cathedral in a town that was destroyed in WWII

50
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In Babbitt three compositions for piano: what is the form for the first movement of this piece?

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ABA’ ternary

51
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In Babbitt three compositions for piano: what other than melody, is serialized, within the first movement?

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Dynamics

52
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In Babbitt three compositions for piano: what year was the piece written?

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1947

53
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In Babbitt three compositions for piano: what characteristics does this piece exhibit? What compositional style?

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Inversions, retrograde, trichromatic, serialism

54
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True or False: serialism is the manipulation, the ordering of rhythm, melody, pitch, and numbering systems to organize notes into a different category.

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False

55
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Where was the experimental institute for research and coordination in acoustic/ music located?

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Pompidou centre in Paris.

56
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What award did Boulez received with the other four Conservatory students?

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Premier Prix

57
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Where was Oliver Messiaen born?

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Avignon, France

58
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At what age did Messiaen begin composing and okaying piano?

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8

59
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Oliver Messiaen’s music was inspired by what?

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Religion

60
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Oliver Messiaen composed an opera called, St. François d’Assie in 1983. Where did he end up premiering it?

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Paris opera.

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