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What was John Cage’s philosophy regarding sound?

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Sounds are not to invoke feeling or emotion, but to ‘be’ and to be experienced

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What are Cage’s three strategies to achieve his philosophy regarding sound?

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  1. Use of chance
  2. Use of indeterminacy
  3. Blurring boundaries between music, art, and life
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Where was John Cage from?

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Los Angeles, CA

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What does avant-garde mean?

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forward-thinking

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A prepared piano is

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inserted objects between the strings of the piano to create complex percussive sounds

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What country is Penderecki from?

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Poland

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Which of the following best describes Penderecki’s avant-garde musical style?

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use of tonal clusters and unconventional techniques to create supernatural and creepy sounding music

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What historical event evoked the full title of Penderecki’s Threnody?

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the bombing of Hiroshima

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Who inspired Penderecki to learn the violin?

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his father

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Which of the following is NOT a film in which Penderecki’s music has been used?

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The Exorcist, The Shinning, Ready Player One

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What did Stockhausen study at the Cologne University of Music?

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music pedagogy, piano, musicology, philosophy, and Germanic’s

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Which great composers did Stockhausen study with?

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Oliver Messiaen and Darius Milhaud

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How was Stockhausen inspired by John Cage?

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inspired by Cage’s “open form” which is open to interpretation to how each person would hear the music

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Serialism was a large principle in Stockhausen’s work. How did Stockhausen innovate electronic and serial music?

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To other musical characteristics like: instrumentation, pitch, melodic form, intensity, and time duration

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What level of organization was Stockhausen assumed using?

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Geometric

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True or False Laurie Anderson originally studied biology at Mills College in California.

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TRUE

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Where would Anderson perform the violin as a teen?

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Chicago Youth Symphony

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What year did Laurie Anderson perform Duets on Ice in the streets of New York?

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1972

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What was the name of Laurie Anderson’s performance piece that was performed by a symphony of car horns?

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Automotive

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True or False: Laurie Anderson’s work represents a synthesis between the concerns of the different mediums of music, visual art, and performance and reflects the changing nature of spectatorship at the end of the 20th century

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TRUE

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What was Harry Partch’s musical advancement?

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combined the exploration of new instrumental sounds with a new approach to pitch

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What cultures inspired Harry Partch?

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Chinese, Japanese, Native American, African and rural American music

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What was Partch’s 43 tone scale based solely on?

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intonation-which notes relate to each other through pure intervals from the harmonic series

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What instrument did Partch make?

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modified guitars, marimbas, tuned cloud-chamber bowls, gourd tree, and large string instrument like the Ancient Greek kithara

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What is Partch’s largest work?

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Oedipus

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True/False: Philip Glass was a lover of avant garde music

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FALSE

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What did Glass master in at Juilliard?

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Composition

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Philip Glass’s first Opera, “Einstein on the Beach” is different from traditional operas in what way?

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5 hours long with no breaks

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Glass took music inspiration from what part of the world?

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India

30
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What is Steve Reich’s clapping music?

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creating a phasing effect in apiece of music that needed no instrument beyond the human body

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Who were some of Steve Reich’s influencers?

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Perotin, J.S. Bach, Debussy, Bartók, and Stravinsky

32
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Where was Steve Reich born and raised?

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born in New York, raised in California

33
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What was Steve Reich’s degree from Cornell university in?

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B.A.in philosophy and minor in music

34
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What instrument did George Crumb NOT play?

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he DID play flute, piano, and clarinet

35
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TRUE or FALSE: George Crumb is dead.

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FALSE

36
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What instrument does The Ancient Voices of Children NOT ask to be played?

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the song HAS: soprano, boy soprano, oboe, mandolin, harp, amplified piano, percussion

37
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T or F? George Crumb asked for his music to be played in conventional AND unconventional ways.

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TRUE

38
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What piece brought Sofia Gubaidulina to international prominence?

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her violin concerto Offertorium

39
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For whom did Gubaidulina compose Offertorium?

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for violinist Gidon Kremer

40
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When Gubaidulina was told as a young musician that she was on “the wrong path”, who encouraged her by telling her “I want you to continue on this path”?

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Shostakovich

41
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What was Gubaidulina’s inspiration in composing The Seven Last Words?

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Based on the sayings of Jesus on the cross

42
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What musical technique did Gubaidulina use in Offertorium?

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no commitment to fine style; abruptness, ripped change, and finished that are rough, raw, and ragged

43
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TRUE or FALSE: Peter Schickele grew up in Washington D.C. and Fargo, ND.

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TRUE

44
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TRUE or FALSE: Peter Schickele was the composer for Los Angeles high schools.

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TRUE

45
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TRUE or FALSE: P.D.Q. Bach was Schickele’s colleague and best friend.

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FALSE

46
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Peter Schickele developed an instrument called the

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tromboon

47
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Peter Schickele was born in

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Ames, Iowa

48
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At what age did John Adams begin composing?

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10

49
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Which university did John Adams study at?

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Harvard

50
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TRUE or FALSE: John Adams disliked John Cage’s experimentalism.

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FALSE

51
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Which opera of John Adams elicited the most controversy?

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The Death of Kinghoffer

52
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Who else in Gyorgy Ligetis family survived the holocaust?

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his mother

53
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Where was Ligeti born?

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Dicsöszentmárton, Romania

54
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Who influenced Ligeti?

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John Cage, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly

55
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Which opera did Ligeti compose?

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Le Grand Macabre

56
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Why was Ligeti arrested?

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Jew living during the Nazi regime

57
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Who did Ligeti study with?

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Ferenc Farakas

58
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What Stravinsky piece inspired Carter to be a composer?

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The Rite of Spring

59
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True/False: Carter’s Cello Sonata was well received

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FALSE

60
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What piece won Carter his first Pulitzer prize?

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String Quartet No.2

61
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True/False: Carter wrote over 150 pieces.

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TRUE

62
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True/False: Bernstein was a major presence in Broadway and Classical music.

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TRUE

63
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What is Bernstein’s most successful Broadway musical?

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West Side Story

64
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What unusual styles did Bernstein incorporate into West Side Story?

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jAZZ, afro-carribean dance music, Tin Pan Alley melodies

-tritones throughout the score

65
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How did Bernstein describe Broadway?

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An American form of opera

66
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True/False: West Side Story is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

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TRUE

67
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Where was the conservatory that Arvo Pärt Attended?

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Tallinn

68
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What 2 things did Pärt do for work while studying in the conservatory?

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studied composition with Heino Eller and produced for film and the stage

69
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What is Tintinnabulation?

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2 types of voices: one arpeggiates the tonic triad and the other moves diatonically in stepwise motion

70
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Glass’s music style would be considered as:

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minimalistic

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