Ginastera/20th Century

Question 1

Malambo

Answer 1

Traditional Argentine tap-dance exclusively for males

Question 2

Furiosamente

Answer 2

Furiously

Question 3

Violente

Answer 3

Violently

Question 4

Mordento

Answer 4

With bite

Question 5

Salvaggio

Answer 5

Savagely

Question 6

Characteristics of the modern period

Answer 6

Music could be dissonant and atonal, serial techniques were used, piano was played percussively. Some wrote in combination of traditional and modern styles (neoclassicism) whilst others rejected modernism (postmodernism)

Question 7

2 main compositional periods of Ginastera’s life

Answer 7

Nationalist and Expressionist

Question 8

Modern Instrument used

Answer 8

Pianoforte

Question 9

Modern Composers

Answer 9

Ginastera, Grainger, Shostakovich, Bartok, Prokofiev

Question 10

Famous Ginastera works

Answer 10

Danzas Argentinas, Suite de danzas criollas, Malambo

Question 11

Furiosamente ritmico e energico

Answer 11

With a furious rhythm and energy

Question 12

Modern dynamics

Answer 12

Anything

Question 13

Modern dynamics

Answer 13

Wide range for special effects

Question 14

Modern textures

Answer 14

Anything

Question 14

Modern textures

Answer 14

Anything