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What did Maurice Ravel initially try to be in the army and why was he rejected?

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A fighter pilot but he was underrweight

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How old was Maurice Ravel in 1914?

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39

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What did Ravel become in March 1916 and what was Adelaide?

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A driver in the motor transport corps and he called his truck adelaide

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Why was Weebern turned down for service in the Austrian army?

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Because of his poor eyesight

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When was Webern called up?

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September 1914

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What two musicians were eager for the war to start?

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Ravel and Webern

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Whose mother died while he was in the hospital?

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Maurice Ravels

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When was Webern’s eyesight evaluated and given a permanent discharge?

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In December 1916

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What Hungarian composer was physically unfit for service?

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Bela Bartok

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What were Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly assigned to do during the war?

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Collect folksongs from soldiers

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Where were the collection of folksongs from soldiers gathered by Bartok and Kodaly presented?

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At a patriotic concert in January 1918 attended by Hungary’s Princess Zita

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What English composer collected folksongs from England?

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George Butterworth

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What organization did George Butterworth belong to?

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The English Folk Dance Society

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What did George Butterworth enlist as and what did he become?

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A private but he was commissioned as an officer in the 13th Durham Light Infantry

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What English composer was awarded the Military Cross for his leadership during the Somme and have a trench named after him and then was killed there by sniper fire?

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george Butterworth

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When was George Butterworth killed and how?

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By sniper fire in his trench in August 1916

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Who had been one of George Butterworth’s mentors in England?

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Ralph Vaughan William

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How old was Ralph Vaughan Williams when England entered the war?

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Nearly 42

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What form of government did Ralph Vaughan Williams believe was the best for solving destructive delimmas of Europe and beyond?

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Federalism

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What was Ralph Vaughan Williams assigned to be?

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A wagon orderly working in France and on the Salonika front in Greece

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Who was Vaughan Williams best friend?

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Gustav Holst

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After the armistice what did Ralph Vaughan Williams become in the British army?

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The Director of Music for the First Army of the B.E>F>

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How old was Gustav Holst when the war started?

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40 years old

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What was Gustav Holst’s job during the war?

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To serve as a music organizer for the YMCA’s army education scheme working with demobilized troops in Salonika and Constantinople

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What popular song addressed the changing roles of women in the United States?

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You’d Better Be Nice to Them Now

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What award did Lili Boulanger win?

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The Prix de Rome

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Where was Lili Boulanger when the war started?

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In Italy

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What organization did Boulanger found and where?

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The Franco-American Commitee of the National Conservatory in Paris

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What was the Franco-American Committee of the National COnservatory designed to do?

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To offer both monetary and moral support to musicians fighting in the war

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What kind of wages were women musicians paid filling gaps in orchestras during the war in the United States?

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Union wages

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Who was called up for service in June 1915 with the eAustrian Army?

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Alban Berg

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What was Berg’s medical problem?

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He had a asthma

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What job was Berg assigned to during the war?

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An office job in the war ministry in Vienna

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What Expressionist opera was eventually based on Berg’s experiences in the army training camp?

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Wozzeck

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What was the name of Berg’s wife?

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HHelene

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Who was called up in 1915 but rejected because of poor health in October 1916?

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Arnold Schoenberg

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What was Arnold Schoenberg’s peace plan?

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A 15 point peace plan

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Who did Schoenberg complete to that if there were more of them in every country they would be able to draft a lasting peace?

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To Italian composer Ferruccio Bucconi

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What country was Irving Berlin an emigre of?

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Russia

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What song did Irving Berlin deelop while in basic training?

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Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning

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Who did Irving Berlin and other soldiers long to murder?

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The bugler

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What rank did Irving Berlin attain while in the army?

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THe rank of sergeant

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Why did Berlin write a revue called yip, yip, yaphank?

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To raise funds for a new community house

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What was Yip, Yip Yahank later changed to during the Second World War?

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This is the army

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What were the rules for the Berlin Philiharmonic about enemy composers?

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Music could only be played by an enemy composer who died before 1914

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What were the rules in Russia about German music?

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Nyet Wagner

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What did the Pittsburgh symphony do with German music during the war?

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Ban all of it for the duration

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What was the Pittsburgh symphony’s rival?

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The Chicago SYmphony

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What did the Chicago Symphony do with German music?

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Played it until 1917

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What cantata was Schoenberg supposed to perform in New York?

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Gurreliede

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What French artist stopped using a German brand of toothpaste but felt that without Beethoven or Schubert music would be unthinkable?

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Jean Cocteau

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What composers refused to sign a proclemation in 1916 that would ban performances of German music in France?

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Claude Debussy, Vincent d’Indy and Maurice Ravel

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What did Basil Hindenburg change his name to in 1914?

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Basil Cameron

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What name did Gus Scholtz take during the war?

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Gust Barret

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Who was one of the greatest violinists in the world?

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Fritz Kreisler

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What army did Fritz Kreisler join?

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The Austrian Army

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What happened to Kreisler’s music career in the United States after serving in the military?

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He was banned in Jersey City and Pittsburg so he canceled all performances for the duration except for charity

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Who flamed feeling about foreigners in his State of the Union?

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Woodrow Wilson

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What are hyphen Americans?

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People who became naturalized U.S. citizens but sill acknowledged heir ancestry

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Who was particular violence directed against and was the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra?

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Karl Muck

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Who decided to ignore the request that the Boston Symphony Orchestra demonstrate patriotism by playing The Star-Spangled Banner?

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The founder Henry Higgenson and the manager of the orchestra Charles Ellis

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What city refused to let the Boston Symphony Orchestra allow to present their music with Muck conducting?

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Baltimore

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how did the MUck affair become a national thing?

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When it was printed in the New York Times

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Who insisted that Muck produce a document showing he never servved in the German army and held Swiss citizenship?

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Mrs. William Jay who was a member of the New York’s Board of DDirectors and was backed by the Daughters of the American REvolution

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How did Muck attempt to resolve the Muck crises?

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By playing the Star-Spangled Banner in his New York concert

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Where was Muck arrested and where was he interned for the duration of the war as an enemy alien?

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Arrested in Boston and then imprisoned in Georgia

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What French composer resolutely performed German music even in the last year of the war?

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French composer Vincent d’Indy

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What did Vincetn d’Indy attempt to perform during the last year of the war and why was he stopped?

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Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the Schola Cantorum but a bombardment by the Germans forced its delay

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What German composer was called up to serve in the German army in 1917?

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Paul Hindensmith

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What German soldier/composer formed a string quartet with three other soldiers?

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Paul Hindemith

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What did a superior officer ask Paul Hindesmith and his quartet to play when Debussy died?

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Debussy’s String uartet

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When was the Christmas Truce

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December 1914

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What was the best known shared carol on the day of the Christmas truce in 1914?

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Silent Night or Stille Nacht in German

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What were other shared Christmas carols on the Christmas Truce o 1914?

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o Christmas Tree, O Tannenbaum and adeste Fidelis, O Come All Ye Faithful

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What song did many Germans prefer other than their official national anthem?

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The Kaiserhymne melody with poetry by August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben at the opening of Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles

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In addition to playing the national anthems of Britain and Germany, the German regiment played what popular song?

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Henry R. Bishop’s sentimental Home Sweet Home

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What German soldier wrote about the singing in his Christmas letter home?

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Karl Aldag

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What write saluted the Christmas truce as one human episode amid all the atrocities which have stained the memory of war?

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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What musicologist wrote that some music belonged to all ages and countries?

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Glenn Watkins

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What lieutenant reported that the Germans had orders not to repeat a Christmas truce of 1914 in 1915?

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Gordon Barber of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders

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Who wrote to Jacques Duran that he was just a small little atom crushed in this terrible cataclysm?

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Debussy

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In 1914 who was Debussy publisher’s?

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Jacques Durand

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What treaty did King Albert upheld by not allowing Germany to march through Belgium?

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A 1839 treaty with England

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Who began to gather essays and other contributions in November 1914 for a charity book called King Albert’s book?

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Hall Caine

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What newspaper did Caine use to help exploit King Albert’s Book?

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The Daily Telegraph

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How many writers, statesmen and composers sent materials for King Albert’s Book?

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237

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Proceeds from King Albert’s Book were donated to what fund?

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The Belgian Fund

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What did King Albert do in response to King Albert’s Fund?

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Appoint Caine as an officer in the Order of Leopold of Belgium

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What was Edward Elgar’s contribution to King Albert’s Book?

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A choral piece called Carillon

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What was the refrain of Edward Elgar’s Carillon?

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Sing Belgians, Sing

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Why was the allusion to carillons poignant for the Belgians?

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Because many of their churches had massive carillons

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What was Debussy’s contribution to King Albert’s Book?

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Berceuse heroique which quoting the Belgian national anthem La brabanconne

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What is the Belgian national anthem?

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La brabanconne

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What was Edit Wharton’s charity project for the war?

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The Book of the homeless

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what was the Book of the Homeless for?

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To support American hostels for refugees and the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee

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What was the Children of Flanders Rescue Comitee?

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A group laboring to assist the flood of Belgian war orphans

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How many works were received for the Book of the Homeless?

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52 essays, drawings, paintings, poems and compositions

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What was Igor Stravinsky’s contribution to the Book of the Homeless?

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Recollection of a Kraut March

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What is recollection in Recollection of a Kraut march from?

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A phrase from a symphony of Beethovenn’s

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What was Debussy’s first production in 1915 that responded to wartime losses?

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in white and black

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What instruments were In White and Blackproduced for?

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Two pianos

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What was special about each movement In white and black?

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Each movement was dedicated for a friend who had died in battle and contained a short poetic quotation or epigraph

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What is the first quotation drawn from in In white and black?

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Gound’s setting of Romeo et Juliette

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What does the poetry in Gounod’s setting of Romeo et Juliette suggest?

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Those who stayed at home and didn’t join in the dance were admitting to some secret disgrace which is a reference to those who faked medical disability and avoided military service

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What was Debussy’s second war related work?

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Christmas Carol of the Homeless Children

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What was Debussy’s last work before he died?

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Christmas Carol of the Homeless Children

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How old was Edward Elgar when the war started?

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57 years old

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What did Elgar also produce during the war in 1917?

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The Spirit of England in 1917 for soprano, chorus and orchestras

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What does Tombeau mean in French?

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Gravestone or tomb

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What did Ravel write in 1917 that may be about airplanes?

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Le Tombeau de Couperin

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how did Elgar create an experience of aerial warfare?

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Through timpani rolls and low pitched trembling from the bassoons and violas

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What was special about each movement of Le Tombeau dee Couperin?

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Each one commemorated a victim of warfare

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Who was the final movement of Le Tombeau de Couperin dedicated to?

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Captain Joseph de Marliave who had died in the first days of the war

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Who was Captain Joseph de Marliave married to and what did his ife do?

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He was married to Marguerite Long, the pianist who would premiere Le Tombeau de Couperin

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What era has the word teccata been used since?

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The Baroque era

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What does the word teccata mean?

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It is used to describe virtuosic, animated pieces that often sound improvised

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