It's A Long Way to Tipperary Flashcards
What did Maurice Ravel initially try to be in the army and why was he rejected?
A fighter pilot but he was underrweight
How old was Maurice Ravel in 1914?
39
What did Ravel become in March 1916 and what was Adelaide?
A driver in the motor transport corps and he called his truck adelaide
Why was Weebern turned down for service in the Austrian army?
Because of his poor eyesight
When was Webern called up?
September 1914
What two musicians were eager for the war to start?
Ravel and Webern
Whose mother died while he was in the hospital?
Maurice Ravels
When was Webern’s eyesight evaluated and given a permanent discharge?
In December 1916
What Hungarian composer was physically unfit for service?
Bela Bartok
What were Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly assigned to do during the war?
Collect folksongs from soldiers
Where were the collection of folksongs from soldiers gathered by Bartok and Kodaly presented?
At a patriotic concert in January 1918 attended by Hungary’s Princess Zita
What English composer collected folksongs from England?
George Butterworth
What organization did George Butterworth belong to?
The English Folk Dance Society
What did George Butterworth enlist as and what did he become?
A private but he was commissioned as an officer in the 13th Durham Light Infantry
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?
george Butterworth
When was George Butterworth killed and how?
By sniper fire in his trench in August 1916
Who had been one of George Butterworth’s mentors in England?
Ralph Vaughan William
How old was Ralph Vaughan Williams when England entered the war?
Nearly 42
What form of government did Ralph Vaughan Williams believe was the best for solving destructive delimmas of Europe and beyond?
Federalism
What was Ralph Vaughan Williams assigned to be?
A wagon orderly working in France and on the Salonika front in Greece
Who was Vaughan Williams best friend?
Gustav Holst
After the armistice what did Ralph Vaughan Williams become in the British army?
The Director of Music for the First Army of the B.E>F>
How old was Gustav Holst when the war started?
40 years old
What was Gustav Holst’s job during the war?
To serve as a music organizer for the YMCA’s army education scheme working with demobilized troops in Salonika and Constantinople
What popular song addressed the changing roles of women in the United States?
You’d Better Be Nice to Them Now
What award did Lili Boulanger win?
The Prix de Rome
Where was Lili Boulanger when the war started?
In Italy
What organization did Boulanger found and where?
The Franco-American Commitee of the National Conservatory in Paris
What was the Franco-American Committee of the National COnservatory designed to do?
To offer both monetary and moral support to musicians fighting in the war
What kind of wages were women musicians paid filling gaps in orchestras during the war in the United States?
Union wages
Who was called up for service in June 1915 with the eAustrian Army?
Alban Berg
What was Berg’s medical problem?
He had a asthma
What job was Berg assigned to during the war?
An office job in the war ministry in Vienna
What Expressionist opera was eventually based on Berg’s experiences in the army training camp?
Wozzeck
What was the name of Berg’s wife?
HHelene
Who was called up in 1915 but rejected because of poor health in October 1916?
Arnold Schoenberg
What was Arnold Schoenberg’s peace plan?
A 15 point peace plan
Who did Schoenberg complete to that if there were more of them in every country they would be able to draft a lasting peace?
To Italian composer Ferruccio Bucconi
What country was Irving Berlin an emigre of?
Russia
What song did Irving Berlin deelop while in basic training?
Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Who did Irving Berlin and other soldiers long to murder?
The bugler
What rank did Irving Berlin attain while in the army?
THe rank of sergeant
Why did Berlin write a revue called yip, yip, yaphank?
To raise funds for a new community house
What was Yip, Yip Yahank later changed to during the Second World War?
This is the army
What were the rules for the Berlin Philiharmonic about enemy composers?
Music could only be played by an enemy composer who died before 1914
What were the rules in Russia about German music?
Nyet Wagner
What did the Pittsburgh symphony do with German music during the war?
Ban all of it for the duration
What was the Pittsburgh symphony’s rival?
The Chicago SYmphony
What did the Chicago Symphony do with German music?
Played it until 1917
What cantata was Schoenberg supposed to perform in New York?
Gurreliede
What French artist stopped using a German brand of toothpaste but felt that without Beethoven or Schubert music would be unthinkable?
Jean Cocteau
What composers refused to sign a proclemation in 1916 that would ban performances of German music in France?
Claude Debussy, Vincent d’Indy and Maurice Ravel
What did Basil Hindenburg change his name to in 1914?
Basil Cameron
What name did Gus Scholtz take during the war?
Gust Barret
Who was one of the greatest violinists in the world?
Fritz Kreisler
What army did Fritz Kreisler join?
The Austrian Army
What happened to Kreisler’s music career in the United States after serving in the military?
He was banned in Jersey City and Pittsburg so he canceled all performances for the duration except for charity
Who flamed feeling about foreigners in his State of the Union?
Woodrow Wilson
What are hyphen Americans?
People who became naturalized U.S. citizens but sill acknowledged heir ancestry
Who was particular violence directed against and was the conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra?
Karl Muck
Who decided to ignore the request that the Boston Symphony Orchestra demonstrate patriotism by playing The Star-Spangled Banner?
The founder Henry Higgenson and the manager of the orchestra Charles Ellis
What city refused to let the Boston Symphony Orchestra allow to present their music with Muck conducting?
Baltimore
how did the MUck affair become a national thing?
When it was printed in the New York Times
Who insisted that Muck produce a document showing he never servved in the German army and held Swiss citizenship?
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
How did Muck attempt to resolve the Muck crises?
By playing the Star-Spangled Banner in his New York concert
Where was Muck arrested and where was he interned for the duration of the war as an enemy alien?
Arrested in Boston and then imprisoned in Georgia
What French composer resolutely performed German music even in the last year of the war?
French composer Vincent d’Indy
What did Vincetn d’Indy attempt to perform during the last year of the war and why was he stopped?
Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis at the Schola Cantorum but a bombardment by the Germans forced its delay
What German composer was called up to serve in the German army in 1917?
Paul Hindensmith
What German soldier/composer formed a string quartet with three other soldiers?
Paul Hindemith
What did a superior officer ask Paul Hindesmith and his quartet to play when Debussy died?
Debussy’s String uartet
When was the Christmas Truce
December 1914
What was the best known shared carol on the day of the Christmas truce in 1914?
Silent Night or Stille Nacht in German
What were other shared Christmas carols on the Christmas Truce o 1914?
o Christmas Tree, O Tannenbaum and adeste Fidelis, O Come All Ye Faithful
What song did many Germans prefer other than their official national anthem?
The Kaiserhymne melody with poetry by August Heinrich Hoffman von Fallersleben at the opening of Deutschland, Deutschland uber alles
In addition to playing the national anthems of Britain and Germany, the German regiment played what popular song?
Henry R. Bishop’s sentimental Home Sweet Home
What German soldier wrote about the singing in his Christmas letter home?
Karl Aldag
What write saluted the Christmas truce as one human episode amid all the atrocities which have stained the memory of war?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
What musicologist wrote that some music belonged to all ages and countries?
Glenn Watkins
What lieutenant reported that the Germans had orders not to repeat a Christmas truce of 1914 in 1915?
Gordon Barber of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
Who wrote to Jacques Duran that he was just a small little atom crushed in this terrible cataclysm?
Debussy
In 1914 who was Debussy publisher’s?
Jacques Durand
What treaty did King Albert upheld by not allowing Germany to march through Belgium?
A 1839 treaty with England
Who began to gather essays and other contributions in November 1914 for a charity book called King Albert’s book?
Hall Caine
What newspaper did Caine use to help exploit King Albert’s Book?
The Daily Telegraph
How many writers, statesmen and composers sent materials for King Albert’s Book?
237
Proceeds from King Albert’s Book were donated to what fund?
The Belgian Fund
What did King Albert do in response to King Albert’s Fund?
Appoint Caine as an officer in the Order of Leopold of Belgium
What was Edward Elgar’s contribution to King Albert’s Book?
A choral piece called Carillon
What was the refrain of Edward Elgar’s Carillon?
Sing Belgians, Sing
Why was the allusion to carillons poignant for the Belgians?
Because many of their churches had massive carillons
What was Debussy’s contribution to King Albert’s Book?
Berceuse heroique which quoting the Belgian national anthem La brabanconne
What is the Belgian national anthem?
La brabanconne
What was Edit Wharton’s charity project for the war?
The Book of the homeless
what was the Book of the Homeless for?
To support American hostels for refugees and the Children of Flanders Rescue Committee
What was the Children of Flanders Rescue Comitee?
A group laboring to assist the flood of Belgian war orphans
How many works were received for the Book of the Homeless?
52 essays, drawings, paintings, poems and compositions
What was Igor Stravinsky’s contribution to the Book of the Homeless?
Recollection of a Kraut March
What is recollection in Recollection of a Kraut march from?
A phrase from a symphony of Beethovenn’s
What was Debussy’s first production in 1915 that responded to wartime losses?
in white and black
What instruments were In White and Blackproduced for?
Two pianos
What was special about each movement In white and black?
Each movement was dedicated for a friend who had died in battle and contained a short poetic quotation or epigraph
What is the first quotation drawn from in In white and black?
Gound’s setting of Romeo et Juliette
What does the poetry in Gounod’s setting of Romeo et Juliette suggest?
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
What was Debussy’s second war related work?
Christmas Carol of the Homeless Children
What was Debussy’s last work before he died?
Christmas Carol of the Homeless Children
How old was Edward Elgar when the war started?
57 years old
What did Elgar also produce during the war in 1917?
The Spirit of England in 1917 for soprano, chorus and orchestras
What does Tombeau mean in French?
Gravestone or tomb
What did Ravel write in 1917 that may be about airplanes?
Le Tombeau de Couperin
how did Elgar create an experience of aerial warfare?
Through timpani rolls and low pitched trembling from the bassoons and violas
What was special about each movement of Le Tombeau dee Couperin?
Each one commemorated a victim of warfare
Who was the final movement of Le Tombeau de Couperin dedicated to?
Captain Joseph de Marliave who had died in the first days of the war
Who was Captain Joseph de Marliave married to and what did his ife do?
He was married to Marguerite Long, the pianist who would premiere Le Tombeau de Couperin
What era has the word teccata been used since?
The Baroque era
What does the word teccata mean?
It is used to describe virtuosic, animated pieces that often sound improvised
