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What organization took the lead in develping a new notational system?

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The Catholic Church

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What was the first musical era?

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The Middle Ages also known as the Medieval period

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Why did the Catholic Church want to develop a new notational system?

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So they could standardize music across the far-flung Holy Roman Empire

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What movement caused the power of the Church to wane?

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Humanism

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When was the Renaissance Period?

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1400 to 1600

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When is the end of the Baroque era placed?

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At around 1750

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What happened in the year 1750?

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The noted composer Johann Sebastian Bach died marking the end of the Baroque Period

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What was the era after the Classical era?

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The Romantic period

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What does the word Baroque mean?

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Misshapen or distorted

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When did the modern era begin?

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At the start of the 20th centruy

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What were the two styles that composers argued over at the start of the Baroque period?

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Antique style and Modern style

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The trend of people demanding old favorites lead to what term?

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Canon

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What does classical music with a lower case c refer to?

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Art music from any era

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Whose music is characterized as post-Romantic?

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Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauuss, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sergei Rachmaninoff

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What is the rich array of timbres in post-Romantic music referred to as?

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Tone colors

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What European born conductor was conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra?

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Leoplod Stokowski (1882-1977)

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Americans tended to hire orchestra coductors from what region?

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Europe

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When was Peabody founded and where?

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1857 in Baltimore

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What music school located in Boston was established in 1867?

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Boston’s New England Conservvatory

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When did Juilliard School open its doors and where?

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In New YOrk in 1905 as the Institute of Musical Artt

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What new instruments were produced in the 19th century?

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The saxophone, piccolo, and tuba

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What had wires been iinitially used for in the 19th century?

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Long-distance communication via the telegraph and the telphone

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What Italian inventor achieved a breakthrough in wireless technology?

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Guglielmo Marconi (1874 to 1937)

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When was speech transmitted for the first time?

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December 23, 1900

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Who presented the first public radio broadcasts on January 12 and 13, 1900?

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Lee De Forest

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What did Lee De Forest transmit as the first public radio broadcasts and what singer was featured?

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Two performances of New York’s Metropolitan Opera with the voice of Enrico Caruso (1873 to 1921)

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What disaster caused the Radio Act of 1912?

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The 1912 Titanic disaster

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What was the nearest ship to receive the Titanic’s distress signal but ignore it because the radio operator was off-duty?

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S.S. Californian

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What were the two main requirements of the Radio Act of 1912?

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That all seagoing vessels needed to hire enough radio operators so that distress frequencies could be monitored continuously and all U.S> radio stations needed to be licensed by the U.S. government

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When did The Department of Commerce shut down all private radio operations in the United States?

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April 7, 1917

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When was private radio operations restored by the Department of Commerce

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1920

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What was the first song recorded onto tinfoil in 1877 by Thomas Edison?

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Mary Had a Little Lamb

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What did Edison initially view his phonograph as useful for?

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As a dictation machine for use in business offices

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What invention did Edison swap the phonograph for?

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His electric light

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What machine did Columbia introduce at the same time Edison was marketing his phonograph?

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The graphophone

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What device followed the graphophone?

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The gramophone

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What style of disks were common in affluent houses by 1910?

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78 rpm discs

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What symphony did the Berlin Philharmonic record in 1913?

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Fifth Symphony by Beethoven

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How many discs did the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven require?

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8 discs bound in an album

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How much did Enrico Caruso make on average per year from 1904 to 1920?

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115,000

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What manufacturer produced a trennch model gramophone for th efront line?

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Decca

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What grieving musician found solace in the gramophone after his brother was killed in 1916?

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Arthur Bliss

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What corporal experienced a bombardment with his gramophone?

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Corporal A.D> Pankhurst

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What English battery commander used a record containing defiant anti-German songs as an assault weapon in 1918?

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Captain Parrish

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Who was the German lieutenant who captured Captain Parrish’s trench and his gramophone?

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Ernst Junger

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What American recorded more than two thousands Native American melodies?

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Frances Densomore

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What was the problem with early recording machines and folk music?

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That it had to be shortened or performed much quicker than usual because of the limited amount of time on the recording

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What new term was developed to describe the work of musicians recording traditional folk melodies?

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Ehtnomusicology

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Who were two Hungarian scholars and composers?

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Zoltan Kodaly and Bela Bartok

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What machine did Edison unveil in 1891?

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The Kinetoscope

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What was the Kinetoscope?

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A machine that allowed one person at a time to view silent images

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What was a Kinetophone?

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A Kinetoscope cabinet equipped with a phonograph so a person could hear music through headphones

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What was the problem with early films?

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That they were silent

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How was music provided during silent films?

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Provided by lie musicians

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What was the coordination of a phonograph or gramophone with the projector known as?

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Sound on disc technology

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When did American inventor Lee De Forest and others perfect a vacuum tube that permit a louder sound amplification?

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In the 1920’s

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Sound with films had to wait until the development of what technology?

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Vacuum tubes

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What were short films with sound known as?

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Shorts

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What was the first feature film with spoken dialogue?

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The Jazz Singer (1927)

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Who called Erik Satie’s music shapeless and that it lacked form?

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Claude Debussy

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What did Erik Satie write in response to Debussy’s criticism of his music?

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Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear (1903)

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Who would become famous for his drip paintings where he poured or threw paint over his canvas?

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Jackson Pollack

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What composer achieved notoriety for works such as The Tides of Manaunaun (1912)

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Henry Cowell

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What did Henry Cowell use in The Tides of Manaunauun?

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Tone clusters where blocks of sound are produced by using the fist or even the entire forearm

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What painting started the Impressionist movement?

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Impression: Sunrise

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Who painted Impression Sunrise?

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Claude Monet

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What French artists were experimenting with Impressionism?

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Eduord Manet, Edgar Dea and Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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What English painter was a pioneer of Impressionism?

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J.M.W. Turner

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What were the Impressionists paintings?

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Landscapes

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What were Impressionist fascinated by?

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Depicting the effects of light

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What critic claimed that Wallpaper was better than Monet’s painting?

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Louis Leroy

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What art critic said that Impressionists rendered the sensation produced by the landscape?

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Jule-Antoine Castagnary

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What was the form of Impressionist pieces?

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Vague and inexact with common floating sensations

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What was the harmony of Impressionism based on?

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Common practice tonality but with more added pitches

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How many half steps are in the whole tone scale?

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None

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What is the effect of no half steps?

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There is no natural pull to the tonic

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What French poetry movement has parallels with Impressionism?

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Symbolism

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WHo were Symbolist poets?

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Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, Paul Verlaine and Albert Giraud from Belgium

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What did Symbolist poetry emphasize imagery over?

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Narrative structure

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What was one of the most famous Impressionist compositions?

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Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

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What is Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun based on?

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A symbolist poem by Mallarme

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What Frenchman also wrote Impressionist pieces?

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Maurice Ravel

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What woman wrote Impressionist pieces?

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Lili Boulanger

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What awad did Lili Boulanger win?

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The Prix de Rome

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What Italian used Impressionist ideas in Fountains of Rome (1916)?

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Ottorino Respighi 1879-1936

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What English composer living in France also wrote Impressionist pieces?

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Frederick Delius, 1862-1934

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Who helped introduce Impressionist ideas to the United States?

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Charles Griffes 1884 to 1920

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What piece form Roman Sketches of 1915-16 helped introduce Impressionist ideas to the United States?

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The White Peacock

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What term did Debussy prefer to Impressionism?

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Realities

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How many books of Preludes are there?

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Two

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How many works are in each book of Preludes

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A dozen works for solo piano

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What are the two most famous Preludes?

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The Sunken Cathedral and The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

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What kind of pieces are Preludes?

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Character piece

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When were character pieces become popular?

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The Romantic period

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What is the word prelude a reference to?

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Preludes and Fugues composed by J.S. Bach

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Who challenged listeners expectations by putting together entire sets of character pieces that he labeled preludes?

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Frederick Chopin

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Where did Debussy put the title of each Prelude?

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At the end of each piece

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What could voiles mean?

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The veil or the sail

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Who was Debussy making a tribute to with his preludes?

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Frederick Chopin

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What is the structure of Voiles?

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ABA or ternary

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How many motifs does Debussy craft from a whole tone scale in the opening of the prelude of Voiles?

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Three

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What scale does Debussy use for the middle portion of Voiles?

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A pentatonic scale

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What is a glissando?

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A rapid gesture that resembles the sweeping motion of a harp

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Who was Debussy’s teacher?

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Ernst Guiraud

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What composer observed that each stroke of a French composers brush is of vital importance?

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Maurice Ravel

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