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| What movement did Claude Monet start, and what was his painting called? |
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| Impressionism, Impression: Sunrise |
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| What was the 20th century approach to rhythm? |
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| Syncopation, unpredictable, irregular, complex |
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| What is the 20th century approach to harmony? |
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| Lots of dissonance, non-traditional harmony, atonal |
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| Who wrote Rite of Spring in 1913? |
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| What -ism does Rite of Spring use, and what does the song depict? |
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| Primitivism, a girl dancing to death to worship the god of spring |
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| Who bridges the Romantic era and the 20th century? |
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| Who wrote Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun? |
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| Who was a French contemporary of Debussy that wrote music with greater clarity of form? |
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| What kind of works did Igor Stravinsky write in his early compositional period? |
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| Ballet scores for large orchestras. |
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| Who hired Igor Stravinsky? |
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| What are Stravinsky's three compositional periods? |
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Early
Neoclassical - 1920-50, reaction to romanticism and impressionism, focused on simplicity
After 1950 - adopts 12-tone method |
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| What does abstract expressionism depict, and how is it portrayed? |
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| depicts moods, feelings, emotions. Portrayed through dissonance/atonality, timbre variety, shocking and dramatic themes. |
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| How did Schoenberg's style transform through his career? |
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early - late romantic, highly chromatic
by 1908 - atonal
after 1920 - 12-tone |
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| Which three composers were the 2nd Viennese school? |
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| Why did Schoenberg move to the US? |
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| Because he was Jewish and WW2 |
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| What is the storyline of Schoenberg's Verklante Nacht? |
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| Some lady and her boyfriend are walking in the woods, she tells him she's pregnant from another man, he decides to raise the child. |
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| Who made the 12-tone method, and what is it? |
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| Schoenberg. It's an atonal writing method which organizes pitches in a specific order throughout an entire piece. |
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| Use of the 12-tone method, "emancipation of dissonance" |
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| What is the series of notes called in 12-tone? |
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| What does Klangfarbenmelodie mean? |
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| What was Berg's style like? |
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| Quasi-romantic, lyrical, more traditional than others |
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| Who wrote Wozzeck, and what is it about? |
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| Berg. About a soldier who is driven to murder and madness. He stabs his woman and drowns trying to wash her blood from his hands |
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| Who was Stéphane Mallarmé? |
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| What did Sergei Prokofiev write? |
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| Who composed orchestral pieces for Ballet Russe? |
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| Who was the first ethnomusicologist? |
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| What country was Bartok from? |
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| Did Bartok quote folk tunes? |
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| No, but he had 2000 of them |
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| Where was Charles Ives from? |
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| Where did Charlies Ives study composition? |
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| Selling insurance, not composing. |
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| Who won a Pulitzer prize in 1947 for a piece he wrote about 40 years earlier? |
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| How many keys is Ives' Symphony #3 in? |
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| What kind of music was Ives influenced by? |
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| Band music, hymns, ragtime, patriotic songs |
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| Which composer was a popular crossover artist? |
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| Who wrote Rhapsody in Blue, and what is it? |
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| Gershwin, a piano concerto in a jazz style |
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| How is a musical different from opera? |
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| Simpler melodies and harmonies, dance emphasis, spoken dialog rather than recitative, microphones |
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| What is the name of the symphonic poem Gershwin wrote? |
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| What orchestra was Leonard Bernstein a conductor and composer for, and for how long? |
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| New York Philharmonic, 11 years |
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| Who wrote West Side Story? |
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| Chance music, not really music, like 4'33" |
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| Which musician did aleatoric music? |
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| Who wrote Poeme Electronique, and what kind of music is it the first of? |
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| Edgard Varese, electronic music |
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| Who wrote Porgy and Bess, and what is it about? |
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| Gershwin. Poor black people in Charleston, SC |
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| What composer does Spielberg work with, and what movies has he done? |
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| John Williams. Jaws, Star Wars, Harry Potter 1-4 |
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| Who wrote Five Pieces for Orchestra, and who was he taught by? |
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| Whose art is in Musee Marmottan? |
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| What kind of art is in Musee d'Orsay? |
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| Half way between speaking and singing |
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| Who wrote Pierrot Lunaire? |
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| Who wrote Survivor from Warsaw? |
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