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40 Cards in this Set
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The American composer who directed the United States Marine Band, wrote many fmous marches for band, and eventually became known as the "March King".
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John Philip Sousa
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______ featured the antics of white men in black face imitating plantation songs and dances.
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Minstrel Shows
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______ was a brilliant American pianist, a member of the Second New England School of composers,who is remembered today for impressive compositions for various solo and combined instruments.
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Amy Beach
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______ studied painting and music in Paris, completed his music education in Germany, and returned to America to teach, perform, and write music, becoming the first director of the new music department at Columbia University in 1896.
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Edward MacDowell
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______, a leader of Post-Romantic composers, was strongly influenced by both Romanticicsm of Wagner and the Classicicsm of Mozart.
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Richard Strauss
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______, best known for his powerful symphonies, used a huge orchestra and extensive range of orchestra colors.
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Gustav Mahler
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Music in which there is no dominance of or momentum toward a tonic pitch, like that written by Schoenberg,is called
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atonal
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In 1912, Schoenberg wrote a _____ called Pierrot Lunaire (The Moonstruck Pierrot).
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song cycle
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"Sprechstimme" is
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a vocal technique using expressive glides from one inexact note to another.
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The first and greatest Impressionistic composer was
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Claude Debussy
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______, an Impressionistic composer, was primarily a classicist who used clearly defined melodic phrases, strong rhythms, and functional harmonies based on traditional key relationships.
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Maurice Ravel
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"The Rite of Spring" was a revolutionary ballet score about
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a brutal human sacrifice to appease primitive gods in pagan Russia.
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Many 20th century melodies are ______ in countour, when compared to melodies of the Romantic period.
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angular
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It is the ______ of much 20th- century music that many listeners find particularly challenging.
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dissonant harmonies
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When two or more meters are combined at one time, the techniques called
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polymeter.
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Interest in the qualities and effects of sound around the middle of the 20th century led to the invention of the electronic
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synthesizer.
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The 20th-century orchestra is generally ______ than in the Romantic period.
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smaller
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Some 20th-century composers, inspired by jazz techniques, require instrumentalists to perform ______, expressive slides from one tone to another.
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glissandos
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The 20th century has witnessed a renewed appreciation for ______ texture.
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polyphonic
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The return to classical interests has led many composers to rely upon principles of ______ music.
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absolute
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During the 20th century, the most influential development was ______ twelve-tone technique, which many composers have adapted to their own personal styles of composition.
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Arnold Schoenberg's
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The 12-tone technique was actually a logical extension of the extreme ______ used by Wagner in Tristan und Isolde.
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chromaticism
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Webern's distinct separation of sounds is reminiscent of the visual technique called
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pointillism
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An inventive nature, plus an unconventional upbringing, destined ______ to become an Experimentalist who made his living selling insurance.
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Charles Ives
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______, born in California and reared in an atmosphere that precluded allegiance to musical orthodoxy, loved Oriental music and modal chrch music, country fiddle tunes, early American hymns, and Irish folk tunes.
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Henry Cowell
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______ conducted far-reaching experiments that extended the range of timbres that may be produced by a grand piano.
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Henry Cowell
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Of all elements of music, ______ most appealed to Edgard Varese, who was interested in the physics as well as the aesthetics of sound.
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timbre
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An instrument that allows a comoser to produce imitative, altered, or original sounds is called a
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synthesizer
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Milton Babbitt wrote
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Ensembles for Synthesizer
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John Cage wrote random music to be "played" by several radios. The title of this composition is
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Imaginary Landscape no. 1.
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______ studied composition with three important revolutionaries: Schoenberg, Varese, and Cowell.
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John Cage
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______ composers share the conviction that Western music should evolve in an orderly and logical manner.
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Mainstream
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Two works that illustrate the use of Medieval concepts are Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols" and Carl Orff's
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Carmina Burana.
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The field of _____ is the scientific study of music.
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musicology
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The study of music of specific cultures is the science of
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ethnomusicology.
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In addition to his talents as a composer and scholar, Bartok was also an accomplished
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pianist.
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The father of 20th-century Neoclassicism is
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Igor Stravinsky.
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In the early 1920's, ______ led the first generation of American composers determined to devote their professional lives to writing music.
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Aaron Copland
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Philip Glass has evolved a style of music which is sometimes referred to as
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minimalism.
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______ was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, in 1983.
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
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