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This method of composition was created by Schoenberg.
What are twelve tone-rows?
Philosophical in nature, this was Ives' most popular work.
What is "The Unanswered Question"?
This symphonic fairytale by Prokofiev featured a narrator and instruments that represented each character.
What is "Peter and the Wolf"?
This American composer had the rhythm for blending jazz with classical elements in his music.
Who was George Gershwin?
This legendary New Yorker composed a trilogy of operas, including the one whose title involves a famous physicist in paradise.
Who is Philip Glass, composer of "Einstein on the Beach"?
Those gentlemen were Schoenberg's two most popular students.
Who were Anton Webern and Alban Berg?
This research that Bartok performed involved analyzing and collecting musical excerpts.
What is ethnomusicology?
These two dynamic dancers choreographed Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring".
Who were Mikhail Fokine and Vaslav Nijinsky?
Due to his leftist political beliefs, Jewish faith, and homosexuality; this American composer was an outsider for his time.
Who was Aaron Copland?
This American composer (not to be confused with a US president) wrote this opera involving another US president's excursion to a communist nation.
Who is John Adams, composer of "Nixon in China"?
This term applies to the original untransposed set of pitches.
What is the prime row?
Ives attended this Ivy League school for music theory and composition.
What is Yale?
In this modernist subgenre, artists like Shostakovich were encouraged to glorify Joseph Stalin and his respective ideology.
What is Socialist Realism?
This African-American composer, hailed as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers", broke numerous racial barriers in the musical world.
Who was William Grant Still?
This French composer forewarned about the fall of our universe in his respective composition.
Who was Olivier Messiaen, composer of "Quartet for the End of Time"?
This was Alban Berg's most popular opera.
What is Wozzeck?
Aside composing, Ives worked in this secondary occupation.
What is insurance business?
Early in his career, Stravinsky worked for this Parisian ballet company run by this impresario.
What is the Ballets Russes, run by Sergei Diaghilev?
This Parisian teacher taught Copland and numerous others about the art of composition.
Who was Nadia Boulanger?
This Polish composer developed a new notation to depict the graphic effects in his music, such as his respective work involving an atomic bomb explosion that occurred during World War II.
Who was Krzysztof Penderecki, composer of "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima"?
This term means going backwards and upside-down.
What is retrograde-inversion?
This six-volume series composed by Bartok contained piano exercises ordered by ascending skill level.
What is "Mikrokosmos"?
Stravinsky studied composition with this Mighty Five member.
Who was Nikolai Andreyvich Rimsky-Korsakov?
This stepmother of a famous folkie became the first woman to garner a Guggenheim Fellowship in music.
Who was Ruth Crawford Seeger?
This American composer reimagined atonal music by using interrelated rows that were segmented into varied lengths in all possible ways.
Who was Milton Babbitt?