Counterpoint
While writing counterpoint, you should always try to avoid this interval.
What is a tritone?
Boulez said of this art piece, "It is not enough to deface [it] because that does not kill [it]. All the art of the past must be destroyed.
What is the Mona Lisa?
Some people on the internet seem to believe this composer is black.
Who was Beethoven?
Borodin's non-musical career.
A line drawn over notes, indicating to play them legato.
What is a slur?
The contrapuntal method of increasing the note lengths of a part.
What is augmentation?
In regards to this style of composition, Boulez said "If you want a kind of supermarket aesthetic, OK, do that, nobody will be against it, but everybody will eventually forget it because each generation will create its own supermarket music."
What is minimalism?
A theory stating that music used to be played at half-speed.
Original spelling of Schoenberg.
What is Schönberg?
A tempo of walking speed.
What is andante?
There are this many species of counterpoint.
What is 5?
Of this composer, Boulez said "[his writings are] a direction as wrong as any in the history of music. From [his] pen flows a stream of infuriating clichés and formidable stereotypes redolent of the most wearily ostentatious romanticism… finally, the depressing poverty, even ugliness of the rhythms.”
Who is Schoenberg?
This composer didn't commit suicide, although some people think he did.
Who is Tchaikovsky?
Alternate numbering for the New World Symphony.
What is Dvorak's Fifth?
Tone color.
This is the only type of interval allowed in first-species counterpoint.
What is a consonant interval?
Of this composer, Boulez said "[He] plays with clichés most of the time, I find. It’s like olive oil, when you have a second and even third pressing, and I think of [him] as the second, or even third, pressing of Mahler."
Who is Shostakovich?
The riot at the premiere of this famous piece never actually happened.
What is Rite of Spring?
Alternate name for kalimba.
What is mbira?
An ancient Jewish instrument made of a ram's horn.
What is a shofar?
Learning species counterpoint is meant to prepare students to learn this.
What is Schenkerian analysis?
Of this political group, Boulez said "We live in a century of libraries, drowning under the weight of amassed documents. They decry [them] for destroying everything, but civilisations are destroyed to be able to move on."
Bach did not actually hate this instrument when he heard it for the first time.
What is a piano?
Also known as "The Symphony with the Kettledrum Stroke."
What is the Surprise Symphony?
The second (and fourth) theme statement in a fugue.
What is answer?