This composer worked with Zoltan Kodaly in collecting folk tunes
Who was Bartok?
100
The musical motive associated with Shostakovich's name.
What are D-Eb-C-B?
100
Rhythms in palindrome, associated with Messiaen.
What are non-retrogradable rhythms
100
These are style traits of neo-classicism
What are tonal music, absolute, and the use of smaller ensembles?
100
This is a representative piece AND composer from our listening list of atonality in expressionism but not serialism.
What is Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire or Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra
200
The French pedagogue Copland studied with
Who was Nadia Boulanger?
200
The name of the article that denounced Shosty's Lady MacBeth.
What is Chaos Instead of Music?
200
An example of a composer studied in class associated with post-minimalism
Who is John Adams?
200
This is a representative piece AND composer from our listening list of Primitivism.
What is Rite of Spring by Stravinsky?
200
This is a representative piece AND composer from our listening list of serialism.
What is Berg's Lyric Suite or Schoenberg's Piano Suite?
300
The period of Copland's music that spans from 1936-49
What is the Folk Period?
300
The name of the journal in which Shosty's Lady MacBeth was publicly denounced.
What is Pravda?
300
This composer's style traits are vague harmonies, large orchestras that are never harsh, chord planing, and not emphasizing the downbeat.
Who is Debussy?
300
This is a representative piece AND composer from our listening list of Impressionism
What is Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Debussy?
300
This is a representative piece AND composer from our listening list of integral serialism.
What is Babbitt's Three Compositions For Piano No. 1?
400
These are some of the musical characteristics of Neo-Romanticism
What is large orchestra, expressive melodies, and use of rubato
400
These are musical traits of socialist realism
What are melodic, accessible, and not overly complex or dissonant?
400
When 12 tone row hexachords can be combined with a hexachord of an inverted, retrograde, or retrograde inverted form of the same row without duplication of pitches
What is combinatorial?
400
This is a representative piece AND composer from our listening list of the neo-classical period?
What is the Classical Symphony by Prokofiev? (Or Schoenberg's Piano Suite)
400
This is a representative piece AND composer from our listening list of neo-romanticism?
What is Rodeo by Aaron Copland?
500
Music composed by a random selection of elements
What is chance (or aleatoric) music?
500
The most significant composer in mid-20th century France
Who was Messiaen?
500
in minimalism, when an additional note each measure?
What is the additive process?
500
This is a representative piece AND composer from our listening list of minimalism.