His ballet on the tragedy Romeo and Juliet was given a happy ending to please Soviet censors.
Who is Sergey Prokofiev
100
This American composer became very wealthy by founding an insurance company
Who is Charles Ives
100
When did postmodernist music come to the forefront?
When is after the Second World War
100
What is the term that applies to the poets that influenced the French impressionist composers?
What is Symbolists
100
What is the bracing, reactionary style that dominated classical music and the arts during the 20th century
What is Modernism
200
Identify this composition:
What is “Dance of the Knights”, from Romeo and Juliet
200
What is the term for art or music made up of disparate materials taken from very different places?
What is Collage art
200
True or False: Postmodernism is characterized by the idea that art is not for the elite, but for all.
What is true
200
Who is the composer of the piano prelude Voils or Sails, and the orchestral work Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, and whose music reflected the style of Indonesian gamelan music?
Who is Claude Debussy?
200
An artistic style that dislocates reality into geometrical blocks and planes is known as:
What is Cubism
300
What does the term intermezzo mean?
What is A light musical interlude intended to separate and thus break the mood of two more serious, surrounding movements or operatic acts or scenes
300
Which American composer's style is characterized by the use of folk songs and popular elements, and based on rural and western American ideas?
Who is Aaron Copland
300
What is the name of the musical work by Edgar Varese that is one of the first examples of musique concrete?
What is Poeme electronique
300
What is the primary musical element of Impressionism that took the place of long sweeping melodies of the Romantic era?
What is tone color?
300
This modern Russian composer wrote the ballets, The Rite of Spring, The Firebird , and Petrushka
Who is Igor Stravinsky
400
This Hungarian composer was an ethnomusicologist, traveling throughout Eastern Europe and North Africa to record folk music.
Who is Bela Bartok
400
Identify this composition?
What is Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copeland
400
What is the term in which the composer works directly with sounds recorded on magnetic tape, not with musical notation and performers?
What is Musique Concrete
400
True or False: Impressionists did not believe expression could be communicated in more subtle ways rather than epic length and volume of sound.
What is false
400
Which artistic style attempts to capture the unadorned lines, raw energy, and elemental truth of non-Western art and apply it in a Modernist context?
What is Primitivism
500
Identify this composition:
What is Symphony No. 5 by Shostakovich
500
What is the genre of Appalachian Spring?
Ballet
500
Who is the American Post modern composer that wrote in the Minimalist style of music, and wrote the composition a short Ride in a Fast Machine?
Who is John Adams
500
Who is the French Impressionist composer that wrote Bolero, the exotic dance of Spain, and who embarked on a very successful concert tour of the United States?