This composer was born in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, experienced his early successes in Paris in the years immediately preceding WWI, and died in New York in 1971. During his career he created masterpieces in many different genres, and he personified the cultural pluralism and stylistic diversity of cutting-edge art music.

This composer became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1983 and later the first individual to occupy the newly created Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall. Royalties and commissions enable this composer to devote time exclusively to composition, unencumbered by teaching.

This composer was active between 1898 and 1917, but considering the art of composition a private matter, his/her works were rarely performed. Word of these unusual creations—s/he was the first to employ polytonality extensively—gradually spread in the 1930s and he/she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in music for a symphony that had been composed forty years earlier.

An advocate for what has come to be called “chance music,” this composer felt it was unnecessary for music to develop, climax, or be goal-oriented. One work consisted of amplifying and broadcasting the sounds resulting from chopping vegetables, grinding them up, and drinking the juice.

As a young man, this composer came to the attention of Sergei Diaghilev, who made him the principal composer of the Ballets russe. His three most important ballets, The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring brought him international fame.

This composer wrote Poème électronique for a multimedia exhibit inside the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958. It is one of the first examples of musique concrète and a landmark in the history of synthetic music.

After a promising start—while a student he won the prestigious Prix de Rome for composition—he devoted his early years to honing his compositional skills and seeking an original style, yet at the age of 31 he noted with characteristic irony that he still had not written a masterpiece. A year later he did just that with his Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun.​

__________ decided against earning a livelihood in music and instead pursued a successful career in business, only composing after working hours. He founded a company with a friend in 1907, which eventually became the largest insurance company in the United States and made him a very wealthy man.​

This composer was born in Massachusetts and educated at Harvard, where he was encouraged to compose in the twelve-tone style of Schoenberg. Listening to the Beatles at night, however, he developed a more eclectic musical style that blended classical with popular styles.

After graduation from music school, this composer worked as a freelance musician in New York City, but spending most time as a singer and composer for the Grammy-winning a cappella ensemble Roomful of Teeth, and at age 30 became the youngest composer to win with Pulitzer Prize for Music.

This composer encountered gamelan music from Indonesia in 1889 while attending the International Exhibition in Paris and his music began to reflect the style of gamelan music: ostinatos, static harmonies, types of scales, and shimmering timbres.

This composer was born in Brooklyn, New York, and after receiving a rudimentary musical education in New York City he/she sailed for Paris to broaden his/her artistic horizons. After three years, he/she returned to the U. S., determined to compose a distinctly American style of music.

In the 1930s this composer began to make a deliberate appeal to ordinary citizens by working on a series of projects based on rural and western American ideas. His/her musical style is characterized by the use of folk songs and popular elements, tonal harmony, and a clear, luminous orchestration.

Which composition resulted in an audience riot during its premiere performance?

Although his career was spent almost entirely in Paris, he did embark on a brief concert tour of the United States. It was so successful that it provided financial security for the remainder of his life.​

Which composer is associated with the terms atonal music, Sprechstimme, Expressionism, and twelve-tone composition?​

The term “Impressionism” was first associated with which particular art form?​

Debussy’s Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun was based on a __________ by Stéphane Mallarmé.​

What is the term for a scale in which half-steps are omitted?

Select the answer that fits the term “parallel motion.”​

Which “exotic” culture influenced Debussy’s compositional choices in Voiles (Sails)?​

The bracing, reactionary style that dominated classical music and the arts during the twentieth century is known as:​

An artistic style that dislocates reality into geometrical blocks and planes is known as:​

Which statement accurately describes the Expressionist movement?​

What process is used to construct a disjunct melodic line by placing the next note up or down an octave?​

What is the term that describes when a pianist plays—usually with a fist or forearm—a dissonant sounding of several pitches, each only a half step away from the other, in a densely packed chord?​

Which twentieth-century artistic movement emphasized the musical forms and size of ensemble that characterized eighteenth-century music?​

Music without a key center is considered:

Identify the erroneous statement about Sprechstimme.​

This Expressionist composition features Sprechstimme, avoids melodic repetition, and emphasizes dissonant harmony.​

Compositions that place such elements as pitch, timbre, rhythm, and dynamics in a fixed order is called:​

Which idea best describes the purpose of twelve-tone music?​

Which composition was written using the twelve-tone method?​

What is the term for art or music made up of disparate materials taken from very different places?​

The simultaneous sounding of two keys or tonalities is known as:​

Which composition is a one-act ballet that tells the story of a pioneer celebration of spring in a newly built farmhouse in Pennsylvania in the early 1800s?​

The style of Zwilich’s Concerto Grosso 1985 can best be described as:​

In the third movement of Concerto Grosso 1985, Zwilich borrowed and transformed a theme originally composed by:​

Which movement is characterized by the following ideas: art is not for the elite, but for all; all art is of equal potential, so there is no “high” or “low” art; the art of one individual or culture is as important as the next.​

Which composition uses musique concrète?​

What is the term for music in which the composer works directly with sounds recorded on magnetic tape rather than musical notation and performers?​

Identify the term that describes when a performer extracts a small portion of pre-recorded music and then mechanically repeats it over and over as a musical backdrop to the text of a song. This often occurs in rap music.

Which response does not apply to the “prepared piano”?​

This compositional method involves an element of unpredictability (rolling dice, choosing cards, etc.) or whimsy on the part of the performers.​

Which composition consists of nothing but background sounds?​

This style of modern music takes a very small amount of musical material and repeats it over and over to form a composition.​

Which definition is appropriate to melody?

Symbols that correspond to the black keys of the keyboard are known as:

Identify the culture that provided the primary inspiration for writers, artists, and architects during the Renaissance.​

Which term designates a composition sung by a choir without instrumental accompaniment?​

Musically heightened speech that relates the action or dramatic narrative to the audience is called __________. The text is usually in prose rather than poetic meter and the musical setting mirrors the natural rhythms of everyday speech.​

This singing style expresses feeling or emotion rather than narrating the drama’s action.

Which musical instrument did young women of the Classical era usually choose to learn in order to demonstrate that they possessed status and gentility?

Which European capital city was the influential center of Classical style?​

What is an art song?​