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WorksheetsListening as Criticism
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 4mins
Donald Rosenberg was the esteemed and long-standing music critic for which American publication?
Star Tribune (Minnesota)
Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
The Chicago Tribune
Detroit Free Press
Which of these 'layers of listening' was listed as the baseline (or the 'first') of the four layers of critical listening?
Concepts, themes, ideas of performance
The concert experience as a whole, repertoire and programming decisions
Technical aspects of music (intonation, ensemble, stylistic unity, rhythmic unity, virtuosity
Interpretive and musical choices (for premieres/rarer works, can refer to composition itself as well as performance)
Which of these statements about the American composer Florence Price (1887–1953) is incorrect?
Winner of the Rodman Wanamaker Competition in 1932 for her Symphony No. 3 in C Minor
She was the first African American woman to have orchestral work performed by major American orchestra
Symphonic style influenced by late-Romantic structures and sonorities
Her music draws on the ‘Harlem Renaissance’ aesthetics, e.g. uses call-and-response devices, ‘Juba dance’
Which orchestra + conductor combination recorded Price's Symphony No. 3 in C Minor for Deutsche Grammophon?
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Philadelphia Orchestra
Gustavo Dudamel, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Andris Nelsons, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst, Cleveland Orchestra
What is the 'composer-critic' according to Edward. T Cone?
A composer who has developed their own publication for music criticism (i.e. Robert Schumann)
A trained composer who has turned to music criticism to make a living
A critic whose critique focusses on compositional quality over the performance
A composer whose criticism is expressed through music, not words
Robert Schumann's music criticism journal was called what?
Die Musikforschung
Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
Neue Freie Presse
What were the names of the literary characters created by Schumann for the debate and discussion of music criticism in his writings?
Faustinus and Emlen
Florestan and Eusebius
Fabius and Egidius
Favian and Emilian
Schumann wrote a review in 1831 on Chopin's variations on which Mozart operatic duet?
Prendero quel brunettino (Cose fan tutte)
Pa-Pa-Pa-Papageno (Die Zauberflöte)
Là ci darem la mano (Don Giovanni)
Sull'aria...che soave zeffiretto (Le nozze di Figaro)
The enfant terrible alter ego that Claude Debussy created for his music criticism was called what?
(a)
Which composer was Peggy Glanville-Hicks' editor at the New York Herald Tribune?
Aaron Copland
Virgil Thomson
Vincent Persichetti
Herbert Elwell
What do you feel is the role of the music critic in today's cultural landscape?
