Maurice Ravel’s first violin sonata, a student work was not published until ______________.

Who conducted the recording of Le création du monde that was used for the USAD listening example?

Aaron Copland’s most important teacher while he was in Paris was ______________.

One of the earliest prominent interweaving of jazz into a classical genre was La création du monde, a 1923 ballet written by ______________.

In the beginning of Ravel’s Violin Sonata, the violin is in the key of G major but the piano is in the key of ______ major.

Band leader _______________ had the idea for the work that became Rhapsody in Blue.

The Ballets Suédois commissioned Tailleferre to write her own ballet after she ____________________.

The music of Les Six drew its inspiration from all of the following EXCEPT

All of the following are movements from Copland’s Music for the Theatre EXCEPT

Before World War I, James Reese Europe had led a notable orchestra in which city?

What is the form of Sicilienne by Germaine Tailleferre?

The second section (B) of Le création du monde uses polymeter and _______________.

______________ was the first winner of a prize for music awarded by the Guggenheim Foundation in 1925.

______________ was the French ambassador who took Milhaud to the United States in 1918.

Which of the following was a key reason that Tailleferre chose not to pursue a career as a concert pianist?

The opening clarinet glissando that opens Rhapsody in Blue spans _______________________

Around 1917 Tailleferre made the acquaintance of Princess Édmond de Polignac whose father had founded the _______________ company in the United States.

During his trip to the United States, biographers are fairly certain that Milhaud saw ____________.

What form does Burlesque in Music for the Theatre MOST closely resemble?

The two processes of "jazzing the classics" and "classicizing jazz" was described by _______________.

The first performance of Ravel's Violin Sonata was given by celebrated violinist ____________ with Ravel playing the piano himself.

Which musical comedy was the direct inspiration for the instrumentation of Milhaud's Le création du monde?

Nadia Boulanger arranged for Copland's ________________ to be performed in 1925 by both the New York Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

All of the following were members of Les Six EXCEPT

Germaine Tailleferre was accepted as a student at the Paris Conservatory in 1904 at the age of ________ .

All of the following are nicknames that David Schiff has assigned to Gershwin’s melodies in Rhapsody in Blue EXCEPT

In 1921, Les Six worked jointly on a ballet for Ballets Suédois although Durey pulled out four days before the premiere. Who hurriedly composed ballet music to replace his missing contribution?

The Ballet Suédois commissioned a ballet from Milhaud. He decided to use a(n) ______________ creation myth as the foundation of their story.

______________ helped to found the Société Musical Indépendante in 1910.

Vernon and Irene Castle were society dancers credited with being the first to popularize the ____________.

What does the term “ritornello” mean in the context of music?

George Gershwin found work as a song-plugger at the age of ________.

__________ in Peterborough, New Hampshire was a summer retreat for artists to devote themselves without interruption to their creative projects.

In 1919 Darius Milhaud was a frequent visitor to a club in __________ that specialized in “American Tin Pan Alley, blues and dance tunes”.

Because Tailleferre’s father refused to give her any financial assistance she became a __________ to pay for her studies.

Besides five full-fledged melodies Gershwin uses in Rhapsody in Blue, there is a short “tag” that may be derived from the first three notes of Gershwin’s popular song _______________.

Tailleferre dedicated Sicilienne to _______________ whom she later married.

In 1926 Milhaud extracted music from the ballet score of Le création du monde and made a concert version for piano and _______________.

Maurice Ravel was offered (but declined) the _______________.

Which European country was especially receptive to the new sounds of jazz?

Four days after Ravel’s arrival in the U.S. there was an all-Ravel concert at Carnegie Hall performed by the Boston Symphony and conducted by _____________.

The popularity of Al Jolson’s 1920 recording of Gershwin’s Tin Pan Alley song, __________ was a huge boost to Gershwin’s reputation.

Copland’s former piano teacher, ________________ had a shack built especially for Copland to finish writing his Music for the Theatre.

A French journalist dubbed Milhaud and his five composer friends as Les Six because they shared an impulse to write music that was not derived from the __________ tradition.

Germaine Tailleferre met Milhaud, Honegger and Auric in a __________ class in which she took top prize.

Gershwin’s initial format for Rhapsody in Blue was as a __________ work.

Princess Edmond de Polignac commissioned Germaine Tailleferre to write ________________.

The form of the first tableaux of Le création du monde is ____________.

Violinist ________________ gave Ravel technical help with his Violin Sonata.

U. S. segregation laws prevented the Hellfighters from serving in combat alongside white American soldiers so the regiment transferred to the __________ Army as American reinforcements.

How many movements does the Violin Sonata by Ravel have?

In the first section (A) of Le création du monde, Milhaud incorporates a ____________.

______________ was one of several cabins used by artists staying at the MacDowell Colony.

In his memoirs, Darius Milhaud discussed his delight at hearing an American jazz orchestra in ________ in 1920.

Germaine Tailleferre’s primary piano teacher at the Paris Conservatory was ____________ .

What form does Rhapsody in Blue MOST closely resemble?

The Princess Edmond de Polignac admired a ballet that Tailleferre had written which reminded her of her favorite Baroque composer ________________.

Le création du monde consists of an overture and __________ tableaux.

During World War I which composer drove a military transport vehicle?

Claude Debussy incorporated ______________ elements into his compositions after he heard a gamelan orchestra perform at the 1889 Universal Exposition.

Which musical technique involves playing the notes of a chord in succession rather than simultaneously?

The use of arpeggios in Rhapsody in Blue

Who did Aaron Copland call "The Maestro?"

Besides being a diplomat, Milhaud’s friend, Paul Claudel, was also a(n) ______________ .

To avoid her husband’s ire, Germaine Tailleferre’s mother arranged for ______________ to sneak her daughter into her classes at the Paris Conservatory.

The version of Rhapsody in Blue that is most popular today was arranged by ____________.

During the winter of 1920 ________________ let Tailleferre stay in a property she owned in the Basque region of southwestern France.

During his 1922 trip to the United States, Milhaud acquired some ____________ recordings, products of the same company that had given Fletcher Henderson his start as a bandleader.

What was the title of the suite Milhaud composed later in life that reflected his love of travel?

During World War I many French listeners had first heard ragtime, blues and jazz through the performances of the __________ Infantry Regiment Band, “The Hellfighters.”

Who did Maurice Ravel dedicate his Violin Sonata to?

The whole and half-step pattern to produce a Phrygian scale as used in the third (C) section of Le création du monde is _____________.

Aaron Copland’s first significant benefactor was ______________ who offered him a grant of $1000.

In 1917 Milhaud traveled to ____________ as the “attaché in charge of propaganda” for the French government.

What disease did Germaine Tailleferre contract shortly after birth?

Who was the clarinetist that improvised the exaggerated glissando that now opens Rhapsody in Blue?

While waiting for the end of World War I outside of Paris, Germaine Tailleferre had a chance to perform one of her compositions for ______________.

In 1922, an American who had studied piano with ____________ offered to arrange a performance tour for Milhaud in the United States.

Copland’s Burlesque movement in Music for the Theatre was partly inspired by comedienne

What was the military rank of James Reese Europe?

Which silent film star met with Maurice Ravel during the latter’s American tour?

Which organization commissioned Copland to write Music for the Theatre?

What did Copland call his piece Music for the Theatre while he was composing it?