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20th Cent. Composers Fill In The Blanks

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Question: 1882-1971Answer: Igor
Question: under Rimsky-KorsakovAnswer: Stravinsky
Question: The Firebird Answer: Stravinsky
Question: (ballet)Answer:
Question: The Rite of Answer:
Question: one of his pieces incited a Answer: Stravinsky (The Rite of )
Question: of PsalmsAnswer:
Question: Moved to Hollywood in Answer:
Question: The Rake's (opera)Answer:
Question: an opera with libretto by W.H. AudenAnswer: Stravinsky
Question: Adopted twelve-tone system and composed the ArgonAnswer: Stravinsky
Question: Scherzo fantastique; Fireworks (orchestral )Answer: Stravinsky
Question: The Soldier's Tale (after War I)Answer:
Question: Rag-time; Rag-MusicAnswer: Stravinsky
Question: comic opera Answer: Stravinsky
Question: Oedipus Rex; Persephone; Apollo (written for George )Answer:
Question: friends with Robert Answer:
Question: Buried in (near Diaghliev's grave)Answer: Stravinsky
Question: 1874-1951Answer: Schoenberg
Question: Austrian pioneer of (twelve-tone system)Answer:
Question: influenced by and Richard StraussAnswer:
Question: Transfigured Night (for )Answer: Schoenberg
Question: SprechstimmeAnswer: halfway singing and speaking (German for "speech voice")
Question: Pierrot lunaire (a Sprechstimme )Answer:
Question: his students: Alban Berg and Anton Answer: Schoenberg
Question: Moved from Berlin to L.A. in Answer:
Question: A Survivor from Answer:
Question: Moses and Aaron (uncompleted )Answer:
Question: taught at University of California at Los Angeles from 1936 to Answer:
Question: String Answer:
Question: 1913-1976Answer: Britten
Question: Reviver of the in the U.K.Answer:
Question: Peter Grimes (story of a who kills two of his apprentices)Answer: Britten
Question: on a Theme of Frank Bridge (his composition teacher)Answer: Britten
Question: wrote incidental for works by his friend W.H. AudenAnswer: Britten
Question: worked with the Peter PearsAnswer: Britten
Question: Founded the Festival of MusicAnswer:
Question: Billy Budd; The Turn of the Screw; in Venice (operas)Answer:
Question: The Young Person's Guide to the Answer:
Question: War Requiem (based on by Wilfred Owen)Answer: Britten
Question: Britten's operaAnswer: Paul
Question: The Rape of ; Alvert HerringAnswer: Britten
Question: based on part of The Borough by George Answer: Peter Grimes (by )
Question: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Gloriana (to commemorate the coronation of II); Owen WingraveAnswer: Britten
Question: Noye's Fludde; The SonAnswer: Britten
Question: Elizabeth II made him Baron ____ of AldeburghAnswer:
Question: 1900-1990Answer: Copland
Question: first American student of Boulanger in Paris in the 1920sAnswer: Copland
Question: Organ ; Music for the TheaterAnswer: Copland
Question: El MexicoAnswer:
Question: Billy the Kid; (ballets)Answer:
Question: Appalachian Spring (ballet featuring Gifts")Answer:
Question: Third Symphony (contains for the Common Man)Answer:
Question: Lincoln Portrait (includes spken portions of 's writings)Answer:
Question: What to Listen For in (educational book)Answer: Copland
Question: studied Rubin GoldmarkAnswer: Copland
Question: The Second (opera for high school students)Answer: Copland
Question: Of Mice and Men; Our Town (film )Answer:
Question: The Heiress (film score that won him the 1949 Academy Award for best film score)Answer: Copland
Question: Connotations (commisioned for the opening of Lincoln Center in New York City); Inscape; Answer:
Question: The New Music; Music and Imagination; ____ on Music (books)Answer:
Question: 1891-1953Answer: Prokofiev
Question: First, or Classical Answer:
Question: The Love for Oranges (opera)Answer:
Question: Peter and the Answer: Prokofiev
Question: Alexander Nevsky (cantata); Kije (suite) [film scores]Answer: Prokofiev
Question: Died on the same day as , March 5 (outlived Stalin by a few hours)Answer:
Question: Scythian ; The Prodigal SonAnswer:
Question: Chout (the Buffoon); Le Pas d'acier (The Step) [ballets for Diaghilev]Answer: Prokofiev
Question: Rome and Juliet (ballet); War and (opera)Answer: Prokofiev
Question: for "excessive formalism"Answer:
Question: Tale of a Real Man (opera)Answer:
Question: His 7th Symphony won him the 1952 PrizeAnswer:
Question: Died as began for Tale of the Stone Flower (ballet)Answer: Prokofiev
Question: 1906-1975Answer: Dmitri
Question: The Nose; Lady Macbeth of (operas)Answer:
Question: Leningrad Answer:
Question: Received the Order of Lenin in Answer: Shostakovich
Question: Awarded the Stalin prize several times; in 1966 became the first composer to receive the Hero of Socialist Labor Answer:
Question: Had a technical mastery of the orchestra; Used reminscent of Gypsy (Romani) tunes popular in eastern EuropeAnswer: Shostakovich
Question: 1881-1945Answer: Bela
Question: the Hungarian countryside with Zoltan Kodaly, collecting peasant tunesAnswer:
Question: Duke 's Castle (opera)Answer: Bartok
Question: The Prince (ballet)Answer:
Question: The Mandarin (ballet)Answer:
Question: MikrokosmosAnswer:
Question: Music for Strings, , and CelestaAnswer:
Question: (symphonic poem)Answer: Bartok
Question: Concerto for Orchestra; Out of Answer:
Question: Dance Suite; Divertimento; Sonata for Two Pianos and Answer: Bartok
Question: 1887-1954Answer: Ives
Question: His father, George, was a Connecticut businessman and bandleaderAnswer: Ives
Question: Studied at Yale, but turned to insurance salesAnswer: Ives
Question: His insurance firm was the largest in New York the 1910sAnswer:
Question: Second Piano (Concord) (with movements named after Emerson, Hawthorne, Alcott, and Thoreau)Answer: Ives
Question: Three Places in New Answer: Ives
Question: Won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for his symphonyAnswer: Ives
Question: "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven" (based on a poem by Lindsay)Answer:
Question: on "America" (for organ)Answer: Ives
Question: ; Three Quarter-Tone Pieces; 114 Songs (symphonies)Answer: Ives
Question: Before a Sonata (writings)Answer:
Question: Married Harmony Answer: Ives
Question: 1875-1937Answer: Maurice
Question: Rapsodie Answer:
Question: BoleroAnswer:
Question: student of FaureAnswer: Ravel
Question: Pavane for a Dead Answer:
Question: the French Conservatory overlooked him for the Prix de Rome four Answer:
Question: Daphnis et (ballet)Answer:
Question: Goose; La Valse (ballet)Answer: Ravel
Question: re-orchestrated 's Pictures at an ExhibitionAnswer:
Question: his declined after a 1932 taxi accidentAnswer: Ravel
Question: unsuccessful surgery ended his lifeAnswer: Ravel
Question: Miroirs; Gaspard de la Answer: Ravel
Question: Fountains; Le Tombeau de ;Answer: Ravel
Question: The Child and the Answer: Ravel
Question: 1898-1937Answer: Gershwin
Question: worked with his brother IraAnswer: Gershwin
Question: in BlueAnswer:
Question: Concerto in F for Piano and Answer:
Question: Porgy and Bess (opera on a story by DuBose Heyward)Answer:
Question: "Swanee"Answer:
Question: Of Thee I Sing (musical that was the to win a Pulitzer Prize in drama [1931])Answer: Gershwin
Question: died of a brain tumor at age Answer: Gershwin
Question: Studied with Rubin Goldmark, Cowell, Wallingford Rieger, and Joseph SchillingerAnswer:
Question: George's SandalsAnswer:
Question: Lady Be Answer:
Question: FaceAnswer:
Question: An in ParisAnswer: Gershwin
Question: "The Man I Love"; "I Got Rhythm"; "Someone to Over Me"Answer:
Question: 1912-1992Answer: John
Question: American student of Arnold and Henry CowellAnswer: Cage
Question: Dada composer/aleatory or "chance" Answer: Cage
Question: Landscape No 4 (used 12 radios tuned to different stations)Answer: Cage
Question: 4'33" (for )Answer: Cage
Question: invented the piano"Answer:
Question: Credo in Answer:
Question: collaborated with dancer CunninghamAnswer:
Question: Sonatas and Interludes (won him an award from the American Academy of Arts and and a Guggenheim Fellowship)Answer: Cage
Question: Music of Changes (chance , using the book I Ching, or Book of Changes)Answer:
Question: Silence (book that chronicled the of his thinking)Answer: Cage
Question: HPSCHD (collaboration with Hiller)Answer:
Question: (included drawings by Thoreau)Answer:
Question: Apartment House 1776 (mixed-media piece for musicircus-two orcehstras and four )Answer:
Question: 1/2 (his first opera)Answer:
Question: 1872-1958Answer: Ralph Vaughan
Question: the Tudor style and folk traditions in English musicAnswer: Vaughan
Question: Fantasia on a by Thomas TallisAnswer: Vaughan
Question: Second (London) Answer: Vaughan
Question: First (Sea) Symphony; Third (Pastoral) Symphony; (sinfonia antarctica)Answer: Williams
Question: The Lark Ascending (based on a poem by Meredith)Answer: Williams
Question: Sir John in Love (Shakesperarean opera featuring on Greensleeves)Answer: Williams
Question: Hugh the (opera)Answer: Vaughan
Question: The Pilgrim's (opera)Answer: Williams
Question: Studied with Max Bruch and Maurice Answer: Vaughan
Question: Served as a music editor for the English Hymnal (book, as well as Songs of and The Oxford Book of Carols)Answer: Williams
Question: (Blessed Be)Answer: Williams
Question: Job: A Masque of Answer: Williams
Question: a setting of to the Sea (by J.M. Synge, an Irish playwright)Answer: Vaughan
Question: Conducted at the Leith Hill Music Festival from 1909 to Answer: Vaughan
Question: 1873-1943Answer: Rachmaninoff
Question: Twice turned down of the Boston Symphony OrchestraAnswer:
Question: C-Sharp Minor Answer:
Question: Treated by in 1901Answer:
Question: Piano Concerto (known as Rocky II)Answer: Rachmaninoff
Question: The Isle of the Dead (symphonic poem)Answer:
Question: Moved to the U.S. in Answer: Rachmaninoff
Question: Rhapsody on a Theme of Answer: Rachmaninoff
Question: Took piano from his cousin Aleksander Siloti (who took from Liszt)Answer:
Question: Also studied with Arensky, Sergey Taneyev, and Peter TchaikovskyAnswer: Rachmaninoff
Question: (opera)Answer: Rachmaninoff
Question: 2nd Trio elegiaque (written in memory of )Answer:
Question: Liturgy of St. John Answer: Rachmaninoff
Question: The Bells (choral based on the poem by Poe)Answer: Rachmaninoff
Question: All-Night (Vesper Mass)Answer:
Question: Variations on a Theme of Answer:
 
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