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Patrick Gilmore died in
St. Louis
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Gilmore composed using the pseudonym
Louis Lambert
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Complete scales became possible on brass instruments through the development of
keys similar to those on woodwind instruments
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The most important bandleader in the United States before Sousa was
Patrick Gilmore
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The Saxhorn family of instruments and the Saxaphone family of instruments are the same thing
false
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Sousa became the director of
The Marine Band
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The Sousaphone is
A bass tuba built to Sousa's specifications
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Sousa dedicated this march to the Highty Tighties
Hands across the Sea
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1876 to 1926 is called
- the Golden age of the band in america
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- the Golden age of the march
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Arthur Pryor was a ________ with the Sousa Band
Trombonist
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The director of the new sousa band is
brion
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which of the following composers is a graduate of VT?
J. Scott McKenzie
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1881 by
Henry Lee Higginson
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Many portraits of famous bostonians were painted by
Sargent
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the current conductor of the BSO is
James Levine
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Theodore Thomas was the founder of the
chicago symphony
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this conductor raised the playing standards of american orchestras
Theodore Thomas
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Isabella stweart Gardner was a great patroness of the arts. In addition to her support of music in Boston, she also created and art museum with her personal collection. This museum, The Gardner Museum, was originally called
Fenway Court
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All these artists (Vermeer, Rembrandt, Manet, Degas, Flinck) have this in common
their work was stolen from the Garner Museum
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Appointed Music Instructor at Harvard in 1862
John Knowles Paine
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Director of the new wngland conservatory from 1897 to 1931
george chadwick
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teacher of charles ives
horatio parker
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the most preeminent woman composer at the turn of the century (19th to 20th)
amy marcy cheney
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composer of symphonic sketches
Chadwick
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which contry held cultural power over american music life at the end of the 19th century?
germany
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this composer has been called french american
charles martin loeffler
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the unusual instrument called for in Leoffler's "La mort de Tintagiles" is the
viola d'amore
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henry f. gilbert's "Dance in Place Congo" takes its title from
Congo Square in New Orleans
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what is a Flivver?
a model T Ford
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Krazy Kat is a
Ballet and a cartoon by george harriman
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diaghilev is/was
impresario of the ballets russe
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engelbert humperdinck composed
hansel and gretel
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who wrote "In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a stately pleasure done decree"?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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the american opera company and the national conservatory of music were both gounded by
jeannette thurber
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the director of the national conservatory of music was
antonin dvorak
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dvorak's symphony no. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, "From the New World", is based on American Fold Music
True, but no folk songs were used
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who wrote the words to the second movement of dvorak's New World Symphony, Going Home?
William Arms Fisher
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Harry Thacker Burleigh is best known for his
arrangements of Spirituals
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the first person to sing a recital consisting entirely of Spirituals was
paul robeson
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the first person to use a phonograph to record native american music was
j. walter Fewkes
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who proposed to publish american compositions including ragtime, Negro songs, Indian songs, Cowboy songs, and other new and daring expressions?
Arthur Farwell
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the publishing company founded by arthur farwell in 1901 was called
the wa wan press
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the first black composer to be extensively published was
william grant still
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william grant still first heard an orchestra at
Oberlin
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the style period of literature and art inNYC during the 1920s and 1930s is called
the harlem renaissance
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william grant still wroked as an arranger for
paul whiteman
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the first symphony by a black american composer to be performed by a major american orchestra was
william grant still's Afro-American symphony
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scott joplin's Treemonisha is
an opera
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the musical structure of Joplin's maple leaf rag is
AABBA (trio) CCDD
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this composer thought of musical textures in terms of color
duke ellington
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best known as a jazz musician, this composer was working on an opera, Queenie Pie, during his last hours.
Duke Ellington
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Charles Ives' teacher at Yale was
Horatio Parker
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The champion of ive's music was
henry cowell
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pianist John Kirkpatrick performed Ives' __________ at Town Hall in 1939. This performance brought Ives' music to the attention of the public
the "Concord" sonata
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charles ives recieved the pulitzer prize for
The Third Symphony
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who said "Don't pay too much attention to the sounds for if you do, you may miss the music."
George Ives
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what american composer studied with Nadia Boulanger at the american conservatory in france from 1921 to 1924?
Aaron Copland
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who was once described as the dean of modern american composers?
aaron copland
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who managed to capture the essence of america in his music?
aaron copland
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Virgil Thomson called him "the President of...American Music"
Aaron Copland
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George Gershwin was a longtime student of Nadia Boulanier
False
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the orchestrator of "Rhapsody in Blue" was
Ferde Grofe
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Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" was premiered by
Paul Whiteman and his orchestra
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Gershwin only composed "popular" music
false: he was a true musician who composed in many styles
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Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" is best described as an/a
Opera and a Broadway Show
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The composer of the "Jazz Symphony" was
Antheil
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