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The “white tone” singing style in the vocal part of George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children is a style in which the singer:
Sings without vibrato
How many movements make up the Quartet for the End of Time?
Eight
The phrases that mention death in Crumb’s Caballito Negro are represented musically by:
A descending music line
How many books of madrigal sets did George Crumb write?
Four
Which instrument in Vocalise from the Quartet for the End of Time is instructed to play like “sweet cascades of blue-orange chords”?
piano
What instruments make up the quartet in this piece?
violin, cello, clarinet, and piano
What instruments accompany the voice in Crumb’s Caballito negro?
Metallic percussion and flute
When did Messiaen write his Quartet for the End of Time?
while in a POW camp
The tempo of the second movement of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time varies throughout.
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True
Which composer has written several compositions on the poetry of Federico García Lorca?
Crumb
Whose poetry did George Crumb set in his second book of madrigals?
Federico Garcia Lorca
The recomposition of his own works is central to Pierre Boulez’s creative activity.
True
Which of George Crumb’s works won a Pulitzer Prize in 1968?
Echoes of Time and the River
George Crumb wrote his song cycle Ancient Voices of Children expressly for:
Jan DeGaetani
George Crumb is representative of avant-garde composition in the United States.
True
In the opening of Vocalise from the Quartet for the End of Time, the clarinet’s part can be described as:
Disjunct passages with trills
Which is NOT true of Boulez’s Notations IV?
The work makes use electronically enhanced insturments
In composing, Crumb uses techniques and instruments from various world musics.
True
Which composer greatly influenced Pierre Boulez?
Messiaen
Influenced by the approach of Anton Webern, Boulez was inspired to:
extend serialsm to include elements beside pitch
The angel’s muted song in Vocalise from the Quartet for the End of Time is represented musically by the:
violin and cello
Notations IV uses a kind of serialism that breaks tone rows into 6-note rows (hexachords).
True
Technically, avant-garde music is highly demanding.
True
Boulez originally wrote his 12 Notations for:
solo piano
Which pianist specialized in avant-garde piano performance?
David Tudor
The prevalent rhythm in Crumb’s Caballito negro is meant to:
emulate the sound of a galloping horse
The harmony in Crumb’s Caballito negro is primarily:
atonal
Soprano Cathy Berberian is known for:
specializing in acant garde singing
Contemporary music rarely calls for highly virtuosic performance skills.
False
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