A) 1945 B) 1973 C) 1960 D) 1923
A) Athlete B) Architect C) Composer D) Painter
A) Detroit, Michigan B) New York City, New York C) San Francisco, California D) Richmond, Indiana
A) Japan B) Brazil C) Russia D) France
A) French B) German C) Spanish D) Italian
A) Sculptors B) Poets C) Chefs D) Architects
A) The London Chronicles B) The New York Cookbook C) The Tokyo Journal D) The Paris Diary
A) Yale University B) Oxford University C) Juilliard School D) Sorbonne University
A) Gustavo Dudamel B) Arturo Toscanini C) Leonard Bernstein D) Herbert von Karajan
A) His symphonies, which have won numerous awards. B) His film scores, which are critically acclaimed. C) His art songs, which number over 500. D) His operas, which are widely performed.
A) Expressionist. B) Modernist. C) Minimalist. D) Neoromantic.
A) Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud. B) Margaret Bonds and Leo Sowerby. C) Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson. D) Nuta Rothschild and Belle Tannenbaum.
A) Leo Sowerby. B) Margaret Bonds. C) Ned Rorem. D) Clarence Rufus Rorem.
A) Rosemary. B) James Holmes. C) Paul Goodman. D) Marie-Laure de Noailles.
A) The Curtis Institute. B) The University of Chicago. C) The American Conservatory of Music. D) The Paris Conservatory.
A) Our Town. B) Seven different commissions for the American Bicentennial. C) Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra. D) Evidence of Things Not Seen.
A) The Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1976. B) The Grammy Award for Best Classical Composition. C) The Academy Award for Best Original Score. D) The Tony Award for Best Original Score.
A) Evidence of Things Not Seen. B) Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra. C) Seven different commissions for the American Bicentennial. D) The opera Our Town.
A) Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. B) Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. C) Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud. D) Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel.
A) Upper-class with a strong Catholic emphasis. B) Working-class with a strong Jewish emphasis. C) Upper middle-class, semi-bohemian with a strong Quaker emphasis. D) Middle-class with a strong Protestant emphasis.
A) The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. B) The American Conservatory of Music. C) The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. D) The Curtis Institute.
A) Margaret Bonds. B) Leo Sowerby. C) Nuta Rothschild. D) Belle Tannenbaum.
A) Maurice Ravel. B) Edvard Grieg. C) Igor Stravinsky. D) Claude Debussy.
A) Margaret Bonds. B) Belle Tannenbaum. C) Marie-Laure de Noailles. D) Nuta Rothschild.
A) The Quakers. B) Les Six. C) The Impressionists. D) The American Bicentennial.
A) 24 texts by 36 writers. B) 30 texts by 50 writers. C) 50 texts by 30 writers. D) 36 texts by 24 writers.
A) Quaker atheist. B) Protestant. C) Catholic. D) Jewish.
A) The American Conservatory of Music. B) The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. C) The Curtis Institute. D) The Paris Conservatory.
A) Leo Sowerby. B) Nuta Rothschild. C) Margaret Bonds. D) Paul Goodman.
A) Antiwar movements and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). B) The American Bicentennial. C) The Impressionist movement. D) The modernist aesthetic.
A) Bernard Wagenaar B) Rosario Scalero C) Gian Carlo Menotti D) Alfred Nolte
A) Gian Carlo Menotti B) Harold Van Horne C) Alfred Nolte D) Bernard Wagenaar
A) Mishel Piastro B) Aaron Copland C) Virgil Thomson D) Leonard Bernstein
A) 1943 B) 1946 C) 1942 D) 1940
A) Gian Carlo Menotti B) Rosario Scalero C) Bernard Wagenaar D) Alfred Nolte
A) The Lordly Hudson B) Overture in C C) The 70th Psalm D) Piano Sonata for Four Hands
A) He lost his allowance B) He moved to New York C) He wanted to study at Juilliard D) He considered Rosario Scalero unprogressive
A) Gian Carlo Menotti B) Alfred Nolte C) Rosario Scalero D) Bernard Wagenaar
A) Martha Graham B) Isadora Duncan C) Éva Gauthier D) Anna Pavlova
A) Cleveland Orchestra B) Philadelphia Orchestra C) New York Philharmonic D) Boston Symphony Orchestra
A) Leonard Bernstein B) Aaron Copland C) Mishel Piastro D) Virgil Thomson
A) 1952 B) 1951 C) 1949 D) 1950
A) Morocco B) Italy C) Spain D) Germany
A) Nature B) Four walls C) City life D) Travel
A) A Childhood Miracle B) Ballet for Jerry C) Dorian Gray D) Melos
A) Nadia Boulanger B) Arthur Honegger C) Jonathan Sternberg D) Julius Katchen
A) 1954 B) 1953 C) 1951 D) 1955
A) Grammy Award B) Fulbright Scholarship C) Pulitzer Prize D) Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund Award
A) Arthur Honegger B) Elliott Stein C) Nadia Boulanger D) Marie-Laure de Noailles
A) To a Young Girl B) Cycle of Holy Songs C) Flight for Heaven D) Poémes pour la paix
A) 1955 B) 1950 C) 1953 D) 1951
A) Piano Concerto No. 2 B) Symphony No. 1 C) A Childhood Miracle D) Poémes pour la paix
A) Julius Katchen B) Jonathan Sternberg C) Nadia Boulanger D) Arthur Honegger
A) Ludwig van Beethoven B) Johann Sebastian Bach C) Francis Poulenc D) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A) Nathaniel Hawthorne B) George Darley C) W. B. Yeats D) Robert Herrick
A) The Poet's Requiem B) Symphony No. 3 C) Piano Sonata No. 2 D) Ballet for Jerry
A) 1957 or 1958 B) 1955 C) 1965 D) 1960
A) New York Philharmonic B) Philadelphia Orchestra C) Chicago Symphony Orchestra D) Boston Symphony Orchestra
A) Eagles B) Miss Julie C) Poems of Love and Rain D) Symphony No. 3
A) Koussevitzky Foundation B) Ford Foundation C) Guggenheim Foundation D) Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation
A) 1960 to 1962 B) 1965 to 1967 C) 1959 to 1960 D) 1957 to 1958
A) They are essential for growth B) They enhance creativity C) They are unnecessary D) They lead to sterility
A) April 12, 1965 B) April 12, 1964 C) April 12, 1966 D) April 12, 1963
A) Depression B) Addiction to drugs C) Financial difficulties D) Alcoholism
A) He felt a sense of guilt B) He became more creative C) He felt a sense of peace D) An infantile regression takes place
A) Narcotics Anonymous B) Alcoholics Anonymous C) Gamblers Anonymous D) Overeaters Anonymous
A) Naltrexone B) Acamprosate C) Disulfiram D) Antabuse
A) Inspiration for new compositions B) Financial support C) Stability to abandon alcohol D) A teaching position
A) Provincetown, Massachusetts B) Nantucket, Massachusetts C) Boston, Massachusetts D) Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
A) The Emperor of Ice-Cream B) The Idea of Order at Key West C) Sunday Morning D) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
A) 1974 B) 1993 C) 1980 D) 1985
A) Philip Glass B) Steve Reich C) John Adams D) Daron Hagen
A) Mstislav Rostropovich B) Gary Graffman C) Leonard Bernstein D) Yo-Yo Ma
A) Transitions B) Ends C) Middles D) Beginnings
A) Transitions B) Ends C) Middles D) Beginnings
A) 1995 B) 1990 C) 2000 D) 2003
A) The Vietnam War B) The end of World War II C) The fall of the Berlin Wall D) The September 11 attacks
A) Aaron Copland B) Gustav Mahler C) Thomas Schippers D) Leonard Bernstein
A) Recalling Nadia B) The Last Waltz C) End of an Era D) Final Symphony
A) 110 B) 99 C) 85 D) 75
A) Strict modernist aesthetics B) Tonal music C) Piano accompaniments D) Song cycles
A) Theodore Roethke B) John Ashbery C) Walt Whitman D) Paul Goodman
A) Other languages B) Italian C) German D) French
A) Sylvia Plath B) Wallace Stevens C) Emily Dickinson D) Witter Bynner
A) Serialism B) Aleatoric music C) Renaissance-derived ground bass D) Minimalism
A) Mozart B) Bach C) Stravinsky D) Schumann
A) Frank O'Hara B) Kenneth Koch C) Robert Frost D) Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A) 1994 B) 1965 C) 2005 D) 1979
A) Kenward Elmslie B) August Strindberg C) Thornton Wilder D) Ned Rorem
A) It was based on the serialist tone row. B) It was performed in 1961. C) It was based on a Chaucer tale. D) It was written by Kenneth Koch.
A) Bertha B) Fables C) Hearing D) Three Sisters who are Not Sisters
A) Jascha Kessler B) Holmes C) Kenneth Koch D) Stein
A) The Anniversary B) Our Town C) The Robbers D) Miss Julie
A) Fragmented B) Condensed C) Elaborate D) Extended
A) Miss Julie B) Bertha C) Our Town D) The Robbers
A) Thornton Wilder B) Harold C. Schonberg C) Joshua Barone D) Kenneth Koch
A) Fables B) The Anniversary C) The Robbers D) Bertha
A) The Robbers B) Hearing C) The Anniversary D) Fables
A) 1960s B) 1950s C) 1940s D) 1970s
A) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 B) Ravel's Daphnis et Chloë C) Bach's Brandenburg Concertos D) Mozart's Requiem |