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You Gotta Know - 20th Century Composers - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 38 times
- The average score is 32 of 88
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Appalachian spring | Copland | 90%
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| Porgy and Bess | Gerschwin | 90%
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| 4'33" | Cage | 70%
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| Peter and the Wolf | Prokofiev | 70%
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| The Rite of Spring | Stravinsky | 70%
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| The Firebird | Stravinsky | 70%
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| Peter Grimes | Britten | 60%
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| The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra | Britten | 60%
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| Rhapsody in Blue | Gerschwin | 60%
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| Bolero | Ravel | 60%
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| Soviet Russian, lived during the second world war | Shostakovich | 60%
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| Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District | Shostakovich | 60%
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| Seventh/Leningrad Symphony (conciliatory symphony) | Shostakovich | 60%
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| Fled Hungary for the US in 1940 | Bartok | 50%
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| War Requiem | Britten | 50%
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| Known as the UK's opera reviver | Britten | 50%
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| Rodeo | Copland | 50%
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| Second Piano Concerto | Rachmaninoff | 50%
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| Fifth Symphony (conciliatory symphony) | Shostakovich | 50%
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| Petrushka | Stravinsky | 50%
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| The Lark Ascending - Based on a George Meredith poem | Vaughan Williams | 50%
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| Music For Strings, Percussion, and Celesta | Bartok | 40%
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| Student of Schoenberg, considered a Dada Composer, invented prepared piano | Cage | 40%
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| Billy the Kid | Copland | 40%
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| Third Symphony, Contains Fanfare for the Common Man | Copland | 40%
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| Classical (first of his seven symphonies) | Prokofiev | 40%
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| The Isle of the Dead - Symphonic Poem | Rachmaninoff | 40%
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| C-Sharp Minor Prelude | Rachmaninoff | 40%
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| La Valse | Ravel | 40%
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| Pavane for a Dead Princess | Ravel | 40%
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| "Rapsodie espagnole" | Ravel | 40%
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| Daphnis et Chloe | Ravel | 40%
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| Mother Goose | Ravel | 40%
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| Re-orchestrated "Pictures at an Exhibition" | Ravel | 40%
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| Influenced by Wagner and Strauss, taught Berg and Webern | Schoenberg | 40%
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| Transfigured Night | Schoenberg | 40%
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| Pierrot Lunaire | Schoenberg | 40%
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| Twelfth Symphony (conciliatory symphony) | Shostakovich | 40%
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| Symphony of Psalms | Stravinsky | 40%
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| The Rake's Progress | Stravinsky | 40%
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| First Symphony (Sea) | Vaughan Williams | 40%
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| Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis | Vaughan Williams | 40%
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| The Miraculous Mandarin | Bartok | 30%
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| Duke Bluebeard's Castle | Bartok | 30%
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| Mikrokosmos | Bartok | 30%
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| Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge | Britten | 30%
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| Death in Venice | Britten | 30%
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| The Turn of the Screw | Britten | 30%
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| American, studied under Boulanger | Copland | 30%
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| Music for the Theatre | Copland | 30%
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| El' Salon Mexico | Copland | 30%
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| Three Places in New England | Ives | 30%
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| From America, studied Music at Yale, found Insurance Sales more lucrative | Ives | 30%
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| Second Piano (Concord) Sonata - (With movements named from Hawthorne, Waldo Emerson, Alcott, David Thoreau | Ives | 30%
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| Russian, worked for Diaghilev and Ballets Russes, died on same day as Stalin | Prokofiev | 30%
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| The Love for Three Oranges | Prokofiev | 30%
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| Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini | Rachmaninoff | 30%
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| From Austria Originally | Schoenberg | 30%
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| Thirteenth Symphony (Babi Yar, condemned antisemitism) | Shostakovich | 30%
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| The Nose | Shostakovich | 30%
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| Pravda (criticized by Stalin) | Shostakovich | 30%
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| Studied under Rimsky-Korsakov, worked with Diaghilev and Auden | Stravinsky | 30%
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| Agon | Stravinsky | 30%
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| Seventh Symphony (Sinfonia Antarctica) | Vaughan Williams | 30%
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| Second Symphony (London) | Vaughan Williams | 30%
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| The Wooden Prince | Bartok | 20%
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| Billy Bud (Opera version) | Britten | 20%
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| Lincoln Portrait | Copland | 20%
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| What to Listen For in Music (Book) | Copland | 20%
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| Swanee (Song sang by Al Jolson) | Gerschwin | 20%
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| Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra | Gerschwin | 20%
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| General William Booth Enters Into Heaven (Song) | Ives | 20%
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| The Prodigal's Son | Prokofiev | 20%
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| Alexander Nevsky | Prokofiev | 20%
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| Twice Turned down the conductorship of the Boston Symphony Orchestra | Rachmaninoff | 20%
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| Student of Faure, died because unsuccessful brain surgery | Ravel | 20%
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| Moses and Aron | Schoenberg | 20%
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| Third Symphony (Pastoral) | Vaughan Williams | 20%
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| Imaginary Landscape No. 4 | Cage | 10%
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| Organ Symphony | Copland | 10%
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| Died of Brain Tumor at age 38 | Gerschwin | 10%
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| Third Symphony - Won Pulitzer Prize | Ives | 10%
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| A Survivor from Warsaw | Schoenberg | 10%
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| Moved to Los Angeles in 1933 to flee Nazi Persecution | Schoenberg | 10%
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| The Pilgrim's Progress | Vaughan Williams | 10%
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| Hugh Drover | Vaughan Williams | 10%
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| Sir John in Love - Shakespearean Opera | Vaughan Williams | 10%
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| Of Thee I Sing - Wins Pulitzer Prize For Drama | Gerschwin | 0%
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