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- 1Name two important technological inventions of the late 1800s that were influential to the creation of early electronic music.Telephone, Phonograph
- 2Luigi Russolo is known for his design and creation of what instrument?Intonarumori
- 3Luigi Russolo wrote his manifesto titled ______________________________ in 1913.Art of Noises
- 4Luigi Russolo is often regarded as one of the first ______________________________ composers.Noise music
- 5Who invented the Telharmonium?Cahill
- 6The Telharmonium transmitted to the listener’s home music through ______________________________.Telephone Wires
- 7Briefly describe how the Theremin is played.One hand controls pitch, one hand controls volume, you don’t touch the instrument
- 8What was another name for an early Theremin?Ether phone
- 9______________________________ was a Theremin virtuoso and she toured as a recitalist on the instrument.Clara Rockmore
- 10The Ondes Martenot is an offspring of what other electronic music instrument?Theremin
- 11Briefly describe the design/construction of the Ondes Martenot.Keyboard, ring controller to change pitch, button for sound
- 12The Ondes Martenot has seen a revival in its use due to the efforts of ______________________________, the guitarist for the band ______________________________.Johnny Greenwood, Radiohead
- 13John Cage studied music composition primarily with what famous modern classical music composer?Arnold Schonberg
- 14Cage studied and was influenced by the philosophy and religion of ______________________________.Zen Buddhism
- 15John Cage would often use the ancient Chinese divination book called ______________________________ in his compositional methods.E ching
- 16Name one of John Cage’s musical inventions?Water gong, prepared piano
- 17Cage is famous for saying “try as we may to make a ___________________________________, we cannot.”Silence
- 18John Cage is known for his indeterminate compositions. Another term for this is ______________________________.Aleatoric music
- 19John Cage is cited as one of the first composers to write ______________________________ music, which combines the use of electronic devices with traditional musical instruments.Electroacoustic
- 20Poéme Èlectronique was composed for what international event?1958 World’s Fair Brussels
- 21There were more than __________ speakers in the walls of the Philips Pavilion for the first performance of Poéme Èlectronique.400
- 22Varèse is also known for his works for percussion ensemble including Ionisation, which introduced the ______________________________ as a musical instrument.Siren
- 23Varèse was, at one point, very unhappy with his music leading to a __________ year hiatius.20
- 24______________________________ is defined as the character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch or intensity.Timbre
- 25Musique concrète can be based on sounds that are ______________________________ or ______________________________.Real, electronic
- 26Pierre Schaeffer thought that composers should stop working as artists and creators and instead become ______________________________ of sound and acoustics.Researchers
- 27Pierre Schaeffer saw musique concrète as a sonic analog to ______________________________.Photography
- 28Hugh LeCaine’s Dripsody is composed from a single audio sample of what sound?Drop of Water
- 29Dripsody is mostly based around what musical scale?Pentatonic
- 30What is the name of the early synthesizer invented by Hugh LeCaine?Electric sackbut
- 31Xannis Xenakis’ Concret PH is composed from audio samples of what sound?Burning charcoal
- 32Concret PH was composed for what international event?1958 World Fair, Brussels
- 33Xenakis also had a career in what other field?Architecture
- 34Xenakis created music based on mathematics and probability called ______________________________ music.Stochastic
- 35Karlheinz Stockhausen appears on the cover of what popular music album?Sargent Pepper and the Lonely Heart Club Band
- 36Stockhausen’s experiments in Elektronische Musik were pieces of music made from ______________________________ sounds.Electronically produced synthetic sounds
- 37Name one of the many styles of modern composition that Stockhausen used in his music.Pointillism, serialism, indeterminate
- 38Name the polarizing composer that made controversial statements about the 9/11 tragedy.Stockhausen
- 39Name one of the four men that founded the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.Milton Babbit, Ussachzevsky, Leuning, Roger Sessions
- 40Music from the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center was mainly composed on what instrument?RCA Mark II electronic music synthesizer
- 41The Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center was founded by a grant from what foundation?Rockafeller
- 42The Mark II Sound Synthesizer was operated using the _____________________________ method similar to a player piano.Punch card
- 43Otto Luening and Valdimir Ussachevsky were professors at what university?Columbia University
- 44Otto Luening’s composition Low Speed uses recorded improvisations of a ______________________________ that are to be played back and performed over in a live setting.Flute improvisation
- 45Milton Babbitt’s work Philomel uses the compositional technique of ______________________________, a style that seeks to structure and control every element of pitch, rhythm, dynamics and articulation.Serialism
- 46Steve Reich is one of the pioneers of musical ______________________________.Minimalism
- 47Steve Reich’s particular style of composing used in such pieces as Come Out, and Pendulum Music involves repetitions of sound that goes in and out of ______________________________.Phase
- 48Minimalism is described as a compositional practice that relies heavily on ______________________________.Repetition
- 49Reich stated, “I do not mean the process of composition, but rather pieces of music that are, literally, _____________________________.Processes
- 50What is the occupation of the person whose voice is heard in the composition It’s Gonna Rain?Preacher
- 51Steve Reich is originally from ______________________________.New York
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