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MUS 566 Final Exam Listening Qs Study Guide

The document provides a study guide for a listening exam with 10 questions about classical music compositions. It instructs students to identify the composer, work, genre, and form for each piece based on clues like the instruments, number of performers, and presence of vocals. The guide lists 27 compositions that may appear on the exam, ranging from works by Varèse, Copland, Carter, Villa-Lobos, and others. Students are advised to think through the instrumental and vocal characteristics to determine the genre and piece's form.

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MUS 566 Final Exam Listening Qs Study Guide

The document provides a study guide for a listening exam with 10 questions about classical music compositions. It instructs students to identify the composer, work, genre, and form for each piece based on clues like the instruments, number of performers, and presence of vocals. The guide lists 27 compositions that may appear on the exam, ranging from works by Varèse, Copland, Carter, Villa-Lobos, and others. Students are advised to think through the instrumental and vocal characteristics to determine the genre and piece's form.

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MUS 566 Final Exam Listening Qs Study Guide

There are 10 listening questions, each worth 1 point for a total of 10 points. Name the
composer, work, genre and form.

Thinking it through:
Is it purely instrumental work? What are the instruments and how many, one, two or more? Is
there a solo instrument? Is there a voice? How many? Is there instrumental accompaniment?
What kind of accompaniment? Based on all of this, you can at least determine the genre and
possibly form. Then, think, who wrote in that genre and what is the likely possibility.

(1) Varèse, Hyperprism


(2) Varèse, Poeme electronique
(3) Copland, Appalachian Spring (excerpt)
(4) Copland, In the Beginning
(5) Copland, Inscape (1967)
(6) Elliott Carter, String Quartet no. 2, mov. I
(7) Chavez, Tambuco for percussion
(8) Heitor Villa-Lobos, Symphony no. 11 (excerpt)
(9) Ginastera, Sonata for Guitar, 1976
(10) Astor Piazzolla, La camorra I
(11) Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time, Mov. I
(12) Messiaen, Four Rhythm Studies, no. 2, Mode de valeurs et d’intensités
(13) Pierre Boulez, Structures I (1a)
(14) Stockhausen, Unsichtbare Chöre (Invisible Choirs)
(15) John Cage, Bacchanale for prepared piano
(16) Cage, Sonatas and Interludes, Sonata V
(17) Lou Harrison, Pacifica Rondo
(18) Witold Lutosławski, Muzyka Zalobna
(19) Henryk Górecki, Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra
(20) Krzysztof Penderecki, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
(21) György Ligeti, Piano Etude no. 9, Vertige
(22) Alfred Shnitke, Concerto Grosso no. 1, mov. II, Toccata
(23) Arvo Pärt, Miserere
(24) Terry Riley, In C
(25) Steve Reich, Tehilim
(26) Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach
(27) Gabriela Lena Frank, Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, Toyos, Canto de velorio,
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