malik@delphi.DEC (Karl Malik ZK01-1/F22 1-1440) (06/13/84)
Answers to Malik's
CONTEMPORARY MUSIC QUIZ
Only 4 people entered my quiz. And the winner is
***Bruce Parker** (with 10 correct answers)
Runners up Jeff Winslow (with 6)
Bruce Kinmonth (with 3)
Rich Rosen (with 1)
The answers are ->
Name the composer of the following works -
1) 'Le Marteau sans Maitre' (Pierre Boulez)
2) 'Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima' (Krystof Penderecki)
3) 'Zeitmasse' (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
4) 'Violin Phase' (Steve Reich)
5) 'A Rainbow in Curved Air' (Terry Riley)
6) 'Available Forms' (Earle Brown) (only Jeff got this, he also tells me that
he once took a class from him!)
7) 'Trio for Flute, Piano and Page-turner' (this is a toughy) (Pauline Oliveros)
8) 'Wolfman' (for solo voice, usually performed along with 'Fourth of July')
(Robert Ashley)
9) 'Lyric Suite for Violin and 16 lightbulbs' (just kidding)
Misc. questions -
10) How many string quartets did Charles Ives write? (2) (Bruce Parker also
mentioned a Scherzo for String quartet, which I'm unfamiliar with)
11) What instrument has the composer, Conlon Nancarrow, specialized in writing
for? (Player piano) (Only Bruce P, got this, if you haven't heard his stuff,
you really should give it a try. The best sampler is a Columbia Masterworks
recording (on the Music of our Time series) called 'Music for Player Piano'.
I guarantee that you've heard absolutely nothing like it. His complete works
are being recorded on Arch records.)
12) What American Minimalist composer once appeared in an ad for Cutty-Sark
whiskey in Gentleman's Quarterly? (Phil Glass) (I laughed out loud when I
saw the ad - will we be seeing Reich doing blue-jeans commercials next?)
13) With what style/system of music is the composer, Milton Babitt associated?
(Serialism/total serialism/Princeton Serialism)
14) What was the cause of Anton Webern's death?
(Shot by an American GI (MP?) after WWII, while smoking a cigar on his
back porch.) (I guess Bruce K, did a famous deaths quiz a while ago. I never
got it and didn't know this question was a duplicate.)
15) Who said the following - 'He <John Cage> is no composer, but an inventor
of genius'.
(Arnold Schonberg) (Shame on you, Jeff, for not getting this one. Cage
studied with Schonberg at UCLA.)
Hope you had fun ...decvax!decwrl!rhea!star!malik
,Karl