Groves: Stravinsky, Modernism, Neo-classicism
Music in the Western World: pp. 438-443, 465-7

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Use the questions to guide your note-taking. Do not quote verbatim from the book without putting quotes around it. When taking the quiz, try to paraphrase as much as possible, but if you have to use something verbatim, use quotation marks and cite the source.

questions:

1) Who was Stravinsky's composition teacher?

2) What caused the riot at the premiere of The Rite of Spring?

3) What is Neo-classicism?

4) What are some issues with the term Neo-classicism?

5) What are some synonyms fro "modern" that were in use before 1900?

6) What has Modernism come to mean in the 20th century?

7) What non-muscal aspects of life were early Modernists reacting to?

8) How did Modernists feel about audiences?

9) How did audiences feel about Modernists?

10) What are the five strands of Modernism?

11) How does Stravinsky describe The Rite of Spring?

12) How does Schoenberg feel about Stravinsky?

13) What does Stravinsky say about Schoenberg's music?