Grove: Schnittke
handout from New Music Box: interview with Joan Jeanrenaud
For those who did not pick it up in class, it's in my mailbox in 420 Whitehead.

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 Do not quote verbatim from the book without putting quotes around it.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) In addition to concert music, what else did Schnittke actively write for?

2) How was Schnittke viewed by the Union of Composers?

3) What caused Schnittke to abandon serialism?

4) What are some characteristics of Schnittke's music, according to the Grove's article?

5) At the beginning of its career, what kind of music did the Kronos quartet play?

6) How did the Kronos quartet get around the problem of management dictating what kind of music they should play?

7) Why, in the opinion of Joan Jeanrenaud and Frank Oteri, do audiences not respond to contemporary music?

8) Why did Jeanrenaud leave Kronos?

9) Why does Jeanrenaud like working with composers?

10) What was the Kronos quartet's feelings about working with living composers?

11) Why should children play the electric cello?