Chapter 43 Quiz

National Styles
. Which piece discussed in this chapter was banned by the Russian authorities?

. Which composer discussed in this chapter wrote film music, symphonies, and a wealth of vocal music?

. Hungarian composer Béla Bartók often quoted folk melodies that he had collected, but also wrote in a freely modernist style inspired by folk tunes without directly quoting them.

. Many modern commentators suggest that Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was actually an oblique protest against the strict artistic policies of tsarist Russia.

. Listen to the excerpt from Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. What instrumental forces are "competing" in this section?

. Listen to the excerpt from the second movement of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Which theme is displayed here?

. Match the Britten opera to its source in literature.

Peter Grimes

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Billy Budd

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The Turn of the Screw

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Death in Venice

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