Santa Fe New Music Advanced Quiz

Santa Fe New Music is about the music of our time - an eclectic range of styles, aesthetics, methods, and approaches to the ever changing world of new music.

We invite you to test your knowledge with the Santa Fe New Music advanced online quiz. Answer these questions to see how much you know about 20th century composers, conductors, famous pieces, popular styles, and much, much more!

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1. Which living American composer has appeared in "South Park"? (Hint - he also wrote the music for a Jim Carrey movie, among many others.)
John Adams
Steve Reich
Phillip Glass
David Lang
2. The opera "Nixon in China" by John Adams is written in which 20th century style?
Impressionist
Serialist
Minimalist
Aleatoric
3. Following "Nixon in China," which opera about current events did Adams compose?
Ollie and the Contras
The Death of Klinghoffer
Professor Atom
Talk Show Opera
4. If, as composer and leading new music critic Kyle Gann say, in the mid- 1980's, the "Downtown" New York composer scene began winning over the "Uptown" (academia) school that had dominated much of the mid-century, 12-tone compositional trends, which composer would NOT be worried for his or her ability to make a living?
Elliot Carter
Milton Babbit
Pauline Oliveros
Charles Wuorinen
5. John Cage's infamous composition 4'33" is a piece that lasts four minutes 33 seconds and calls for no notes or sounds. The piece was premiered in 1952 and became notorious for its approach. How many movements does the piece have?
One
Two
Three
Four
6. Which of these composers would NOT generally be associated with the Fluxus movement?
John Cage
Yoko Ono
Steve Reich
Christian Wolff
7. Gyorgy Ligeti, the Romanian composer who died in 2006, may best be remembered for the various pieces featured in the Stanley Kubrick films 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Eyes Wide Shut. His 1962 piece "Poeme Symphonique," programmed by SFNM in 2003, features 100 of what "instrument"?
Clocks
Metronomes
Wind-up toys
Player Pianos
8. Which 1970's work by Steve Reich brought minimalism to the wider public and was a hit as an LP album?
Grooving Phases
Music in 4 Parts for 80 Musicians
Music On and On to the Sunset
Music for 18 Musicians
9. Which of these famous classical music conductors is NOT also a composer?
Michael Tilson Thomas
James Levine
Esa Pekka Salonen
Pierre Boulez
10. What string quartet has specialized in the music of our time for over 30 years and released dozens of widely available CDs?
Crow Nose Quartet
Julliard String Quartet
Tokyo String Quartet
Kronos Quartet
11. Name the notorious work by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died last December.
Underwater Brass Quintet
Helicopter String Quartet
Orgy for Orchestra
Drumming on the Moon
12. Which Fluxus era work did SFNM Artistic Director John Kennedy perform the second known performance of while a student at Oberlin?
Nam June Paik - Danger Music for Dick Higgins: Creep Into the Vagina of a Living Whale
Yoko Ono - Cut Piece
Nam June Paik - The Young Penis Symphony
Annea Lockwood - Piano Burning

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