Are You A New Music Buff?

This will quiz you on your knowledge of New Music composers, of the Modernist era until today. Don't be afraid to have a go, you can write down the answers as you go along, then do it all again, and get 100%!

Do you know your Atonalism from your Dodecaphonics? Can you spot a 'Chance' piece at a hundred paces? Do you know the different between New Complexity and New Order? If yes, then this could be for you!

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  1. Which notable composer wrote the book 'Harmonielehre'?
  2. Which influential composer is currently a Prof. at Stanford University and a visiting Prof. at University of London?
  3. Which organisation is the UK national agency for New Music?
  4. Which highly publicised, and very well known, composer wrote the piece 4'33''?
  5. Which important composer wrote the work "Five Bagatelles" in 1962?
  6. Which brilliant composer wrote 'King Harald's Saga'?
  7. Which piece by the composer Iannis Xenakis uses a macrostructure of 7x28 cells, populated with data produced by the Poisson Distribution?
  8. Which pre-eminent English virtuoso soprano, is perhaps best known for her insightful, and now benchmark performance of Schoenberg's 'Pierrot Lunaire'?
  9. Which prolific composer, who lived in the forest, claimed to be able to channel 'cosmic energy' into his music?
  10. Which pre-eminent composer wrote 'The Everlasting Crown'?

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