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Music 104 -- Final Examination -- Dec. 15, 1976
I. On text. (Closed Book, no notes) (c.40' 20% credit)
Write a few lines on each of the following. Include dates where pertinent.
1. Aaron Copland 5. Virgil Thomson
2. Benjamin Britten 6. Walter Piston
3. Paul Hindemith 7. Roy Harris
4. Serge Prokofiev 8. Edgard Varese
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On the following questions you may use your notes. (Not the text book.)
II. (c.45' 30% credit)
Visual analysis: 3 excerpts. Describe the important stylistic features of
each excerpt. Tell what composers might have written such a work and the
approximate date of composition.
III. (c.40' 25% credit)
Discuss the development of 12-tone and serial music from the time just
before the first 12-tone work up to the 1950s.
IV. (c.40' 25% credit)
Write on the various means 20th century composers have employed to replace
or extend the unifying power of functional tonality.