music

Activity 3

Read each statement carefully and identify who is being referred to in each
statement. Write the initials of the composer. (ex: Claude Debussy = CD or Maurice
Ravel-MR)

1. He entered the Paris Conservatory at the age of 14.
2. He used Hungarian folk themes and rhythms.
3. He won the Prix de Rome competition in music.
4. His works were met with extreme reactions, either strong hostility from
the public or enthusiastic acclaim from his supporters.
5. Despite its "shocking" modernity, his music is also very structured,
precise, controlled, full of artifice, and theatricality
6. His early career is characterized by his big ballets.
7. He created the twelve-tone scale.
8. He is one of the leaders of Hungarian Nationalism.
9. He changed the course of musical development by dissolving traditional
rules and conventions into a new language of possibilities in harmony, rhythm, form,
texture, and color.
10. He is the composer of "Miroirs"​