Question: What style does 20th century classical music encompass?
Answer: post-Romantic

Question: When did modernism take place?
Answer: 1890–1930

Question: Composers rejected the traditions of the common practice period during what era?
Answer: Modernism

Question: Neo-classical music emerged during what era?
Answer: high-modern era

Question: Postmodern music is also know as what?
Answer: contemporary music

Question: What gender are most composers described in music textbooks?
Answer: male

Question: Who asked why is music composed by women so marginal to the standard 'classical' repertoire?
Answer: Musicologist Marcia Citron

Question: Why were women composers deemed not notable?
Answer: did not write many symphonies

Question: Who is one of the only female composers mentioned?
Answer: Clara Shumann

Question: What type of music did women composers typically write?
Answer: art songs

Question: What type of view is that classical music is primarily written musical tradition?
Answer: modernist

Question: Musical notation is effective for what?
Answer: transmitting classical music

Question: Why is written musical notation effective? 
Answer: contains the technical instructions for performing the work

Question: Did student who actively listen to classical music before studying have higher or lower scores?
Answer: higher

Question: What happened to the scores of students who listened to rock and roll or country?
Answer: moderately lower

Question: Who experience a significant leap in their academic performance?
Answer: students who used classical during the course of study

Question: Who conducted the research study?
Answer: University of Colorado

Question: What years was the study conducted in?
Answer: 1996–1997

Question: Which composer had an effect named after him?
Answer: Mozart

Question: Who wrote a book on the Mozart effect?
Answer: Don Campbell

Question: Where was the experiment originally published?
Answer: Nature

Question: How many IQ points of a students' does the Mozart effect temporarily boost?
Answer: 8 to 9 points

Question: How much did the Governor of Georgia budget per year to provide every child with a CD of classical music?
Answer: $105,000

Question: What harmed the music industry in the 20th century according to Shawn Vancour?
Answer: the commercialization of classical music

Question: Who argued that the commercialization of classical music was harmful to the music industry?
Answer: Shawn Vancour

Question: Why was the commercialization of classical music harmful to the music industry according the Shawn Vancour? 
Answer: inadequate representation.

Question: Works from the Golden Age of music matches action to what?
Answer: classical music

Question: Who produced Fantasia?
Answer: Walt Disney

Question: Who starred in Johann Mouse?
Answer: Tom and Jerry

Question: Who produced Rabbit of Seville?
Answer: Warner Bros

Question: Who produced What's Opera, Doc?
Answer: Warner Bros

Question: What does classical music convey in movies and television?
Answer: refinement or opulence

Question: What piece by Vivaldi is used as a cliche to convey opulence?
Answer: Four Seasons

Question: What piece by Mozart is used as a cliche to convey refinement?
Answer: Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Question: Who wrote William Tell Overture?
Answer: Rossini

Question: Who wrote Night on Bald Mountain?
Answer: Mussorgsky

Question: What does the written score not usually contain explicitly? 
Answer: instructions

Question: Interpretations of written score is left to whom?
Answer: performers

Question: Performers can use their knowledge of what to help interpret a written score?
Answer: the work's idiom

Question: Improvisation is integral before what took a high significance?
Answer: the score

Question: When did oral tradition disappear?
Answer: the 20th century

Question: There is still controversy about how to perform works, even though scores provide what?
Answer: key elements of the music

Question: A score-centric approach strictly emphasizes what?
Answer: block-rhythms

Question: What once played an important role in classical music?
Answer: Improvisation

Question: Where can a remnant of improvisation tradition be found?
Answer: cadenza

Question: What can solo performers exhibit during a cadenza?
Answer: their virtuoso skills on the instrument

Question: What type of performances of Baroque ear Operas require improvisation?
Answer: authentic performances

Question: An example of improvisation in an opera is Beverly Sills variation of what movement of Handel's Giulio Cesare?
Answer: Da tempeste il legno infranto

Question: How are staples of classical music often used?
Answer: commercially

Question: TV commercials using Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra have now become what?
Answer: clichéd

Question: What piece is often used in the horror genre?
Answer: "O Fortuna" of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

Question: Who wrote Ride of the Valkyries?
Answer: Wagner

Question: Who wrote in the Hall of the Mountain King?
Answer: Edvard Grieg

Question: Folk musicians are not commonly what?
Answer: classically trained

Question: What music comes from those commonly trained by oral tradition?
Answer: folk music

Question: Dovrak has used what type of themes to impart a nationalist flavor?
Answer: folk

Question: Who used specific themes lifted from folk-music?
Answer: Bartók

Question: How are performers expected to play a work due to written transmission?
Answer: in a way that realizes in detail the original intentions of the composer

Question: When did details that composers put in their scores increase?
Answer: the 19th century

Question: Admiration of performers for new interpretations can be seen when composers feel the performer achieve what?
Answer: a better realization of the original intent than the composer

Question: What do classical performers often achieve?
Answer: high reputations for their musicianship

Question: When was improvisation in classical music performance common?
Answer: the Baroque and early romantic eras

Question: When did improvisation begin to lessened strongly?
Answer: the second half of the 19th and in the 20th centuries

Question: What part did Mozart and Beethoven often improvise?
Answer: the cadenzas to their piano concertos

Question: What is the name for the practice of singing strictly by the score in opera?
Answer: come scritto

Question: Who strongly supposed ome scritto?
Answer: soprano Maria Callas

Question: Popular music from the composer's time was incorporation into what?
Answer: Classical music

Question: What did Brahms sometimes use in his Academic Festival Overture?
Answer: student drinking songs

Question: What type of music was Maurice Ravel influenced by?
Answer: jazz

Question: Who wrote The Threepenny Opera?
Answer: Kurt Weill

Question: What type of music do certain composers acknowledge a debt to?
Answer: popular

Question: Pachelbel's Canon has influenced popular songs since what decade?
Answer: the 1970s

Question: What phenomenon sees classical musicians achieving success in popular music?
Answer: the musical crossover phenomenon

Question: Baroque or Classical era influence can be seen in what modern musical style?
Answer: heavy metal

Question: Ritchie Blackmore and Randy Rhoads play what instrument?
Answer: electric guitar

Question: What is the largest Indo-European ethno-linguistic group in Europe?
Answer: Slavs are the largest Indo-European ethno-linguistic group in Europe.

Question: What areas of the world do Slavs inhabit?
Answer: They inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia and Central Asia.

Question: What was colonised by the East Slavs?
Answer: The East Slavs colonised Siberia and Central Asia.

Question: What portion of Europe's territory is inhabited by Slavic-speaking communities?
Answer: Presently over half of Europe's territory is inhabited by Slavic-speaking communities