Grove: Rzewski, Neo-Romantic, Postmodernism

Use the questions to guide your note-taking. Do not quote verbatim from the book without putting quotes around it. When taking the quiz, try to paraphrase as much as possible, but if you have to use something verbatim, use quotation marks and cite the source.

questions:

1) With whom did Rzewski study composition?

2) What is Musica Elettronica Viva?

3) What has Rzewski explored in his compositions?

4) What has neo-romantic come to mean since the 70's and who does Grove's give as examples?

5) Grove's gives three possible definitions for post-modernism; summarize them.

6) What "trends" caused a switch to post-modernist sensibilities?

7) What is "postmodernism of reaction?"

8) What is "postmodernism of resistance?"

9) What is "postmodernism of connection?"

10) How does reception become more important in a postmodernist view?

11) How has postmodernism affected music scholarship?