Round 2: Tossup 4

This composer argued that imagination is the defining trait of a “gifted listener” in the first of the Norton Lectures he published as Music and Imagination. This composer used a 10-tone row, reserving the other two pitches for cadences, in a half-hour long, one-movement Piano Fantasy. This composer distinguished “expressive,” “sensuous,” and “sheerly musical” planes of experience in What to Listen For in Music. (-5[1])A visit to a “popular type dance hall” with his friend Carlos Chavez inspired an (10[1])orchestral work by this composer (10[1])that quotes folk songs like “El Palo Verde,” titled El Salón México. (10[2])A piece that this composer originally titled “Ballet for Martha” concludes with the Shaker hymn “Simple (10[1])Gifts.” (10[2])For 10 points, name this populist American composer of Appalachian Spring. (10[1])■END■

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