Round 3: Tossup 4

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

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