30Q #33 navneeth

[navneeth]

I think I made an error : I answered in the negative to one of dai's questions - Is there a featured instrument? I think it should be a yes(more of a yes than an no).

As for the motion picture part: The music, as in the tune, might have been used in a movie or two.

[navneeth]

14. opera or staged piece?
No

Recap :

• American (born in the USA) composer
• Not Gershwin, Copland, or Grass
• Composed between 1950 and 1978
• Not Orchestral, includes voice(s)
• Not an opera or a stage piece
• May have a featured instrument
• The music might have been used in motion pictures

[bignaf]

more than one voice?

clarification: when you say featured instument, you aren't including voice as an instrument, right?

[navneeth]

15.more than one voice?
Yes

clarification: when you say featured instument, you aren't including voice as an instrument, right?
Voice != Instrument.

[bignaf]

choral?

more than four instruments?

[navneeth]

16. Choral?
Yes

17. more than four instruments?
No

[bignaf]

is there a piano?

[navneeth]

is there a piano?

Yes, but may not be always.

That must be a give-away.

[bignaf]

you mean the piece can be performed without piano?
you can consider this question as real or clarification.

[bignaf]

is the composer alive?

[Catmando]

14. opera or staged piece?
No

Recap :

• American (born in the USA) composer
• Not Gershwin, Copland, or [b]Grass[/b]
• Composed between 1950 and 1978
• Not Orchestral, includes voice(s)
• Not an opera or a stage piece
• May have a featured instrument
• The music might have been used in motion pictures

[bignaf]

OK, a composer who doesn't smoke grass.

[navneeth]

19. you mean the piece can be performed without piano?
Yes

20. is the composer alive?
No

[dai bread]

Is the composer a black American?

[bignaf]

if previous question is no, is it John Cage?

[navneeth]

21. Is the composer a black American?

No

22. is it John Cage?

No

I really must've misled all of you somewhere.

[Catmando]

Nav, can we please have another recap?

[bignaf]

Pulitzer winner?

[navneeth]

Recap :

• American (born in the USA) composer. Not an African American. Not alive
  
• Not Gershwin, or Copland, or Glass, or Cage
  
• Pulitzer winner
  
• Created between 1950 and 1978
  
• Choral, but not orchestral
  
• Not an opera or a staged piece
  
• May have a featured instrument, which may be a piano, but no more than four instruments
  
• The music might have been used in motion pictures

23. Pulitzer winner?

Good quesiton. I never knew about this one. Yes, he is one.

[Serenity]

Did he win a pulitzer prize for this composition?