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The term [blank_start]ostinato[blank_end], from Italian (meaning obstinate), is music terminology for repeated pattern
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ostinato
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The guitar came to America with the [blank_start]Spaniards[blank_end]
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Spaniards
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The dependent phrase in a single period construction melodic construction is called an [blank_start]antecedent[blank_end]
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antecedent
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“[blank_start]Tin Pan Alley[blank_end]” refers to a place in New York where the music publishing business began
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Tin Pan Alley
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The term [blank_start]Ragtime[blank_end], originally a solo piano style in the early 1900’s, comes from the “ragged rhythm” result of stride left hand and syncopated right hand rhythms
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Ragtime
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In [blank_start]Dixieland[blank_end] music, some of the music was written out, some improvised
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Dixieland
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[blank_start]John Hammond[blank_end] was the name of the talent scout, producer, who discovered and produced Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, George Benson, and others:
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John Hammond
Questão 8
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[blank_start]Improvisation[blank_end] in jazz music refers to Extemporaneous invention of material based on the music introduced in the tune or reflecting musical or emotional statements of other improvisers
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Improvisation
Questão 9
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The “[blank_start]head[blank_end]”, as a jazz term, refers to the tune or the song
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head
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[blank_start]Changes[blank_end], as a jazz term, refers to the chord progression
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Changes
Questão 11
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The “[blank_start]bridge[blank_end]”, as a jazz term, refers to the contrasting middle section of a song
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bridge
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The independent phrase in a single period melodic construction is called the [blank_start]consequent[blank_end]
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consequent
Questão 13
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The 1943 Rogers & Hammerstein musical “[blank_start]Oklahoma[blank_end]” proved that American musical theater could deal with serious subject matter
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Oklahoma
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[blank_start]Parallel construction[blank_end] referrs to when the relationship between phrases in a single period melodyis 90% the same material
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Parallel construction
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[blank_start]Timbre[blank_end] is the word used in music to describe the specific sound of an instrument
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Timbre
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“[blank_start]Pitch[blank_end]” is measured in cycles per second
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Pitch
Questão 17
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The “[blank_start]Father of the Blues[blank_end]” is the honor given to W.C. Handy
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Father of the Blues
Questão 18
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American popular music moves in a linear evolution: [blank_start]Spirituals[blank_end] –[blank_start]gospel[blank_end] –[blank_start]blues[blank_end] –[blank_start]ragtime[blank_end]--[blank_start]big band jazz[blank_end]--[blank_start]small jazz bands[blank_end]—[blank_start]BeBop[blank_end]. Each new style remains even though a new style receives more popularity for awhile
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Spirituals
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gospel
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blues
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ragtime
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big band jazz
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small jazz bands
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BeBop
Questão 19
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The foundation chord progression for a blues is
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I - IV - V
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IV - I - V
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V - IV - I
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I - V - IV
Questão 20
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The first female big band leader, due to the death of the original band leader (her husband Chic Webb), and composer/arranger of the big band hit “A Tisket, A Tasket” was [blank_start]Ella Fitzgerald[blank_end]
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Ella Fitzgerald
Questão 21
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[blank_start]BeBop[blank_end] is the name of the highly virtuosic style of jazz that features often fast playing, high use of complex ornamentation, over complex and a quickly changing chord progression
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BeBop
Questão 22
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What is the name of the African-American a capella vocal ensemble that first presented authentic black music to the post-civil war North?
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The Fisk University Jubilee Singers
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Northern University Soul Singers
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University of Massachusetts Jubilee Singers
Questão 23
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“[blank_start]Trading Fours[blank_end]” is a jazz term that refers to soloing over four bar groups in “conversation” with another member of the band
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Trading Fours
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“[blank_start]Comping[blank_end]” is a jazz music slang term for accompaniment
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Comping
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The overtone series/ harmonic series refers to the “[blank_start]sound rainbow[blank_end]”: unheard pitches that collectively are silently part of the fundamental and drive the root progression used throughout music is Western Civilization
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sound rainbow
Questão 26
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Boogie-Woogie is best described as a(n)
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blues piano style with a rhythmic ostinato in the left hand
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blues piano style with a rhythmic ostinato in the right hand
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blues piano style with a semi-rhythmic ostinato in the left hand
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none of the above
Questão 27
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[blank_start]Rhapsody in Blue[blank_end] is a “jazz piano concerto” that was composed by [blank_start]George Gerswhin[blank_end] in 1924. Originally scored for piano and jazz band, it was later scored by American composer [blank_start]Ferde Grofe[blank_end] {“The Grand Canyon Suite”) and remains highly popular throughout the world to this day
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George Gerswhin
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Ferde Grofe
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Rhapsody in Blue
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An America in Paris
Questão 28
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[blank_start]Variety[blank_end] shows, [blank_start]Vaudeville[blank_end] shows, and [blank_start]Burlesque[blank_end] shows merged into musicals
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Variety
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Vaudeville
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Burlesque
Questão 29
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A “[blank_start]click-track[blank_end]” is an existing, audible metronome sound played into the headphones of musicians to stabilize rhythm for recording in studios and live performance
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click track
Questão 30
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[blank_start]Scat singing[blank_end] refers to singers using random extemporaneous phonemes instead of actual words to improvise, basically emulating the sounds of wind, brass, and percussion instruments
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Scat singing
Questão 31
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The Dave Brubeck Quartet experimented with jazz songs in irregular meters. The most famous, “[blank_start]Take Five[blank_end]”, was composed by Paul Desmond, the alto sax player
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Take Five
Questão 32
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Glenn Miller’s big band hit [blank_start]In the Mood[blank_end] was basically a blues
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In the Mood
Questão 33
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Who was the now famous arranger for the Benny Goodman Orchestra. His work created the Benny Goodman sound. Arrangers were responsible for ‘branding” a band’s signature?
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Fletcher Henderson
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George Gershwin
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Paul Desmond
Questão 34
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The lyrics in Blues follows the form
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AAB
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ABA
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ABB
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BAB
Questão 35
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BeBop is a virtuosic style of jazz music, the invention of which is credited to
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Miles Davis
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Charlie Parker
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Miles Davis and Charlie Parker
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Miles Parker and Charlie Davis
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None of the above
Questão 36
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The librettist, lyricist for the musical West Side Story was
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Stephen Sondheim
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George Gershwin
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Charlie Parker
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Miles Davis
Questão 37
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Howard Shore composed the musical score for the film...
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Hobbit
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Star Wars
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Space Balls
Questão 38
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SHMRF is the acronym (standing for_______, ________, _______, _______, and _______) we’ve been using to afford a comprehensive view of the contents of any piece of music
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Sound, Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, and Form
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Sound, Harmony, Meter, Rhythm, and Form
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Sound, Harmony, Match, Rhythm, and Forte
Questão 39
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Duple, triple, and quadruple plus the term simple or compound is music terminology referring to
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rhythm/meter
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pitch/tone
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measure/repeat
Questão 40
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What term refers to the texture of music with regard to its threads or melodic lines means melody plus accompaniment
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Homophonic
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Monophonic
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Biphonic
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Pneumonic
Questão 41
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What form from classical music terminology has a direct correlate in jazz form approaches because it inovlves exposition / development / recapitulation which equals Head-improv – out chorus?
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Sonata-Allegro
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Mezzo-Piano
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Melodic
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Harmonic
Questão 42
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Who is the man referred to as the “March King”? He created many popular marches for the band he conducted: The United States Marine Band
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John Philip Sousa
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Miles Davis
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Stephen Sondheim
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Jerome Kern
Questão 43
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The first music sung in America by immigrants was mostly pre-existing ____ _____ from their native country, usually in their native languages
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folk songs
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work songs
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lullabies
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march songs
Questão 44
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With the advent of the Big Band, the most critical, most important contribution to creating the sound print of the band was made by the _________
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arranger
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composer
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singer
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accompanist
Questão 45
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______________ refers to when a solo singer or solo instrumentalist sings or plays a line that is echoed back by other singers or musicians, reflecting a style born in work songs: railroad gangs, whaling ships, prison road crews, loggers, field hands, etc.
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Call and Response
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Improvisation
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Copy Cat
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Sorrow Singing
Questão 46
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___________ is the name of the now famous composer of many piano rags in the early 1900’s. He was buried in an un-marked grave until his music was made “popular” through its use in the film “The Sting”
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Scott Joplin
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Stephen Sondheim
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George Gershwin
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W.C. Handy
Questão 47
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___________ is the man who is credited as being the “founder of American musical theater”
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Jerome Kern
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George Gershwin
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Glenn Miller
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Howard Shore
Questão 48
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____________ was the composer of many beloved, published American songs in the mid-1800s and is now referred to as “The father of American song”
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Stephen Foster
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Stephen Sondheim
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John Williams
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Jerome Kern
Questão 49
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The lawyer _____________ wrote a poem that became the lyrics for the American National Anthem. The four-verse poem speaks about events that happened during the attack on Fort McHenry in 1812. The words were later sung to a preexisting British drinking song “To Anacreon in Heaven”
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W.C. Handy
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Stephen Sondheim
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Francis Scott Key
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John Hammond
Questão 50
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The film score for “Legends of the Fall” was composed by...
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John Williams
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James Horner
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Stephen Sondheim
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Howard Shore
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