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Samuel Barber, an Uncommon card
Samuel Osmond Barber II was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 160
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 150,000
Power 160 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Samuel Barber quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Samuel Barber card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Barber was adept at both ______ and vocal music.
Answer
instrumental. Barber was adept at both instrumental and vocal music. From the Samuel Barber article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Aaron. Aaron 230,000 · Samuel Barber 150,000 · Egyptian Museum 91,000 · The Canon of Medicine 60,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Principally influenced by nine years' composition studies with Rosario Scalero at the Curtis Institute and more than 25 years' study with his uncle, the composer Sidney Homer, Barber's music usually eschewed the experimental trends of musical modernism in favor of traditional 19th-century harmonic language and formal structure embracing lyricism and emotional expression.
- However, he adopted elements of modernism after 1940 in some of his compositions, such as an increased use of dissonance and chromaticism in the Cello Concerto and Medea's Dance of Vengeance, and the use of tonal ambiguity and a narrow use of serialism in his Piano Sonata, Prayers of Kierkegaard, and Nocturne.
- Barber was adept at both instrumental and vocal music.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Samuel Barber article was read about 150,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Samuel Barber
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Samuel Barber (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Carl Van Vechten, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
