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During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?

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Big-Band Jazz

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Tin Pan Alley was a_________.

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Street in Manhattan where music publishers had their businesses

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Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville. T/F?

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True

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Expressionism was inspired by French painters. T/F?

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False

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Klangfarbenmelodie refers to:

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a style that gives each note of a melody to a different instrument.

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Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as:

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Sprechstimme

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Which of the following early-twentieth-century composers moved to the United States and taught composition at the University of California, Los Angeles?

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Schoenberg

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Stravinksy tried his hand at many compositional styles throughout his career. T/F?

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True

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The Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to:

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a near riot

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Which of the following musical elements in the Rite of Spring could be considered the most innovative?

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unpredictable rhythms and meters

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Who was the choreographer for The Rite of Spring

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Nijinksy

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Lili Boulanger was a talented composer but died at an early age. T/F?

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True

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What moot opens and closes Boulanger's Psalm 24?

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Triumph

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Berg's opera Wozzeck is best described as an example of:

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Expressionism

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The final, heartbreaking scene of Berg's Wozzeck concludes with:

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the son of Marie and Wozzeck, alone

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Bebop was a complex new style that developed after World War II and was performed by small groups in which each player has an equal voice in the improvisation. T/F?

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True

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Billi Holliday's Billie's Blues retains the standard twelve-bar blues structure. T/F?

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True

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Louis Armstrong's instrument-like approach to singing is called:

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scat-singing

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What is a bent, or "blue," note?

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a note whose pitch drops slightly.

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Which region of the United States was the birthplace of a unique style of blues primarily sung by males?

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Mississippi Delta

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The Harlem Renaissance highlighted African American intellectual life in the 1920s and 1930s. T/F?

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True

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William Grant Still composed the first symphony by an African American to be performed by a major American orchestra. T/F?

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True

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In his early years, William Grant Still was associated with which artistic movement?

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the Harlem Renaissance

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Which of the following was referred to as "the greatest Negro city in the world" during the 1920s?

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Harlem

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Gershwin's orchestral work an American in Paris became the impetus for a Hollywood film. T/F?

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True

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George Gershwin's folk opera ___________ was far ahead of its time.

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Porgy and Bess

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The premiere of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was conducted by:

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Paul Whiteman

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Which types of works did George Gershwin compose?

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-Fill Scores -Songs -Musicals

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Copland composed music for the theater, but not for film. T/F?

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False

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The music of Charles Ives was very popular and was performed frequently during his lifetime. T/F?

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False

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Aaron Copland studied composition with:

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Nadia Boulanger

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Ives's compositional style was:

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very innovative for its time.

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Which of the following best describes the mood at the beginning of Copland's Appalachian Spring?

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calm

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While composing in his spare time, Charles Ives made a living as a(n):

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insurance executive

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Federico Garcia Lorca was a well known:

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writer

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Silvestre Revueltas's compositional style is considered representative of:

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mestizo realism

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Which of the following instruments would you NOT find in a standard mariachi band?

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clarinet

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Bartok composed his Concerto for Orchestra while he was terminally ill. T/F?

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True

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Sergei Prokofiev composed the popular Peter and the Wolf. T/F?

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True

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Bartok's use of rhythm was:

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particularly innovative

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The early twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was:

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neo-Classicism

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Which of the following English composers is viewed as one of the foremost twentieth-century opera composers?

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Britten

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