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The 20th century is a time period in which

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There was several violent wars, but great progress and technological advances were made.

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Twentieth-century music follows the same general principles of musical structure as earlier periods.

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The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of

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Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

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In twentieth-century music

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Many instruments use unusual playing techniques such as flutter tongue, glissando, and multi-phonics; percussion instruments have become very prominent and numerous; and dissonance has been emancipated and taken on a new and more prevalent role.

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Using all twelve tones without regard to their traditional relationship to major or minor scales, avoiding traditional chord progressions, is known as

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atonality.

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In modern music,

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Instruments are played at the very top or bottom of their ranges, uncommon playing techniques have become normal, and noiselike and percussive sounds are often used.

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The term impressionist derived from critics' reactions to Impression: Sunrise, a painting by

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Claude Monet.

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Impressionism in music is characterized by

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a stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity

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A five-tone scale, such as that produced by the five black keys of the piano in succession, is call a

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pentatonic scale..

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Neoclassicism was a reaction against

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Romanticism and impressionism.

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The expressionists rejected

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conventional prettiness.

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Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called

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Sprechstimme.

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New chord structures found in the 20th century, but not in previous eras, inlcude

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quartal and quintal harmony.

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The 12-tone systems is a musical system

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which involves strict rules and pitches are assigned numbers.

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The 20th century

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is the first time in history that old music, not new music, is desired.

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Debussy is famous for his use of

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pentatonic scales, five note chords, and whole tone scales.

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The main reason that Schoenberg left Europe and came to America was because

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He was Jewish and fled when the Nazis came to power.

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Schoenberg's two famous students were

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Webern and Berg.

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Although this American composer worked as an insurance agent and composed music on the side, he eventually won a Pulitzer Prize.

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Charles Ives.

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Bela Bartok was best known for his use of

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Folksongs collected and recorded from remote areas.

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George Gershwin's piece, Rhapsody in Blue, begins with this solo instrument in which the player bends the pitch in a jazz-like fashion

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Clarinet.

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This American composer wrote music based on American folklore such as Billy the Kid and Appalachian Spring

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Aaron Copland.

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Chance music can be best described as

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Music in which whatever happens, happens.

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Minimalistic music encompasses all of the following except

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Extreme changes in pulse and convoluted tonality.

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"Liberation of Sound" can be described as

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Use of wider variety of sounds including sounds previously considered noise.

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This 20th century composer wrote a piece in which the performer(s) sit on stage for 4'33'' and serves as an excellent example of chance music

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John Cage.

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This minimalistic composer wrote an opera entitled "Einstein on the Beach" in which the lyrics are mostly numbers and random words.

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Phillip Glass

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This modern composer writes mostly for a cappella choir, a most notably has created a "virtual choir" which connects people from all over the world.

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Eric Whitacre.

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Eric Whitacre's music features this compositional technique which involves several notes that are very close together being played or sung as the same time.

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Tone clusters.

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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The computers, electronics, and synthesizers being used to create music only utilized certain tones, and were very limited in the types of sounds produced.

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Although jazz began in bar an brothels, it is now considered

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and American art form.

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When a voice is answered by an instrument, or when one instrument, or when one instrument (or group of instruments) is answered by a chorus, the pattern is referred to as

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call and reponse.

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The immediate sources of jazz include

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the American band tradition, the blues and ragtime.

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The backbones of a jazz ensemble is its

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rhythm section.

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A jazz sound results from

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its variety of pitch inflections, the type of vibrato employed, and the particular way tones are attacked and released.

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Jazz can be notated as easily as any other musical form.

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Ragtime is

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a style of composed piano music, performed at a moderate march tempo, and generally in duple meter.

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Which of the following categories of black folk music i not considered one of the sources for the blues?

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Gospel.

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The blues

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usually follow a 12-bar pattern as a basis for improvisation, can be happy or sad/fast or slow, and may be vocal or instrumental.

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The major center of jazz from about 1900 to 1917 was

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New Orleans.

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The musical life of New Orleans at the beginning of the twentieth century included

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opera and chamber music, sacred music, and marching and dance bands.

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Which of the following statements are not true?

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The style of Dixieland in Chicago in the 1920s was basically the same as it had been in New Orleans.

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One of the leading figures in the history of jazz, and the composer of such compositions as Black, Brown, and Beige and Sophisticated Lady.

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Duke Ellington.

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Bebop was

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Meant for attentive listening, not dancing; usually played by small groups of three to six players; and a rebellion against the commercialism and written arrangements of the swing bands.

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One of the greatest of all jazz improvisers and a towering figure among bebop musicians was the saxophonist

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Charlie Parker.

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The following can be said about free jazz

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it disregarded regular forms and established chord patterns, it can be compared to chance music, and it began in the early 1960s.

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Cool jazz

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was related to bop but was calmer and more relaxed in character.

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The bebop musician who spearheaded developments in coll jazz and the jazz rock is

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Miles Davis.

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