Music: Chapter 38 – Flashcards
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The source of inspiration for Charles Ives's music was rooted in the traditions of which region of America?
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New England
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Ruth Crawford was trained mainly in Europe.
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False
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Charles Ives made a living as a:
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Insurance salesman
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One of Ives's best-known works for piano is:
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the Concord Sonata
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Adolphe Sax was a famous musical instrument inventor who revolutionized the key mechanisms on brass instruments.
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True
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Ives's work Country Band March draws on a variety of traditional American tunes.
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true
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Charles Ives was largely a patriotic composer.
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True
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America's most famous bandmaster was John Philip Sousa.
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True
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Ruth Crawford was the first woman to win a:
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Guggenheim Fellowship
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Ruth Crawford gave up composing shortly after her wedding, focusing instead on:
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Collecting and editing American folk songs
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Ives's music was not fully recognized in his own lifetime.
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True
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Ives was ahead of his time in that:
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he used polytonality in his compositions
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Ruth Crawford was a noted specialist in American folk music.
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True
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Ruth Crawford avoided writing in modernist or ultra-modernist styles.
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False
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America's vernacular traditions also included music for brass bands.
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True
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Country Band March is arranged for:
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large wind ensemble
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Ruth Crawford worked with folk song collectors John and Alan Lomax at the ____________ :
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Library of congress
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The U. S. Marine Band has a history dating back to the eighteenth century.
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True
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A music journal dedicated to publishing new music in the United States in the early twentieth century was the:
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New music quarterly
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Ives's work Country Band March is in triple meter.
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False
