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In music, the early twentieth century was a time of

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Revolt and change

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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 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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All of the following composer worked in the early years of the twentieth century except

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Hector Berlioz

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Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from

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All answer are correct A. Folk and popular music from all cultures B. The music of Asia and Africa c. European art music from the middle ages through the nineteenth century

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Twentieth-Century composers incorporated elements of folk and popular music within their personal styles because

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They were attracted to the unconventional rhythms, sounds, and melodic patterns

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A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land was

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Bela Bartok

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Which of the following composers was not stimulated by the folklore of his native land?

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Anton Webern

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Composers in the early twentieth century drew inspirations only from serous art music and their own intellect, ignoring popular and folk music

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In twentieth-century music

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Percussion instruments have become very prominent and numerous

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The glissando, a technique widely used in the twentieth century, is

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A rapid slide up or down a scale

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Among the unusual playing techniques that are widely used during the twentieth century is the __________, a rapid slide up or down a scale.

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Glissando

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In modern music

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All answers are correct A. Instruments are played at the very top or bottom of their ranges. B. Uncommon playing techniques have become normal C. Noiselike and percussive sounds are often used.

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A piano is often used in twentieth-century orchestral music to

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Add a percussive edge

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which of the following is not an alternative to the traditional organization of pitch used by twentieth-century composers?

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Tonic-dominant harmonies

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The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as

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A polychord

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A fourth chord is

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A chord in which the tones are fourth apart, instead of a third.

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A chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is known as

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A tone cluster

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Striking a group of adjacent keys on a piano with the fist or forearm will result in

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A tone cluster

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To create fresh sounds, twentieth-century composer used

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All the answers are correct A. Scales borrowed from nonwestern cultures B. Scales they themselves invented C. ancient church modes D. all answers are correct

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The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called

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Polytonaity

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The absence of the key or tonality in a musical composition is known as

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Atonality

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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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The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by

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Arnold Schoenbery

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The use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time is known as

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Polyrhythm

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Ostinato refers to a

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Motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section

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A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section is called

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Ostinato

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Recording of much lesser-known music multiplied in 1948 through

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The appearance of long-playing disks

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Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the

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1920's

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The first opera created for television was Gian-Carlo Menotti's

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Amahl and the night visitors

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Composers from which area rose to importance during the twentieth century?

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Latin America

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Which of the following countries did not produce an important composer in the Twentieth Century?

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Ecuador

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One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was

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Nadia Boulanger

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The most influential organization sponsoring new music after world war 1 was

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The international society for contemporary music

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During the first quarter of the Twentieth Century many composers left Russia because of

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the violence of the Russian Revolution.

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Impressionist painting and symbolist poetry as artistic movements

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France

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The most important impressionist composer was

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Claude Debussy

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the term impressionist derived from a critic's derogatory to impression: Sunrise, a painting by

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Claude Monet

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When viewed closely, impressionist painting are made up of

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Tiny colored patches

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Impressionist painters were primarily concerned with the effect of light, color, and

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atmosphere

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The impressionist painter were particularly obsessed with portraying

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Water

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Which of the following Is not considered a symbolist poet?

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Victor Hugo

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Which of the following statement is not true?

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The impressionist painter were painter were particularly obsessed with portraying scenes of ancient French glories

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Many of Debussy's songs are set to poems by the symbolist poet

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Stephane Mallarme

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A dramatic turning point in Debussy's career came in 1902 when

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His opera pelleas et melisandre was premiered

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which of the following characteristics is not usually associated with impressionism?

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clearly delineated forms

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Debussy's music tends to

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Sound free and almost improvisational

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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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In order to " drown the sense of tonality," Debussy

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All answers are correct A. turned to the medieval church modes B. Borrowed pentatonic scales from Javanese music C. developed the whole-tone scale D. all answer are correct

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A scale made up of six different notes each a whole step away from the next is called a ______scale.

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Whole-tone

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Debussy's opera pelleas et melisandre is an almost word-for-word setting of the symbolist play by

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Maurice maeterlinck

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In which of the following areas did Debussy not create masterpieces?

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Symphonies

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The poem that inspired the prelude to "The afternoon of a faun" was written by

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Stephane Mallarme

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The faun evoked in Debussy's famous composition is a

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creature who is half man, half goat

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the neoclassical movement in music roughly encompassed the years

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1920-1950

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which of the following statements concerning neoclassicism is not true?

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Neoclassical composers reacted against twentieth-century harmonies and rhythms, and preferred to revive old forms and styles exactly as they were.

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which of the following is not characteristic of neoclassicism?

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Misty atmosphere

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Neoclassical composers favored

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Clear polyphonic textures

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Neoclassical compositions are characterized by

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Forms and stylistic features od earlier periods

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Neoclassical composers modeled many of their works after the compositions of

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Johann Sebastian Bach

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Neoclassicism was a reaction against

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romanticism and impressionism

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The painter who designed the sets for Stravinsky's pulcinella, and who went through a phrase that showed the influence of ancient Greek art, was

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Pablo Picasso

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Igor Stravinsky, at the age of twenty-one, began to study composition privately with

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Stravinsky's life took a sudden turn in 1909, when he met the director of the Russian Ballet,

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Sergei Diaghiley

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Sergei Diaghilev was a famous

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Ballet impresario

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The immense success of Stravinsky's 1910 ballet _____________ established him as a leading young composer

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The firebird

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The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet

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The rite of spring

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Stravinsky's enormous influence on twentieth-century music is due to his innovations in

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All answers are correct A. Rhythm B. Harmony C. Tone color D. all answers

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which of the following ballets is not from Stravinsky's Russian period ?

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Pulcinella

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Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as

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Neoclassical

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During the period about 1920 to 1951, Stravinsky drew inspiration largely from

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eighteenth-century music

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in the 1950s Stravinsky dramatically changed his style, drawing inspiration from

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Anton Webern

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In the 1950s Stravinsky dramatically changed his style to favor

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The twelve-tone system

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The deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds is known as

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Primitivism

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le sacre du printemps(The rite of spring) is an example

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Primitivism

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Igor Stravinsky's rite of spring is scored for

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An enormous orchestra

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The expressionist movement in music and art flourished in the years

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1905-1925

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The twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion was called

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Expressionism

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Expressionism as an artistic movement was largely centered in

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Germany and Austria

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Expressionism grew out of the same intellectual climate as Freud's studies of

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Hysteria and the unconscious

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Twentieth-century musical expressionism grew out of the emotional turbulence in the works of late romantics such as

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All answers are correct A. Richard Wagner B. Richard Strauss C. Gustav Mahler D. All answer are correct

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One of the immediate predecessors of expressionism was the composer

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Richard Strauss

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Richard Strauss's operas Salome and Elektra were known for their

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Chromatic and dissonant music

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The operas of Richard Strauss use chromaticism and dissonance to depict

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Perversion and murder

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Expressionist painters, writers, and composers used____________ to assault and shock their audience.

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Deliberate distortions

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Distortion is a technique used primarily in the ______period.

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Expressionist

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Which of the following statements is not true ?

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Expressionist artists favored pleasant subjects, delicate pastel colors, and shimmering surfaces

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Expressionism is an art concerned with

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Social protest

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All of the following painters may be considered part of the expressionist movement except

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Claude Monet

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The expressionists rejected

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Conventional prettiness

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expressionist composers

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Avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions

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Schoenberg's teacher was

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Himself

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Schoenberg's first musical hero was

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Johannes brahms

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Schoenberg acquired his profound knowledge of music by

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All answer are correct A. going to concerts B. Playing in amateur chamber groups C. Studying scores D. All answers are correct

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Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Arnold Schoenberg's

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Students

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When Schoenberg arrived in the united states after he Nazi seized power in Germany, he obtained a teaching position at

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UCLA

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Schoenberg's third period, in which he developed the twelve-tone system began around

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1921

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An early expressive kind of declamation midway between song and speech, introduced during the expressionist period, is

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Sprechstimme

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

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Sprechstimme

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The ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in a twelve-tone composition is called a

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All answers are correct A.Series B. Tone row C. Set D. All answers are correct

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Which of the following terms is not used to describe the special ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in twelve-tone composition?

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Polychord

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The text of A survivor from Warsaw

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All answers are correct A. Was written by Schoenberg B. Is partly based on direct report of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto C. Is set to a kind of speech-singing D. All answers are correct

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A survivor from Warsaw used three languages: English, German, and

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Hebrew

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When he was nineteen, Alban Berg began to study music privately with

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Arnold Schoenberg

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Typical of expressionist composer, berg scored his opera Wozzeck for a small chamber orchestra.

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Which of the following is not a composition by Alban Berg ?

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Gurrelieder

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Georg Buchner's play Woyzeck was written in the

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1830s

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The vocal lines in Wozzeck include

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All answers are correct A. Distorted folk songs B. Speaking C. Sprechstimme D. all answers are correct

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Anton Webern

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Earned a doctorate in music history from the university of Vienna

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Webern's melodic lines are

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"Atomized" into two-or-three-note fragments

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Anton Webern's twelve- tone works contain many examples of

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Strict polyphonic imitation

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Webern's five pieces for orchestra are scored for

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A chamber orchestra of eighteen soloists.

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Bela Bartok principal performing medium was

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The piano

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From 1907 to 1934 Bela Bartok taught_________ at his alma mater, and gave recitals throughout Europe.

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Piano

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Bela Bartok was a leading authority on

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Peasant music

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Bela Bartok evolved a completely individual style that fused folk elements with

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All answers are correct A. Changes of meter and a powerful beat. B. Twentieth-century sounds. C. Classical forms D. all answers are correct

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The melodies Bela Bartok used in most of his work are

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Original themes that have a folk flavor.

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While not rejecting any influences, Bela Bartok emphasized that the strongest influence on his music was

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Hungarian

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Bela Bartok's___________ are widely thought to be the finest since those of Ludwig van Beethoven

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String quartets

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While remaining within the framework of tonal center, Bela Bartok often used______ in his music.

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All of these A. Harsh dissonances B. Polychords C. tone clusters

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Bela Bartok's Concerto for orchestra

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all answer are correct A. is his most popular work B. received its title because it was written for an orchestra of virtuosi C. Is romantic in spirit because of its emotional intensity, memorable themes, and vivid contrasts

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Charles Ives father was a(n)

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Bandmaster

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After graduating from Yale, Charles Ives

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went into the insurance business

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During most of his lifetime , Charles Ives's musical compositions

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Accumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farm

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Charles Ives's music contains elements of

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All answers are correct A. Revival hymns and ragtime B. patriotic songs and barn dances C. village bands and church choirs

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which of the following compositions is not by Charles Ives?

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An American in Paris

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Charles Ives's large and varied output includes works in many genres, but not

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operas

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Putman's camp, Redding , Connecticut, is a movement from Charles Ives's

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Three Places in new England

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Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a child's impression of

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A Fourth Of July picnic

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Putnam's Camp Redding, Connecticut, illustrates Charles Ives's technique of quoting snatches of familiar tunes by presenting fragments of

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Yankee Doodle

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George Gershwin grew up in

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New York, New York

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Gershwin left high school at the age of fifteen to

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Become a pianist demonstrating new songs in a publisher's salesroom

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Gershwin's first piano teacher was

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Himself

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which of the following musicals is not by George Gershwin?

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Funny girl

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which of the following works is not by George Gershwin?

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The desert song

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The Gershwin song that became a tremendous hit in 1920 was

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Swanee

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George Gershwin usually collaborated with the lyricist

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Ira Gershwin

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Porgy and Bess is a (n)

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opera

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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with

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A solo clarinet

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"Harlem Renaissance" was the name

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Sometimes given to a flowering of African American culture during the years 1917-1935

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William Grant still

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Played the violin in the university string Quartet while a college student

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After serving in the navy and a brief return to studies at Oberlin College, William Grant still moved to New York where he

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Made a band arrangements and played in the orchestras of all- black musical shows

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As a result of his studies in composition with composers from two opposing musical camps, the conservative George Whitefield Chadwick and the modernist Edgard varese, Still

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Turned away from Avant- garde styles and wrote compositions with a uniquely African American flavor

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William Grant Still's works in African American style, such as his Afro-American symphony of 1931, were

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Performed to critical acclaim in New York

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As a composer, William Grant Still

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Wrote film scores, concert works, operas, and band arrangements

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William grant Stills Afro-American Symphony

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Uses a blues theme in the first movement which reappears as a unifying thread in various transformations in the three movements.

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William Grant Still's opera dealing with the Haitian slave rebellion is

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Troubled Island

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The flowering of African American culture called the "Harlem Renaissance" spanned the years

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1917-35

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Each movement of William Grant Still's Afro-American symphony is prefaced by lines from a poem by

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Aaron Copland was born in

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Brooklyn, New York

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In 1921 Copland went France, Where he was the first American to study composition with

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Nadia Boulanger

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In 1925, After Copland returned from France, American music meant

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Jazz

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Iin 1925, and for a few years afterward , Copland's music showed the influence of

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Jazz

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Aaron Copland's name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of

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Revival hymns, cowboy songs, and other folk tunes

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Which of the following works was not composed by Aaron Copland ?

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An American in Paris

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Which of the following works was not composed by Aaron Copland?

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Concord Sonata

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An example of Copland's use of serialist technique is

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Connotations for Orchestra

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In addition to his compositions, Copland made valuable Contributions to music in American by

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All answer are correct A. Directing composer's groups B. Writing books and magazine articles C. Organizing concerts of American Music

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Appalachian Spring Originated as a

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Ballet Score

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Appalachian spring originated as a ballet score for the great modern dancer and choreographer

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Martha Graham

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Copland depicted "Scenes of daily activity for the bride and her Farmer-husband" in Appalachian spring through

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Five variations on the shaker melody simple gifts

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Alberto Ginastera, one of the most prominent Latin- American composers of the 20th century, was born in

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Argentina

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One of Ginastera's early works, Estancia suite, is

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Nationalistic and users Argentinean folk material , including popular dances

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Ginastera's Estancia suite was originally conceived as in

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Ballet

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Alberto Ginastera's estancia suite uses a large orchestra and is in __________ movements.

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Four

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The last movement of Ginastera's Estancia Suite, titled " Final Dance: Malambo", makes use of an ______form.

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AA'B

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In 1945 Ginastera moved to the united states where he had the opportunity to study with the well known American Composer

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Aaron Copland

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Since World War 2, musical styles have

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Taken many new directions and changes

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Composer John Adams believes that today's Composers can draw from

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A wide Variety of styles and periods

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All of the following are major developments in music since 1950 except the

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Continued composition of symphonies in the classical style

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Composers began to shift from tonality to the twelve-tone system because

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They discovered it was a compositional technique rather than a special musical style

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The twelve-tone composer whose style was most imitated in the 1950s and 1960s was

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Anton Webern

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Serialism is a compositional in which

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A series of five pitched could be constantly repeated

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Twelve-tone Compositional techniques used to organize rhythm , Dynamics, tone color, and other dimensions of music to produce totally controlled and organized music are called

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Serialism

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A major composer associated with the serialist movement is

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Milton Babbitt

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All of the following are proponents of serialism except

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Pierre Boulez

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In chance, or aleatory music the composer

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choose pitches, tone color, and rhythms by random methods

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An example of aleatoric music is

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John Cage's Imaginary Landscape No. 4 for twelve radios

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Minimalism as an artistic movement was a

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reaction against the complexity of serialism and the randomness of chance music

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Which of the following characteristics is not true of minimalist music ?

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A fast rate of change

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Minimalist music is characterized by

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A steady pulse , clear tonality , and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns

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Which of the following is not primarily known as a minimalist composer ?

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George Crumb

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Minimalist music grew out of the same intellectual climate as minimalist art, which features

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simple forms, clarity , and understatement

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Many composers since the mid-1960s have made extensive use of quotations from earlier music as an attempt to

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Improve communication between the composer and the listener

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since 1950 many composers have returned to

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Tonal music

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composers who have returned to the use of tonality have been called

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"New Romantics"

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Some works composed since 1945 are both

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Tonal and atonal

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Intervals smaller than the half steps are called

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Microtones

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Around 1940, John Cage invented the prepared piano, a(n)

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Grand piano whose sound is altered by objects such as bolts, screws, rubber bands, pieces of felt, paper, and plastic inserted between the strings of some of the keys

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Ionisation , the first important work for percussion ensemble , was composed by

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Edgard Varese

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Edgard Varese's Poeme electronique

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All of the answers are correct A. Was designed for the 1958 Brussels World Fair B. Was one of the earliest masterpieces of electronic music created in a tape studio C. Was composed in collaboration with the famous architect Le Corbusier

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is a

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Pulitzer Prize- winning American composer

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for music for her composition

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Symphony NO. 1

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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's concerto Grosso 1985 is an example of

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Quotation music

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Which of the following compositions was not composed by john Adams ?

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Einstein on the beach

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John Adams's short ride in a fast machine is scored for a

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Large symphonic orchestra and two synthesizers

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Leonard Bernstein was a well-known

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All answer are correct A. Composer of orchestral and vocal works B. Author-lecturer C. conductor

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The composer, conductor, and pianist who began his spectacular career as substitute conductor of the new York philharmonic on only a few hour's notice was

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Leonard Bernstein

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In addition to his famous musical Leonard Bernstein also wrote successful

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All answers are correct A. Ballets B. Choral works C.Symphonies

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Leonard Bernstein was influence, particularly in his ballets , by

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Stravinsky and Copland

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Which of the following musical is not by Leonard Bernstein?

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Cats

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The musical loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is

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West side story

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