Expressionism as an artistic movement was largely centered in
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Germany and Austria.
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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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The Gershwin song that became a tremendous hit in 1920 was
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Swanee.
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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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Schoenberg's third period, in which he developed the twelve-tone system, began around
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1921
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The neoclassical movement in music roughly encompassed the years
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1920-1950.
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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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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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Porgy and Bess is a(n)
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opera.
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Charles Ives's music contains elements of
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In 1921 Copland went to France, where he was the first American to study composition with
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Nadia Boulanger.
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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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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is a
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Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.
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Aaron Copland's name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of
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When viewed closely, impressionist paintings are made up of
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tiny colored patches.
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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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The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as
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atonality.
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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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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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In modern music
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George Gershwin usually collaborated with the lyricist
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Ira Gershwin.
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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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Which of the following statements is NOT true about Amy Beach?
