Music 120- Module 6

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After graduating from Yale, Charles Ives
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went into the insurance business
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In modern music
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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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Ellen Taffee Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985 is an example of
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quotation music.
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When Schoenberg arrived in the United States after the Nazis seized power in Germany, he obtained a teaching position at
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UCLA
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One of Ginastera's early works, Estancia Suite, is
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nationalistic and uses Argentinean folk material, including popular dances
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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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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 piano is often used in twentieth-century orchestral music to
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add a percussive edge
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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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The ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in a twelve-tone composition is called a
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During the period from about 1920 to 1951, Stravinsky drew inspiration largely from
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eighteenth-century music
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The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Impressionist painting and symbolist poetry as artistic movements originated in
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france
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While remaining within the framework of a tonal center, B茅la Bart贸k often used _________ in his music
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all of these
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Antonin Dvo?谩k predicted in the late nineteenth century that the foundation for American music would come from
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African American and Native Indian melodies
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In 1925, after Copland returned from France, American music meant
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jazz
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Expressionism as an artistic movement was largely centered in
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Germany and Austria
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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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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with
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a solo clarinet
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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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Schoenberg acquired his profound knowledge of music by
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The impressionist painters were particularly obsessed with portraying
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water
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In 1925, and for a few years afterward, Copland's music showed the influence of
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jazz
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William Grant Still's 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 later movements
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Schoenberg's teacher was
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himself
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Which of the following is not characteristic of neoclassicism?
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Misty atmosphere
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Porgy and Bess is a(n)
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opera
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A golden era of American musical theater was created from about
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1920-1960
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Movie soundtracks can contain
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original music and previously existing compositions
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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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As a composer, William Grant Still
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wrote film scores, concert works, operas, and band arrangements
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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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B茅la Bart贸k.
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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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West Side Story contains
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an unprecedented fusion of song and drama with electrifying violent choreography.
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Appalachian Spring originated as a
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ballet score
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An eerily expressive kind of declamation midway between song and speech, introduced during the expressionist period, is
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Sprechstimme
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The dramatic importance of dance throughout West Side Story is illustrated through Bernstein's frequent use of
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instrumental interludes intended only for dancing.
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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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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 idea of musical themes for characters (leitmotifs) was developed by which 19th Century composer?
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wagner
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To create fresh sounds, twentieth-century composers used
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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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While not rejecting any influence, B茅la Bart贸k emphasized that the strongest influence on his music was
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hungarian
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The neoclassical movement in music roughly encompassed the years
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1920-1950
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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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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 band arrangements and played in the orchestras of all-black musical shows.
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In addition to his compositions, Copland made valuable contributions to music in America by
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Which of the following musicals is not by George Gershwin?
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funny girl
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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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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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Ginastera's Estancia Suite was originally conceived as a(n)
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ballet
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In West Side Story, the two star-crossed lovers are
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tony and maria
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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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In order to "drown the sense of tonality," Debussy
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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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One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was
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Nadia Boulanger
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Which of the following illustrates the use of leitmotif in a film?
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The "shark theme" in Jaws
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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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B茅la Bart贸k evolved a completely individual style that fused folk elements with
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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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Leonard Bernstein was influenced, particularly in his ballets, by
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Stravinsky and Copland.
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Alberto Ginastera's Estancia Suite uses a large orchestra and is in ________ movements. two
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four
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The poem that inspired the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" was written by
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St茅phane Mallarm茅
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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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Neoclassical compositions are characterized by
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forms and stylistic features of earlier periods.
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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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A _________ is a type of theater that fuses a dramatic script, acting, and spoken dialogue with music, singing, and dancing.
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musical comedy
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Which of the following is NOT a function of film and music?
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Provide songs for the actors to sing
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The most important impressionist composer was
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Claude Debussy
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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 hours' notice was
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Leonard Bernstein
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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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George Gershwin grew up in
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new York, new york
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In the "Tower Scene" from Vertigo composer Bernard Hermann raises the tension of the evolving dramatic situation through his use of such orchestral effects as
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all answers are correct
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Stravinsky's enormous influence on twentieth-century music is due to his innovations in
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Debussy's music tends to
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sound free and almost improvisational
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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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The text of A Survivor from Warsaw
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all answers are correct
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In twentieth-century music
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all answers are correct
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Sergei Diaghilev was a famous
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ballet impresario
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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 Var猫se, Still
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turned away from avant-garde styles and wrote compositions with a uniquely African American flavor.
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Aaron Copland was born in
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Brooklyn, New York
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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 musical loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is
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west side story
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B茅la Bart贸k was a leading authority on
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peasant music
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Expressionist composers
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avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions
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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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The deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds is known as
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primitivism
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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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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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Igor Stravinsky studied composition with
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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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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Expressionism is an art concerned with
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social protest
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B茅la Bart贸k's Concerto for Orchestra
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all answers are correct
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The expressionists rejected
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conventional prettiness
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William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan were the writers of
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the mikado
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From 1907 to 1934 B茅la Bart贸k taught __________ at his alma mater, and gave recitals throughout Europe
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piano
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Which of the following is not a source of the American musical?
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the mistrel show
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Charles Ives's father was a(n)
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bandmaster
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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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George Gershwin usually collaborated with the lyricist
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Ira Gershwin
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Aaron Copland's name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of
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all answers are correct
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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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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 composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century except
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Hector Berlioz.
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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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When did the first pairing of music and film take place?
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1895
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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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William Grant Still's opera dealing with the Haitian slave rebellion is
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troubled island
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During World War I (1914-1918), the Metropolitan Opera in New York would not
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perform German operas in the 1917-1918 season
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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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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich is a
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Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer.
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In addition to his famous musicals, Leonard Bernstein also wrote successful
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all answers are correct
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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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Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Arnold Schoenberg's
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students.
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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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The term impressionist derived from a critic's derogatory reaction to Impression: Sunrise, a painting by
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claude monet
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The Gershwin song that became a tremendous hit in 1920 was
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swanee
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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 Diaghilev
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In West Side Story the song "America" is given a Hispanic flavor with the use of alternations between
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6/8 and 3/4 meter
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Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is scored for
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an enormous orchestra.
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The painter who designed the sets for Stravinsky's Pulcinella, and who went through a phase that showed the influence of ancient Greek art, was
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Pablo picasso
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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 the 1960's most film music is composed by
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freelance composers
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The lyrics for West Side Story were written by
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Stephen Sondheim
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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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Which of the following musicals is not by Leonard Bernstein?
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cats
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Which of the following statements is NOT true about Amy Beach?
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She traveled to Europe to study with Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
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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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Leonard Bernstein was a well-known
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all answers are correct
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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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In West Side Story the introduction to "America" is based on a type of Puerto Rican song and dance music known as
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seis
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Some of the composers who contributed to the creation of the golden era of American musical theater were
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George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers, and Frank Loesser.
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Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as
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neoclassical
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Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of
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primitivism.
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One of the most important American composers of film scores who often collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock was
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Bernard Hermann.
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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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Up until the early twentieth century, ______ were the favorite instrumental organizations in America
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bands