Music Appreciation

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

The opening section of Piazzolla's Fugata is

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony has been described as

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

Distortion is a technique used primarily in the __________ period.

Appalachian Spring originated as a

Which of the following statements is not true?

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

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

Ravel perhaps harbored a lingering resentment toward the French musical establishment because

Anton Webern

Which of the following statements is not true?

Some works composed since 1945 are both

Which of the following statements is not true of Ravel?

Impressionism in music is characterized by

After studying law at the University of St. Petersburg, Igor Stravinsky at the age of twenty-one began to study composition privately with

Gershwin's first piano teacher was

In addition to that of the Magyars, Rumanians, Slovaks, and Turks, Bartók was a leading authority on the peasant music of the

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

In 1945 Ginastera moved to the United States where he had the opportunity to study with the well known American composer

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

Sergei Diaghilev was a famous

The Gershwin song that became a tremendous hit when recorded by Al Jolson in 1920 was

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

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

An example of Copland's use of serialist technique is

At thirteen, Charles Ives held a regular job as a

Which of the following compositions is not by Charles Ives?

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

As a composer, William Grant Still

When viewed closely, impressionist paintings are made up of

Which of the following works is not by George Gershwin?

Charles Ives's father was a(n)

Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony

The special concert at which Gershwin premiered his Rhapsody in Blue took place at Aeolian Hall in New York in

Tin Pan Alley is the name given to a Manhattan

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

Dmitri Shostakovich

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

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

The faun evoked in Debussy's famous composition is a

Which of the following statements is not true?

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

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

Because of the Nazis seizing power in Germany, Schoenberg

Many performers today come from

The last word of the answer to all the NOT TRUE statements