Music Appreciation Unit 6

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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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In twentieth-century music
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dissonance has been emancipated. string players are sometimes called on to use the wood instead of the hair on their bows. percussion instruments have become very prominent and numerous. All answers are correct.*
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In modern music
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noiselike and percussive sounds are often used. instruments are played at the very top or bottom of their ranges. uncommon playing techniques have become normal. All answers are correct.*
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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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The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by
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Arnold Schoenberg.
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The most important impressionist composer was
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Claude Debussy
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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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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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Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune Who is the composer of this piece?
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Claude Debussy
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Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune is an example of
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impressionism
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Which statement about this music is true?
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It employs vague pulse and tonality.
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Neoclassical compositions are characterized by
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forms and stylistic features of earlier periods
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Neoclassicism was a reaction against
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romanticism and impressionism
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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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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 Who is the composer of this piece?
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Igor Stravinsky
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This music is best characterized as
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primitivism.
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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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Expressionist composers
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avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions
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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 the Nazis seized power in Germany, he obtained a teaching position at
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UCLA
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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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Pierrot Lunaire Who is the composer of this piece?
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Pierrot Lunaire employs a style of singing called
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Sprechstimme.
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The text of A Survivor from Warsaw
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was written by Schoenberg. is partly based on a direct report of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto. is set to a kind of speech-singing. 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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This work by Schoenberg - A survivor from Warsaw - is an example of
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Serialism
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Wozzeck Who is the composer of this piece?
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Alban Berg
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Wozzeck is best described as a
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tragic opera.
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The vocal lines in Wozzeck include
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distorted folk songs. speaking. Sprechstimme. All answers are correct.*
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Third Piece from Five Pieces for Orchestra Who is the composer of this piece?
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Anton Webern
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The dynamics of the music in this selection are best described as
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pp
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Béla Bartók was a leading authority on
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peasant music
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Concerto for Orchestra II. Game of Pairs Who is the composer of this piece?
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Bela Bartok
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In this selection, the melody is carried by two
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bassoons.
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Up until the early twentieth century, ______ were the favorite instrumental organizations in America.
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bands
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Who was the leading American composer and conductor of band music?
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John Philip Sousa
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After graduating from Yale, Charles Ives
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went into the insurance business
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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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Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a movement from Charles Ives's
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Three Places in New England.
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Three Places in New England, Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut How would you describe the rhythmic component of this movement?
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Rhythmic patterns are highly complex and independent of one another.
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George Gershwin grew up in
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New York, New York
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Which of the following musicals is not by George Gershwin?
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Funny Girl
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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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Rhapsody in Blue Who is the composer of this piece?
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George Gershwin
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In this selection, the melody is carried by the
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solo piano.
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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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As a composer, William Grant Still
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wrote film scores, concert works, operas, and band arrangements.
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Afro-American Symphony Who is the composer of this piece
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William Grant Still
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What nontraditional instrument appears in the orchestra during the third section?
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Banjo
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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. jazz, blues, and ragtime elements. subjects from American folklore. All answers are correct.*
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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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Appalachian Spring Who is the composer of this piece?
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Aaron Copland
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What is the form of this music?
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Theme and variations
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Estancia Suite Malambo Who is the composer of this piece?
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Alberto Ginastera
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Estancia Suite: Malambo features
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vibrant rhythms and frequent syncopation.
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In chance, or aleatory music, the composer
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chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods.
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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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Sonatas and Interludes: Sonata II Who is the composer of this piece?
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John Cage
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This music is performed
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on a solo prepared piano.
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Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique
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-was composed in collaboration with the famous architect Le Corbusier. -was designed for the 1958 Brussels World Fair. -was one of the earliest masterpieces of electronic music created in a tape studio. All answers are correct*
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Poème électronique Who is the composer of this piece?
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Edgar Varèse
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This music features
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electronic sounds.
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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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Concerto Grosso 1985 Who is the composer of this piece?
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Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
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Which statement is true of this excerpt?
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The music abruptly alternates between baroque and twentieth-century sounds.
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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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Short Ride in a Fast Machine Who is the composer of this piece?
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John Adams
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The central rhythmic component of this excerpt is performed by which instrument?
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Wood block
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The backbone of a jazz ensemble is its
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rhythm section
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Maple Leaf Rag Who is the composer of this piece?
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Scott Joplin
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To which genre does this music belong?
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Ragtime
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The blues
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usually follow a 12-bar pattern as a basis for improvisation. can be happy or sad, fast or slow. may be vocal or instrumental. All answers are correct.*
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The most famous blues singer of the 1920s, known as the "empress of the blues", was
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Bessie Smith
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Lost Your Head Blues Which statement best describes the vocal style of this song?
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The singer slides between pitches and often places the notes just ahead of the beat.
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To which genre does this music belong?
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Blues
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The major center of jazz from about 1900 to 1917 was
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New Orleans.
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The most distinctive feature of New Orleans style jazz was
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collective improvisation by the front line.
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One of the most important solo instruments of the swing era was the
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saxophone
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What great trumpet legend is heard performing this tune? Hotter Than That
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Louis Armstrong
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What jazz vocal technique is used in this selection?
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Scat
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Bebop differed from earlier jazz forms in that it
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was meant for attentive listening, not dancing.
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One of the greatest of all jazz improvisers and a towering figure among bebop musicians was the saxophonist
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Charlie Parker
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Which statement is NOT true about Bebop?
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This music is intended for dancing.
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The bebop musician who spearheaded developments in cool jazz and then jazz rock is
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Miles Davis
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Leonard Bernstein was a well-known
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composer of orchestral and vocal works. author-lecturer. conductor. All answers are correct.*
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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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In West Side Story, the two star-crossed lovers are
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Tony and Maria
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America, from West Side Story Who is the composer of this piece?
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Leonard Bernstein
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West Side Story is a(n)
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Musical
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Tonight, from West Side Story Which statement is true of this excerpt?
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This music depicts several emotions at once.
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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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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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string tremolos. sustained dissonant chords. rapid ostinatos and repeated notes. All answers are correct.*
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Rock has been defined as
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vocal music with a hard, driving beat, often featuring electric guitar accompaniment and heavily amplified sound.
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The first big hit of the earliest leading rock and roll group was
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Rock Around the Clock.
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______________ is described as a type of soul music that blended rhythm and blues with popular music.
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Motown
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The Beatle's influence on American rock music may be seen through later performers' use of
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"classical" and nonwestern instruments. new electronic effects. unconventional scales, chord progressions, and rhythms. All answers are correct.*