Music Listening Today Chapter 35: American Music before 1920 Quiz

Which compositional technique did Charles Ives employ in his music?

polytonality, dissonant chords, quotations from songs, polyrhythms (all of these choices)

The song "God Bless America" was composed by

Irving Berlin

The composer of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" march was

John Philip Sousa

A nineteenth-century American pianist and composer who achieved some recognition in Europe was

Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Some of the most advanced American music in the eighteenth century was the product of the

Morvian communities in Pennsylvania and North Carolina

The melody to which we sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" was originally

an English drinking song

Until the twentieth century, the arts in America were largely derived from Europe because

Americans seems to assume that European culture was superior, the early Puritans discouraged the arts, there were few wealthy families able to support the arts, settling a new land was a consuming task (all of these choices)

The first important America women composer in the early part of the twentieth century was

Amy Cheney Beach

The most original American composer in America in the late eighteenth century was

William Billings

Many of the melodies for American patriotic songs came from Europe

true

The wind band is an especially American musical tradition

true