Prelude 7

_____ music left decisions determining the overall shape of a piece to the performer or to chance, rather than being strictly determined by the composer.

Aleatoric

Which is not true of the 1969 Woodstock Festival?

It relied on corporate sponsorship.

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's wrapping of large architectural landmarks in fabric is an example of

installation art

. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books are considered postmodern.

true

Artists in the mid-twentieth century strove to move beyond the principles of modernism.

true

Postmodern art embraces a pluralistic attitude toward gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.

true

Postmodern thought welcomes both highbrow and lowbrow artistic influences.

true

Some postmodernist architecture can be described as neo-eclectic.

true

Two trends in electronic music, musique concrète and elektronische Musik, emerged in the

1940s and early 50s

Abstract expressionism in the arts took place in the

1950s and 60s.

______ techniques enabled artists to take something familiar and make it unique.

Collage or quotatio

What is the protocol that allows computers and synthesizers to interface?

MIDI

International exchanges have caused composers to

create an overlapping of styles

Frank Gehry's design for the Walt Disney Concert Hall is a statement against postmodernism.

false

Postmodern art is often anti-feminist and racist.

false

Postmodernism is not found in film.

false

Where did musique concrète develop?

france

The "Red scare" of communism in the 1950s and early 60s saw the blacklisting of all of the following except

george gershwin

Where did elektronische Musik develop?

germany

The modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe believed that "less is more." Robert Venture, a leader in the postmodern movement in architecture, countered with

less is a bore

Postmodernist art

mixes popular and serious idioms is represented in environmental works, collage, and ethnic expressions. embraced neo-Classical, minimalist, and feminist ideals

Twentieth and twenty-first century technologies have affected musicians in which of the following ways?

new bar of performing perfection more performing options opportunity to study and emulate specialists

Which artistic trend drew upon commercial photography and urban life for inspiration?

pop art

Which of the following does NOT characterize postmodernism?

strict adherence to serial techniques

Postmodernists broke away from the modernist stance

that mass media was incompatible with art.