American Music chapter 9
(Q008) Younger composers began to discover Ives's work during the
1930s.
(Q004) Following the premiere the Gaelic Symphony, whose work did Chadwick declare fine enough to be "one of the boys"?
Amy Cheney Beach
(Q005) At eighteen, ___________ played a Chopin concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Amy Cheney Beach
Q006) Who among the following was one of the first composers to use folk melodies to help create a distinctively American style?
Amy Cheney Beach
(Q012) George Chadwick founded and directed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
False
(Q018) Charles Ives made a living as a composer.
False
(Q003) Of the Second New England School of composers, the work and legacy of ________ is most notable today.
George Chadwick
(Q007) Charles Ives studied composition with which member of the Second New England School?
Horatio Parker
(Q010) Much of Ives's instrumental music was inspired by whom?
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
(Q013) Theodore Thomas took it as his mission to help raise the musical standards of the American symphony orchestra.
True
(Q014) Amy Cheney Beach is the only female member of the so-called Second New England School.
True
(Q015) George Chadwick's American style found a niche in early Hollywood film scores.
True
(Q017) Edward MacDowell's music was identified with the "New German School" of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner.
True
(Q019) Ives self-published his 114 Songs in 1922.
True
Q016) Amy Cheney Beach's compositions number over 300.
True
(Q011) Among Ives's myriad contributions is
a substantial body of music, some of it radically individual in style.
Q009) The variety contained within Ives's song literature does NOT include
any of these options.
(Q002) To which of the following realizations about American symphonic culture did Thomas NOT subscribe?
the notion that classical music making was the noblest of the arts
Q001) Theodore Thomas was
the premier American conductor of the nineteenth century. FEEDBACK: See page 180.
