M&C 4
A pioneer composer of electronic music was
d. Edgard Varèse.
The composer of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" march was
d. John Philip Sousa.
Which is the form of a blues song?
d. aab
Which compositional technique did Charles Ives employ in his music?
d. all of these choices
The melody to which we sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" was originally
d. an English drinking song.
In the fourth movement of his Concerto for Orchestra, Bartók
d. changes the meter signature often.
The fiddle used in country music is actually a slightly modified
d. violin
What American song did Copland include in Appalachian Spring?
e. "Simple Gifts"
Which composer composed nationalistic America music for orchestra?
e. Aaron Copland
Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras is a combination of
e. Brazilian folk music qualities and the music of J. S. Bach.
Zwilich based her Concerto Grosso 1985 on the music of
e. Handel.
The main proponent of chance (aleatory) music was
e. John Cage.
A nineteenth-century American pianist and composer who achieved some recognition in Europe was
e. Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
Country music is strongly associated with
e. Nashville, Tennessee.
The most original America composer in America in the late eighteenth century was
e. William Billings.
Primitivism is
e. an interest in the music of nonliterate societies.
Which is a feature of the rhythm in rock music?
e. backbeat
As used in this chapter, "mainstream" refers to musical works that are
e. none of these choices.
The first movement of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony
e. reflects all of these choices.
After World War II, the two different directions concert music seemed to take were
e. serialism and chance music.
In Berg's opera Wozzeck, Wozzeck
e. stabs Marie because she had been unfaithful to him.
What philosophical outlook encouraged the development of chance music?
existentialism
Much of Villa-Lobos's music is
folkloric
When a singer sings much of a song on a neutral syllable like "ah," it is called a(n)
vocalise
Who was the leader in the Neoclassical movement?
Stravinsky
Minimalism is sometimes inaccurately referred to as
b. "trance music."
An important composer/performer of modern jazz was
b. Dave Brubeck
Who composed Short Ride in a Fast Machine?
b. John Adams
An important record company in the growth of rhythm and blues was
b. Motown Records.
Eclectic music is
b. a synthesis of several different styles.
Until the twentieth century, the arts in America were largely derived from Europe because
b. all of these choices.
Neoclassicism seeks to
b. capture the classical outlook of ancient Rome and Greece.
According to existentialist philosophy, a painting of a Campbell's soup can is
b. just a picture of something.
Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra features
b. none of these choices.
Minimalism is a style of music in which the composer
b. uses as few musical ideas as possible.
The retrograde version of a tone row is the row
backwards
John Cage is reported to have said,
c. "I have nothing to say, and I am saying it."
The term salsa in Latin American music refers to a
c. "hot," fast style.
Nationalism in America music flourished during the years
c. 1930-1955.
Which is a Neoclassical musical work?
c. Concerto Grosso 1985
The first important America women composer in the early part of the twentieth century was
c. Jenny Lind.
Some of the most advanced American music in the eighteenth century was the product of the
c. Moravian communities in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
In the fourth movement of his Concerto for Orchestra, Bartók satirizes the
c. Nazis who had occupied Hungary.
Which is NOT a nationalistic musical work?
c. Short Ride in a Fast Machine
A landmark work in primitivism was
c. Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring.
Sprechstimme is
c. a speaking style of singing.
The music of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring contains
c. all of these choices.
A favorite topic of country songs is
c. broken love
Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra is a concerto in that it contrasts
c. sections and instruments of the orchestra.
Concert music in America advanced a great deal after 1920 partly because
AOTA
One of the changes that has taken place since 1950 in popular music is
AOTA
The bands during the swing era featured
AOTA
Which is a feature of rap music?
AOTA
Rhythm and blues is the music of
a. America's black population.
The song "God Bless America" was composed by
a. Irving Berlin.
The most successful composer of popular songs in the nineteenth century was
a. Stephen Foster.
A "blue note" in jazz is
a. a third, fifth, or seventh note of a scale that is lowered one half step while the accompanying chord is unchanged.
Which type of jazz is played ONLY on the piano?
a. boogie-woogie
In many ways Expressionism is similar to
a. pessimism.
And God Created Great Whales by Hovhaness features
a. recordings of whales' sounds.
The parlor song
a. was a popular type of song sung in homes during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Expressionism was most fashionable during the decade
after WWI
Tone row music has no
tonal center
The wind band is an especially American musical tradition.
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