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DAMN. was a revolutionary choice for the Pulitzer Prize because:

All of the above

Yo-Yo Ma teamed up with celebrity fiddler Mark O'Connor and bass player Edgar Meyer to record:

Appalachian Waltz and Appalachian Journey

Aaron Copland was originally ridiculed for incorporating jazz into his early works because:

Highbrow critics though he was degrading his art by including jazz

Some of the principal differences between classical music and jazz are:

Instrumentation, harmonic language, and improvisation

Ellington's The Far East Suite is set apart from the classical tradition because:

It was composed by two people

Yo-Yo Ma is unique as a classical cellist because:

NOT He has collaborated with non-classical performers

It is unusual that Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize for Partita (2013) because:

NOT Her training was principally oriented toward violin performance

The Great Depression caused many composers of art music to adopt a more commercial style because:

NOT It was not practical to write elite music for small audiences It seemed unethical to compose for only highbrow and elite audiences

Reich's compositions rely upon:

NOT Solo horn lines Pre-recorded synthesizer melodies

Many of Ellington's compositions relied upon:

NOT The melodic structure of early American folk

Scene two of Appalachian Spring includes an unusual compositional technique that makes it difficult to tap your foot along to the music:

NOT polymeter

Yo-Yo Ma's most significant and lasting foray outside of the European concert tradition is:

Silk Road project

in scene seven of Appalachian Spring, Copland borrowed the melody "The Gift to Be Simple" from:

The first hymnal to be printed in America NOT A Quaker Bible that contained hymns in back The first hymnal to be printed in America

In 1965, the Pulitzer jury concluded that none of the applications were worthy of the prize, and instead recommended that a special citation be granted to:

duje ellubgtib

in 1965, the Pulitzer jury concluded that none of the applications were worthy of the prize, and instead recommended that a special citation be granted to:

duke Ellington

Roomful of Teeth employed all of the following except:

emo singing

Appalachian Spring was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1967.

false

Copland's volume How to Identify and Appreciate Quality Music is an early classic of the music appreciation literature and is still in print.

false

In "Work Song," Marsalis strives to imitate the blues tradition by constructing melodies underpinned by 12-bar harmonic progressions.

false

In 1965, the Pulitzer board refused to recommend a citation to Duke Ellington, and he was offended because the board had rejected him after he had composed such a monumental work.

false

Minimalist composers share an interest in developing very small works from a large palate.

false

One way to evaluate the quality of music is to examine all major criteria: purpose, originality, skill of composer or performer, the impact that music has on listeners and society, and the fame of the composer or performer.

false

When he wrote Appalachian Spring, Copland's primary purpose was to write music that perfectly captured the Appalachian mountains in music.

false

It is unusual that Caroline Shaw won the Pulitzer Prize for Partita (2013) because

her training was principally oriented toward violin performance

Wynton Marsalis grew up in New Orleans and attended the Juilliard School of Music, but soon decided that his future was in:

jazz composition

To create music for Blood on the Fields, Marsalis drew from a variety of African American traditions, including:

not blues spritiual New Orleans jazz

Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring was originally conceived of as a ballet, but is most frequently performed in a version for:

orchestra

Like The Rite of Spring, the first scene of Appalachian Spring is:

polytonal

One of the reasons that Appalachian Spring is still significant today is because it has come to be accepted as the sound of:

rural america

Aaron Copland was one of the early champions of music appreciation as a subject of study.

true

Alarm Will Sound focused attention on minimalist composer Steve Reich.

true

All three of the ballets that cemented Copland's reputation as a composer used folk melodies to portray rural America.

true

Duke Ellington rose to national prominence as a pianist and band leader, and his band toured internationally while making popular recordings.

true

Each selection on the album The Far East Suiterepresents Ellington's impressions upon visiting a foreign country

true

Each selection on the album The Far East Suiterepresents Ellington's impressions upon visiting a foreign country.

true

In 1997, Kendrick Lamar's album DAMN.became the first hip-hop album to win the Pulitzer Prize.

true

One way to evaluate the quality of music is to consider whether it achieves the purpose for which it was written.

true

Shaw's Partita inspired discussion about whether it had the necessary characteristics to satisfy the criteria used to evaluate compositional quality.

true

The Cotton Club in Harlem only admitted white patrons, but the musicians, dancers and servers were all black.

true

The members of Alarm Will Sound also had an interest in electronic dance music.

true

when he wrote Appalachian Spring, Copland's primary purpose was to write music that perfectly captured the Appalachian mountains in music.

true