Music History Ch. 27

After World War II, a highly influential German government-sponsored center for new music emerged in.....

Darmstadt

Charlie Parker's Anthropology uses the chord progression for.....

Gershwin's I Got Rhythm

Of the following, who remained committed to tonality in the twentieth century?

Samuel Barber

Which composer was known for offering performers a selection of musical elements, planning how they were to be chosen and used but leaving the selection to chance operations?

John Cage

Who developed free jazz?

Ornette Coleman

The first successful electronic instrument was the.....

Theremin.

In Carter's metric modulations, .....

a period of transition between one tempo and meter to another is precisely crafted.

In Cages Musicircus, .....

any number of musicians play different music simultaneously while the audience walks around.

The first movement of Messiaen's Quatuor pour la findu temps features.....

birdcalls.

Miles Davis developed a relaxed style of jazz known as.....

cool jazz.

Harry Partch.....

devised a 43-note scale based on just intonation

In his music, Messian sought to invoke a feeling of.....

ecstatic contemplation.

Younger composers involved at IRCAM and elsewhere linked timbre and composition in.....

spectralism.

In much of Xenaki's music, he explores.....

texture and sound combination.

Which work was the first to apply serial principles to duration?

Babbitt's Three Compositions for Piano

How does indeterminacy differ from chance?

In indeterminacy, the composer cedes control to the performer or the audience, rather than chance operations.

How does John Cage's music represent an avant-garde approach, as opposed to a modernist approach?

It raises fundamental questions about the nature of music, rather than extending elements of earlier music in new ways.

One composer associated with New York abstract expressionist painters who employed indeterminacy in his music.....

Morton Feldman

In bebop, the main tune is known as the.....

head.

Creating music electronically from prerecorded sounds was known as.....

musique concrete

In Britten's Peter Grimes, the main character is.....

persecuted by a crowd and driven to suicide.

John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes if for.....

prepared piano.

In his Sequenzas, Berio taps....

the new virtuosity.

Treating aspects of musical other than pitch according to the principles of Schoenberg's twelve-tone composition has been called.....

total serialism.

Bebop involved.....

virtuoso solos and small ensembles