Test 6

32. Which of the following best describes the form of a blues text?

A-A-B

68. ________ was the composer who most successfully transformed rural folk traditions into a national sound.

Aaron Copland

71. Which ballet by Copland portrayed rural life?

Appalachian Spring

6. Which of the following composers would have been emulated during the neo-Classical era?

Bach

20. Which Paris-based dance company opened a new chapter in the cultural life of Europe during the early twentieth century?

Ballets Russes

34. Where did slaves meet in pre-Civil War New Orleans to dance to the accompaniment of drums, gourds, mouth harps, and banjos?

Congo Square

48. Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday performed in Harlem at the

Cotton Club.

2. Which early twentieth-century style dealt with digging into the realm of the psyche?

Expressionism

16. Expressionism was the German equivalent of French Impressionism and had the same goals and artistic qualities.

False

19. Twentieth-century composers shunned dissonance in favor of consonance.

False

43. Because she was an African American, Billie Holiday never had a chance to record with white jazz musicians.

False

44. Euro-American vernacular traditions had no influence on the development of jazz.

False

54. Duke Ellington composed the first symphony by an African American to be performed by a major American orchestra.

False

73. Copland composed music for the theater, but not for film.

False

86. Silvestre Revueltas was killed during the Mexican Revolution.

False

3. In which country did the Expressionist movement originate?

Germany

45. Which of the following was referred to as "the greatest Negro city in the world" during the 1920s?

Harlem

79. Which of the following is a work by Silvestre Revueltas?

La Noche de los Mayas

41. What was Billie Holiday's nickname?

Lady Day

47. The MOST important literary figure associated with the Harlem Renaissance was

Langston Hughes.

58. Where did Gershwin grow up?

Manhattan

65. Copland composed Appalachian Spring in collaboration with

Martha Graham

83. _______ realism was a nationalist modernist movement that drew on elements of Mexico's traditional culture.

Mestizo

77. Silvestre Revueltas's compositional style is considered representative of

Mestizo realism

76. Carlos Chávez was a noted

Mexican art music composer

82. Where did the Aztec Renaissance take place?

Mexico

52. Harlem is located in

New York City

59. Which work by Gershwin was billed as a radical new approach to a uniquely American art music?

Rhapsody in Blue

28. Where was Stravinsky born?

Russia

35. Louis Armstrong was also known as

Satchmo

4. Which of the following artists is associated with Expressionism?

Schoenberg

69. The tune Simple Gifts is associated with which religious sect?

Shaker

67. Copland's Appalachian Spring quotes the early American tune

Simple Gifts

21. Which of the following was the Russian-born composer who wrote music in post-Impressionist, primitivist, neo-Classical, and twelve-tone styles?

Stravinsky

46. The Harlem Renaissance was inspired by a book of essays entitled

The New Negro

12. Which of the following best describes orchestration in twentieth-century music?

The string section lost its role as the heart of the orchestra

56. The center of music publishing in New York was called

Tin Pan Alley

15. During the early twentieth century, the arts were marked by artists' desire to throw off the oppressive style of the nineteenth century and to capture the spontaneity of primitive life.

True

17. Neo-Classical composers preferred absolute music and forms to program music.

True

18. Some American modernists incorporated folk music, blues, and jazz.

True

29. Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring had a revolutionary impact on music of the twentieth century.

True

42. New Orleans jazz depended on simultaneous improvisations by the players, which resulted in a polyphonic texture.

True

53. The Harlem Renaissance highlighted African American intellectual life in the 1920s and 1930s.

True

55. William Grant Still and other musicians worked to break down the long-standing prejudice against all black artists.

True

60. Rhapsody in Blue helped transform jazz into an art tradition.

True

61. Ferde Grofé rearranged Rhapsody in Blue for a variety of instrumentations in order to make the piece more marketable through the sale of sheet music.

True

62. In Rhapsody in Blue, the bulk of the musical elaboration is given to the piano soloist.

True

63. Gershwin was inspired by the goals of the Harlem Renaissance.

True

64. Gershwin was criticized for "whitewashing" an African American tradition.

True

70. During his composing career, Copland employed jazz, neo-Classical elements, and twelve-tone techniques.

True

74. Copland espoused the ideal that art should serve the American people during times of economic and social struggle.

True

85. In addition to orchestral and chamber works, Revueltas wrote music for films.

True

27. Who choreographed The Rite of Spring?

Vaslav Nijinsky

49. ________ was the first African American composer to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra.

William Grant Still

78. Revueltas's mature compositional style features

a modern harmonic language, polyrhythms, and ostinatos.

22. The Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to

a near riot

66. Copland's Appalachian Spring depicts

a pioneer celebration in Pennsylvania.

1. The artistic trends of the early twentieth century can best be characterized as

a reaction against Romanticism

80. Son is a Spanish-language term that refers to

a traditional song/dance of Mexico.

13. Artists who seek to explore true creativity by breaking from social and artistic conventions are considered

avant-garde

72. Copland's Rodeo is a(n)

ballet

26. The Introduction to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring begins with a melody played by the

bassoon

33. Blues vocal lines feature melodic pitch bending, also known as

blue notes

39. Billie Holiday was one of the first African American singers to

break the color barrier by recording and performing with white musicians.

14. The constantly shifting meter common for some twentieth-century works is called

changing meter

9. The element that MOST decisively separated twentieth-century music from that of the past was

harmony

31. Which musical style is sometimes referred to as "American classical music"?

jazz

84. What type of traditional ensemble does Revueltas evoke in his orchestration of "son" in Noche de jaranas?

mariachi ensemble

81. People of mixed Spanish and Amerindian ancestry are called

mestizo

75. The musical scene in early twentieth-century Mexico was strongly influenced by

mestizo culture. Hispanic culture. Amerindian culture. *all of the answers shown here*

5. The early twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was

neo-Classicism

11. The emphasis on rhythm brought the ________ section of the orchestra into greater prominence.

percussion

10. What type of harmony is implied by stacked chords?

polyharmony

30. Which of the following popular American musical styles has/have roots in both West African and Euro-American music?

ragtime blues jazz *All of the answers shown here*

37. Louis Armstrong's instrumental-like approach to singing is called

scat-singing

50. The third and final movement of William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano was inspired by a

sculpture by Augusta Savage

57. Someone who demonstrated and sold sheet music on Tin Pan Alley was known as a(n)

song plugger

40. In the years after the Civil War, country, or rural, blues arose in

the Mississippi Delta

23. Stravinsky immigrated to ________ at the onset of World War II.

the United States

51. William Grant Still was born in

the United States

24. The Rite of Spring is characterized by

the percussive use of dissonance. polyrhythms. polytonality. *all of the answers shown here*

7. Neo-Classicists of the early twentieth century favored which of the following genres?

the symphony

36. Which instrument did Louis Armstrong play?

trumpet

38. Billie Holiday's song Billie's Blues is in ________ form.

twelve-bar blues

25. Which of the following best describes the meter in Stravinsky's Dance of the Youths and Maidens, from The Rite of Spring?

unpredictable accents that disguise any regular meter

8. The element of melody in twentieth-century music is best characterized by

wide leaps and dissonant intervals