MUSC-1420 Exam 3

Composers engaged with contemporary society most directly in their cultivation of

Zoltán Kodály and Carl Orff were both

An important challenge for composers in Russia & Germany in the 1930s was

Gershwin's Concerto in F & Still's Afro-American Symphony both employ blues progressions

Musicals of the 1920-30s were largely escapist, fantasy plots, and avoided touching on sensitive social/political issues

In postminimalism, musical materials/procedures of composition are more diverse & expressive content more pronounced

In the mid-20th century, composers of art music in the Western tradition shared the following priorities/goals except

Who among the following composers pursued a successful career writing Broadway musicals in the 1930-40s?

In West Side Story, Bernstein fused popular American musical conventions with classical genres and techniques

Minimalism in music originated as a

In his works from the 1970s and later, Arvo Pärt used a compositional style heavily influenced by

In the 1960-70s, each of the following composers turned away from serial techniques to adopt new styles except

During the Depression and New Deal eras, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Aaron Copland both

Gershwin's influence on American music is attributable to the fact that he outlived his most prominent contemporaries

The American ultramodernists included

Official condemnation of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtensk District was especially aimed at

A characteristic 21st C synthesis of spectralism and medieval modality is evident in

All the following composers are important representative of minimalist musical styles except

According to Henry Cowell & Aaron Copland, ultramodernist techniques/musical Americanism were first juxtaposed by