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This composer is known for wide-open sonorities, open fifths/octaves, and folklike melodies - the "American" sound.
Henry Cowell
William Grant Still
George Gershwin
Aaron Copland
2
William Grant Still wrote both jazz arrangements and art music.
False
True
3
Gospel music was...
Only performed in the South
Usually performed by a band
All of the above
An oral tradition
4
Klangfarbenmelodie
is the act of splitting a musical line between several instruments.
True
False
5
Musical primitivism often emphasizes rhythm to express an ancient or aboriginal attitude.
False
True
6
Recording technology was originally important because it helped to sell sheet music.
True
False
7
Which of these is a blues scale?
C Eb F F# G Bb C
C D E G A B C
C C# D# E F# G A B C
C A B B A G E
8
Which school did Edgard Varèse, Henry Cowell, and Ruth Crawford Seeger belong to?
Americanists
Ultramodernists
9
Which composer is known as the "Father of the Blues?"
W. C. Hardy
Ira Gershwin
Duke Ellington
Jelly Roll Morton
10
This woman was the first to conduct many major orchestras in the U.S. and Europe.
Nadia Boulanger
Amy Beach
Florence Price
Ruth Crawford Seeger
11
The U.S. used popular songs for propaganda in the early 20th century.
True
False
12
What is the artistic goal of Expressionism?
Expressing intense passion and joy
Expressing subjective feelings, alienation, and anxieties
Expressing disgust at needing to take an exam on this material
Expressing a vague glimpse of the surrounding environment
13
Bela Bartok combined Hungarian folk idioms with modernist techniques.
False
True
14
Which of these is
not
characteristic of Eric Satie's music?
Repetition
Unresolved chords
Dense textures
Satire and absurdity
15
Ragtime combines elements from military marches and African American styles.
False
True
16
Scott Joplin composed...
Opera
All of the above
Ragtime piano pieces
Ballet
17
What does
entartete Musik
mean?
Artistic music
Forbidden music
Degenerate music
Functional music
18
Neue Sachlichkeit
did all of the following
except
...
Opposed complexity and promoted familiar elements
Utilized political satire and social criticism
Borrowed from popular music, jazz, Classic/Baroque procedures
Reconciled aspects of Romanticism and Expressionism
19
By the 1920s, the main function of jazz was to be...
Sold as sheet music
Complex and innovative
Danced to
Listened to
20
Which composer's style uses sound masses and spatial techniques?
Ruth Crawford Seeger
George Gershwin
Edgard Varese
Bela Bartok
21
Which composer had these three periods: Russian (1909-19); Neoclassical (1919-51); Serial (1951-71)?
Igor Stravinsky
Dmitri Shostakovich
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Rachmaninoff
22
Arnold Schoenberg wrote in a late Romantic style at the beginning of his career.
True
False
23
What is
not
true about Anton Webern?
He applied serial techniques to more than just the notes
His works are performed more than those of Schoenberg or Berg
His music was extremely short/concentrated at times
He was the most radical of the Second Viennese School
24
Alban Berg often referenced older techniques and harmonies, giving him the nickname, "the classicist of modern music."
True
False
25
"Why become a second-rate Ravel when you're already a first-rate ________________?"
Debussy
Gershwin
Copland
Still
26
Henry Cowell used all of the following techniques
except
...
Elements from other cultures
Tape music
Playing inside the piano
Tone clusters
27
In the early 20th century, Moscow became a hub for the avant-garde.
False
True
28
Which of the following does
not
describe Charles Ives?
He combined vernacular, church, European classical, and experimental musics
His distinct Russian-based style became the basis for “modern” sound
He was only well-known later in life/after death
He tried to bring American vernacular music to equal level as W. A. M.
29
What is collective improvisation?
All of the musicians taking solos one after another
All of the musicians playing a written-out melody
All of the musicians improvising at the same time, instead of solos
One musician making up a chord progression while the other makes up a solo
30
During WWI, American composers were directly inspired by all of these composers
except
...
Les Six
Nadia Boulanger
Eric Satie
Richard Wagner
31
Which technique did Schoenberg use to create coherence in his atonal works?
Chromatic saturation
Developing variation
All of the above
Following the structure of the text
32
What is the Weimar Era?
Germany after WWII
Germany between WWI and the rise of the Nazis
Germany before WWI
Germany during WWII
33
Jelly Roll Morton was the first to publish jazz arrangements.
False
True
34
The movement to return to the sensibility, order, balance, clarity, and emotional restraint of older genres is called...
Neoclassicism
Impressionism
Expressionism
Socialist Realism
35
Which types of music were approved by the Nazi Party?
Roma music
Jazz and blues
Wagner and Bruckner
Mendelssohn and Chopin
36
Which of these is NOT typical of Stravinsky's music?
Sparse textures
Pervasive ostinatos
Unpredictable rhythms/meters
Form based on layering, juxtaposing, interrupting static blocks of sound
37
Jazz was first popularized by the Fisk Jubilee Singers.
False
True
38
William Grant Still composed symphonies, ballets, operas, and other works in an Ultramodernist style.
True
False
39
Bessie Smith is known as the "Empress of Jazz."
True
False
40
Jazz flourished in the 1920s in Germany.
False
True
41
American marches are usually...
Written with sections called "strains"
In triple meter
Slower than European marches
Written in sharp keys
42
What style does "Pierrot Lunaire" represent?
Cabaret
Americanism
Expressionism
Minimalism
43
Eric Satie's works were an influence on minimalism.
False
True
44
George Gershwin didn't see a gap between "classical" and "popular" music, and frequently blended the two.
False
True
45
When it comes to popular song, what made the most money around the turn of the century?
Sheet music
Recordings
Live performances
Autographs
46
Sprechstimme
is...
A set of notes using all 12 tones
Using a text with an AAB lyrical pattern
Splitting a musical line between several instruments
A vocal technique between speech and singing
47
Which composer was among the first to use extended piano techniques?
George Gershwin
Alban Berg
Henry Cowell
Amy Beach
48
Who founded the Second Viennese School?
Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg
Nadia Boulanger
Richard Wagner
49
Which "exotic" music inspired Claude Debussy?
Mexican banda
Sufi Qawwali
Indonesian gamelan
Libyan folk song
50
Ruth Crawford Seeger's career was mainly focused on avant-garde/ultramodernist music.
True
False
51
Varese was not popular during his time, but inspired later composers from Stockhausen to Frank Zappa.
True
False
52
Which typical blues idiom can be heard in Bessie Smith's "Backwater Blues?"
All of these
Call and response
12-bar blues
AAB poetic form
53
Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote nationalistic music for the American government.
True
False
54
What is true about Duke Ellington?
He composed over 1,300 pieces
He was not interested in recording technology
He thought jazz was very different from art music
He was conservative and rarely experimented
55
How many notes are in a set when using
dodecaphony
?
6
12
10
13
56
What is true of Les Six?
They were German nationalists
They all composed in a similar style
They were all taught by Nadia Boulanger
They were reacting against Impressionism and Romanticism
57
The "emancipation of dissonance" means freeing dissonance from its need to resolve to consonance.
False
True
58
Which composer blended traditional Brazilian elements with modernist techniques?
Franco
Varese
Villa-Lobos
Revueltas
59
The Ballet Russes was founded by....
Sergei Diaghilev
Igor Stravinsky
Sergei Prokofiev
Vladimir Lenin
60
What was the most common form for popular songs in the first half of the 20th century?
AAB/12-bar blues form
AABA/32-bar form
ABABCBB/verse-chorus form
61
Tin Pan Alley is most closely associated with gospel music.
True
False
62
Like jazz, ragtime has been popular since it was first created.
False
True
63
Les Six and the Mighty Five have a lot in common.
True
False
64
What's this?: I - I - I - I - IV - IV - I - I - V - IV - I - I(or V)
12-bar blues
The trio of a march
32-bar song structure
65
Which school did George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and William Grant Still belong to?
Americanists
Ultramodernists
66
Which member of the Second Viennese School was the most lax with the rules of serialism?
Anton Webern
Arnold Schoenberg
None of the above; they all strictly followed the rules
Alban Berg
67
Which composer was one of the founders of ethnomusicology?
Bela Bartok
Franz Liszt
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Igor Stravinsky
68
Who was seen as the FIRST classical composer to cultivate an American sound?
Charles Ives
Ruth Crawford Seeger
Aaron Copland
George Gershwin
69
Who was
not
a member of the Second Viennese School?
Paul Hindemith
Alban Berg
Arnold Schoenberg
Anton Webern
70
What is cultural diplomacy?
The exchange of ideas/arts/etc. to foster mutual understanding
An exercise in "soft power"
All of the above
A form of propaganda
