Music Unit 6 Quiz Review

Larsen has composed a solo piece for every instrument

A special rhythmic characteristic that jazz musicians add to the music

A continuous or sliding movement from one pitch to another

The craft of putting together sounds to create a musical work

Ordering of the twelve pitches of the chromatic scale to form the basic material for a musical composition.

The liberty that artists sometimes take in reinterpreting another artist’s work

What piano style inspired Libby Larsen’s Four on the Floor?

What famous American instrumentalist commissioned Copland’s Clarinet Concerto?

The term for when a tone row is sounded backwards

Name the expert arranger who contributed greatly to Ellington’s work in the 1940s.

In which state does Larsen live?

How does Libby Larsen portray the monster in her opera Frankenstein?

Which of the following is true about Duke Ellington’s compositions

Incorporating notes that lie outside the regular diatonic scale

What is Libby Larsen’s definition of composing?

Larsen likes to be at the first performance of her pieces

A section of a piece designed to show the virtuosity of a soloist

Where was Aaron Copland living when he became determined to express his American roots?

Which of the following is not a basic version in which a tone row might be used?

The connective part of a composition

What was the new method of composition developed by Arnold Schoenberg?

A period of music that extended roughly from 1935 to 1945