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1
Testimony
is Shostakovich's uncontested, unbiased autobiography.
False
True
2
Many jazz greats, such as Miles Davis, played/composed in many different jazz styles.
False
True
3
What is Fluxus?
An avant-garde technique in which the pitches are bent
A drug taken by many psychedelic musicians in the 1960s
A piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen
A global artistic movement that pushed back against “high art”
4
What is a lead sheet?
The liner notes accompanying a vinyl record or, later, a CD
The full arrangement of a swing tune, used by big bands
A suggested solo melody for weaker jazz players
The essentials-only notation of a jazz tune, w/ the melody, chords, form
5
Early electronic instruments were used for demonstrations/public performances of existing musical works.
False
True
6
In the 1950s, which two types of experimental electronic art music emerged?
Prepared piano and indeterminacy
Musique concrète and Futurism
Elektronische Musik and Krautrock
Musique concrète and elektronische Musik
7
What are
non-retrogradable rhythms
?
Rhythmic patterns that are the sameif played backward
When two instruments start the same pattern, then gradually pull apart
Rhythms recorded only once, so whatever you play is what gets used
Ostinato patterns that are never interrupted within the piece
8
Britten's compositional goal was
communication
, while Messiaen aimed for
contemplation
.
True
False
9
Cage's
Sonatas & Interludes
demonstrate which technique?
Modes of limited transposition
Prepared piano
Aleatoric music
Electroacoustic music
10
Which of these composers was a member of the Futurist movement, and invented the
Intonarumori
?
Luigi Russolo
Thaddeus Cahill
Edgard Varese
Olivier Messiaen
11
What are
modes of limited transposition
?
Scales that can only be transposed a few times
Melodies designed to be difficult to transpose
One of John Cage's techniques
A limited set of scales used for one composition
12
In the Soviet Union, music that was atonal, modernist, or otherwise avant-garde was seen as...
Innovative
Party-minded
Boring
Formalist
13
This composer uses a blend of traditional Chinese and Western/American styles.
Bright Sheng
Osvaldo Golijov
Terry Riley
Sofia Gubaidulina
14
Which of these is NOT true about Shostakovich?
All of these are true
He was influenced by modernism and older composers/styles
He was criticized and blacklisted by the government for his music
He was celebrated as a hero of the Soviet Union
15
Messiaen was an early adopter of electronic instruments.
True
False
16
Musique concreète
: France as
elektronische Musik
: __________
The US
Spain
Germany
Russia
17
Charlie Parker...
Was associated with birds
Was influenced by Stravinsky
All of these
Influenced the public perception of jazz - classy, intellectual, etc.
18
What style can be heard in Miles Davis'
Kind of Blue
?
Modal jazz
Free jazz
Bebop
Fusion
19
John Cage is associated with all of the following,
except...
Prepared piano
Electroacoustic music
Musique concrète
Indeterminacy
20
Steve Reich's
Come Out
became an icon of the Civil Rights movement.
False
True
21
Where did Messiaen compose his
Quartet for the End of Time
?
While taking a trip to Indonesia
In a German prisoner-of-war camp
At the Paris Conservatoire
At the Moscow Conservatory
22
Free jazz emerged because some musicians found bebop too limiting.
False
True
23
Which style is defined as "a technique in which materials are reduced to a minimum and procedures are simplified"
Avant-gardism
Minimalism
Futurism
Simplism
24
All of these are postmodern composers
except...
Caroline Shaw
Steve Reich
Bright Sheng
György Ligeti
25
Cage's
Music for Changes
asks the performer to use
coin tosses
to select the musical components. This is an example of:
Chance
Indeterminacy
26
Harry Partch used intervals smaller than a semitone, which are called...
Microtones
Macrotones
Pseudotones
Deftones
27
What piece is this?
Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima by Penderecki
Concert for Piano and Orchestra by Cage
Metastaseis by Xenakis
28
Whose compositional style does this describe?
Olivier Messiaen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Charles Mingus
Pierre Boulez
29
To what style might "pastel colors" refer?
Avant-garde jazz
Cool jazz
Bebop
30
What techniques did Milton Babbitt use?
Electronic music
Musique concrète
All of the above
Serialism
31
Cage's
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
asks the performer to interpret a
graphic score
. This is an example of:
Chance
Indeterminacy
32
Which of these is
not
associated with Olivier Messiaen?
Religion
Birdsong
Film criticism
Synaesthesia
33
Stockhausen composed both
musique concrète
and
elektronische Musik.
False
True
34
Who composed the opera
Einstein on the Beach
?
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Philip Glass
John Lennon
Terry Riley
35
Composers like Varese, Penderecki, and Xenakis were more interested in
melody/harmony
than
texture/process
.
True
False
36
Socialist Realism gave composers clear guidelines for writing "Party-Minded" music.
False
True
37
What best describes Prokofiev's style?
Atonal, rigid, calculated, and emotionless
Emotional, sweeping, and warm
Esoteric, with modes of limited transposition and birdsong
Percussive, driving, dissonant, and with dark humor
38
Which is
not
a type of synthesis used by synthesizers?
Additive synthesis (combining sine waves)
User derived synthesis (patches changing automatically based on the player)
Frequency modulation synthesis (changing waveform frequencies)
Subtractive synthesis (filtering sounds to change them)
39
What is
not
true about bebop?
It is typically virtuosic
It was meant for dancing
It starts with a head, then moves into a solo section
It involves small groups/combos
40
Which of these was NOT a typical trait of Socialist Realist music?
Patriotic subject matter
Traditional and folk styles
Relatively simple, accessible musical language
Modernist, futuristic musical language
41
John Cage opposed the museum-like preservation of music; he wanted people to experience it “in the moment”
False
True
42
Pierre Schaffer developed
musique concrète
.
True
False
43
The recording that made Moog synthesizers famous was...
blue cathedral by Jennifer Higdon
Switched-On Bach by Wendy Carlos
"Giant Steps" by John Coltrane
Turangalila-Symphonie by Olivier Messiaen
44
What is
musique concrète
?
Manipulated tape recordings
Music made for the people, by the people
A reaction agianst electronic music and other avant-garde techniques
Purely synthesized sounds
45
Caroline Shaw's
Partita for 8 Voices
was both critically acclaimed and criticized for appropriation.
True
False
46
There were not many parallels between "art" and "popular" music in the 20th century.
False
True
47
Which electronic instrument is this?
Moog Mk. I
Theremin
Roli Seaboard
Ondes Martenot
48
Osvaldo Golijov blends all of these styles,
except
...
Argentine folk idioms and tangos
Jewish liturgical and Klezmer music
Mexican banda music
Classical (primarily chamber works and Bach)
49
What is
not
true of
elektronische Musik
?
It was often produced in radio stations and other dedicated studios
It tried to avoid the "imitative" nature of early electronic instruments
It is a type of musique concrète
It is formed through entirely electronic instruments
50
Indeterminate music is left up to the
performer/audience
, while chance is left up to the
composer
.
False
True
51
Which is
not
one of Britten's significant works?
Peter Grimes
War Requiem
Peter and the Wolf
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
52
Who was
not
a minimalist composer?
Frank Zappa
Steve Reich
Philip Glass
Terry Riley
53
What is
phasing
?
A type of electronic ostinato pattern
Editing out certain frequencies
Patterns played over one another but moving at slightly different rates
Cyclic patterns used by Messiaen
