Opera was largely neglected by British composers in the 19th century due to

an already established and dominant tradition

Eusebius and Florestan are

fictional personae in Robert Schumann's literary writings

Louis Gottschalk's career resembles Franz Liszt's in all following respects except

Gottschalk spent a significant part of his career in the US

A prominent precedent for late nineteenth century techniques of thematic transformation in

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

The earliest atonal compositions included

Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens/Ive's Unanswered ?

Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of

the migration of southern blues musician to northern cities

Which of the following works best exemplifies the aesthetics of Gebrauchsmusik?

Aaron Copland's The Second Hurricane

Contrast btwn composers Vincent d'Indy + Francis Poulenc vividly shows the aesthetic dichotomy

"low" popular music vs "high" art music

Rossini spent his last four decades in Paris mainly

in comfortable retirement mostly withdrawn from composing

The division of Beethoven's life into three periods was

based on a biographical schema established by his early bios

The metaphor of musical collage aptly describes the compositional techniques applied in

General William Booth Enters into Heaven

In this example, the orchestral passage in mm. 3-6 functions as all of the following except

musical emblem of the character Don Jose

The description of much early 20th century music as post-tonal refers to

diverse new ways in which composers organized pitch

German Romantic Opera is distinguished most sharply from contemporary French and Italian opera

focus on natural and supernatural landscapes as important

Schoenberg's argument for atonality was based in part on his observation that

chromaticism/wide ranging modulations weakened pull of tonic

The mission of the Art Ensemble of Chicago was to

perform serious experimental jazz for connoisseurs

Beethoven's late style is characterized by all of the following except

simplified performance challenges aimed at amateur players

The graphic notation used by Earle Brown in his composition December 1952 indicates

no fixed musical parameters of any kind

The aesthetic difference between the New German School and the adherents of absolute music lay

interpretations of the implications of Beethoven mature work

In his Op. 131 string quartet, Beethoven reorders the traditional symphonic movements as follow

sonata rondo - lyrical slow movement - scherzo - sonata

After World War II, the American folk music movement

adopted a simple performance style using only one or a few

Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of

the migration of southern blues musicians to northern cities

The American composers' organizations-International Composers Guild + League of Composers goal

securing performances of new American compositions

Splintering of pop music audiences in first decades of the 21st century can be attributed to

proliferation of listening options by communications technol

1st tetrachord in right and 1st in left are prime/P-6 forms

The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet is

two quartets of reed instruments

A typical Rossini overture comprises

a two part form with a slow introduction then by fast binary

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1
Which of the following is an example of how modernist composers stretch the meaning of symphony
Ariadne auf Naxos
Das Lied von der Erde
Embryons desseches
Vers la flamme
2
The most popularized divisive conflicts among musicians and composers was that between
Wagner and Liszt
Berlioz and Liszt
Bach and Mozart
Wagner and Brahms
3
Opera was largely neglected by British composers in the 19th century due to
lack of theaters in England's major cities
prohibitions against vocal music in London theaters
British nationalist rejection of Italian culture
an already established and dominant tradition
4
Eusebius and Florestan are
the authors of Lyrical Intermezzo
Robert and Clara Schumann's eldest children
characters in Beethoven's Fidelio
fictional personae in Robert Schumann's literary writings
5
Louis Gottschalk's career resembles Franz Liszt's in all following respects except
Gottschalk spent some of his career in France
Gottschalk spent a significant part of his career in the US
Gottschalk's compositions made demands on player
Gottschalk was a published composer
6
A prominent precedent for late nineteenth century techniques of thematic transformation in
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
J.S. Bach's cantatas
Bellini's operas
7
Steve Reich's musical style and technique underwent a shift in the 1980s from
minimalism to postminimalism
indeterminacy to total serialism
indeterminacy to spectralism
serialism to minimalism
8
The earliest atonal compositions included
Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens/Ive's Unanswered ?
Berg's Wozzeck and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
Schoenberg's Piano Suite Op 25 and Bartok's Mikrokosmos
Berg's Lulu and Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht
9
The fourth movement of Brahm's fourth symphony testifies to the composer's interest in
Baroque variation technique
Classic Rondo form
Romantic ternary song form
medieval modes
10
Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of
the migration of southern blues musician to northern cities
the invention of the Moog synthesizer
the British invasion
the drug culture of the 1960s
11
Auto-tune is a type of
MIDI Interface
digital metronome
Audio processor
Sound synthesizer
12
The late 19th century French taste for exoticism is reflected in the following operas except
Lakme
Carmen
L'Africaine
Werther
13
In Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, Schumann renders the poems meaning especially through his use of
passages in recitative style
alternation of major and minor tonic triads
unresolved dissonant harmonies
ubiquitous dotted rhythms
14
Composers engaged with contemporary society most directly in their cultivation of
folk music styles
Gebrauchsmusik
neoclassicism
jazz
15
Which of the following works best exemplifies the aesthetics of Gebrauchsmusik?
Aaron Copland's The Second Hurricane
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Darius Milhaud's La creation du monde
Francis Polenc's Dialogues des carmelites
16
Which of the following composers spent a significant part of his career working in the USA?
Mahler
Debussy
Ravel
Satie
17
Contrast btwn composers Vincent d'Indy + Francis Poulenc vividly shows the aesthetic dichotomy
classicism vs. romanticism
"low" popular music vs "high" art music
modernism vs. neoclassicism
formalism vs realism
18
Parker's Anthropology is linked to the Tin Pan Alley tradition on account of borrowing from
I Got Rhythm
West Side Story
Richard Rogers
Motown
19
Rossini spent his last four decades in Paris mainly
in comfortable retirement mostly withdrawn from composing
as Director of the Paris Opera
writing several important grand operas
teaching composition at the Paris Conservatoire
20
Tan Dun and Paul McCartney share an interest in and have appropriated techniques and ideas from
Nirvana
John Cage
Arvo Part
Arnold Schoenberg
21
The division of Beethoven's life into three periods was
based on Beethoven's three successive relationships
based on the three part division of his autobiography
based on a biographical schema established by his early bios
revisionist periodization proposed by 20th century scholars
22
The metaphor of musical collage aptly describes the compositional techniques applied in
Symphony of Psalms
General William Booth Enters into Heaven
Mikrokosmos
Erwartung
23
In this example, the orchestral passage in mm. 3-6 functions as all of the following except
musical emblem of the character Don Jose
an enharmonic resolution of the chord progression in m.2
a transposed version of a motive heard earlier in the opera
a reminiscence motive
24
In the years 1792-1794, Beethoven studied counterpoint and composition with
Neefe and Albrechtsberger
Haydn and Albrechtsberger
Haydn and Mozart
Haydn and Clementi
25
The description of much early 20th century music as post-tonal refers to
the complete rejection of functional harmony
the restoration of the medieval church modes
diverse new ways in which composers organized pitch
incorporation of non-musical sounds such as industrial noise
26
German Romantic Opera is distinguished most sharply from contemporary French and Italian opera
its use of large performing forces and elaborate stagecraft
its use of spoken dialogue
use of recurring motives identified with situations
focus on natural and supernatural landscapes as important
27
Schoenberg's argument for atonality was based in part on his observation that
chromaticism/wide ranging modulations weakened pull of tonic
Austrian folk music displayed atonal characteristics
traditional pitches could be replaced by pitch class sets
principle of developing variation eliminated tonal harmony
28
Music for strings, percussion, and celesta illustrates Bartok's use of all elements except
cyclic recall of themes
symmetry
twelve tone rows
fugal counterpoint
29
The mission of the Art Ensemble of Chicago was to
encourage hybrid genres of pop, classical and jazz
perform serious experimental jazz for connoisseurs
pursue the same research mission as IRCAM
encourage performance of non-Western musical styles
30
All of the following operas were based on poems and stories by Alexander Pushkin except
Parsifal
Rustan and Lyudmila
Boris Godunov
Eugene Onegin
31
Beethoven's late style is characterized by all of the following except
frequent use of variation technique and form
frequent use of variation technique and form
simplified performance challenges aimed at amateur players
fugal passages or movements
32
Schumann's Symphony No. 4 uses as a model
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Beethoven's Symphony No. 3
Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy
33
In the example below, the procedure evident in the harmonies of mm1-6 is most accurately
descending sequence of harmony
modal mixture
chromatic saturation
thematic transformation
34
Literary sources for popular operas 1820/30 included works by all the following authors except
Friedrich Schiller
Victor Hugo
Emile Zola
William Shakespeare
35
Sixteenth century music served as a model for
Brahm's Lieder
Liszt's concertos
Hugo Wolf's chamber music
Bruckner's choral music
36
Indie rock achieved commercial prominence in the 1990s due the success of grunge bands from
Amsterdam
Seattle
Los Angeles
New York
37
Important examples of grand opera include all the following except
L'elisir d'amore
Les Huguenots
Guillame Tell
La muette de Portici
38
One of the earliest modernist compositions commonly regarded as neoclassical is
Elektra
Nuages
Le tombeau de Couperin
Das Lied von der Erde
39
The graphic notation used by Earle Brown in his composition December 1952 indicates
small fragments of notated music
only the relative durations of harmonies
no fixed musical parameters of any kind
only instrument combinations at any given point in time
40
The aesthetic difference between the New German School and the adherents of absolute music lay
ideas about whether to use or reject thematic transformation
understandings of the role of Renaissance and Baroque styles
ideas of how to represent poetry or narratives in music
interpretations of the implications of Beethoven mature work
41
Important examples of grand opera include all of the following except
Les Huguenots
L'elisir d'amore
Guillaume Tell
La favorite
42
In his Op. 131 string quartet, Beethoven reorders the traditional symphonic movements as follow
sonata allegro-scherzo-minuet and trio-sonata rondo
prelude-fugue-fantasia-rondeau
sonata rondo - lyrical slow movement - scherzo - sonata
variation set-minuet and trio-sonata rondo
43
After World War II, the American folk music movement
focused on preserving the purity of the traditional oral
exploited new electronic instruments to enhance
integrated folk melodies with the rhythmic qualities of rock
adopted a simple performance style using only one or a few
44
Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of
the migration of southern blues musicians to northern cities
the British invasion
invention of the Moog synthesizer
the invention of the radio
45
The American composers' organizations-International Composers Guild + League of Composers goal
protecting the American musical tradition
cultivating political links with the Union of Soviet
securing performances of new American compositions
attracting European concert artists to the United States
46
Splintering of pop music audiences in first decades of the 21st century can be attributed to
growing number of music consumers isolated by no internet
erosion of pop music market by expanding classical music
proliferation of listening options by communications technol
copyright enforcement by large music producers and record
47
In the 1960s, Ornette Coleman and his ensemble developed a style of jazz known as
cool jazz
contrafact
bebop
free jazz
48
Neotonality and polytonality are predominant compositional idioms in
Kreuzspiel
Philomel
Composition 1960 No 2
Peter Grimes
49
In the excerpt below
first 12 pitches constitute the prime form of the row
1st tetrachord in the left hand is the retrograde of 2nd
1st tetrachord in right and 1st in left are prime/P-6 forms
1st tetrachord in right and 1st in left are prime/P-7 forms
50
The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet is
a composition with eight movements
a quartet of double basses
two quartets of reed instruments
a pair of string quartets
51
A typical Rossini overture comprises
a two part form with a slow introduction then by fast binary
a multi-section orchestral suite
two part form with slow ceremonial section
three part sonata form
52
That Gounod's Faust was first performed as an opera comique indicates that it
was given a happy ending in which Faust marries Marguerite
was first performed in concert form without sets or costume
was first performed in its original German language version
was performed with spoke dialogue
53
Both Orphee aux enfers and The Pirates of Penzance
helped establish a new genre of through composed light opera
emulated the leitmotif techniques of Wagner
restored Greek classical myths as operatic subjects
satirized contemporary and historical operatic conventions
54
The modernist techniques of atonality/dissonance/layering/juxtaposition have influenced
electronic dance music
nothing - no significant impact
contemporary vocal pop music
film music
55
Which composer's legacy was the most lasting and influential in the 19th century?
Bach's
Mozart's
Beethoven's
Haydn's
56
The American composers organizations (International Composers Guild/League of Composers) goal
attracting European concert artists to the United States
cultivating political links with the Union
securing performances of new American compositions
protecting the American musical tradition
57
The gates in John Adam's piano work Phrygian Gates refers to
nothing specific
the change from the scalar collection of pitches used in one
the Phrygian cadences that conclude each movement
the passages of indeterminacy that separate the fully notate
58
In the 1950s Frederick Fennell/students from Eastman organized an important ensemble performing
electronic music
rhythm and blues
wind band music
music or India and Asia
59
Bedrich Smetana's Tabor is based on
a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale
a fast triple-meter dance
a story from Arabian Nights
a hero of fifteenth century religious wars
60
1964 marked
a landmark rock festival in Bethel, New York
the final year of World War II
the first Beatles US World Tour
the assassination of John F. Kennedy
61
When composing atonal music, Schoenberg found an unsurmountable problem that the atonal idiom
maintain a hierarchy of functions among cons/diss harmonies
support motivic development
reproduce the formal coherence of large scale tonal composit
be used to set poetic texts expressively
62
Varese's concept of sound mass challenged traditional ideas of musical rhetoric by deemphasizin
texture
dynamics
orchestration
thematic development
63
Indie rock achieved commercial prominence in the 1990s due to success of grunge bands from
New York
Amsterdam
San Francisco
Seattle
64
Of the following composers, who was the only one to reside in Europe during World War II?
Schoenberg
Stravinsky
Berg
Webern
65
In the example below, the orchestral passage in mm.3-6 functions as all the following except
a reminiscence motive
a stereotyped figure of Roma music
a transposed version of a motive heard earlier in the opera
a musical emblem of the character Don Jose
66
Metric modulation is a technique associated with
Luciano Berio
Krzysztof Penderecki
Benjamin Britten
Elliot Carter
67
Ballet was an important compositional genre for all of the following except
de Falla
Scriabin
Debussy
Satie
68
Opening diplomatic relations btwn. USA and Japan in the mid-19th century provided the plot of
Tosca
Il trovatore
La forza del destino
Madama Butterfly
69
The form of the standard mid-nineteenth century American march was
ternary
variation set
rondo
binary
70
Which of the following claims is true of Janacek's music?
rhythms are often derived from the cadences of spoken German
its rhythms are often derived from the cadences of spoken Cz
it consists exclusively of orchestral and chamber compositio
relies on the development of motives in the manner of Beeth
71
Brahm's First Symphony shows the influence of
Liszt's use of a literary program as the basis of his Faust
Bach's use of ground bass as a repeating theme
Schumann's use of slow introductions in his 4th Symphony
Beethoven's setting of poetry to a hymn like melody
72
Heroic narrative implicit in Beethoven's 5th Symphony is conveyed partly through
incorporation of Russian melodies in last movement
conclusion of the symphony in parallel major mode of tonic
conclusion of the symphony with majestic fugue
inclusion of a funeral march movement
73
The texts of La bonne chanson are poems by
Stephane Mallarme
Jean Racine
Paul Verlaine
Edgar Allen Poe
74
Which of the following most accurately describes early 20th century modernist music?
combined innovation with familiar techniques of older
it dispensed with tonality
maintained historical musical styles while rejecting the new
it broke entirely with past musical traditions
75
The song Hound Dog is a good example of
one of the earliest hit songs of the British Invasion
country music of the southeastern United States
early bebop
the adoption of rhythm-and-blues by white musicians
76
The first major electronic composition to exploit multiple sound tracks was
Metastaseis
Turangalila-Symphonie
Gesang der Jünglinge
Philomel
77
In Catholic music- 2nd quarter of the 19th century, what composer's style of music was revived?
Haydn and Mozart's
Palestrina's
Leoninus
J.S.Bach's
78
Beethoven's music most closely mirrored post-French revolutionary social changes in
dealt with religious subjects
was composed for private commissions
represented an entrepreneurial freedom from compositional
became and simple and accessible
79
Although different in many ways, Bejamin Britten and George Crumb had in common their
work as film composers during the 1930s
use of electronics to alter musical sounds
commitment to serial techniques
contemplation of political and social issues in their works
80
Beethoven's Third Symphony demonstrates how the composer
composed more concise development sections than predecessors
treated musical themes as though they were characters in a
consistently used longer/more lyrical themes than predeccors
would first introduce significant motive within a slow intro
81
Signs of change in the classical orchestral world 2008/2010 and number of performances dropped
30%
15%
75%
50%
82
Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem is a setting of texts from
the Latin Mass for the Dead
spiritual poems by Morike and Eichendorff
Mignon's funeral in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
German translations of Old Testament scriptural texts
83
Band transcriptions were primarily intended to
notate improvised band performances for future reproduction
rescore original band compositions
accompany opera in smaller venues
make popular orchestral works performable by wind bands
84
Eugene Scribe was
a composer of Opera comiques
a librettist of several grand operas
Bellini's favorite librettist
the composer of Robert le diable
85
Piano emerged as an important and widely used instrument in the 19th century largely because
it was much easier to tune than other instruments
it was the most affordable instrument
solo piano music was the most popular genre in 19th century
it could produce an extremely wide variety of sonorities
86
What important trait does Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande share with Wagner's mature operas?
both derive plots from contemporary stage plays
both use orchestral music
both feature virtuosic solo arias
both use the orchestra with restraint
87
The plot of La Traviata is a good example of mid-nineteenth century
symbolism
exoticism
realism
classicism
88
When we claim Penderecki's Threnody or Xenakis's Metastaseis... by processes, we mean that
gradually reveal complete musical themes
are generated by mathematical algorithims
are generated by chance processes
a succession of gradual changes in timbres/textures/register
89
Nationalist compositions like Musorgsky's Pictures and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances were with
Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony
premiere of Wagner's Ring Cycle
Composition of Brahm's early piano sonatas
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
90
In which of the following works did Stravinsky adopt technique from Schoenberg's 12 tone method
Dumbarton Oaks
Threni
L'histoire du soldat
The Firebird
91
In the example below
the music is composed using manipulations of 12 tone row
rhythmic patterns recall medieval isorhythmic technique
dynamics and articulations are serialized
the violin and clarinet parts are composed based on I-ching
92
Composers marginalized/subjugated regions Europe + new world...their unique cultural identities
employing native folk melodic and harmonic idioms in music
mocking conventions of classical tradition in parody
discarding and replacing the classical forms
replacing German and French texts of vocal works
93
The concept of nonretrogradable rhythm describes how a rhythmic pattern
has the same absolute durations whether forward or backward
must never be repeated exactly but varied
must not contain any repeated rhythmic values
may not be reversed in the course of a composition
94
John Cage shows the strongest affinity to the aesthetics/procedures of art in which works?
cheap Imitation
Sonatas and interludes
Musicircus
4'33"
95
The proponents of the New German School and those of absolute music both believed that
a chromatic harmonic language was always required
the four movement classical symphony
medieval polyphony could provide a model for the composition
based on the proper understanding of Beethoven's music
96
Settings of lyrical poetry in the early nineteenth century tend to
express personal reactions to ideas and images
express rapid, frequent changes of emotional states
contain dialogues among characters
be composed as ballads
97
Contrasting diatonic and chromatic musical idiom in Wagner...contrast of reality and fantasy in
Verdi and Puccini
Rimsky-Korsakov and Dvorak
Bizet and Gounod
Puccini and Leoncavallo
98
The form of the standard mid-19th century march was
binary
variation set
ternary
rondo
99
Settings of lyric poetry in the early nineteenth century tend to
be composed as ballads
contain dialogues among characters
express rapid, frequent changes of emotional states
express personal reactions to ideas and images
100
Between the 1700s and 1850s the production of piano and publication of composition increased
10,000%
50%
1,000%
25%
101
The four pitch musical motive D-E flat - C-B is a musical cipher of
J.S. Bach
Louis Durey
Darius Milhaud
Dmitri Shostakovich
102
The composition below contains all of the following traits of Beethoven's late style ^except
fugal textures
unorthodox treatment of form
variation technique
extreme contrasts of registers
103
The Grey Album is historically significant because it was
the first of the post-punk revival albums of the new milleni
a highly successful collaboration with Yo Yo Ma/Afghan Youth
Macy Grey's first kickstarter financed recording project
an important mashup combining sounds from rap and 1960s pop
104
Literary sources for popular operas in 1820/1850 included these authors except
William Shakespeare
Emile Zola
Sir Walter Scott
Victor Hugo
105
The composer most responsible for establishing the conventions of grand opera was
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Gioachino Rossini
Hector Berlioz
Mikhail Glinka
106
Beethoven turned away from the extroverted, heroic style of his middle-period works because
restoration of the French monarchy in 1815
establishment of parliamentary democracy in Austria in 1815
political repression in the Austrain empire after 1815
final defeat and destruction of the Austrian empire in 1815
107
In reform Judaism
oratorios were adapted for Jewish tradition
music was banned
the congregation sang
services were performed in the vernacular instead of Hebrew
108
Which of the following works best illustrates expressionist musical style?
Pulcinella
Erwartung
Petrushka
The Rake's Progress
109
Antonin Dvorak's first impression of African American Music were gained from
the Fisk Jubilee Singers
slaves singing on southern plantations
German publications of African American song transcriptions
the singer Harry Burleigh
110
The fifth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique depicts
march to an execution scaffold
a ball
a pastoral scene
a witches' sabbath
111
Crucial difference btwn. repertoires of the Paris Opera and that city's Opera-Comique was that
spoken dialogue was permitted at Opera-Comique-not Paris Ope
Paris Opera only produced operas based on French history
Paris Opera performed only operas composed by native French
Opera-Comique performed only comic operas
112
Glinka's and Rimsky-Korsakov's influence on Stravinsky is seen most clearly in
orchestration and use of octatonic scales
works of the 1950s
use of unresolved dissonance
technique of developing variation
113
Amy Beach's musical career was marked by all of the following except
studies in Germany just before the first World War
emulation of the musical style of Brahms
studies in Paris with Vincent D'Indy
integration of Irish folk music and Native American music
114
The main function of the tempo di mezzo in a typical Rossinian opera scene is to
introduce a change in character's circumstances/plot twist
provide orchestral accompaniment for the soloist's exit
return to the tonic key of the scena
introduce a section of choral music
115
Amy Beach's musical career was marked by all of the following except
studies in Germany just before the First World War
studies in Paris with Vincent d'Indy
integration of Irish folk music and Native Amer. music
suppression of her concert career during her marriage
116
Klangfarbenmelodie is
an opera by Schoenberg
a song cycle by Berg
coordination of changes in pitch with changes of tone color
a vocal technique where a singer approx. the timbre/speech
117
Edvard Grieg's style was strongly influenced by
Hungarian folk music
French grand opera
Musorgsky's and Borodin's orchestral works
Mendelssohn's and Schumann's music
118
Conservatories were established in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the
1820s
1860s
1840s
1890s
119
Virtuosity was a self-consciously cultivated stylistic element in which of the following genres
folk music
film music
bebop
musicals
120
Which acronym designate a format used to compress audio files by removing inaudible frequencies
WAV
MP3
MIDI
FLAC
121
In compositions such as his 1964 String Quartet and Third Symphony, Witold Lutoslawski uses
total serialism
musique concrete
indeterminacy
electronics
122
Men's choruses were comprised of
elite men
professional musicians
working class men
middle class men
123
In the example below, what evidence would most strongly indicate that the composer is Ravel?
parallel root position triads
triple meter and accented upbeats
extended harmonies and underlying functional harmonic
contrasting piano and forte dynamics
124
The description of early 20th century music as "post-tonal" refers to
restoration of medieval church modes
incorporation of non-musical sounds such as industrial noise
complete rejection of functional harmony and progressions
diverses new ways in which composers organized pitch
125
Music for Prague 1968 is
an overture by Krzysztof Penderecki
a live tour album by Thelonius Monk
a band composition by Karl Husa
a musical by Richard Rogers
126
Bluegrass and bebop both
are associated with urban areas
use banjos
showcase virtuosic playing techniques
function mainly as dance music
127
In the USA, avant-garde composers of postwar decades were widely and most often supported by
religious institutions
state and local governments
private patrons
academic institutions
128
Each of the following musicians was associated with the musical style known as soul except
Otis Redding
Ray Charles
James Brown
Miles Davis
129
Over the course of his career, Mahler
provided symphonies with increasing detailed commentary
incorporated 19th century poetry in his symphonies
rejected mimetic use of nature sounds and musical topics
abandon largescale/discursive symphonic movements for concis
130
Which of the following statements is true of Krenek, Gershwin, Copland and Milhaud?
they were all self-taught as composers
they all composed Broadway musicals
they all incorporated jazz idioms in their music
they all used 12 tone techniques in the 1950s
131
What is the one way in which English choral societies impacted music in Anglican churches?
church choirs charged membership fees
women began to sing in church choirs
festival music model was adopted for services
secular part song became part of services
132
What is one reason for the development of a repertoire of standing classics by past composers?
Older musicians wrote better music
Extreme expressivity and virtuosity of the earlier artists
New works were too serious for general audiences
Earlier music was cheaper to publish than contemporary

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