Which of the following is a characteristic of Postmodern music?

quotation, extracts from earlier musical works

What is Expressionism?

inner feelings were depicted through vivid art

Great jazz artists are often

great improvisers, who can compose as they perform

Dizzie Gillespie and Thelonius Monk

were pioneers of bebop along with Charlie Parker

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is

mixture of jazz and concert music for piano and orchestra

What was Duke Ellington known for?

He was a prolific composer and arranger

What is a "break" in Dixieland jazz?

a two- or four- measure section in which soloist is only one

lived most of his life under the Soviet system

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1
Which of the following is a characteristic of Postmodern music?
the exclusion of non-Western instruments
an emphasis on abstraction
quotation, extracts from earlier musical works
the abandonment of tonality
2
What instrument did Charlie Parker play?
piano
bass
drums
saxophone
3
The greatest composers during the period of experimentation and excitement were
Bartok, Britten, and Copland
Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern
Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky
Copland, Ives, and Gershwin
4
What is Expressionism?
artists attempted ideas by suggestion
instinctiveness, and exoticism of nonurban cultures
outlines are vague and details are left to the imagination
inner feelings were depicted through vivid art
5
Berg’s experience of war is reflected in his opera
Porgy and Bess
Aida
A Survivor from Warsaw
Wozzeck
6
Which of these performers had a weekly big band show on the radio?
Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
Charlie Parker
Benny Goodman
7
Which of the following best represents the standard 12-bar blues form?
AAB
ABA
ABAB
AABA
8
Great jazz artists are often
not heard in the United States
great improvisers, who can compose as they perform
overlooked for wards due to their ever-changing literature
virtuosos on instruments such as the French horn, oboe
9
Dizzie Gillespie and Thelonius Monk
were part of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five
played in Carnegie Hall with Benny Goodman
were pioneers of bebop along with Charlie Parker
never met each other
10
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is
a tone color poem with focus on blues tones
one of the most colorful opera productions
mixture of jazz and concert music for piano and orchestra
no longer heard in performance
11
Which of the following is a central characteristic of bebop?
complex chord changes
large ensembles
minimal improvisation
slow tempos
12
What was Duke Ellington known for?
He was a virtuoso clarinetist
He was a civil rights activisit
He was an amateur race car driver
He was a prolific composer and arranger
13
Who was the most famous composer and performer of ragtime?
Scott Joplin
Wynton Marsalis
Bessie Smith
Louis Armstrong
14
Schoenberg and his students created a new musical system known as
harmonium perfectum
nonconformism
Schoenberg's theory
atonality
15
What is a "break" in Dixieland jazz?
one iteration of a 32-bar AABA structure
a two- or four- measure section in which soloist is only one
a collective term for all of the rhythm and harmony
a pause in between two pieces of music
16
How does John Cage’s 4´33″ challenge the very definition of music?
twelve-tone row ends up sounding like a jumble of pitches.
It uses 12 radios playing on different stations.
The performer may choose music to play at random.
The performer does nothing
17
Which of the following scale patterns was new to twentieth-century Western classical music?
ionian scale
octatonic scale
chroctatonic scale
do re ri scale
18
Serialism was the term first given to
polytonality
minimalism
chance music
twelve-tone music
19
Dmitri Shostakovich
never learned to spell his name but composed beautiful music
married Clara Schumann's daughter
lived most of his life under the Soviet system
lived most of his life as an invalid
20
Which of the following patterns most closely resembles the form of a typical ragtime piece?
A B C D C D
AA BB A CC DD
AA BB CC DD
A B A C A B A

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