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1
What is atonality?
Repetition
Literally without tones
Multiple separate tones at the same time
When there are too many tones to count
2
Who wrote "The Banshee"?
Henry Cowell
Charles Ives
Debussy
John Cage
3
Who taught upcoming American composers in the 1920's?
Bach
Nadia Boulanger
Igor Stravinsky
Miles Davis
4
What is an Ostinato?
A short and stubbornly repeated pattern.
An abrupt pause without rhythm
The highest possible vocal range of a male vocalist
To progressively slow down.
5
What is Bimodality?
Two modes
Multiple modes
Mixing major and minor modes
No modes
6
Who was born in Brooklyn to russian jewish immigrants and wrote Appalachian Spring
Nadia Boulanger
George Gershwin
Aaron Copland
Kabalevsky
7
Who would force russian composers to compose in "Russian Style"?
Hitler
Nobody, russians always composed in the russian style
John Williams
Stalin
8
Style of music from the early 1900's derived from african influence and had improvisation.
Jazz
Baroque
Experimentalism
Avant-Garde
9
What is Gebrauchsmusik?
Confusing music
Dissonant music
Sad music
Functional music
10
Which one of these terms was NOT used to describe composers in the 20th century?
Civicism
Progressivism
Experimentalism
Nationalism