Music appreciation final pt.2

Mussorgsky’s career was in military and civil service, not composing.

The first major music festival was called:

Jimi Hendrix was the most influential guitar player of the 1960s due to:

Mussorgsky was inspired to compose Pictures at an Exhibition after his experience witnessing an artist during live comp

Mussorgsky and his colleagues were known as “The Mighty Few.”

Florence Price left her home in Little Rock, Arkansas, due to the burden Jim Crow laws placed on black communities

The Concert Spirituel series was launched in Vienna in 1725.

Each of Vivaldi’s concertos was accompanied by a sonnet that he probably wrote himself.

The history of the public concert is tied to the history of socialism in Italy.

Concerts during Beethoven’s time had become presentational, with a clear divide between performers and the audience.

Beethoven was entirely at the mercy of his aristocratic patrons as he sought to cultivate a public career.

The organizers of Woodstock encountered delays as they tried to get permits from local authorities to hold the festival

In ritornello form, as it is used in Vivaldi’s concertos, the full orchestra alternates with:

“Sweet Jazz” was a term used to describe lively dance music primarily intended for:

Whiteman invited George Gershwin to compose a piano concerto that combined jazz with:

Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a ten-movement piano suite in twenty days.

The 1930s saw decreased prominence of black performers and composers of classical music.

Solo music in China is predominantly programmatic.

Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a piano suite because he was not a skilled orchestrator.

George and Ira Gershwin were cousins who became famous for writing Broadway musicals.

Vivaldi’s Four Seasonswas a collection of four concertos representing each season.

The guzheng is tuned according to which type of scale?

Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition represents a musical tour of an art show, each painting represented in a movement

To work around the prohibition of young women performing in public, the weekly Vespers services weren't public

Challenges to concert performances during Beethoven’s time included all of the following except for:

Many of Vivaldi’s students were illegitimate offspring of noblemen.

Which of these famous African American artists performed works composed by Florence Price:

The letters Beethoven wrote to his brother reflecting the shame he felt about his affliction are known as the:

Paul Whiteman’s 1924 concert was intended to demonstrate the potential of jazz as serious concert music.

Which of the following artists did NOT adapt Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition?

Woodstock was the largest music festival of the 1960s and took place against the backdrop of the:

In 19th-century Europe, a debate took place concerning the superiority of absolute music to program music.

Spring River in the Flower Moon Night is based on a famous poem written by Zhang Ruoxu.

Vivaldi trained as a medical doctor but abandoned school to teach music.

Woodstock was held at a 600-acre dairy farm in upstate New York.

While 186,000 advance tickets to Woodstock were sold, approximately this number of concert goers attended:

Whiteman invited George Gershwin to compose a piano concerto that combined jazz with:

Historically, the Chinese tradition of music composition has been primarily:

Mussorgsky belonged to a progressive school of 19th-century composers of which nationality?

Price’s Symphony No. 1 was premiered at the 1932 World’s Fair and was entitled:

Theater an der Wien translates to “Theater on the Banks of the Vienna Ri

Music festivals during the 1960s were widely popular but rarely turned a profit.

The popular solo Attack on All Sides is an example of a:

The Heiligenstadt Testament revealed Beethoven’s inner emotional state as he struggled with physical disability.

During his years as a concert pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven’s career was suspended due to this health concern:

The guzheng is the oldest Chinese instrument and dates back to about 500 BCE.

A cyclical technique in music composition is one by which all parts of a large work are connected by a tonal center

All 18th-century concertos contained four movements

Woodstock began as a venture to hold a music festival in order to popularize Janice Joplin.

“Hot Jazz” was a term used to describe the rhythmically interesting style associated with:

Prior to pursuing a full-time music career, Jimi Hendrix briefly worked for whom?

Organicism is defined as:

During the Romantic era there was increased interest in individual experience

George and Ira Gershwin were cousins who became famous for writing Broadway musicals.

Jimi Hendrix’s version of ______ famously employed text painting.

Program music is music that is accompanied by a(n):

Which of the following could have resulted in “Purple Haze” being banned from the airwaves?

By the 19th century, Sonata Form had become standardized and contained the following sections:

Rhapsody in Blue explores five themes in a single movement.

Sonata form is a musical structure consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation

Mussorgsky and his musical colleagues were dedicated to developing an authentically Austrian means of musical expression

Jimi Hendrix experienced success with a band called:

The guzheng is a type of wind instrument.

While in Chicago in the 1920s, Florence Price published:

In Beethoven’s time, concert programs typically included works from a variety of genres, time periods and composers.

Although he composed in many formats, Vivaldi primarily composed:

Whiteman’s strategy included inviting prominent performers, conductors, and critics of classical music

Antonio Vivaldi was a violinist and composer in the city of Nice, France.

Which of these was the first musical presentation to which the public could buy tickets?

Technological limitation (included the inability to amplify) contributed to the slow rise of rock concerts in the 1960s

The earliest operas performed in Florence were open to the public.

The Harlem Renaissance was a movement in which African American artists sought to mix techniques from the Renaissance

The famous opening of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue featured a glissando on what instrument?

Beethoven transformed the symphony genre with this work: