Music Unit 6 Quiz Review

A continuous or sliding movement from one pitch to another

The term for when a tone row is sounded backwards

In which state does Larsen live?

Larsen likes to be at the first performance of her pieces

What famous American instrumentalist commissioned Copland’s Clarinet Concerto?

A section of a piece designed to show the virtuosity of a soloist

How does Libby Larsen portray the monster in her opera Frankenstein?

A special rhythmic characteristic that jazz musicians add to the music

What piano style inspired Libby Larsen’s Four on the Floor?

The craft of putting together sounds to create a musical work

Which of the following is not a basic version in which a tone row might be used?

Name the expert arranger who contributed greatly to Ellington’s work in the 1940s.

What was the new method of composition developed by Arnold Schoenberg?

Which of the following is true about Duke Ellington’s compositions

A period of music that extended roughly from 1935 to 1945

Larsen has composed a solo piece for every instrument

Where was Aaron Copland living when he became determined to express his American roots?

Ordering of the twelve pitches of the chromatic scale to form the basic material for a musical composition.

What is Libby Larsen’s definition of composing?

The liberty that artists sometimes take in reinterpreting another artist’s work

The connective part of a composition

Incorporating notes that lie outside the regular diatonic scale