Which of these is NOT true about Copland’s Appalachian Spring?

Among the pieces that Copeland composed that did not gain popularity until

Match the video game to the appropriate compositional style: The Legend of Zelda (1989)

Full orchestral thematic scores

Which of the following is NOT true about Modernism?

The movement expanded the popularity of music for the concert hall than eve

Match the movie to the compositional style: The Good, the Band and the Ugly (1966)

Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs

Which of the following is NOT true about Stephen Sondheim?

He gained fame as the composer for Phantom of the Opera

Match the movie to the compositional style: Forbidden Planet (1956)

Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins

Which of these are NOT representative of Impressionism in Visual Art?

Centered around art created in Brussels

Which of these is NOT an attribute in Debussy’s Preludes?

Chromaticism: representative of feathers or leaves lightly falling

Which of these items are NOT true about the music publishing industry?

The music publishing industry began around 1800

Which of these statements do NOT reflect Early American Psalms and Hymns?

The pilgrims were sure to bring musical instruments to the new world

Which of these attributes is NOT true for the 12-tone compositional approach?

Audiences embraced the innovative new sound

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of film music?

Music has been part of the film exp since the first moving pictures in 1897

Match the video game to the appropriate compositional style: Final Fantasy series (1987-2010)

Full orchestral thematic scores

Which of these is NOT true about “Amazing Grace?”

Was an essential song used by Northern armies in the Civil War

What is NOT true about Blues music?

Was among the first items African American traditions to appear in print

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1
Match the movie to the compositional style: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Bebop jazz
Lightened and Latinized jazz
2
Match the movie to the compositional style: The Big Combo (1955)
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Bebop jazz
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Lightened and Latinized jazz
3
Which of these is NOT true about Copland’s Appalachian Spring?
Expresses the anxieties and joys of farming life, loose plot
A "pioneer celebration" set in the early 1800s in Pennsylvania
Among the pieces that Copeland composed that did not gain popularity until
One act, eight contrasting musical sections
4
Match the TV show to the compositional style: The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
Electronic instrumentation
Jazz-influenced
5
Match the stylistic qualities with correct movement in music: Long, expressive melodies
Romanticism
Impressionism
6
Match the development in sound technology with appropriate time period:Emile Berliner patented a disc-playing gramophone
1920s and 1930s
1980s and 1990s
1950s
1877
7
Match the video game to the appropriate compositional style: Moonwalker, 1990
Incorporation of popular music
Full orchestral thematic scores
Looped underscoring
8
Match the TV show to the compositional style: Star Trek (1966-1969)
Electronic instrumentation
Jazz-influenced
9
Match the video game to the appropriate compositional style: The Legend of Zelda (1989)
Full orchestral thematic scores
Looped underscoring
Incorporation of popular music
10
Match the stylistic qualities with correct movement in music: “Anti-climatic” cadences
Romanticism
Impressionism
11
Match the stylistic qualities with correct movement in music: Color “for its own sake”
Impressionism
Romanticism
12
Which of these is NOT true about Igor Stravinsky?
Preference for percussive sounds and winds
A citizen of Russia, France, and later the United States
Composed in many genres and styles
Simple, mininalist harmonies
13
Which of the following is NOT true about Modernism?
The movement expanded the popularity of music for the concert hall than eve
Developments in the arts mirrored the unsettled times
Partially because of the upheaval of the Franco-Prussian War and WW I
Shock began to replace beauty as the defining component of musical art
14
Match the TV show to the compositional style: Lost in Space (1965-1968)
Jazz-influenced
Electronic instrumentation
15
Match the movie to the compositional style: The Good, the Band and the Ugly (1966)
Rock and Roll
Atonal music
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
16
Match the movie to the compositional style: The Pink Panther (1963)
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Bebop jazz
Lightened and Latinized jazz
17
Match the stylistic qualities with correct movement in music: Strong climaxes/cadences
Romanticism
Impressionism
18
Match the TV show to the compositional style: Peter Gunn (1958-1961)
Jazz-influenced
Electronic instrumentation
19
Match the development in sound technology with the appropriate time period: Digital audio workstation (DAW)
1990s and 2000s
1980s and 1990s
1950s
1920s and 1930s
20
Which of the following is NOT true about Stephen Sondheim?
Private student of both Broadway lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II and twelve-t
He raised the quality of American musical theatre
He combined serious, complex musical techniques with witty, poetic lyrics
He gained fame as the composer for Phantom of the Opera
21
Which of the following was NOT written by Andrew Lloyd Webber?
Evita
Cats
Phantom of the Opera
Sweeney Todd
22
Match the movie to the compositional style: Forbidden Planet (1956)
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Lightened and Latinized jazz
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Bebop jazz
23
Which of these are NOT representative of Impressionism in Visual Art?
Centered around art created in Brussels
Importance of light
Spots of color and short brush strokes create movement and fluidity
Result of anti-German sentiments
24
Match the video game to the appropriate compositional style: Grand Theft Auto, 1990
Full orchestral thematic scores
Incorporation of popular music
Looped underscoring
25
Match the elements of jazz with the appropriate jazz style: Saxophonist Kenny G
Jazz fusion
Cool jazz
Smooth jazz
26
Match the elements of jazz with the appropriate jazz style: Response to commercial success of rock music
Smooth jazz
Cool jazz
Jazz fusion
27
Which of these is NOT an attribute in Debussy’s Preludes?
Glissando: Gliding between two pitches
Ostinato: A motif that recurs, typically in the same voice
Parallel Motion:Motion in the same direction, maintaining the same interval
Chromaticism: representative of feathers or leaves lightly falling
28
Match the stylistic qualities with correct movement in music: Short motives
Romanticism
Impressionism
29
Match the video game to the appropriate compositional style: Tetris
Full orchestral thematic scores
Looped underscoring
Incorporation of popular music
30
Match the movie to the compositional style: The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Bebop jazz
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Lightened and Latinized jazz
31
Match the elements of jazz with the appr: Jazz combo plus orchestral instruments, such as Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool
Cool jazz
Jazz fusion
Smooth jazz
32
Match the movie to the compositional style: The Graduate (1967)
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Rock and Roll
Atonal music
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
33
Which of these items are NOT true about the music publishing industry?
The William Morris store later emerged as William Agency (which today is re
The music publishing industry began around 1800
Tin Pan Alley, were many publishers were housed, was on the 28th Street wes
A Song plugger would sing and play new songs at a piano in the music stores
34
Which of these statements do NOT reflect Early American Psalms and Hymns?
Within 20 years of the arrival of the Pilgrims, the Bay Psalm Book was prin
Only a few tunes were needed because one tune could be used for an entire
Pilgrims brought with them simple religious music, found in a Psalter (Book
The pilgrims were sure to bring musical instruments to the new world
35
Which of these attributes is NOT true for the 12-tone compositional approach?
Audiences embraced the innovative new sound
The compositional method was crated by Schoenberg
It was a way to give structure to atonal music
A type of serial music (music in which elements, such as pitch, timbre, or
36
Which of these is NOT a characteristic of film music?
Music’s power can greatly affect our emotions more than images do
Music has been part of the film exp since the first moving pictures in 1897
Early 1910s—storefront “nickelodeon” theaters sprung up across America
s as key to a film as cinematography, acting, or editing
37
Match the stylistic qualities with correct movement in music: Clear rhythms/meters
Impressionism
Romanticism
38
Match the development in sound technology with the appropriate time period: Digital technology (CDs, MP3s and M4As)
1980s and 1990s
1990s and 2000s
1950s
1920s and 1930s
39
Match the movie to the compositional style: Blue Hawaii (1961)
Atonal music
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Rock and Roll
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
40
Match the video game to the appropriate compositional style: Super Mario Brothers
Looped underscoring
Full orchestral thematic scores
Incorporation of popular music
41
Match the stylistic qualities with correct movement in music: Color reinforces themes
Romanticism
Impressionism
42
Match the video game to the appropriate compositional style: Final Fantasy series (1987-2010)
Full orchestral thematic scores
Incorporation of popular music
Looped underscoring
43
Match the development in sound technology with the appropriate time period: Edison patented the phonograph
1950s
1980s and 1990s
1920s and 1930s
1877
44
Which of these is NOT true about “Amazing Grace?”
Published in "Southern Harmony"
Was an essential song used by Northern armies in the Civil War
South Carolinian William Walker supplied the text with a new melody (adapte
Words originated in British Isles in 1748 by seaman John Newton who had bee
45
Match the movie to the compositional style: Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Bebop jazz
Lightened and Latinized jazz
46
Match the stylistic qualities with correct movement in music: Obscure beat/meter
Impressionism
Romanticism
47
What is NOT true about Blues music?
has a regular, predictable pattern of chord changes
Inspired by the work songs of field holler and black laborers
Sung to relieve a melancholy soul, to give vent to feelings of pain and ang
Was among the first items African American traditions to appear in print
48
Match the elements of jazz with the appropriate jazz style: Reaction to bebop, a high-pitched, hard driving style
Jazz fusion
Smooth jazz
Cool jazz
49
Match the movie to the compositional style: Touch of Evil (1958)
Bebop jazz
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Lightened and Latinized jazz
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
50
What is NOT true about Early Jazz?
Has European influence of marches, hymns, and folk music
It is considered by many to be "America's classical music"
Tends to be polyphonic
Lacks improvisation
51
Match the TV show to the compositional style: My Favorite Martian (1963-1966)
Jazz-influenced
Electronic instrumentation
52
Which of the following is NOT true about Charles Ives?
Arguably the greatest-and certainly most experimental-of American Modernist
Compositions were unheard until the 1930's when word of his unusual creatio
Medical doctor by day, prolific composer by night
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music for his Third Symphony in 1947
53
Which of the following is NOT representative of postmodernism?
An all-inclusive, "anything goes" trend in music
Blurring of "high" and "low" art-just art culture
Abandon the idea that history is progress
Globalization is largely ignored
54
Which of the following is NOT representative of Impressionism in Music?
Form: Incorporated forms from the Renaissance and the Baroque
Texture: Varies from thin and airy to heavy and dense; primarily homophonic
Rhythm: Free, flexible rhythms with irregular accents
Color: Soloistic writing: emphasis on woodwinds and brass
55
What is NOT true about Leonard Bernstein?
Virtuoso pianist
Educator and advocate for the arts
Wrote symphonies, ballets, a film score, four musicals
Best known for his choral works
56
Match the movie to the compositional style: Vertigo (1958)
Atonal music
Rock and Roll
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
57
Which of these is NOT true about Arnold Schoenberg?
Created atonal music (without a tonal center)
His harmonies were exceedingly dissonant
Expanded the impressionist approach started by Debussy
His melodies were highly angular, disjunct
58
Match the movie to the compositional style: G.I. Blues (1960)
Rock and Roll
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Atonal music
59
Match the elements of jazz with the appropriate jazz style: More lyrical, more mellow, slower, quieter
Cool jazz
Smooth jazz
Jazz fusion
60
Match the movie to the compositional style: American Graffiti (1973)
Rock and Roll
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Atonal music
61
What is characteristic of what is NOT called "classical" film music?
The Classic Hollywood score was orchestral
Both sight and sound encoded together in filmstrip
The composers active from 1920-1940 were careful to avoid any type of brass
A Thematic cue is similar to a leitmotif
62
Match the movie to the compositional style: Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Atonal music
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Rock and Roll
63
Which of these is NOT true about Varese’s Poème électronique?
Created to provide music for a multimedia exhibit inside the Phillips Radio
Uses DJ techniques such as sampling and scratching
Uses synthesized sounds
All elements are altered or distorted in some imaginative way
64
Which of the following is NOT representative of Minimalism?
Reaction against complexity, expressive intensity
Steady tempo creates hypnotic effect
Incessant repetition of small motives
Extensive development
65
Which is NOT true about Maurice Ravel?
Teacher and composer
Successfully toured United States (1928)
Spent most of his life in Paris
Originally born in Spain
66
What is NOT true in Zwilich’s Concerto Grosso 1985?
Dissonant harmony, aggressive playing style
Melody borrowed from Handel
Added chromaticism to borrowed melody
Featured “open scoring”: creates a sense of space with a solid bass, a very
67
What is NOT true about John Coltrane?
He was a heroin addict, and died young
One of the most accomplished trumpeter/vocalists of the 1950s
He was "High priest" of modal jazz
Used Theme and variations form like classical composers
68
Match the development in sound technology with the appropriate time period: Inexpensive radios democratized music
1920s and 1930s
1990s and 2000s
1950s
1980s and 1990s
69
What is NOT true about John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine?
The main “instrument” is a taped recording of a jet engine “launching”
Scored for full orchestra and 2 electronic keyboard synthesizers
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony
Composed of short motives that overlap
70
Which of the following is NOT true about Clare Debussy?
Studied piano, composition, and music theory at the Paris Conservatory
Majority of his career spent in Paris
Works include Bolero and Gymnopédies
Won the Prix de Rome in 1884
71
Match the movie to the compositional style: “Spaghetti westerns”
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Atonal music
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Rock and Roll
72
Which of these is NOT true about John Cage?
4'33" heightens awarness of environmental sounds
Cage is the leading proponent of chance music
Cage’s music relies on a predictable sequence of musical events, or sounds
'33" consists of three movements of silence
73
Which of these aesthetics is NOT true for modernism?
Radical experimentation, shock value
Disjunction, anxiety, hysteria
Complete lack of organization
Reaction to values of Romanticism
74
What is NOT true about Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story?
The story is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet
The style included the mix of old and new: Standard Broadway numbers infuse
Was the first musical to embrace the twelve-tone compositional style
It was a musical sensation on Broadway and as a movie
75
Which of these items in the development of electronic music is NOT true?
The magnetic tape recorder was invented in 1921
Synthesizers were first used in the 1940s and 1950s
Sampling is the extraction of a small portion of prerecorded music and then
Thomas Edison patented the phonograph in 1877
76
Which of these is NOT an attribute in Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun?
Exploits distinctive orchestral colors, especially woodwinds, more than mel
No repeating rhythms or clear-cut meters
Illustrates dream-like mood, vague and elusive
Repetitive, hypnotic music, moving inexorably towards a frenzied climax
77
What is NOT true about Swing music and big bands?
Swing was a popular style of jazz played by a big band in the 1930's and 19
Big bands featured multiple trumpets, trombones, and saxaphones
The big bands featured a free sound without concrete organization
Swing music used "Charts" rather than improvisation
78
Which of these do NOT represent exoticism in music?
Free sections where the subject is not heard in its entirety (often uses
Non-western musical instruments
Foreign subject, such as music of Spain, for a program
Folk rhythm
79
Which of these is NOT true about Aaron Copeland?
Incorporated jazz and folksong elements
Studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger for 3 years, returning to compose mus
Connecting with the audience important (dissonance and atonality alienated
Independently devised the same radical compositional techniques that had be
80
Which of these is NOT representative of harmony in modernism?
Tone clusters
Polychords
Importance of triads
Polytonality
81
Which of these is NOT representative of melody in modernism?
Octave displacement
More chromaticism
Fragmented and angular
Conjunct movement
82
Which of these is NOT true about Le Sacre du printemps?
A riot broke out because of the shocking music and choreography
Continuation of the sonata form with modern elements
The greatest masterpieces of modern music
Russian folk elements
83
Which of these is NOT true about Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd?
The musical is a four-hour long comedy with extensive spoken dialogue
Features a monumental, operatic score
The musical featured technically demanding vocal music
It featured dissonant, modern music
84
Match the elements of jazz with the appropriate jazz style: Electronic bass and strong drumming with a backbeat
Jazz fusion
Smooth jazz
Cool jazz
85
Which of the following is NOT true about George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess?
As the opera opens, the stage is set for a summer evening in “Catfish Row.”
Story revolves around African American life in Charleston, South Carolina
"Summertime" is something between opera aria and Broadway show tune
It includes elements of folk music
86
Which is NOT true about Ellen Taafe Zwilich (b. 1939)?
Currently a professor of composition at Florida State
Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall
Was a freelance composer for many years
Born in Orlando, Florida, daughter of airline pilot
87
Which of these are NOT true about Edgard Varèse?
Amériques required a battery of new percussion instruments, including siren
Consciously avoided electronic music after the age of 19
An extreme Modernist reaching forward to the Postmodernist age
Born in France but immigrated to the US in 1915 in search of a less traditi
88
What is NOT true about Country music?
Country music has developed into one of the most popular versions of popula
Early country music was sung by voice alone or accompanied by fiddle, banjo
istorically country music repertoire was a combination of religious and fol
Country harmonies are more elaborate than most versions of popular music
89
Which of these is NOT true about Charlie “Bird” Parker?
As he kicked his addictions, he became one of the most respected members of
Played "My Melancholy Baby," a cover song of the era
Played "standards" (a tune that inspired others to record their own interpr
Widely considered the most gifted bebop artist
90
What is NOT true about Charles Ives’ music?
First composer to use polytonality extensively
Studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger for 3 years, returning to compose mus
Dissonances and dense, complex textures mixed with simple popular music ele
Experimented with quarter-tone music
91
What is NOT true about Samuel Barber?
Struggled financially throughout his entire life/career
Composed mostly in a traditional style (Romantic-Modernist)
Battled depression entire life
Numerous commissions and awards, including two Pulitzer Prizes
92
Director Stanley Kubrik—2001: A Space Odyssy (1968) included music from all of these composers EXCEPT
Aram Khatchaturian
Gyorgi Ligeti
Max Steiner
Johann Strauss
93
Which of these is NOT true about John Adams?
He writes with the pressure of classical versus popular mediums
Adams is best termed a post-Minimalist
He wrote the minimalist operas Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic
Adams is the leading proponent of chance music
94
Match the movie to the compositional style: Rock Around the Clock (1956)
Atonal music
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Rock and Roll
95
What is NOT true about New Orleans Jazz?
Melody played by the trumpet
Clarinet supports trumpet, embellishes the tune
Rhythm section sets harmony and tempo
The banjo adds lower contrapuntal line
96
Match the stylistic qualities with correct movement in music: Static, undulating harmony
Impressionism
Romanticism
97
Which of these is NOT true about Caroline Shaw?
A partita suite is a collection of dances used by Shaw
In addition to being a freelane vocalist, she also plays the cello
Partita for 8 Voices is an exploration of new sounds, that could be a metap
Shaw is the singer/composer for "Roomful of Teeth," which was Grammy-winnin
98
What is NOT true about The Broadway Musical?
The Broadway musical was also known as the "musical comedy"
It emerged shortly after 1900
The “Volume” is a libretto containing the lyrics
Jerome Kern composed Showboat featured "Ol' Man River," which had elements
99
Match the movie to the compositional style: Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Atonal music
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Rock and Roll
100
True/False: The formal structure of Adigo for Strings is A (Neo-Romantic); B (Modernist); A’
True
False
101
Which of these attributes are NOT found in “Sails” from Debussy’s Preludes?
Depiction of flying in the sky
Hazy; languid atmosphere
Use of ostinato
Fluid descent in mostly parallel motion
102
Match the movie to the compositional style: Easy Rider (1969)
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Atonal music
Rock and Roll
103
What is NOT true about Bebop?
"Jammed" in small, elite groups ("chamber music" of jazz)
Complex, hard-driving jazz
Improvisation instead of composition
Relied on musical notation
104
What term descri "small bit of material repeated extensively,but constantly varied & expanded timbrally & rhythmically?"
Classical Minimalism
Modern Exoticism
Romantic Minimalism
Romantic Classicism
105
Match the movie to the compositional style: Day the Earth Stood Still (1955)
Electronic instrumentation, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins
Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs
Bebop jazz
Lightened and Latinized jazz
106
Which of these is NOT true about Ragtime?
"To rag" means to play or sing music in a heavily syncopated jazz style
Primarily piano music
Enjoyed the highest popularity after World War I
Steady bass, syncopated treble
107
Which of these compositional devices were NOT featured in Le Sacre du printemps?
Strong sense of metrical regularity
Dissonant polychords
Irregular accents
Percussive orchestra
108
Match the elements of jazz with the appropriate jazz style: Miles Davis released two albums that incorporated rock eleme
Smooth jazz
Jazz fusion
Cool jazz
109
Match the stylistic qualities with correct movement in music: Purposeful chord progressions
Impressionism
Romanticism

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