Beethoven's Third Symphony demonstrates how the composer

composed more concise development sections than predecessors

The division of Beethoven's life into three periods was

based on a biographical schema established by his early bios

What is the one way in which English choral societies impacted music in Anglican churches?

women began to sing in church choirs

The gates in John Adam's piano work Phrygian Gates refers to

the change from the scalar collection of pitches used in one

In his Op. 131 string quartet, Beethoven reorders the traditional symphonic movements as follow

sonata rondo - lyrical slow movement - scherzo - sonata

Beethoven's late style is characterized by all of the following except

simplified performance challenges aimed at amateur players

The mission of the Art Ensemble of Chicago was to

perform serious experimental jazz for connoisseurs

Both Orphee aux enfers and The Pirates of Penzance

satirized contemporary and historical operatic conventions

The American composers organizations (International Composers Guild/League of Composers) goal

securing performances of new American compositions

Brahm's First Symphony shows the influence of

Schumann's use of slow introductions in his 4th Symphony

The aesthetic difference between the New German School and the adherents of absolute music lay

interpretations of the implications of Beethoven mature work

Although different in many ways, Bejamin Britten and George Crumb had in common their

contemplation of political and social issues in their works

rhythmic patterns recall medieval isorhythmic technique, the violin and clarinet parts are composed based on I-ching

The concept of nonretrogradable rhythm describes how a rhythmic pattern

has the same absolute durations whether forward or backward

Music for Prague 1968 is

a band composition by Karl Husa

What is one reason for the development of a repertoire of standing classics by past composers?

Earlier music was cheaper to publish than contemporary

Schoenberg's argument for atonality was based in part on his observation that

chromaticism/wide ranging modulations weakened pull of tonic

The description of much early 20th century music as post-tonal refers to

diverse new ways in which composers organized pitch

Settings of lyrical poetry in the early nineteenth century tend to

express personal reactions to ideas and images

Bedrich Smetana's Tabor is based on

a hero of fifteenth century religious wars

Rossini spent his last four decades in Paris mainly

in comfortable retirement mostly withdrawn from composing

Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of

the migration of southern blues musician to northern cities

Piano emerged as an important and widely used instrument in the 19th century largely because

it could produce an extremely wide variety of sonorities

A prominent precedent for late nineteenth century techniques of thematic transformation in

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

Crucial difference btwn. repertoires of the Paris Opera and that city's Opera-Comique was that

spoken dialogue was permitted at Opera-Comique-not Paris Ope

Composers marginalized/subjugated regions Europe + new world...their unique cultural identities

employing native folk melodic and harmonic idioms in music

The graphic notation used by Earle Brown in his composition December 1952 indicates

no fixed musical parameters of any kind

Eusebius and Florestan are

fictional personae in Robert Schumann's literary writings

The song Hound Dog is a good example of

the adoption of rhythm-and-blues by white musicians

In this example, the orchestral passage in mm. 3-6 functions as all of the following except

musical emblem of the character Don Jose

The description of early 20th century music as "post-tonal" refers to

diverses new ways in which composers organized pitch

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1
Contrasting diatonic and chromatic musical idiom in Wagner...contrast of reality and fantasy in
Bizet and Gounod
Rimsky-Korsakov and Dvorak
Puccini and Leoncavallo
Verdi and Puccini
2
The fourth movement of Brahm's fourth symphony testifies to the composer's interest in
Classic Rondo form
medieval modes
Baroque variation technique
Romantic ternary song form
3
Beethoven's Third Symphony demonstrates how the composer
would first introduce significant motive within a slow intro
treated musical themes as though they were characters in a
composed more concise development sections than predecessors
consistently used longer/more lyrical themes than predeccors
4
The division of Beethoven's life into three periods was
revisionist periodization proposed by 20th century scholars
based on a biographical schema established by his early bios
based on the three part division of his autobiography
based on Beethoven's three successive relationships
5
Neotonality and polytonality are predominant compositional idioms in
Philomel
Composition 1960 No 2
Kreuzspiel
Peter Grimes
6
Which acronym designate a format used to compress audio files by removing inaudible frequencies
MIDI
WAV
MP3
FLAC
7
Men's choruses were comprised of
working class men
elite men
middle class men
professional musicians
8
Sixteenth century music served as a model for
Hugo Wolf's chamber music
Bruckner's choral music
Liszt's concertos
Brahm's Lieder
9
What is the one way in which English choral societies impacted music in Anglican churches?
women began to sing in church choirs
church choirs charged membership fees
festival music model was adopted for services
secular part song became part of services
10
The composer most responsible for establishing the conventions of grand opera was
Mikhail Glinka
Hector Berlioz
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Gioachino Rossini
11
The gates in John Adam's piano work Phrygian Gates refers to
nothing specific
the passages of indeterminacy that separate the fully notate
the Phrygian cadences that conclude each movement
the change from the scalar collection of pitches used in one
12
In his Op. 131 string quartet, Beethoven reorders the traditional symphonic movements as follow
variation set-minuet and trio-sonata rondo
sonata rondo - lyrical slow movement - scherzo - sonata
prelude-fugue-fantasia-rondeau
sonata allegro-scherzo-minuet and trio-sonata rondo
13
Beethoven's late style is characterized by all of the following except
frequent use of variation technique and form
simplified performance challenges aimed at amateur players
frequent use of variation technique and form
fugal passages or movements
14
Composers engaged with contemporary society most directly in their cultivation of
folk music styles
neoclassicism
jazz
Gebrauchsmusik
15
All of the following operas were based on poems and stories by Alexander Pushkin except
Rustan and Lyudmila
Parsifal
Eugene Onegin
Boris Godunov
16
The mission of the Art Ensemble of Chicago was to
pursue the same research mission as IRCAM
encourage hybrid genres of pop, classical and jazz
perform serious experimental jazz for connoisseurs
encourage performance of non-Western musical styles
17
Both Orphee aux enfers and The Pirates of Penzance
emulated the leitmotif techniques of Wagner
restored Greek classical myths as operatic subjects
helped establish a new genre of through composed light opera
satirized contemporary and historical operatic conventions
18
The American composers organizations (International Composers Guild/League of Composers) goal
protecting the American musical tradition
cultivating political links with the Union
securing performances of new American compositions
attracting European concert artists to the United States
19
Brahm's First Symphony shows the influence of
Beethoven's setting of poetry to a hymn like melody
Schumann's use of slow introductions in his 4th Symphony
Bach's use of ground bass as a repeating theme
Liszt's use of a literary program as the basis of his Faust
20
The aesthetic difference between the New German School and the adherents of absolute music lay
interpretations of the implications of Beethoven mature work
ideas about whether to use or reject thematic transformation
ideas of how to represent poetry or narratives in music
understandings of the role of Renaissance and Baroque styles
21
Varese's concept of sound mass challenged traditional ideas of musical rhetoric by deemphasizin
orchestration
dynamics
thematic development
texture
22
Although different in many ways, Bejamin Britten and George Crumb had in common their
contemplation of political and social issues in their works
use of electronics to alter musical sounds
commitment to serial techniques
work as film composers during the 1930s
23
Important examples of grand opera include all of the following except
L'elisir d'amore
Les Huguenots
Guillaume Tell
La favorite
24
Ballet was an important compositional genre for all of the following except
Satie
de Falla
Scriabin
Debussy
25
In the example below
the music is composed using manipulations of 12 tone row
rhythmic patterns recall medieval isorhythmic technique
the violin and clarinet parts are composed based on I-ching
dynamics and articulations are serialized
26
The concept of nonretrogradable rhythm describes how a rhythmic pattern
must never be repeated exactly but varied
must not contain any repeated rhythmic values
has the same absolute durations whether forward or backward
may not be reversed in the course of a composition
27
Metric modulation is a technique associated with
Benjamin Britten
Luciano Berio
Elliot Carter
Krzysztof Penderecki
28
Music for Prague 1968 is
a band composition by Karl Husa
a live tour album by Thelonius Monk
a musical by Richard Rogers
an overture by Krzysztof Penderecki
29
Schumann's Symphony No. 4 uses as a model
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
Beethoven's Symphony No. 3
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy
30
In reform Judaism
the congregation sang
services were performed in the vernacular instead of Hebrew
music was banned
oratorios were adapted for Jewish tradition
31
What is one reason for the development of a repertoire of standing classics by past composers?
Older musicians wrote better music
New works were too serious for general audiences
Extreme expressivity and virtuosity of the earlier artists
Earlier music was cheaper to publish than contemporary
32
In the 1950s Frederick Fennell/students from Eastman organized an important ensemble performing
music or India and Asia
wind band music
rhythm and blues
electronic music
33
Schoenberg's argument for atonality was based in part on his observation that
Austrian folk music displayed atonal characteristics
traditional pitches could be replaced by pitch class sets
principle of developing variation eliminated tonal harmony
chromaticism/wide ranging modulations weakened pull of tonic
34
The description of much early 20th century music as post-tonal refers to
diverse new ways in which composers organized pitch
incorporation of non-musical sounds such as industrial noise
the complete rejection of functional harmony
the restoration of the medieval church modes
35
In which of the following works did Stravinsky adopt technique from Schoenberg's 12 tone method
The Firebird
L'histoire du soldat
Dumbarton Oaks
Threni
36
Settings of lyrical poetry in the early nineteenth century tend to
be composed as ballads
express personal reactions to ideas and images
contain dialogues among characters
express rapid, frequent changes of emotional states
37
Bedrich Smetana's Tabor is based on
a story from Arabian Nights
a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale
a fast triple-meter dance
a hero of fifteenth century religious wars
38
Rossini spent his last four decades in Paris mainly
teaching composition at the Paris Conservatoire
writing several important grand operas
in comfortable retirement mostly withdrawn from composing
as Director of the Paris Opera
39
Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of
the British invasion
the invention of the Moog synthesizer
the migration of southern blues musician to northern cities
the drug culture of the 1960s
40
Piano emerged as an important and widely used instrument in the 19th century largely because
solo piano music was the most popular genre in 19th century
it was the most affordable instrument
it was much easier to tune than other instruments
it could produce an extremely wide variety of sonorities
41
A prominent precedent for late nineteenth century techniques of thematic transformation in
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
J.S. Bach's cantatas
Bellini's operas
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
42
Crucial difference btwn. repertoires of the Paris Opera and that city's Opera-Comique was that
Paris Opera only produced operas based on French history
Paris Opera performed only operas composed by native French
spoken dialogue was permitted at Opera-Comique-not Paris Ope
Opera-Comique performed only comic operas
43
Composers marginalized/subjugated regions Europe + new world...their unique cultural identities
mocking conventions of classical tradition in parody
replacing German and French texts of vocal works
employing native folk melodic and harmonic idioms in music
discarding and replacing the classical forms
44
Literary sources for popular operas 1820/30 included works by all the following authors except
Friedrich Schiller
William Shakespeare
Victor Hugo
Emile Zola
45
The graphic notation used by Earle Brown in his composition December 1952 indicates
small fragments of notated music
only the relative durations of harmonies
no fixed musical parameters of any kind
only instrument combinations at any given point in time
46
Virtuosity was a self-consciously cultivated stylistic element in which of the following genres
folk music
film music
bebop
musicals
47
Eusebius and Florestan are
characters in Beethoven's Fidelio
Robert and Clara Schumann's eldest children
the authors of Lyrical Intermezzo
fictional personae in Robert Schumann's literary writings
48
The song Hound Dog is a good example of
the adoption of rhythm-and-blues by white musicians
country music of the southeastern United States
early bebop
one of the earliest hit songs of the British Invasion
49
In this example, the orchestral passage in mm. 3-6 functions as all of the following except
a reminiscence motive
an enharmonic resolution of the chord progression in m.2
musical emblem of the character Don Jose
a transposed version of a motive heard earlier in the opera
50
The composition below contains all of the following traits of Beethoven's late style ^except
fugal textures
extreme contrasts of registers
variation technique
unorthodox treatment of form
51
The description of early 20th century music as "post-tonal" refers to
diverses new ways in which composers organized pitch
restoration of medieval church modes
complete rejection of functional harmony and progressions
incorporation of non-musical sounds such as industrial noise
52
The metaphor of musical collage aptly describes the compositional techniques applied in
General William Booth Enters into Heaven
Mikrokosmos
Erwartung
Symphony of Psalms
53
The four pitch musical motive D-E flat - C-B is a musical cipher of
Louis Durey
Dmitri Shostakovich
J.S. Bach
Darius Milhaud
54
The form of the standard mid-19th century march was
binary
variation set
ternary
rondo
55
Which of the following statements is true of Krenek, Gershwin, Copland and Milhaud?
they all incorporated jazz idioms in their music
they all used 12 tone techniques in the 1950s
they were all self-taught as composers
they all composed Broadway musicals
56
In the years 1792-1794, Beethoven studied counterpoint and composition with
Haydn and Clementi
Neefe and Albrechtsberger
Haydn and Albrechtsberger
Haydn and Mozart
57
Settings of lyric poetry in the early nineteenth century tend to
contain dialogues among characters
express rapid, frequent changes of emotional states
express personal reactions to ideas and images
be composed as ballads
58
Auto-tune is a type of
digital metronome
MIDI Interface
Sound synthesizer
Audio processor
59
Important examples of grand opera include all the following except
Les Huguenots
Guillame Tell
La muette de Portici
L'elisir d'amore
60
1964 marked
the first Beatles US World Tour
the assassination of John F. Kennedy
a landmark rock festival in Bethel, New York
the final year of World War II
61
One of the earliest modernist compositions commonly regarded as neoclassical is
Nuages
Das Lied von der Erde
Le tombeau de Couperin
Elektra
62
In the example below, the procedure evident in the harmonies of mm1-6 is most accurately
descending sequence of harmony
modal mixture
chromatic saturation
thematic transformation
63
The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet is
two quartets of reed instruments
a quartet of double basses
a composition with eight movements
a pair of string quartets
64
The first major electronic composition to exploit multiple sound tracks was
Gesang der Jünglinge
Philomel
Metastaseis
Turangalila-Symphonie
65
The form of the standard mid-nineteenth century American march was
ternary
variation set
rondo
binary
66
The earliest atonal compositions included
Schoenberg's Piano Suite Op 25 and Bartok's Mikrokosmos
Berg's Wozzeck and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
Berg's Lulu and Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht
Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens/Ive's Unanswered ?
67
Eugene Scribe was
the composer of Robert le diable
Bellini's favorite librettist
a librettist of several grand operas
a composer of Opera comiques
68
After World War II, the American folk music movement
focused on preserving the purity of the traditional oral
integrated folk melodies with the rhythmic qualities of rock
adopted a simple performance style using only one or a few
exploited new electronic instruments to enhance
69
Louis Gottschalk's career resembles Franz Liszt's in all following respects except
Gottschalk was a published composer
Gottschalk spent a significant part of his career in the US
Gottschalk's compositions made demands on player
Gottschalk spent some of his career in France
70
Bluegrass and bebop both
showcase virtuosic playing techniques
are associated with urban areas
use banjos
function mainly as dance music
71
When we claim Penderecki's Threnody or Xenakis's Metastaseis... by processes, we mean that
are generated by chance processes
gradually reveal complete musical themes
a succession of gradual changes in timbres/textures/register
are generated by mathematical algorithims
72
What important trait does Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande share with Wagner's mature operas?
both feature virtuosic solo arias
both use orchestral music
both use the orchestra with restraint
both derive plots from contemporary stage plays
73
Over the course of his career, Mahler
abandon largescale/discursive symphonic movements for concis
rejected mimetic use of nature sounds and musical topics
incorporated 19th century poetry in his symphonies
provided symphonies with increasing detailed commentary
74
The proponents of the New German School and those of absolute music both believed that
based on the proper understanding of Beethoven's music
the four movement classical symphony
a chromatic harmonic language was always required
medieval polyphony could provide a model for the composition
75
In the example below, what evidence would most strongly indicate that the composer is Ravel?
contrasting piano and forte dynamics
extended harmonies and underlying functional harmonic
parallel root position triads
triple meter and accented upbeats
76
Opening diplomatic relations btwn. USA and Japan in the mid-19th century provided the plot of
Madama Butterfly
Tosca
La forza del destino
Il trovatore
77
In compositions such as his 1964 String Quartet and Third Symphony, Witold Lutoslawski uses
electronics
total serialism
indeterminacy
musique concrete
78
Band transcriptions were primarily intended to
accompany opera in smaller venues
make popular orchestral works performable by wind bands
rescore original band compositions
notate improvised band performances for future reproduction
79
Tan Dun and Paul McCartney share an interest in and have appropriated techniques and ideas from
John Cage
Arvo Part
Nirvana
Arnold Schoenberg
80
In the excerpt below
1st tetrachord in right and 1st in left are prime/P-6 forms
first 12 pitches constitute the prime form of the row
1st tetrachord in the left hand is the retrograde of 2nd
1st tetrachord in right and 1st in left are prime/P-7 forms
81
Of the following composers, who was the only one to reside in Europe during World War II?
Stravinsky
Berg
Webern
Schoenberg
82
Indie rock achieved commercial prominence in the 1990s due the success of grunge bands from
Seattle
New York
Los Angeles
Amsterdam
83
Which of the following composers spent a significant part of his career working in the USA?
Ravel
Satie
Debussy
Mahler
84
The most popularized divisive conflicts among musicians and composers was that between
Berlioz and Liszt
Wagner and Liszt
Bach and Mozart
Wagner and Brahms
85
The plot of La Traviata is a good example of mid-nineteenth century
realism
symbolism
exoticism
classicism
86
Each of the following musicians was associated with the musical style known as soul except
Ray Charles
James Brown
Miles Davis
Otis Redding
87
The late 19th century French taste for exoticism is reflected in the following operas except
Carmen
Werther
L'Africaine
Lakme
88
Beethoven turned away from the extroverted, heroic style of his middle-period works because
restoration of the French monarchy in 1815
final defeat and destruction of the Austrian empire in 1815
political repression in the Austrain empire after 1815
establishment of parliamentary democracy in Austria in 1815
89
Contrast btwn composers Vincent d'Indy + Francis Poulenc vividly shows the aesthetic dichotomy
"low" popular music vs "high" art music
formalism vs realism
classicism vs. romanticism
modernism vs. neoclassicism
90
Nationalist compositions like Musorgsky's Pictures and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances were with
Composition of Brahm's early piano sonatas
Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
premiere of Wagner's Ring Cycle
91
Parker's Anthropology is linked to the Tin Pan Alley tradition on account of borrowing from
Motown
West Side Story
I Got Rhythm
Richard Rogers
92
In Catholic music- 2nd quarter of the 19th century, what composer's style of music was revived?
J.S.Bach's
Haydn and Mozart's
Palestrina's
Leoninus
93
Which composer's legacy was the most lasting and influential in the 19th century?
Haydn's
Beethoven's
Bach's
Mozart's
94
Which of the following claims is true of Janacek's music?
relies on the development of motives in the manner of Beeth
rhythms are often derived from the cadences of spoken German
it consists exclusively of orchestral and chamber compositio
its rhythms are often derived from the cadences of spoken Cz
95
Which of the following is an example of how modernist composers stretch the meaning of symphony
Embryons desseches
Vers la flamme
Das Lied von der Erde
Ariadne auf Naxos
96
The texts of La bonne chanson are poems by
Jean Racine
Edgar Allen Poe
Stephane Mallarme
Paul Verlaine
97
John Cage shows the strongest affinity to the aesthetics/procedures of art in which works?
cheap Imitation
4'33"
Sonatas and interludes
Musicircus
98
Indie rock achieved commercial prominence in the 1990s due to success of grunge bands from
Amsterdam
San Francisco
Seattle
New York
99
Amy Beach's musical career was marked by all of the following except
studies in Paris with Vincent d'Indy
suppression of her concert career during her marriage
integration of Irish folk music and Native Amer. music
studies in Germany just before the First World War
100
Glinka's and Rimsky-Korsakov's influence on Stravinsky is seen most clearly in
orchestration and use of octatonic scales
works of the 1950s
technique of developing variation
use of unresolved dissonance
101
When composing atonal music, Schoenberg found an unsurmountable problem that the atonal idiom
reproduce the formal coherence of large scale tonal composit
maintain a hierarchy of functions among cons/diss harmonies
support motivic development
be used to set poetic texts expressively
102
Conservatories were established in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the
1840s
1820s
1890s
1860s
103
Which of the following works best illustrates expressionist musical style?
Pulcinella
Erwartung
The Rake's Progress
Petrushka
104
Opera was largely neglected by British composers in the 19th century due to
an already established and dominant tradition
lack of theaters in England's major cities
prohibitions against vocal music in London theaters
British nationalist rejection of Italian culture
105
Which of the following most accurately describes early 20th century modernist music?
maintained historical musical styles while rejecting the new
it broke entirely with past musical traditions
combined innovation with familiar techniques of older
it dispensed with tonality
106
The Grey Album is historically significant because it was
the first of the post-punk revival albums of the new milleni
Macy Grey's first kickstarter financed recording project
a highly successful collaboration with Yo Yo Ma/Afghan Youth
an important mashup combining sounds from rap and 1960s pop
107
In Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, Schumann renders the poems meaning especially through his use of
unresolved dissonant harmonies
passages in recitative style
ubiquitous dotted rhythms
alternation of major and minor tonic triads
108
Music for strings, percussion, and celesta illustrates Bartok's use of all elements except
fugal counterpoint
twelve tone rows
symmetry
cyclic recall of themes
109
The main function of the tempo di mezzo in a typical Rossinian opera scene is to
introduce a change in character's circumstances/plot twist
return to the tonic key of the scena
provide orchestral accompaniment for the soloist's exit
introduce a section of choral music
110
Klangfarbenmelodie is
an opera by Schoenberg
a song cycle by Berg
a vocal technique where a singer approx. the timbre/speech
coordination of changes in pitch with changes of tone color
111
German Romantic Opera is distinguished most sharply from contemporary French and Italian opera
its use of spoken dialogue
its use of large performing forces and elaborate stagecraft
use of recurring motives identified with situations
focus on natural and supernatural landscapes as important
112
Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem is a setting of texts from
spiritual poems by Morike and Eichendorff
German translations of Old Testament scriptural texts
the Latin Mass for the Dead
Mignon's funeral in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
113
That Gounod's Faust was first performed as an opera comique indicates that it
was first performed in its original German language version
was given a happy ending in which Faust marries Marguerite
was first performed in concert form without sets or costume
was performed with spoke dialogue
114
Antonin Dvorak's first impression of African American Music were gained from
slaves singing on southern plantations
German publications of African American song transcriptions
the Fisk Jubilee Singers
the singer Harry Burleigh
115
Amy Beach's musical career was marked by all of the following except
studies in Germany just before the first World War
integration of Irish folk music and Native American music
emulation of the musical style of Brahms
studies in Paris with Vincent D'Indy
116
The American composers' organizations-International Composers Guild + League of Composers goal
attracting European concert artists to the United States
cultivating political links with the Union of Soviet
protecting the American musical tradition
securing performances of new American compositions
117
In the USA, avant-garde composers of postwar decades were widely and most often supported by
academic institutions
state and local governments
religious institutions
private patrons
118
Splintering of pop music audiences in first decades of the 21st century can be attributed to
erosion of pop music market by expanding classical music
growing number of music consumers isolated by no internet
proliferation of listening options by communications technol
copyright enforcement by large music producers and record
119
The modernist techniques of atonality/dissonance/layering/juxtaposition have influenced
film music
nothing - no significant impact
electronic dance music
contemporary vocal pop music
120
A typical Rossini overture comprises
a two part form with a slow introduction then by fast binary
two part form with slow ceremonial section
a multi-section orchestral suite
three part sonata form
121
Steve Reich's musical style and technique underwent a shift in the 1980s from
indeterminacy to spectralism
indeterminacy to total serialism
serialism to minimalism
minimalism to postminimalism
122
Signs of change in the classical orchestral world 2008/2010 and number of performances dropped
75%
15%
30%
50%
123
Between the 1700s and 1850s the production of piano and publication of composition increased
1,000%
50%
25%
10,000%
124
Beethoven's music most closely mirrored post-French revolutionary social changes in
dealt with religious subjects
became and simple and accessible
represented an entrepreneurial freedom from compositional
was composed for private commissions
125
Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of
invention of the Moog synthesizer
the migration of southern blues musicians to northern cities
the invention of the radio
the British invasion
126
Edvard Grieg's style was strongly influenced by
French grand opera
Musorgsky's and Borodin's orchestral works
Hungarian folk music
Mendelssohn's and Schumann's music
127
Heroic narrative implicit in Beethoven's 5th Symphony is conveyed partly through
conclusion of the symphony in parallel major mode of tonic
conclusion of the symphony with majestic fugue
inclusion of a funeral march movement
incorporation of Russian melodies in last movement
128
Literary sources for popular operas in 1820/1850 included these authors except
Sir Walter Scott
Victor Hugo
William Shakespeare
Emile Zola
129
In the example below, the orchestral passage in mm.3-6 functions as all the following except
a musical emblem of the character Don Jose
a transposed version of a motive heard earlier in the opera
a reminiscence motive
a stereotyped figure of Roma music
130
In the 1960s, Ornette Coleman and his ensemble developed a style of jazz known as
bebop
cool jazz
contrafact
free jazz
131
The fifth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique depicts
march to an execution scaffold
a ball
a witches' sabbath
a pastoral scene
132
Which of the following works best exemplifies the aesthetics of Gebrauchsmusik?
Francis Polenc's Dialogues des carmelites
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Darius Milhaud's La creation du monde
Aaron Copland's The Second Hurricane

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