Which description best applies to a polyphonic texture?

Violin, saxophone, & vibraphone playing different melodies at the same time

What is NOT an example of an aleatory composition or procedure?

Improvising over the chord changes to a song, such as a jazz standard.

What study habit is the LEAST likely to help you prepare for an exam?

Only writing down the PowerPoint information

What does NOT constitute plagiarism from the examples below?

Writing your own paper with footnotes, but with many errors and mistakes.

Which is an example of current-day patronage that did not exist in earlier historical eras?

Non-profit foundation arts grants

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Which description best applies to a polyphonic texture?
Violin, saxophone, & vibraphone playing different melodies at the same time
Pianist playing a melody in their RH and chordal accompaniment in their LH.
16 voices singing the same melody but at varying octaves.
A sung melody being simultaneously embellished by a guitar.
2
What is NOT an example of an aleatory composition or procedure?
Using a random number generator to decide the number of pitches in a piece.
Improvising over the chord changes to a song, such as a jazz standard.
Score consisting of various shapes and lines for the performer to interpret
Allowing the performer to reorder or omit movements within a piece.
3
Which of the following choices is an arts organization that gives financial grants exclusively to artists based in KC?
Chamber Music America
National Endowment for the Arts
Missouri Arts Council
Charlotte Street Foundation
4
Towards which area does most of the money raised by the UMKC Conservatory go?
Scholarships for students
Endowments
New infrastructure
Faculty salaries
5
What study habit is the LEAST likely to help you prepare for an exam?
Jotting down three main takeaways after each class session.
Taking notes on the assigned readings before you come to class.
Only writing down the PowerPoint information
Comparing class notes with a friend once a week.
6
What online resource would you use in order to find the libraries and archives that house manuscript music?
RILM
Wikipedia
RISM
Buzzfeed
7
What does NOT constitute plagiarism from the examples below?
Directly copying & pasting; no footnotes, no quotation marks
Directly copying & pasting; using footnotes, but no quotation marks
Turning in an assignment that a friend turned in a previous semester.
Writing your own paper with footnotes, but with many errors and mistakes.
8
Which is an example of current-day patronage that did not exist in earlier historical eras?
Governmental/court patronage
Church patronage
Non-profit foundation arts grants
Civic patronage
9
Under what general call number can you find a composer’s collected works in printed score editions?
M410'S
M3's
M2'S
X5'S
10
What was NOT a major musical change during the Baroque period?
tonal harmony
virtuosity
new genres and instruments
balanced musical phrases

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