978-1259892707 Appalachian Spring Originated As A _______

166. In 1925, and for a few years afterward, Copland’s music showed the influence of ______.

A. impressionism

167. Aaron Copland’s name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of ______.

A. revival hymns, cowboy songs, and other folk tunes

168. Which of the following works was not composed by Aaron Copland?

A. Appalachian Spring

169. An example of Copland’s use of serialist technique is _______.

A. Music for the Theater

170. In addition to his compositions, Copland made valuable contributions to music in America by ______.

A. directing composer’s groups

171. Appalachian Spring originated as a _______.

A. program symphony

172. Appalachian Spring originated as a ballet score for the great modern dancer and choreographer _______.

A. George Balanchine

173. Copland depicted “Scenes of daily activity for the Bride and her Farmer-husband” in Appalachian Spring through _______.

D. a joyful dance tune that is American in flavor

174. Alberto Ginastera, one of the most prominent Latin-American composers of the 20th century, was born in _______.

A. Panama

175. One of Ginastera’s early works, Estancia Suite, is ________.

A. a twelve tone composition which makes use of many of the expressionist techniques

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Topic: Alberto Ginastera

Feedback: Estancia Suite, by Alberto Ginastera, was a work rooted in Argentinean folk tradition. It has a distinct national flavor

because of its setting on an Argentinean ranch, and its use of musical idioms associated with the gaucho, or horseman of the

plain.

176. Ginastera’s Estancia Suite was originally conceived as an ______.

A. opera

177. Alberto Ginastera’s Estancia Suite uses a large orchestra and is in ________ movements.

A. two

178. The last movement of Ginastera’s Estancia Suite, titled “Final Dance: Malambo“, makes use of an ________ form.

A. ABA

179. In 1945 Ginastera moved to the United States where he had the opportunity to study with the well known American

composer ______.

A. Leonard Bernstein

180. Since World War II, musical styles have ______.

D. concentrated on perfecting the twelve-tone system

181. The use of different musical styles or techniques in a composition is known as ______.

D. dodecaphonic

182. Why did composers begin to shift from tonality to the twelve-tone system?

A. They were bored with tonal music.

183. All of the following are major developments in music since 1950 except the ______.

A. spread of chance music

184. The twelve-tone composer whose style was most imitated in the 1950s and 1960s was ______.

D. Alban Berg

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185. A major composer associated with the serialist movement is ______.

A. Philip Glass

186. Serialism is a compositional technique in which _______.

A. a numeric series was the unifying idea of a composition

187. All of the following are proponents of serialism except ______.

A. Karlheinz Stockhausen

188. Twelve-tone compositional techniques used to organize rhythm, dynamics, tone color, and other dimensions of music to

produce totally controlled and organized music are called ______.

A. chance music

189. In chance, or aleatory music, what does the composer do?

D. Writes the music in a traditional manner, but allows the recording engineer to make electronic changes

190. Which is an example of aleatoric music?

A. Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder for orchestra

191. Minimalism as an artistic movement was a ______.

A. way to create popular works quickly and with little effort

192. Which of the following characteristics is not true of minimalist music?

D. A steady, driving pulse

193. Minimalist music is characterized by ______.

A. the development of musical materials through random methods

194. Which of the following is not primarily known as a minimalist composer?

A. Terry Riley

195. Minimalist music grew out of the same intellectual climate as minimalist art, which features ______.

D. three-dimensional objects and human figures distorted into planes

196. Many composers since the mid-1960s have made extensive use of quotations from earlier music as an attempt to do what?

A. Simplify writing original compositions

197. Since 1950 many composers have returned to ______.

D. rhythmless music

198. Composers who have returned to the use of tonality have been called ______.

A. “new Classicists”

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199. In electronic music, there is no need for ______.

A. harmony

200. Intervals smaller than the half step are called ______.

A. white tones

201. Around 1940, John Cage invented the prepared piano, a(n) ______.

A. electronic keyboard capable of producing many percussive sounds

202. Ionisation, the first important work for percussion ensemble, was composed by ______.

A. John Cage

203. Edgard Varèse’s Poème électronique ______.

A. was designed for the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair

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C. was composed in collaboration with the famous architect Le Corbusier

D. All answers are correct.

204. Piazzolla grew up in New York City but was born in ______.

D. France

205. The Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla fuses classical music and jazz with the ______.

A. rumba

206. In addition to his composing, Astor Piazzolla was known for playing the ______.

D. harmonium

207. Which of the following statements about Astor Piazzolla is true?

D. He studied composition with Alberto Ginastera and Nadia Boulanger.

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Feedback: Astor Piazzolla created a unique style of tango music intended for concerts as well as dancing that fused traditional

dance with elements from classical music and jazz. In the 1950s Piazzolla’s “new tango” (tango Nuevo) angered fans of

traditional tango music. Born in Argentina, Piazzolla grew up in New York City, after emigrating there with his parents when he

was four years old. In 1937 Piazzolla and his parents returned to Argentina, where he studied musical composition from age

twenty to twenty-five with Alberto Ginastera. When Piazzolla was thirty-two, his Buenos Aires Symphony won a prize that

subsidized a year (1954–1955) of study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger.

208. Yo-Yo Ma is a world famous ______.

A. pianist

209. George Crumb’s song cycle Ancient Voices of Children is based on the poetry of ______.

A. Anna Magdalena Bach

210. The _________ is a percussion instrument with tuned metal bars and tubular metal resonators that produce a vibrato by

means of motor-driven revolving vanes.

D. marimba

211. The _____________ is a large xylophone with resonators.

A. vibraphone

212. A _________ is an extended melody sung without text, only on vowels.

A. song

213. Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach is a(n) ______.

A. song cycle

214. Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach is an example of ___________ music.

A. electronic

215. Which of the following compositions was not composed by John Adams?

A. Short Ride in a Fast Machine

216. Composer John Adams believes that today’s composers can draw from ______.

A. only music from their own cultures

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expression.” Adams believes that the contemporary composer can follow the examples of Bach, Mahler, and Stravinsky, and be

“somebody who just reached out and grabbed everything” and through musical technique and spiritual vision “turned it into

something great.”

217. John Adams’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine is scored for a ______.

A. prepared piano

218. In 2009, Eric Whitacre’s music was heard by millions of people, who could watch and listen through his ______.

A. video of concert footage

219. Eric Whitacre’s choral music often does what?

A. Incorporates the rhythms of rock and roll

220. What is Kaija Saariaho’s opera, L’amour de loin (Love from Afar) about?

D. Starving artists living in Paris

221. Which of the following statements is not true about Kaija Saariaho’s opera, L’amour de loin (Love from Afar)?

D. The libretto is in French and was written by Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese novelist.

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Learning Objective: Identify major developments and characteristics of music since 1945

Topic: Contemporary music

Feedback: L’amour de loin is set to a French text written by Amin Maalouf, a Lebanese novelist. The opera features the blending

of instrumental and electronic sounds. Though a male role, the Pilgrim is written for a mezzo-soprano. There is a tradition in

opera of “trouser roles,” women playing boys or men on stage.

222. City Scape is a work for orchestra composed by ______.

D. Astor Piazzolla

223. In the words of the composer, “City Scape is a metropolitan sound picture written in orchestral tones” that was inspired by

the city of ______.

D. Orlando

224. Which of the following is not a movement in City Scape?

D. Peachtree Street

225. Which of the following is not true about Inura?

D. It is written for mixed chorus, strings, and percussion.

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Bloom’s: Understand 47

Learning Objective: Identify major developments and characteristics of music since 1945 44

Learning Objective: Describe how principles regarding tones and chords changed in the twentieth century 8

Learning Objective: Explain how American composers such as Ives, Gershwin, Still, and Copland created music that was

recognizably American 41

Learning Objective: Know general characteristics of twentieth-century musical styles 62

Learning Objective: Recall international influences in twentieth-century music 2

Learning Objective: Recall neoclassicism in twentieth-century music 9

Learning Objective: Recall the twentieth-century composer Bartok 7

Learning Objective: Recall the twentieth-century composer Berg 2

Learning Objective: Recall the twentieth-century composer Claude Debussy 6

Learning Objective: Recall the twentieth-century composer Igor Stravinsky 8

Learning Objective: Recall the twentieth-century composer Schoenberg 7

Learning Objective: Recognize the characteristics of music composed by Bartok 6

Learning Objective: Recognize the characteristics of music composed by Berg 2

Learning Objective: Recognize the characteristics of music composed by Debussy 5

Learning Objective: Recognize the characteristics of music composed by Schoenberg 3

Learning Objective: Recognize the characteristics of music composed by Stravinsky 7

Learning Objective: Recognize the influences on twentieth-century music from earlier periods 2

Learning Objective: Summarize cultural developments of the twentieth century 26

Topic: 20th-century music 14

Topic: Aaron Copland 11

Topic: Alban Berg 4

Topic: Alberto Ginastera 6

Topic: Anton Webern 8

Topic: Arnold Schoenberg 7

Topic: Astor Piazzolla 2

Topic: Béla Bartók 13

Topic: Ballet 2

Topic: Chance music 2

Topic: Charles Ives 9

Topic: Claude Debussy 10

Topic: concerto 1

Topic: Contemporary music 8

Topic: Dmitri Shostakovich 5

Topic: Dynamics 1

Topic: Edgard Varèse 2

Topic: Electronic 1

Topic: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich 1

Topic: Eric Whitacre 2

Topic: Expressionism 14

Topic: Film score 1

Topic: George Crumb 1

Topic: George Gershwin 9

Topic: Harmony 4

Topic: Igor Stravinsky 17

Topic: Impressionism 11

Topic: Instrument families 2

Topic: John Adams 3

Topic: John Cage 1

Topic: Key or tonality 12

Topic: Maurice Ravel 4

Topic: Melody 2

Topic: Minimalist music 5

Topic: Music in America 4

Topic: Neoclassicism 8

Topic: Opera 4

Topic: Philip Glass 2

Topic: Pitch 1

Topic: Rhythm 4

Topic: Serialism 3

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Topic: Symbolism 1

Topic: Symphony 1

Topic: Tone color 4

Topic: Twelve-tone system 3

Topic: Voices 1

Topic: William Grant Still 10