Music Test 4 example #30840 - Assignment Essays

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The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called ______.twelve-toneatonalityexpanded tonalitypolytonality

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polytonality

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In music, the early twentieth century was a time of ______.revolt and changedisinterestthe continuation of old formsstagnation

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revolt and change

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The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of ______.Richard Wagner's SiegfriedArnold Schoenberg's GurreliederIgor Stravinsky's The Rite of SpringIgor Stravinsky's Les Noces

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Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

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In modern music ______.instruments are played at the very top or bottom of their rangesnoiselike and percussive sounds are often useduncommon playing techniques have become normalAll answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by ______.Arnold SchoenbergClaude DebussyIgor StravinskyAaron Copland

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Arnold Schoenberg

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A fourth chord is ______.a chord in which the tones are a fourth apart, instead of a thirdthe chord built on the fourth step of the scalea combination of four tonesAll answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as ______.polytonalitya tone clustera polychordbitonality

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a polychord

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A chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is known as ______.a polychordpolytonalitya tone clusterbitonality

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a tone cluster

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A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land was ______.Béla BartókClaude DebussySamuel BarberIgor Stravinsky

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Béla Bartók

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To what does ostinato refer?A combination of two traditional chords sounding togetherA motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a sectionA rapid slide through different pitchesA chord made of tones only a half step or whole step apart

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A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section

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The glissando, a technique widely used in the twentieth century, is ______.a motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a sectionthe combination of two traditional chords sounding togethera chord made up of tones only a half step or a whole step aparta rapid slide up or down a scale

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a rapid slide up or down a scale

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The use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time is known as ______.polyrhythmjazzostinatopolytonality

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polyrhythm

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In twentieth-century music ______.dissonance has been emancipatedpercussion instruments have become very prominent and numerousstring players are sometimes called on to use the wood instead of the hair on their bowsAll answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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A piano is often used in twentieth-century orchestral music to ______.play important cadenzas in slow movementssing a beautiful melodyprovide a nucleus for the orchestra similar to the baroque basso continuoadd a percussive edge

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add a percussive edge

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Which of the following statements is not true?Modern composers drew inspiration from a wider historical range of music.Composers in the early twentieth century drew inspiration only from serious art music and their own intellect, ignoring popular and folk music.Western composers were more receptive and sympathetic to Asian and African cultures.The range of musical styles during the first half of the twentieth century was vast.

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Composers in the early twentieth century drew inspiration only from serious art music and their own intellect, ignoring popular and folk music.

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All of the following composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century except ______.Hector BerliozClaude DebussyIgor StravinskyArnold Schoenberg

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Hector Berlioz

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The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as ______.atonalitypolytonalitya tone clusterostinato

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atonality

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To create fresh sounds, twentieth-century composers used ______.ancient church modesscales borrowed from nonwestern culturesscales they themselves inventedAll answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from ______.folk and popular music from all culturesthe music of Asia and AfricaEuropean art music from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth centuryAll answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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Which of the following is not an alternative to the traditional organization of pitch used by twentieth-century composers?BitonalityTonic-dominant harmoniesPolytonalityAtonality

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Tonic-dominant harmonies

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Sergei Diaghilev was a famous ______.ballet impresariocomposerpianistwriter

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ballet impresario

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George Gershwin grew up in _______.New York, New YorkCharleston, South CarolinaAnatevka, RussiaParis, France

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New York, New York

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William Grant Still's works in African American style, such as his Afro-American Symphony of 1931, were _______.never performed during his lifetimeseverely criticized by audiences and criticsperformed to critical acclaim in New Yorkpanned by critics, but popular with audiences

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performed to critical acclaim in New York

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During most of his lifetime, Charles Ives's musical compositions _______.were sought after by musicians eager to perform them in publicwere enthusiastically received in public performancesaccumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farmwere quickly published by a major firm

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accumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farm

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The faun evoked in Debussy's famous composition is a ______.baby deercreature who is half man, half goatbeautiful young maidensensitive musician

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creature who is half man, half goat

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Which of the following characteristics is not usually associated with impressionism?Misty atmosphereClearly delineated formsFleeting moodSymbolism

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Clearly delineated forms

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The twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion was called ______neoclassicismprimitivismimpressionismexpressionism

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expressionism

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Béla Bartók was a leading authority on ______.twelve-tone musicthe music of ancient Greecepeasant musicAmerican jazz

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peasant music

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While remaining within the framework of a tonal center, Béla Bartók often used _________ in his music.harsh dissonancestone clusterspolychordsAll of these

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All of these

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After graduating from Yale, Charles Ives _______.began playing the trumpet professionallywent into professional athleticswent into the insurance businessbegan teaching

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went into the insurance business

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Impressionism in music is characterized by _______.the recurrence of strong accents on the downbeata stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidityan adherence to traditional harmonic chord progressionsAll answers are correct.

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a stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity

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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with ______.the full orchestraa solo clarineta muted trumpeta solo flute

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a solo clarinet

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Appalachian Spring originated as a ballet score for the great modern dancer and choreographer _______.Martha GrahamAgnes De MilleGeorge BalanchineVaclav Nijinsky

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Martha Graham

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Neoclassical compositions are characterized by ______.the use of the twelve-tone systemwhole-tone scalesharsh dissonancesforms and stylistic features of earlier periods

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forms and stylistic features of earlier periods

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Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a child's impression of _______.army life in the wara fishing tripa summer at campa Fourth of July picnic

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a Fourth of July picnic

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The expressionists rejected _______.realityconventional prettinessmoralityimagination

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conventional prettiness

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Charles Ives's music contains elements of _______.patriotic songs and barn dancesvillage bands and church choirsrevival hymns and ragtimeAll answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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Antonin Dvořák predicted in the late nineteenth century that the foundation for American music would come from _______.Irish jigsthe European classical traditionProtestant hymnsAfrican American and Native American melodies

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African American and Native American melodies

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When Schoenberg arrived in the United States after the Nazis seized power in Germany, he obtained a teaching position at ______.HarvardColumbiaYaleUCLA

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UCLA

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The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet ______.PulcinellaThe Rite of SpringAgonThe Fairy's Kiss

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The Rite of Spring

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Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as ______.primitiveneoclassicalserialpostromantic

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neoclassical

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In 1921 Copland went to France, where he was the first American to study composition with ______.Maurice RavelVirgil ThomsonClaude DebussyNadia Boulanger

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Nadia Boulanger

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As a result of his studies in composition with composers from two opposing musical camps, the conservative George Whitefield Chadwick and the modernist Edgard Varèse, Still did what?Composed in a mixture of conservative and avant-garde stylesComposed in a very conservative styleComposed in a highly dissonant styleTurned away from avant-garde styles and wrote compositions with a uniquely African American flavor

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Turned away from avant-garde styles and wrote compositions with a uniquely African American flavor

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Aaron Copland's name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of ______.jazz, blues, and ragtime elementsrevival hymns, cowboy songs, and other folk tunessubjects from American folkloreAll answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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The melodies Béla Bartók used in most of his works are _______.reminiscent of nineteenth-century symmetrical themesauthentic folk melodies gathered in his researchoriginal themes that have a folk flavorexclusively Hungarian and Rumanian folk tunes

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original themes that have a folk flavor

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The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called ______.twelve-toneatonalityexpanded tonalitypolytonality

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polytonality

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In music, the early twentieth century was a time of ______.revolt and changedisinterestthe continuation of old formsstagnation

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revolt and change

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Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring

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All answers are correct.

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The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by ______.Arnold SchoenbergClaude DebussyIgor StravinskyAaron Copland

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Arnold Schoenberg

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A fourth chord is ______.a chord in which the tones are a fourth apart, instead of a thirdthe chord built on the fourth step of the scalea combination of four tonesAll answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as ______.polytonalitya tone clustera polychordbitonality

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a polychord

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A chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is known as ______.a polychordpolytonalitya tone clusterbitonality

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a tone cluster

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A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land was ______.Béla BartókClaude DebussySamuel BarberIgor Stravinsky

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Béla Bartók

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A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section

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a rapid slide up or down a scale

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The use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time is known as ______.polyrhythmjazzostinatopolytonality

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polyrhythm

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All answers are correct.

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add a percussive edge

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Composers in the early twentieth century drew inspiration only from serious art music and their own intellect, ignoring popular and folk music.

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All of the following composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century except ______.Hector BerliozClaude DebussyIgor StravinskyArnold Schoenberg

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Hector Berlioz

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The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as ______.atonalitypolytonalitya tone clusterostinato

answer

atonality

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To create fresh sounds, twentieth-century composers used ______.ancient church modesscales borrowed from nonwestern culturesscales they themselves inventedAll answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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Which of the following is not an alternative to the traditional organization of pitch used by twentieth-century composers?BitonalityTonic-dominant harmoniesPolytonalityAtonality

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Tonic-dominant harmonies

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Sergei Diaghilev was a famous ______.ballet impresariocomposerpianistwriter

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ballet impresario

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George Gershwin grew up in _______.New York, New YorkCharleston, South CarolinaAnatevka, RussiaParis, France

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New York, New York

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performed to critical acclaim in New York

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accumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farm

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The faun evoked in Debussy's famous composition is a ______.baby deercreature who is half man, half goatbeautiful young maidensensitive musician

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creature who is half man, half goat

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Which of the following characteristics is not usually associated with impressionism?Misty atmosphereClearly delineated formsFleeting moodSymbolism

answer

Clearly delineated forms

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The twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion was called ______neoclassicismprimitivismimpressionismexpressionism

answer

expressionism

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Béla Bartók was a leading authority on ______.twelve-tone musicthe music of ancient Greecepeasant musicAmerican jazz

answer

peasant music

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While remaining within the framework of a tonal center, Béla Bartók often used _________ in his music.harsh dissonancestone clusterspolychordsAll of these

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All of these

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After graduating from Yale, Charles Ives _______.began playing the trumpet professionallywent into professional athleticswent into the insurance businessbegan teaching

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went into the insurance business

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a stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity

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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with ______.the full orchestraa solo clarineta muted trumpeta solo flute

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a solo clarinet

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Appalachian Spring originated as a ballet score for the great modern dancer and choreographer _______.Martha GrahamAgnes De MilleGeorge BalanchineVaclav Nijinsky

answer

Martha Graham

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Neoclassical compositions are characterized by ______.the use of the twelve-tone systemwhole-tone scalesharsh dissonancesforms and stylistic features of earlier periods

answer

forms and stylistic features of earlier periods

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Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a child's impression of _______.army life in the wara fishing tripa summer at campa Fourth of July picnic

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a Fourth of July picnic

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The expressionists rejected _______.realityconventional prettinessmoralityimagination

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conventional prettiness

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Charles Ives's music contains elements of _______.patriotic songs and barn dancesvillage bands and church choirsrevival hymns and ragtimeAll answers are correct.

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All answers are correct.

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African American and Native American melodies

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When Schoenberg arrived in the United States after the Nazis seized power in Germany, he obtained a teaching position at ______.HarvardColumbiaYaleUCLA

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UCLA

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The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet ______.PulcinellaThe Rite of SpringAgonThe Fairy's Kiss

answer

The Rite of Spring

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Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as ______.primitiveneoclassicalserialpostromantic

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neoclassical

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In 1921 Copland went to France, where he was the first American to study composition with ______.Maurice RavelVirgil ThomsonClaude DebussyNadia Boulanger

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Nadia Boulanger

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Turned away from avant-garde styles and wrote compositions with a uniquely African American flavor

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All answers are correct.

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original themes that have a folk flavor

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