A very important element of twentieth-century music is
Tone color
The typical Dixieland band was small but usually included which two of the following as front-line instruments?
1 - clarinet
2- Trumpet
In blues music, the harmonic framework is usually _____ bars in length
12
Who of the following were composers who rose to prominence during the early twentieth century?
Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg
Anton Webern
A piano piece by Debussy that is built around the whole-tone and pentatonic scales is the piano prelude called
Voiles
Adam's Short Ride in a ________ ______, commissioned for the inaugural concert of the Great Woods Festival in Massachusetts, is a 4-minute fanfare.
Fast Machine
The jazz style that became very popular in the early 1950s was _____ jazz
cool
Which of the following statements about musicals are correct?
Musicals involve both acting and dancing
Musicals include both spoken dialogue and singing
The ordering of the twelve chromatic pitches that is used as a unifying element in an atonal composition is called a
twelve-tone row.
The West Side Story street gangs go by the names of the ________ and the ________.
jets
sharks
Besides Blood, Sweat, and Tears, another popular jazz rock group was
Chicago.
The French composer ____ used elements derived from jazz in his ballet Le Creation du monde.
Millhaud
Important figures in the early New Orleans jazz scene included
Luis Satchmo Armstrong
Jelly Roll Morton
Joseph King Oliver
Which of the following statements about twentieth-century artists are accurate?
Artists examined sexuality with extraordinary frankness
Many artists expressed alienation and anti rationality in their works.
Which of the following are two American musical styles that emerged after World War II?
Chance Music
Minimalism
Who composed the Maple Leaf Rag?
Scott Joplin
In the bebop ensemble the fast beat was usually marked by the _____ bass and the ____ cymbal.
Pizzicato
Ride
The development of the tape studio and synthesizers after World War II ushered in the age of _____ music.
electronic
The premiere of The Rite of Spring on May 29, 1913, in Paris is notable because is resulted in a(n) _____ by members of the audience
riot
Who of the following were scientists who profoundly changed how the world was perceived in the early twentieth century?
Einstein and Freud
in 1951 Stravisnky wrote an opera, modeled on Mozart's stage works, titled The Rake's _______.
Progress
Who of the following were two notable composers of the first half of the twentieth century?
Gershwin and Ginastera
In the twentieth century, cultural dominance in western artistic life and culture shifted from
Vienna and Paris to New York City and Hollywood
W.C. Handy composed which of the following popular pieces?
Memphis Blues
St Louis Blues
The Music of Charles Ives employs disparate sources, including
revival hymns
ragtime
patriotic songs
Which two of the artists developed a style that broke openly with the practices used in the past?
Isadora Duncan
Pablo Picasso
Outstanding jazz composers include
Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong
Sonatas and Interludes is Cage's best-known work for _____ _______
Prepared piano
Benjamin Britten, the twentieth-century English composer, based his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra on a theme by the English baroque composer
Henry Purcell
In 1947 Charles Ives was given the Pulitzer Prize for his
Third Symphony
During the twentieth century, sculptors began using materials such as _____ for their creations.
Plastic
Who of the following was a twentieth-century composer inspired by music from his native Hungary?
Bartok
Who of the following was the guitarist and singer who during the 1930s combined the sound of country blues with the formal structure of blues?
Robert Johnson
The generic term "electronic music" encompasses such diverse genres as which of the following?
Rock
Serial compositions
Chance music
Which of the following are ballets written by Stravinsky?
The Firebird
Petrushka
The Rite of Spring
American composers such as Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, and William Grant Still were able to create music that was recognizably American by incorporating rhythms and other musical idioms from the type of music called ________
jazz
Ornette Coleman's free-jazz style can be compared to the chance music of John Cage because of the free-jazz style's
apparent randomness
During the swing era, the typical big band consisted of about ____ musicians.
15
Electronic music can be based on which of the following?
Pitches of the major scale
Previously recorded live sounds
Prerecorded noises
Which of the following is a technique, derived from the twelve-tone system, that organizes rhythm, dynamics, and tone color?
Serialism
Although it is uncertain as to when exactly blues originated, by the ____ it was sung in many rural areas of the south.
1890s
Which of the following statements about electronic music are correct?
With electronic instruments a composer can now be responsible for subtle variations in rhythm and dynamics that a performer would otherwise create.
Composers of electronic music use traditional instruments with amplification
A twelve-tone row can be manipulated by using its pitches
Backwards and forwards
In retrograde and in inversion
A twentieth-century French composer who was greatly influenced by the rhythmic procedures he learned by studying music from India was
Messiaen
Which of the following jazz styles gained popularity during the 1960s?
Free jazz
The systematic method developed by Arnold Schoenberg in order to organize atonal music is known as the _____ technique.
twelve-tone
A Survivor of Warsaw opens with a rather shrill and unusual call by a(n) _______.
trumpet
Famous jazz musicians associated with the bebop style include
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonius Monk
Stravinsky was an eclectic composer who was inspired by which of the following?
Baroque melodies
Russian folk songs
Renaissance madrigals
The main characters of Appalachian Spring include which of the following?
a bride
a revivalist preacher
The style of jazz known as ______ developed in the 1920s and remained popular until around 1945.
swing
Contemporary melodies freely use all twelve pitches of the _______ scale and many time avoid a(n) _____ center.
chromatic
tonal
Which of the following statements about the use of harmony by twentieth-century composers are true?
They used new concepts as to what could be considered consonance and dissonance.
They often juxtaposed traditional chords such as triads in order to generate novel harmonies.
In the jazz style known as ____, irregular accents played by the drummer are known as bombs.
Bebop
Ornette Coleman's free-jazz style can be compared to the music of John Cage because of the free-jazz style's
apparent randomness
Often, pianists use their first forearm to produce tone
clusters
A great example of an operetta or comic opera is The Mikado by the British team of _____ and _____
Gilbert and Sullivan