Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from all except:
A) folk and popular music from all cultures
B) European art music from the Middle
Ages through the nineteenth century
C) the music of Asia and Africa
D) American marching band music
D) American marching band music
The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as....
A) polytonality
B) bitonality
C) a tone cluster
D) a polychord
D) a polychord
Among the unusual playing techniques that are widely used during the twentieth century is the ____________, a rapid slide up or down a scale.
A) buzz
B) glissando
C) slip
D) ostinato
B) glissando
Which of the following composers was not stimulated by the folklore of his native land?
A) Igor Stravinsky
B) Anton Webern
C) B�la Bart�k
D) Charles Ives
B) Anton Webern
A chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is known as
A) polytonality
B) a polychord
C) bitonality
D) a tone cluster
D) a tone cluster
The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as
A) polytonality
B) ostinato
C) a tone cluster
D) atonality
D) atonality
One of the most striking elements of twentieth-century music that is used to generate power and excitement is
A) instrumentation
B) rhythm
C) harmony
D) melody
B) rhythm
The use of two or more keys at one time is known as
A) polytonality
B) a tone cluster
C) atonality
D) the twelve-tone system
A) polytonality
A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section is called
A) polytonality
B) glissando
C) ostinato
D) atonality
C) ostinato
In twentieth-century music, melodies are often difficult to sing because
A) of the wide leaps and rhythmic irregularity
B) the notes are pitches outside a singer's normal range
C) they are only written for instruments, not the voice
D) all of the above
A) of the wide leaps and rhythmic irregularity
Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the
A) 1900s
B) 1920s
C) 1940s
D) 1960s
B) 1920s
The first opera created for television was Gian-Carlo Menotti's
A) Turandot
B) Amahl and the Night Visitors
C) Trouble in Tahiti
D) The Telephone
B) Amahl and the Night Visitors
Recordings of much lesser-known music multiplied in 1948 through
A) the appearance of long-playing disks
B) audience insistence for new works
C) government grants
D) demand created by radio stations
A) the appearance of long-playing disks
The most influential organization sponsoring new music after World War I was
A) the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
B) the National Broadcasting Company and its orchestra
C) the International Society for Contemporary Music
D) the United Federation of Musi
C) the International Society for Contemporary Music
The best-known American ensemble created in the 1930s by a radio network to broadcast live music was the
A) NBC Symphony Orchestra
B) Lawrence Welk Orchestra
C) New York Philharmonic Orchestra
D) CBS Symphony Orchestra
A) NBC Symphony Orchestra
One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was
A) Amy Beach
B) Nadia Boulanger
C) Sergei Diaghilev
D) Igor Stravinsky
B) Nadia Boulanger
Impressionism as a movement originated in
A) France
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) England
A) France
Which of the following is not considered a symbolist poet?
A) St�phane Mallarm�
B) Paul Verlaine
C) Victor Hugo
D) Arthur Rimbaud
C) Victor Hugo
When viewed closely, impressionist paintings are made up of
A) fine lines
B) large bands of color
C) tiny black dots
D) tiny colored patches
D) tiny colored patches
The impressionist painters were particularly obsessed with portraying
A) water
B) religious scenes
C) scenes of ancient glories
D) battle scenes
A) water
Debussy's most famous orchestral work was inspired by a poem by
A) St�phane Mallarm�
B) Paul Verlaine
C) Jean-Paul Sartre
D) Arthur Rimbaud
A) St�phane Mallarm�
Debussy's music tends to
A) sound free and almost improvisational
B) affirm the key very noticeably
C) have a strong rhythmic pulse
D) use the full orchestra for massive effects
A) sound free and almost improvisational
The faun evoked in Debussy's famous composition is a
A) baby deer
B) creature who is half man, half goat
C) beautiful young maiden
D) sensitive musician
B) creature who is half man, half goat
As a result of his summer sojourns away from France during his teens, Debussy developed a lifelong interest in the music of
A) Italy
B) Hungary
C) England
D) Russia
D) Russia
Debussy's opera Pell�as et M�lisande is an almost word-for-word setting of the symbolist play by
A) Paul Verlaine
B) Arthur Rimbaud
C) Maurice Maeterlinck
D) St�phane Mallarm�
C) Maurice Maeterlinck
At the Paris International Exhibition of 1889 Debussy was strongly influenced by the
A) advantages of modern technology
B) performances of the music of J. S. Bach
C) Eiffel Tower
D) performances of Asian music
D) performances of Asian music
At the Paris International Exhibition of 1889 Debussy was strongly influenced by the
A) advantages of modern technology
B) performances of the music of J.S. Bach
C) Eiffel Tower
D) performances of Asian music
B) art songs
C) chamber music
D) piano music
A) symphoniesach
The poem which inspired the Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun was written by
A) Paul Verlaine
B) Arthur Rimbaud
C) Maurice Maeterlinck
D) St�phane Mallarm�
D) St�phane Mallarm�
In order to drown the sense of tonality, Debussy
A) turned to the medieval church modes
B) borrowed pentatonic scales from Javanese music
C) developed the whole-tone scale
D) all of the above
D) all of the above
A more appropriate term for "neo-classicism" might be
neo-Baroque
Neoclassical compositions are characterized by
A) forms and stylistic features of earlier periods
B) whole-tone scales
C) harsh dissonances
D) use of the twelve-tone system
A) forms and stylistic features of earlier periods
Neoclassicism was a reaction against
A) romanticism and impressionism
B) humanism
C) classicism
D) traditional forms
A) romanticism and impressionism
Which of the following is not characteristic of neoclassicism?
A) emotional restraint
B) clarity
C) misty atmosphere
D) balance
C) misty atmosphere
Neoclassical composers favored
A) tonality
B) atonality
C) program music
D) large orchestras
A) tonality
A painter who went through a neoclassical phase, and who designed sets for Stravinsky's first neoclassical work, was
A) Claude Monet
B) Pablo Picasso
C) Auguste Renoir
D) Wassily Kandinsky
B) Pablo Picasso
During the period from about 1920 to 1951, Stravinsky drew inspiration largely from
A) eighteenth-century music
B) Webern's serial technique
C) Russian folklore
D) African sculpture
A) eighteenth-century music
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of
A) neoclassicism
B) primitivism
C) serialism
D) romanticism
B) primitivism
Sergei Diaghilev was the director of the
A) Moscow Conservatory
B) Leningrad Philharmonic
C) Russian Ballet
D) Orchestre de Paris
C) Russian Ballet
Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is scored for
A) a small chamber group
B) vocal soloists and orchestra
C) an enormous orchestra
D) a wind ensemble
C) an enormous orchestra
Which of the following ballets is not from Stravinsky's Russian period?
A) The Rite of Spring
B) The Firebird
C) Pulcinella
D) Petrushka
C) Pulcinella
Stravinsky's composition teacher was
A) Sergei Diaghilev
B) Modest Mussorgsky
C) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
D) Claude Debussy
C) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as
A) neoclassical
B) primitive
C) serial
D) postromantic
A) neoclassical
In the 1950s Stravinsky dramatically changed his style, this time drawing inspiration from
A) Claude Debussy
B) Richard Wagner
C) Anton Webern
D) Russian folk music
C) Anton Webern
The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet
A) Pulcinella
B) The Fairy's Kiss
C) Agon
D) The Rite of Spring
D) The Rite of Spring
Expressionism is an art concerned with
A) depicting the beauties of nature
B) emotional restraint, clarity, and balance
C) social protest
D) all of the above
C) social protest
The expressionist movement flourished in the years
A) 1890-1914
B) 1905-1925
C) 1914-1941
D) 1920-1950
B) 1905-1925
The expressionist movement was largely centered in
A) France
B) Great Britain
C) Germany and Austria
D) Russia
C) Germany and Austria
Twentieth-century musical expressionism grew out of the emotional turbulence in the works of late romantics such as
A) Richard Wagner
B) Richard Strauss
C) Gustav Mahler
D) all of the above
D) all of the above
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Expressionist music?
A) harsh dissonance
B) fragmentation
C) unusual instrumental effects
D) classical tonality
D classical tonality
Edvard Munch was an expressionist
A) poet
B) painter
C) musician
D) playwright
B) painter
The expressionists rejected
A) conventional prettiness
B) reality
C) imagination
D) morality
A) conventional prettiness
Expressionism stressed
A) subtle feeling
B) intense, subjective emotion
C) reticence
D) surface beauty
B) intense, subjective emotion
Expressionist painters, writers, and composers used _________ to assault and shock their audience.
A) pastel colors
B) deliberate distortions
C) clearly defined forms
D) vague nature scenes
B) deliberate distortions
Expressionist composers
A) contributed many patriotic songs to the war effort
B) avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions
C) tried to capture atmosphere with rich, sensuous harmonies and pleasant subjects
D) all of the above
B) avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions
Schoenberg's teacher was
A) Johannes Brahms
B) Richard Wagner
C) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
D) Schoenberg himself
D) Schoenberg himself
When Schoenberg arrived in the United States after the Nazis seized power in Germany, he obtained a teaching position at
A) Harvard
B) Yale
C) UCLA
D) Columbia
C) UCLA
Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Schoenberg's
A) teachers
B) students
C) predecessors
D) jealous rivals
B) students
In addition to being a composer, Schoenberg showed skill as a
A) chemist
B) painter
C) music critic
D) economist
B) painter
A Survivor from Warsaw used three languages: English, German, and
A) Italian
B) French
C) Hebrew
D) Russian
C) Hebrew
Schoenberg's third person, in which he developed the twelve-tone system, began around
A) 1874
B) 1908
C) 1921
D) 1933
C) 1921
Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called
A) Klangfarbenmelodie
B) Sprechstimme
C) atonality
D) serialism
B) Sprechstimme
Which of the following statements is not true of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method of composition?
A) The tones of a row may be presented at the same time to form chords.
B) Each tone of a row must be placed in the same register.
C) The tones of a row may b
B) Each tone of a row must be placed in the same register.
Which of the following terms is not used to describe the special ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in twelve-tone composition?
A) polychord
B) set
C) tone row
D) series
A) polychord
Georg B�chner's play Wozzeck was written in the
A) 1830s
B) 1890s
C) 1920s
D) 1940s
A) 1830s
The vocal lines in Wozzeck include
A) commonly heard folk songs
B) only singing
C) Sprechstimme
D) only speaking
C) Sprechstimme
Which musical form provides the basis for the last act of Wozzeck?
A) variations
B) military march
C) passacaglia
D) lullaby
A) variations
Which of the following statements regarding Berg is untrue?
A) He composed a great quantity of music in all forms.
B) He synthesized traditional and twentieth-century elements.
C) Like Wagner, he created a continuous musical flow within each act of Wozzec
A) He composed a great quantity of music in all forms.
Webern's melodic lines are
A) atomized into two- or three-note fragments
B) reinforced by frequent tutti unison passages
C) folklike, with narrow ranges and frequent repetitions
D) basically in major and minor keys
A) atomized into two- or three-note fragments
Webern's twelve-tone works contain many examples of
A) long singing melodies
B) melodic and harmonic repetition
C) strict polyphonic imitation
D) homophonic texture
C) strict polyphonic imitation
The least important element in Webern's music is
A) texture
B) tone color
C) dynamic level
D) tonality
D) tonality
Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra are scored for
A) a chamber orchestra of eighteen soloists
B) solo voice, chorus, and orchestra
C) the traditional large romantic orchestra
D) mandolin, harmonium, and strings
A) a chamber orchestra of eighteen soloists
Webern
A) had little formal musical training
B) taught himself piano and cello
C) earned a doctorate in music history from the University of Vienna
D) enjoyed frequent performances of his own music
C) earned a doctorate in music history from the University of Vienna
Bart�k's principal performing medium was
A) conducting
B) piano
C) violin
D) flute
B) piano
Bart�k evolved a completely individual style that fused folk elements with
A) changes of meter and a powerful beat
B) twentieth-century sounds
C) classical forms
D) all of the above
D) all of the above
The melodies Bart�k used in most of his works are
A) authentic folk melodies gathered in his research
B) original themes that have a folk flavor
C) reminiscent of nineteenth-century symmetrical themes
D) exclusively Hungarian and Rumanian folk tunes
B) original themes that have a folk flavor
Bart�k's six string quartets are widely thought to be the finest since those of
A) Dmitri Shostakovich
B) Ludwig van Beethoven
C) Joseph Haydn
D) Igor Stravinsky
B) Ludwig van Beethoven
While remaining within the framework of a tonal center, Bart�k often used harsh dissonances and ________ in his music.
A) percussion
B) polychords
C) the twelve tone system
D) regular meter
B) polychords
Bart�k's string quartets are often compared to those of
A) Mozart
B) Haydn
C) Beethoven
D) Schubert
C) Beethoven
Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a child's impression of
A) a summer at camp
B) a Fourth of July picnic
C) a fishing trip
D) army life in the war
B) a Fourth of July picnic
Charles Ives's father was a(n)
A) insurance salesman
B) physician
C) professional athlete
D) bandmaster
D) bandmaster
After graduating from Yale, Ives
A) went into the insurance business
B) began teaching
C) began playing the trumpet professionally
D) went into professional athletics
A) went into the insurance business
During most of his lifetime, Ives's musical compositions
A) were enthusiastically received in public performances
B) were quickly published by a major firm
C) accumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farm
D) were sought after by musicians eager to perfo
C) accumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farm
Ives's music contains elements of
A) revival hymns and ragtime
B) patriotic songs and barn dances
C) village bands and church choirs
D) all of the above
D) all of the above
Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a movement from Ive's
A) Three Places in New England
B) Essays before a Sonata
C) Concord Sonata
D) The Unanswered Question
A) Three Places in New England
Ives's large and varied output includes works in many genres, but not
A) symphonies
B) operas
C) songs
D) chamber music
B) operas
Gershwin left high school at the age of fifteen to
A) become a pianist demonstrating new songs in a publisher's salesroom
B) study theory and composition in Paris
C) work in his father's store
D) develop his athletic talents
A) become a pianist demonstrating new songs in a publisher's salesroom
The Gershwin song that became a tremendous hit in 1920 was
A) La, La, Lucille
B) I Got Rhythm
C) Swanee
D) Embraceable You
C) Swanee
Porgy and Bess is a(n)
A) Broadway musical
B) opera
C) rhapsody for piano
D) popular song
B) opera
George Gershwin usually collaborated with the lyricist
A) Jerome Kern
B) Irving Berlin
C) Paul Whiteman
D) Ira Gershwin
D) Ira Gershwin
Which of the following works is not by George Gershwin?
A) Of Thee I Sing
B) Porgy and Bess
C) The Desert Song
D) An American in Paris
C) The Desert Song
Rhapsody in Blue opens with
A) a solo flute
B) the full orchestra
C) a muted trumpet
D) a solo clarinet
D) a solo clarinet
Harlem Renaissance" was the name
A) sometimes given to a flowering of African American culture during the years 1917-1935
B) given to a housing project in New York City's Harlem
C) of a city in Holland
D) of a symphony by William Grant Still
A) sometimes given to a flowering of African American culture during the years 1917-1935
William Grant Still's opera dealing with the Haitian slave rebellion is
A) Trouble in Tahiti
B) Troubled Island
C) Emperor Jones
D) Once on this Island
B) Troubled Island
As a result of his studies in composition with composers from two opposing musical camps, the conservative George Whitefield Chadwick and the modernist Edgard Var�se, Still
A) composed in a very conservative style
B) composed in a highly dissonant style.
D) turned away from avant-garde styles and wrote compositions with a uniquely African American flavor.
Each movement of William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony is prefaced by lines from a poem by
A) Paul Laurence Dunbar
B) Zora Neale Hurston
C) W. E. B. DuBois
D) James Weldon Johnson
A) Paul Laurence Dunbar
William Grant Still's works in African American style, such as his Afro-American Symphony, were
A) never performed during his lifetime
B) severely criticized by audiences and critics
C) panned by critics, but popular with audiences
D) performed to critica
D) performed to critical acclaim in New York
Copland's name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of
A) revival hymns, cowboy songs, and other folk tunes
B) jazz, blues, and ragtime elements
C) subjects from American folklore
D) all of the above
D) all of the above
Copland's turn toward simplicity in the 1930s can be traced in part to
A) the great depression
B) dissatisfaction with his own style
C) the influence of Schoenberg
D) the influence of religion
A) the great depression
In 1921 Copland began a three-year period of study in
A) Germany
B) Austria
C) Italy
D) France
D) France
Which of the following works was not composed by Copland?
A) Concord Sonata
B) Rodeo
C) Billy the Kid
D) Music for the Theater
A) Concord Sonata
In addition to his compositions, Copland made valuable contributions to music in America by
A) directing composer's groups
B) writing books and magazine articles
C) organizing concerts of American music
D) all of the above
D) all of the above
In 1925, and for a few years afterward, Copland's music showed the influence of
A) impressionism
B) jazz
C) neobaroque styles
D) expressionism
B) jazz
An example of Copland's use of serialist technique is
A) Music for the Theater
B) Connotations
C) Fanfare for the Common Man
D) Appalachian Spring
B) Connotations
Appalachian Spring originated as a
A) program symphony
B) song cycle
C) ballet score
D) chamber opera
C) ballet score
Copland depicted Scenes of daily activity for the Bride and her Farmer-husband in Appalachian Spring through
A) five variations on the Shaker melody Simple Gifts
B) intensely dissonant passages and humorous offbeat accents
C) strings softly singing a hymn
A) five variations on the Shaker melody Simple Gifts
Ginastera's early interest in percussive sounds was fully realized in his work entitled
A) The Rite of Spring
B) Wozzeck
C) Estancia Suite
D) Five Pieces of Orchestra
C) Estancia Suite
The Latin American Center for Advanced Musical Studies, which Ginastera directed, promoted
A) a return to traditional harmonies
B) an emphasis on serialism
C) advante-garde musical techniques
D) Sprechstimme
C) advante-garde musical techniques
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Ginatera's music?
A) powerful percussion
B) simple harmonies
C) dense orchestration
D) forceful rhythms
B) simple harmonies
In Final Dance: Malambo, the character of the gaucho is shown through
A) energetic melodies and perpetual motion
B) a calm, lyrical style
C) a slow, relaxed tempo
D) simple orchestration
A) energetic melodies and perpetual motion
Minimalist music is characterized by
A) the development of musical materials through random methods
B) rapidly changing dynamics and textures
C) a steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns
D) the use of twelve-tone t
C) a steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns
Many composers since the mid-1960s have made extensive use of quotations from earlier music as an attempt to
A) simplify writing original compositions
B) improve communication between the composer and the listener
C) capitalize on the popularity of earlie
B) improve communication between the composer and the listener
A major composer associated with the serialist movement is
A) Philip Glass
B) Milton Babbitt
C) George Crumb
D) Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
B) Milton Babbitt
All of the following are major developments in music since 1950 except the
A) spread of chance music
B) increased use of the twelve-tone system
C) continued composition of symphonies in the classical style
D) composition in which timbre, texture, dynamics
C) continued composition of symphonies in the classical style
Intervals smaller than the half step are called
A) quartertones
B) tone clusters
C) macrotones
D) microtones
D) microtones
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
B) minimalism
C) serialism
D) Klangfarbenmelodie
C) serialism
In chance or aleatoric music, the composer
A) writes a rhythmic pattern but leaves it to the performer to determine the actual pitches
B) takes a chance on which performers will perform the work
C) chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random metho
C) chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition
A) String Quartet
B) Double Quartet for Strings
C) Symphony No. 1
D) Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
C) Symphony No. 1
One of the most widely performed orchestral works by a living American composer is
A) Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
B) Adam's Short Ride in a Fast Machine
C) Glass' Einstein of the Beach
D) Zwilch's Concerto Grosso 1985
B) Adam's Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985 is an example of
A) total serialism
B) quotation music
C) minimalism
D) chance music
B) quotation music
Liberation of Sound" refers to
A) the use of non-traditional instruments
B) the use of non-pitched percussion instruments
C) the use of non-musical sounds, often produced by an electronic instrument
D) a piece in which there are no sounds, only silence
C) the use of non-musical sounds, often produced by an electronic instrument
Which composer was known for creating dramatic effects through changes in tempo?
A) John Cage
B) Ellen Zwilch
C) Elliot Carter
D) Edgard Varese
C) Elliot Carter
In jazz, each statement of the basic harmonic pattern or melody is called a
A) riff
B) phrase
C) chorus
D) verse
C) chorus
When a voice is answered by an instrument, or when one instrument is answered by a chorus, the pattern is referred to as
A) jazz
B) call and response
C) polyphonic texture
D) calling the beat
B) call and response
Creating music at the same time as it is being performed is known as
A) improvisation
B) call and response
C) counterpoint
D) thematic transformation
A) improvisation
Syncopation and _____ swing are two of the most distinctive features of jazz
A) melodic
B) rhythmic
C) harmonic
D) dynamic
B) rhythmic
Ragtime flourished in the United States
A) just before the Civil War
B) from the 1860s to about 1980
C) from the 1980s to about 1915
D) between the two world wars
C) from the 1980s to about 1915
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the blues?
A) usually follow a 12-bar pattern as a basis for improvisation
B) is only sad and slow
C) may be vocal or instrumental
D) has a 12-bar harmonic framework
...
The most famous blues singer of the 1920's, known as the "empress of the blues" was
A) Bessie Smith
Blues music is usually written in ____ time.
A) 4/4
Scat singing, which Louis Armstrong introduced into jazz, is
A) vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables
B) singing with a gravel-throated sound
C) singing above the normal vocal range, or falsetto
D) not being able to sing on pitch
vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables
Short repeated melodic phrases frequently used during the swing era are called
A) riffs
B) breaks
C) gigs
D) tags
A) riffs
The following can be said about free jazz:
A) it disregarded regular forms and established chord pattern
B) it can be compared to chance music
C) it began in early 1960s
D) all answers are correct
All answers are correct
Cool Jazz
A) was related to bop but was calmer and more relaxed in character
B) consists of short pieces freely improvised
C) used traditional jazz instrumental combinations
D) all answers are correct
A) was related to bop but was calmer and more relaxed in character
A variety show without a plot but with a unifying idea is called
A) vaudeville
B) an operetta
C) a revue
D) a book musical
revue
Leonard Bernstein was a well-known conductor as well as
A) a composter and author-lecturer
B) painter of expressionistic art
C) jazz performer
D) all answers are correct
A) a composter and author-lecturer
West Side Story
A) is loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
B) is set in the slums of New Orleans
C) deals with the conflict between parents and teenage children
D) all answers are correct
A) is loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
West Side Story contains
A) an unprecedented fusion of song and drama with electrifying violent choreography.
B) less music than the average Broadway show
C) a conventional range of popular styles
D) all answers are correct
A) an unprecedented fusion of song and drama with electrifying violent choreography.
Which of the following is not a function of film music?
A) provide momentum and continuity
B) suggest mood and atmosphere
C) suggest character
D) provide songs for the actors to sing
provide songs for the actors to sing
Movie soundtracks can contain
A) original music and perviously existing compositions
B) original music and the director's comments
C) director's comments and previously existing compositions
D) director's comments and actor's comments
A) original music and previously existing compositions.
Which of the following characters has a distinctive leitmotif?
Darth Vader
During the last few years, moviegoers have
A) begun to ignore short film
B) taken a greater interest in film music
C) turned off the soundtrack when watching movies at home
D) watch movies solely for the soundtrack
B) taken a greater interest in film music.
A typical rock group consists of
A) sections of brass, reeds, and percussion (rhythm)
B) vocalist, two acoustic guitars, harmonica, and drums
C) two electric guitars, electric bass, percussion and electric keyboard
D) vocalist, backup singers, and drums
two electric guitars, electric bass, percussion and electric keyboard
The harmonic progressions of rock are usually
A) quite simple
B) limited to only two chords
C) the same as earlier popular music
D) extremely complex
A) quite simple
A method of singing used by males to reach notes higher than their normal range is called
falsetto
Rock is based on a powerful beat in quadruple meter with strong accents on _____ of each bar.
A) the second and fourth beats
B) the first beat
C) the first and third beats
D) all four beats
A) the second and fourth beats