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Question #1

An artistic style that dislocates reality into geometrical blocks and planes is known as:

A. Minimalism

B. Expressionism

C. Cubism

D. Impressionism

E. Modernism

Question #2

What weakened the traditional role of tonality in music?

A. chromatic dissonance

B. tone clusters

C. new chords like the ninth and eleventh chords

D. all of these

Question #3

Match each description with its term. This chord consists of five intervals of a third that are combined to create a dissonant sound. By spelling the chord's pitches in triadic order, it would extend four notes beyond the octave.

A. ninth chord

B. eleventh chord

C. Cubism

D. octave displacement

Question #4

Match each description with its term. In the visual arts, this style dislocates an object's true form into geometrical blocks and planes. An angular melody and discontinuous rhythm characterize its musical style.

A. ninth chord

B. octave displacement

C. Cubism

D. tone cluster

Question #5

Match each description with its term. The technique wherein a simple interval is exchanged with one that is eight tones away, creating amore fragmented melodic style.

A. ninth chord

B. sevent chord

C. tone cluster

D. octave displacement

Question #6

Match each description with its term. This chord consists of four intervals of a third that are combined to create a dissonant sound. If the pitches of the chord were spelled out in triadic order, it would extend one note beyond the octave.

A. tone cluster

B. Modernism

C. ninth chord

D. sevent chord

Question #7

Match each description with its term. What results when a performer strikes a group of adjacent keys on the piano with the fist or forearm?

A. eleventh chord

B. sevent chord

C. tone cluster

D. Modernism

Question #8

Match each description with its term. This chord is constructed by placing one additional third on top of a triad.

A. Cubism

B. eleventh chord

C. octave displacement

D. sevent chord

Question #9

Match each description with its term. A bracing, reactionary style that dominated classical music and the arts during the twentieth century.

A. Cubism

B. octave displacement

C. Modernism

D. ninth chord

Question #10

The bracing, reactionary style that dominated classical music and the arts during the twentieth century is known as:

A. Modernism

B. Cubism

C. Serialism

D. Neo-Classicism

E. Expressionism

Question #11

What process is used to construct a disjunct melodic line by placing the next note up or down an octave?

A. double counterpoint

B. polyrhythm

C. octave displacement

D. prepared piano

E. atonal music

Question #12

What is the term that describes when a pianist plays—usually with a fist or forearm—a dissonant sounding of several pitches, each only a half step away from the other, in a densely packed chord?

A. tone cluster

B. eleventh chord

C. tone row

D. polychord

E. all of these

Question #13

Born in China, this composer was raised in a rural environment full of music, magic, and ritual. Sent to a commune during the Cultural Revolution, his job was to plant rice, but he was later summoned to play and arrange music for a provincial opera company.

A. Lee

B. Bernstein

C. Varèse

D. Tan

E. Chu

Question #14

An advocate for what has come to be called "chance music," this composer felt it was unnecessary for music to develop, climax, or be goal-oriented. One composition consisted of amplifying and broadcasting the sounds resulting from chopping vegetables, grinding them up, and drinking the juice (408-409)

A. Zwilich

B. Adams

C. Tan

D. Cage

E. Varèse

Question #15

This composer wrote Poème électronique for a multimedia exhibit inside the Philips Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair in 1958. It is one of the first examples of musique concrète and a landmark in the history of synthetic music.

A. Zwilich

B. Var&grave;se

C. Ives

D. Stravinsky

Question #16

This compositional method involves an element of unpredictability (rolling dice, choosing cards, etc.) or whimsy on the part of the performers. It is especially popular with avant-garde composers.

A. polytonality

B. chance music

C. twelve-tone composition

D. Sprechstimme

E. Minimalism

Question #17

Which composition consists of nothing but background sounds?

A. 4'33"

B. Amériques

C. Marco Polo

D. 0'00"

E. A Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Question #18

Which composition uses musique concrète?

A. 4'33"

B. Poème électronique

C. Marco Polo

D. Concerto Grosso 1985

E. Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Question #19

Which pair of composers is not representative of the postmodern movement?

A. Glass and Partch

B. Pärt and Varèse

D. Tan and Reich

E. Copland and Ives

F. Adams and Tavener

Question #20

Which movement is characterized by the following ideas: art is not for the elite, but for all; all art is of equal potential, so there is no "high" or "low" art; the art of one individual or culture is as important as the next.

A. Expressionism

B. Cubism

C. Postmodernism

D. Primitivism

E. Minimalism

Question #21

Which response does not apply to the "prepared piano?"

A. turns the piano into a percussive instrument

B. invented by John Cage

C. screws, bolts, washers, erasers, and bits of felt and plastic are placed on the strings

D. eliminates the melodic capability of the piano

E. featured in the composition 4'33"

Question #22

This composer was born in Massachusetts and educated at Harvard, where he was encouraged to compose in the twelve-tone style of Schoenberg. Listening to the Beatles at night, however, he developed a more eclectic musical style that blended classical with popular styles.

A. Copland

B. Adams

C. Bernstein

D. Tan

E. Gershwin

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