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Question #1

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

A. Expressionism

B. Modernism

C. Minimalism

D. Impressionism

E. Cubism

Question #2

What weakened the traditional role of tonality in music?

A. all of these

B. tone clusters

C. chromatic dissonance

D. new chords like the ninth and eleventh chords

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. octave displacement

B. ninth chord

C. Cubism

D. eleventh chord

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. tone cluster

B. octave displacement

C. ninth chord

D. Cubism

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. octave displacement

B. tone cluster

C. ninth chord

D. sevent chord

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. Modernism

B. ninth chord

C. tone cluster

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. tone cluster

B. sevent chord

C. eleventh chord

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. sevent chord

C. octave displacement

D. eleventh 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. octave displacement

B. ninth chord

C. Cubism

D. Modernism

Question #10

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

A. Neo-Classicism

B. Serialism

C. Expressionism

D. Modernism

E. Cubism

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. octave displacement

C. atonal music

D. prepared piano

E. polyrhythm

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 row

B. polychord

C. all of these

D. tone cluster

E. eleventh chord

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. Varèse

B. Tan

C. Bernstein

D. Lee

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. Tan

B. Adams

C. Varèse

D. Cage

E. Zwilich

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. Var&grave;se

B. Ives

C. Stravinsky

D. Zwilich

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. Minimalism

C. chance music

D. twelve-tone composition

E. Sprechstimme

Question #17

Which composition consists of nothing but background sounds?

A. 0'00"

B. 4'33"

C. A Short Ride in a Fast Machine

D. Marco Polo

E. Amériques

Question #18

Which composition uses musique concrète?

A. 4'33"

B. Poème électronique

C. Short Ride in a Fast Machine

D. Marco Polo

E. Concerto Grosso 1985

Question #19

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

A. Copland and Ives

B. Adams and Tavener

C. Glass and Partch

D. Tan and Reich

E. Pärt and Varèse

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. Minimalism

B. Primitivism

C. Cubism

D. Postmodernism

E. Expressionism

Question #21

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

A. invented by John Cage

B. turns the piano into a percussive instrument

C. featured in the composition 4'33"

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

E. eliminates the melodic capability of the piano

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. Adams

B. Gershwin

C. Tan

D. Bernstein

E. Copland

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