Music 120 - Music Appreciation » Fall 2019 » Quiz 57

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Question #1
Artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance were more interested in fostering musical traditions that they understood as more thoroughly African American—blues, jazz, and spirituals—than in encouraging the development of modernist art music.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #2
As a young person, William Grant Still was hired to write arrangements for
A.   All possible answers.
B.   the New York Philharmonic.
C.   Duke Ellington.
D.   radio and musical theater.
Question #3
Authors of essays in The New Negro wrote of racial equality and cultural pride in the black community.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #4
From where does "Harlem stride piano" originate?
A.   the swing era
B.   the blues
C.   parlor songs
D.   ragtime
Question #5
In the third movement of his Suite for Violin and Piano, Still composed melodies featuring lowered thirds and sevenths, typical of the blues.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #6
Where did William Grant Still grow up?
A.   St. Louis, Missouri
B.   Little Rock, Arkansas
C.   New Orleans, Louisiana
D.   Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Question #7
Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano contains how many movements?
A.   one
B.   three
C.   two
D.   four
Question #8
Early twentieth-century American composers
A.   fully embraced the modernism of the Second Viennese School.
B.   continued in the German Romantic tradition.
C.   wrote only "popular" music for mass markets.
D.   sought to define a unique tradition of American modernism.
Question #9
The Harlem Renaissance
A.   was inspired by fifteenth-century artists and composers.
B.   funded major renovations to theaters in upper Manhattan.
C.   was a cultural movement celebrating African American contributions.
D.   encouraged African Americans to embrace European traditions.
Question #10
The Harlem Renaissance took place in the
A.   1950s and 60s.
B.   1820s and 30s.
C.   1920s and 30s.
D.   1880s and 90s.
Question #11
The ideas from ______ are credited with sparking the so-called Harlem Renaissance.
A.   African Dancer
B.   The New Negro
C.   "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
D.   "How it Feels to Be Colored Me"
Question #12
The insistent bass in the last movement of William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano resembles which jazz piano style?
A.   montuno
B.   stride
C.   swing
D.   Boogie-woogie
Question #13
The third movement of Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano embraces blues and jazz resources utilizing all of the following except
A.   call-and-response between violin and piano.
B.   a syncopated violin line.
C.   modal harmonies.
D.   improvisation.
Question #14
The third movement of Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano is programmatic and is meant to evoke
A.   Harlem "street urchins."
B.   an African dancer.
C.   Harlem nightclub life.
D.   the culture of Rochester.
Question #15
The third movement of Still’s Suite for Violin was inspired by
A.   The Weary Blues, by Langston Hughes.
B.   Gamin, a sculpture of a street-smart kid in Harlem, by Augusta Savage.
C.   African Dancer, a sculpture by Richmond Barthé.
D.   Mother and Child, a chalk on paper drawing by Sargent Johnson.
Question #16
The violin plays all of the following special effects in the last movement of Still’s Suite for Violin EXCEPT
A.   glissandos.
B.   trills.
C.   double stops.
D.   col legno.
Question #17
What was William Grant Still’s source of inspiration for his Suite for Violin?
A.   Langston Hughes poetry
B.   spirituals
C.   African American artwork
D.   essays from The New Negro
Question #18
Which is NOT true of William Grant Still?
A.   He studied composition in New York City.
B.   He had little formal education.
C.   He left college to work as a professional musician.
D.   He studied the violin.
Question #19
Why did Still favor the blues over spirituals as source material for his compositions?
A.   He preferred 12-bar patterns.
B.   He felt that the blues did not exhibit Caucasian influence.
C.   He enjoyed text repetition.
D.   All possible answers.
Question #20
William Grant Still
A.   broke racial barriers.
B.   looked to Harlem Renaissance artists and writers for inspiration
C.   was a representative of the Harlem Renaissance.
D.   All possible answers.

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