Music 120 - Music Appreciation » Fall 2019 » Quiz 59

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Question #1
Who was Copland’s collaborator for Appalachian Spring?
A.   Charles Ives
B.   Martha Graham
C.   William Grant Still
D.   Langston Hughes
Question #2
Appalachian Spring is never performed as a concert work.
A.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #3
At its premiere, who danced the lead role in Appalachian Spring?
A.   Mikhail Baryshnikov
B.   Nadia Boulanger
C.   Martha Graham
D.   Aaron Copland
Question #4
Where was Aaron Copland born?
A.   Dobbs Ferry, New York
B.   Appalachia
C.   Cooperstown, New York
D.   Brooklyn, New York
Question #5
Country Band March is arranged for
A.   jazz band.
B.   small orchestra.
C.   choir and orchestra.
D.   wind band.
Question #6
Copland wrote music about which part of the United States and its culture?
A.   Wisconsin and the Great Lakes
B.   the Far West and rural life
C.   Washington and the Canadian border
D.   New England
Question #7
Copland’s American style is primarily rooted in
A.   spirituals from early nineteenth-century camp meetings.
B.   commercially successful vernacular music.
C.   patriotic songs and Protestant hymns.
D.   Anglo-American folk melodies.
Question #8
Copland’s music continues to be widely heard at events (or even in commercials) that aim to emphasize national pride, as well as incorporated in movie scenes that illustrate the grandeur of the West.
A.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #9
Country Band March includes ______, an integral part of Ives’s compositional technique.
A.   a complex fugue
B.   well-known musical quotations from his Protestant New England upbringing
C.   well-known musical quotations heard during his years studying in Paris
D.   famous musical quotations from German masters
Question #10
How did Charles Ives make a living?
A.   composing
B.   teaching music lessons
C.   conducting the Concord Philharmonic
D.   selling insurance
Question #11
Charles Ives is best described as a(n) ______ composer.
A.   American modernist
B.   post-Romantic
C.   post-Impressionist
D.   primitivist
Question #12
In his Country Band March, Ives simulates the realism of an amateur band by having the musicians
A.   play wrong notes.
B.   All possible answers.
C.   make bad entrances.
D.   play out of tune.
Question #13
Ives viewed dissonance
A.   as something to be avoided.
B.   as the norm of Viennese music only.
C.   as to be used as a temporary disturbance in music.
D.   as the norm of American musical life.
Question #14
The melody, "Simple Gifts," heard in Appalachian Spring, comes from the ______ tradition.
A.   Amish
B.   Catholic
C.   Shaker
D.   Lutheran
Question #15
The source of inspiration for Charles Ives’s music was rooted in the traditions of which region of America?
A.   the South
B.   the Far West
C.   the Midwest
D.   New England
Question #16
Upon receiving wider recognition of his music, Ives was proclaimed as the
A.   "modern master."
B.   "March King" of America.
C.   the "grand old man" of American music.
D.   "jazz master."
Question #17
What did Ives win in 1947, at the age of seventy-three?
A.   an Academy Award
B.   a Pulitzer Prize
C.   a Grammy
D.   the Prix de Rome
Question #18
Where did Ives study composition?
A.   He was self taught.
B.   Paris Conservatory
C.   Harvard University
D.   Yale University
Question #19
Where does Appalachian Spring take place?
A.   Western United States
B.   in the Appalachian mountains
C.   rural Pennsylvania
D.   South Carolina
Question #20
Which composer believed music should "serve the American people"?
A.   Charles Ives
B.   William Grant Still
C.   George Gershwin
D.   Aaron Copland

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