Music 120 - Music Appreciation » Fall 2019 » Quiz 59

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Question #1
Who was Copland’s collaborator for Appalachian Spring?
A.   Martha Graham
B.   William Grant Still
C.   Charles Ives
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.   Aaron Copland
B.   Martha Graham
C.   Nadia Boulanger
D.   Mikhail Baryshnikov
Question #4
Where was Aaron Copland born?
A.   Cooperstown, New York
B.   Dobbs Ferry, New York
C.   Appalachia
D.   Brooklyn, New York
Question #5
Country Band March is arranged for
A.   jazz band.
B.   wind band.
C.   choir and orchestra.
D.   small orchestra.
Question #6
Copland wrote music about which part of the United States and its culture?
A.   the Far West and rural life
B.   New England
C.   Wisconsin and the Great Lakes
D.   Washington and the Canadian border
Question #7
Copland’s American style is primarily rooted in
A.   spirituals from early nineteenth-century camp meetings.
B.   Anglo-American folk melodies.
C.   commercially successful vernacular music.
D.   patriotic songs and Protestant hymns.
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.   FALSE
B.   TRUE
Question #9
Country Band March includes ______, an integral part of Ives’s compositional technique.
A.   well-known musical quotations heard during his years studying in Paris
B.   a complex fugue
C.   famous musical quotations from German masters
D.   well-known musical quotations from his Protestant New England upbringing
Question #10
How did Charles Ives make a living?
A.   selling insurance
B.   teaching music lessons
C.   conducting the Concord Philharmonic
D.   composing
Question #11
Charles Ives is best described as a(n) ______ composer.
A.   American modernist
B.   post-Romantic
C.   primitivist
D.   post-Impressionist
Question #12
In his Country Band March, Ives simulates the realism of an amateur band by having the musicians
A.   make bad entrances.
B.   play out of tune.
C.   play wrong notes.
D.   All possible answers.
Question #13
Ives viewed dissonance
A.   as something to be avoided.
B.   as to be used as a temporary disturbance in music.
C.   as the norm of American musical life.
D.   as the norm of Viennese music only.
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.   New England
B.   the Far West
C.   the Midwest
D.   the South
Question #16
Upon receiving wider recognition of his music, Ives was proclaimed as the
A.   "jazz master."
B.   the "grand old man" of American music.
C.   "March King" of America.
D.   "modern master."
Question #17
What did Ives win in 1947, at the age of seventy-three?
A.   an Academy Award
B.   the Prix de Rome
C.   a Pulitzer Prize
D.   a Grammy
Question #18
Where did Ives study composition?
A.   He was self taught.
B.   Yale University
C.   Paris Conservatory
D.   Harvard University
Question #19
Where does Appalachian Spring take place?
A.   South Carolina
B.   Western United States
C.   rural Pennsylvania
D.   in the Appalachian mountains
Question #20
Which composer believed music should "serve the American people"?
A.   Charles Ives
B.   William Grant Still
C.   Aaron Copland
D.   George Gershwin

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