Music 120 - Music Appreciation » Fall 2019 » Quiz 59

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

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