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.   Langston Hughes
C.   William Grant Still
D.   Martha Graham
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.   Aaron Copland
D.   Martha Graham
Question #4
Where was Aaron Copland born?
A.   Dobbs Ferry, New York
B.   Cooperstown, New York
C.   Brooklyn, New York
D.   Appalachia
Question #5
Country Band March is arranged for
A.   wind band.
B.   small orchestra.
C.   jazz band.
D.   choir and orchestra.
Question #6
Copland wrote music about which part of the United States and its culture?
A.   the Far West and rural life
B.   Washington and the Canadian border
C.   New England
D.   Wisconsin and the Great Lakes
Question #7
Copland’s American style is primarily rooted in
A.   patriotic songs and Protestant hymns.
B.   commercially successful vernacular music.
C.   Anglo-American folk melodies.
D.   spirituals from early nineteenth-century camp meetings.
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 from his Protestant New England upbringing
B.   a complex fugue
C.   famous musical quotations from German masters
D.   well-known musical quotations heard during his years studying in Paris
Question #10
How did Charles Ives make a living?
A.   teaching music lessons
B.   conducting the Concord Philharmonic
C.   composing
D.   selling insurance
Question #11
Charles Ives is best described as a(n) ______ composer.
A.   post-Romantic
B.   primitivist
C.   post-Impressionist
D.   American modernist
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.   play wrong notes.
C.   All possible answers.
D.   make bad entrances.
Question #13
Ives viewed dissonance
A.   as to be used as a temporary disturbance in music.
B.   as something to be avoided.
C.   as the norm of Viennese music only.
D.   as the norm of American musical life.
Question #14
The melody, "Simple Gifts," heard in Appalachian Spring, comes from the ______ tradition.
A.   Catholic
B.   Lutheran
C.   Amish
D.   Shaker
Question #15
The source of inspiration for Charles Ives’s music was rooted in the traditions of which region of America?
A.   the Midwest
B.   the South
C.   the Far West
D.   New England
Question #16
Upon receiving wider recognition of his music, Ives was proclaimed as the
A.   "March King" of America.
B.   "jazz master."
C.   "modern master."
D.   the "grand old man" of American music.
Question #17
What did Ives win in 1947, at the age of seventy-three?
A.   the Prix de Rome
B.   an Academy Award
C.   a Pulitzer Prize
D.   a Grammy
Question #18
Where did Ives study composition?
A.   Paris Conservatory
B.   Harvard University
C.   He was self taught.
D.   Yale 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.   William Grant Still
B.   George Gershwin
C.   Charles Ives
D.   Aaron Copland

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