Music 120 - Music Appreciation » Fall 2019 » Quiz 59

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Question #1
Who was Copland’s collaborator for Appalachian Spring?
A.   Langston Hughes
B.   Charles Ives
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.   Martha Graham
B.   Mikhail Baryshnikov
C.   Nadia Boulanger
D.   Aaron Copland
Question #4
Where was Aaron Copland born?
A.   Appalachia
B.   Brooklyn, New York
C.   Dobbs Ferry, New York
D.   Cooperstown, New York
Question #5
Country Band March is arranged for
A.   choir and orchestra.
B.   small orchestra.
C.   wind band.
D.   jazz band.
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.   Wisconsin and the Great Lakes
D.   New England
Question #7
Copland’s American style is primarily rooted in
A.   patriotic songs and Protestant hymns.
B.   Anglo-American folk melodies.
C.   spirituals from early nineteenth-century camp meetings.
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.   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 heard during his years studying in Paris
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.   composing
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.   All possible answers.
B.   play wrong notes.
C.   make bad entrances.
D.   play out of tune.
Question #13
Ives viewed dissonance
A.   as the norm of Viennese music only.
B.   as something to be avoided.
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.   Catholic
B.   Shaker
C.   Lutheran
D.   Amish
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.   the "grand old man" of American music.
B.   "modern master."
C.   "March King" of America.
D.   "jazz master."
Question #17
What did Ives win in 1947, at the age of seventy-three?
A.   a Grammy
B.   an Academy Award
C.   the Prix de Rome
D.   a Pulitzer Prize
Question #18
Where did Ives study composition?
A.   Harvard University
B.   He was self taught.
C.   Yale University
D.   Paris Conservatory
Question #19
Where does Appalachian Spring take place?
A.   rural Pennsylvania
B.   Western United States
C.   South Carolina
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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