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.   TRUE
B.   FALSE
Question #3
At its premiere, who danced the lead role in Appalachian Spring?
A.   Martha Graham
B.   Aaron Copland
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.   choir and orchestra.
B.   wind band.
C.   jazz band.
D.   small orchestra.
Question #6
Copland wrote music about which part of the United States and its culture?
A.   Washington and the Canadian border
B.   Wisconsin and the Great Lakes
C.   the Far West and rural life
D.   New England
Question #7
Copland’s American style is primarily rooted in
A.   commercially successful vernacular music.
B.   spirituals from early nineteenth-century camp meetings.
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.   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.   well-known musical quotations from his Protestant New England upbringing
C.   famous musical quotations from German masters
D.   a complex fugue
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.   post-Impressionist
B.   post-Romantic
C.   primitivist
D.   American modernist
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 the norm of Viennese music only.
B.   as to be used as a temporary disturbance in music.
C.   as the norm of American musical life.
D.   as something to be avoided.
Question #14
The melody, "Simple Gifts," heard in Appalachian Spring, comes from the ______ tradition.
A.   Lutheran
B.   Catholic
C.   Shaker
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 Midwest
B.   the Far West
C.   New England
D.   the South
Question #16
Upon receiving wider recognition of his music, Ives was proclaimed as the
A.   the "grand old man" of American music.
B.   "March King" of America.
C.   "jazz master."
D.   "modern master."
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.   He was self taught.
B.   Harvard University
C.   Paris Conservatory
D.   Yale University
Question #19
Where does Appalachian Spring take place?
A.   South Carolina
B.   rural Pennsylvania
C.   Western United States
D.   in the Appalachian mountains
Question #20
Which composer believed music should "serve the American people"?
A.   Aaron Copland
B.   George Gershwin
C.   William Grant Still
D.   Charles Ives

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