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.   Martha Graham
C.   Langston Hughes
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.   Martha Graham
B.   Nadia Boulanger
C.   Aaron Copland
D.   Mikhail Baryshnikov
Question #4
Where was Aaron Copland born?
A.   Cooperstown, New York
B.   Dobbs Ferry, New York
C.   Brooklyn, New York
D.   Appalachia
Question #5
Country Band March is arranged for
A.   wind band.
B.   choir and orchestra.
C.   jazz band.
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.   Wisconsin and the Great Lakes
C.   New England
D.   Washington and the Canadian border
Question #7
Copland’s American style is primarily rooted in
A.   commercially successful vernacular music.
B.   Anglo-American folk melodies.
C.   patriotic songs and Protestant hymns.
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.   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.   conducting the Concord Philharmonic
D.   teaching music lessons
Question #11
Charles Ives is best described as a(n) ______ composer.
A.   post-Romantic
B.   American modernist
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.   All possible answers.
B.   play out of tune.
C.   play wrong notes.
D.   make bad entrances.
Question #13
Ives viewed dissonance
A.   as to be used as a temporary disturbance in music.
B.   as the norm of American musical life.
C.   as something to be avoided.
D.   as the norm of Viennese music only.
Question #14
The melody, "Simple Gifts," heard in Appalachian Spring, comes from the ______ tradition.
A.   Lutheran
B.   Amish
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.   the "grand old man" of American music.
B.   "jazz master."
C.   "modern master."
D.   "March King" of America.
Question #17
What did Ives win in 1947, at the age of seventy-three?
A.   an Academy Award
B.   a Pulitzer Prize
C.   the Prix de Rome
D.   a Grammy
Question #18
Where did Ives study composition?
A.   Yale University
B.   Paris Conservatory
C.   He was self taught.
D.   Harvard 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.   William Grant Still
B.   Aaron Copland
C.   George Gershwin
D.   Charles Ives

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