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Music: An Appreciation: An Appreciation, Brief 4/e
Roger Kamien, Hebrew University
The Twentieth Century
Music and Musicians in Society

Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions



1

Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the
A)1900s
B)1920s
C)1940s
D)1960s
2

The first opera created for television was Gian-Carlo Menotti's
A)Turandot
B)Amahl and the Night Visitors
C)Trouble in Tahiti
D)The Telephone
3

Recordings of much lesser-known music multiplied in 1948 through
A)the appearance of long-playing disks
B)audience insistence for new works
C)government grants
D)demand created by radio stations
4

The most influential organization sponsoring new music after World War I was
A)the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
B)the National Broadcasting Company and its orchestra
C)the International Society for Contemporary Music
D)the United Federation of Musicians
5

The best-known American ensemble created in the 1930s by a radio network to broadcast live music was the
A)NBC Symphony Orchestra
B)Lawrence Welk Orchestra
C)New York Philharmonic Orchestra
D)CBS Symphony Orchestra
6

One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was
A)Amy Beach
B)Nadia Boulanger
C)Sergei Diaghilev
D)Igor Stravinsky








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