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1
Aaron Copland began composing music based on regional American themes because...
A)he only received commissions to write this type of music.
B)he had toured the United States and wanted to incorporate his impressions into his music.
C)he was dissatisfied with the growing distance between the concert-going public and contemporary composers.
D)his composition teachers in Europe said that he would not be successful otherwise.
2
What did Aaron Copland do for a short period in the 1950s?
A)He conducted a jazz band on television.
B)He lived in Russia.
C)He wrote and published Gregorian-style chant.
D)He wrote 12-tone compositions.
3
Which of the following is NOT an Aaron Copland ballet?
A)Billy the Kid
B)Rodeo
C)Appalachian Spring
D)Of Mice and Men
4
Charles Ives' music contains all of the following EXCEPT...
A)popular American songs and marches
B)hymn tunes
C)gamelan music
D)quotations from European classical music
5
Which of the following composition techniques did Charles Ives NOT use?
A)atonality
B)algorithmic
C)free dissonance
D)polytonality
6
Charles Ives had a successful career...
A)as a concert pianist.
B)in life insurance.
C)as a music professor.
D)in the recording industry.
7
Charles Ives was born in and lived....
A)in a New England state.
B)on the West Coast.
C)in the Southwest.
D)in the Midwest.
8
Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man is written for...
A)brass and percussion
B)full symphony orchestra
C)wind ensemble
D)theater orchestra
9
Although Ives' music was first published in the 1920s, it was not readily accepted until....
A)until the 1960s
B)after his adult children promoted the music.
C)after World War II
D)he won a prestigious award for his choral compositions.
10
Ives' first publications in the 1920s included a volume of songs, a collection of essays, and ...
A)Variations on Yankee Doodle.
B)the Alcotts Sonata.
C)the Emerson Sonata.
D)the Concord Sonata.
11
What is polytonality?
A)The use of more than 8 tones in a harmony.
B)The modulation from one tonality to another.
C)The use of two or more keys at the same time in a composition.
D)The use of two or more keys in a composition in succession.
12
Ives developed a philosophy of music that...
A)idealizes the strength and simple virtue of ordinary people.
B)every home should have a piano, singers, and a fiddle player.
C)sounds never die, they just fade in and out.
D)celebrates the aesthetics of nature.
13
Which Ives piece features a musical representation of two marching bands playing in the same parade?
A)Variations on "America"
B)Little Women
C)Three Places in New England
D)Concord Sonata





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