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1
Composers use all types of sounds and manipulate and recombine them on tape to create...
A)avant garde.
B)acoustic music.
C)musique concrete.
D)electronic generators.
2
Edgar Varese defined music as....
A)melody and harmony.
B)a continuous and fluid cacophony.
C)organized sound.
D)everything we hear.
3
Which piece by Edgar Varese was recorded to be played from 425 speakers spread around the inside of an oddly shaped building?
A)Ionisation
B)Deserts
C)Poéme électronique
D)Lion's roar
4
In the 1950s and 1960s, magnetic tape...
A)replaced the symphony orchestra.
B)was used to hold together concrete blocks.
C)replaced vinyl records.
D)became both the music and its performance.
5
Which of the following does NOT allow the composer to control every aspect of music?
A)magnetic tape
B)synthesizers
C)live musicians
D)computers
6
Which of the following is NOT a method of creating musique concrete?
A)speeding up taped sounds
B)writing an orchestral symphony that includes fog horns
C)cutting magnetic tape with recorded sound and piecing it together in a new order
D)recording and slowing down street noise
7
Synthesizers and computers can do all of the following EXCEPT...
A)produce sounds that are similar to acoustic musical instruments.
B)create sounds without electricity.
C)produce sounds that are similar to sounds found in nature.
D)play sounds louder than acoustic instruments.
8
A tape recorder and speakers set on a stage and playing back an electronic composition is awkward because...
A)there are no performers actually performing on stage.
B)the audience is compelled to applaud often.
C)the audience must listen to the composition with their eyes closed.
D)their coughs might be accidentally recorded.
9
The popularity of non acoustic-sounding electronic music has...
A)increased in recent decades.
B)fallen off in recent decades.
C)continued at the same rate of popularity since it was first introduced.
D)shifted from the United States to Europe and Asia.
10
Symphony orchestra instrumentation of late 20th and early 21st century has not changed much since the Romantic era except for...
A)the string section, which has grown in size.
B)the percussion section, which has grown in size and importance.
C)the brass section, which has dwindled in importance.
D)the woodwind section, which has added several types of saxophones.
11
A composer being able to use any note or combination of notes regardless of technical difficulty is...
A)a drawback of electronic instruments.
B)an irrelevant aspect of electronic instruments.
C)an advantage of electronic instruments.
D)an improvement that is needed in future electronic instruments.
12
Which work below was composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich?
A)Poéme électronique
B)Ionisation
C)Déserts
D)Symphony no. 1, Three Movements for Orchestra





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