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Music Apprec Test 4: Ch's 20-24

Terms in this set (61)

Which musical style is illustrated by Clouds?
impressionism
Which is a feature of the music of George Crumb?
traditional instruments played in new ways
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta was composed by:
Béla Bartók.
Which composer was sometimes called an impressionist and sometimes a symbolist?
Claude Debussy
Appalachian Spring is a(n):
ballet about a pioneer celebration in Pennsylvania.
Which is not true of Aaron Copland?
Copland was a great avant-garde innovator and was not interested in writing music "for the people."
Serialism was first referred to as:
the twelve-tone system
4'33" consists of:
any sounds and silences occurring in the performance hall.
Atonal music:
lacks a definite tonal center
composer who originated serialism was
Arnold Schoenberg.
composer of The Rite of Spring is:
Igor Stravinsky.
composer of 4'33" is:
John Cage.
composer of Lux aeterna is:
György Ligeti.
composer of "The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People's Outdoor Meeting" is:
Charles Ives.
George Gershwin was known for:
including jazz in "serious" compositions
two famous artists featured in "If You Ever Been Down" Blues are:
Sippie Wallace and Louis Armstrong.
Which is not true of ragtime?

The right hand of the pianist plays on the beat while the left hand plays syncopated rhythms.


Ragtime got its start in brothels and bars.
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first American composer, according to most sources, was:

Charles Ives.

Benjamin Franklin.

William Billings.
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Which of Shakespeare's plays bears a resemblance to the plot of West Side Story?
Romeo and Juliet
Which is not true of Duke Ellington?
He went commercial and wrote "Top 40" hits.
composer of West Side Story is:
Leonard Bernstein.
Big band jazz is called:
swing.
Bitches Brew features:
Miles Davis on trumpet
mood of "If You Ever Been Down" Blues is:
downtrodden, but hopeful
Stephen Collins Foster and John Philip Sousa wrote ____ and ____, respectively.
songs; marches
style of Out of Nowhere is:
bebop
most important trumpet players of the early and late Twentieth Century were_____ and _____.
Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis
Americans tended to import the classical music of ____ in the nineteenth century.
Germany
Claude Debussy
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Igor Stravinsky
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Charles Ives
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Bela Bartok
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Aaron Copland
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Gyorgy Ligeti
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John Cage
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George Crumb
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Steve Reich
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twelve-tone composition
An ordering of all twelve notes of the chromatic scale, used in composing serial music (320)
aleatoric-chance music
Chance music: A type of contemporary music in which certain elements, such as the order of the notes or their pitches, are not specified by the composer but are left to chance (364)
impressionism
A French artistic movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (313)
expressionism & symbolists
An early 20th-century movement in art, music, and literature in Germany and Austria (317)

Symbolism A late 19th-century movement in the arts that emphasized suggestion rather than precise reference (313)
avant-garde
In the most advanced style (308)
minimilism
A late 20th-century style involving many repetitions of simple musical fragments (377)
synthesizer
An electronic apparatus that generates sounds for electronic music (38)
fuguing tunes
A simple anthem based on a hymn, with a little counterpoint (384)
call and response
is a succession of two distinct phrases usually played by different musicians, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or response to the first. It corresponds to the call-and-response pattern in human communication and is found as a basic element of musical form, such as verse-chorus form, in many traditions.
spiritual
Religious folk song, usually among African Americans (called "Negro spiritual" in the 19th century) (387)
jazz improvisation
A major African American performance style that has influenced all 20th-century popular music (388)
jazz syncopation
A major African American performance style that has influenced all 20th-century popular music (388)

Syncopation: The accenting of certain beats of the meter that are ordinarily unaccented (9)

beat syncopation: n jazz, the fractional shifting of accents away from the beats (388)
blues
A type of African American vernacular music, used in jazz, rhythm and blues, rock, and other styles of popular music (389)
ragtime
style of American popular music around 1900, usually for piano, which led to jazz (389)
gospel
style of American popular music around 1900, usually for piano, which led to jazz (389)
swing
A type of big-band jazz of the late 1930s and 1940s (393)
big-band
The big jazz bands (10 to 20 players) of the 1930s and 1940s (393)
bebop
jazz style of the 1940s (406)
free form jazz
spontaneously experimental, free-form jazz, popularized as an avant-garde phenomenon in the 1960s by various soloists and characterized by random expression and disregard for traditional structures, tonalities, and rhythms.
fusion
the act or process of fusing; the state of being fused.

that which is fused; the result of fusing:
A ballet production is the fusion of many talents.
operetta
A 19th-century type of light (often comic) opera, employing spoken dialogue in between musical numbers (401)
musical comedy
Musical comedy, musical: American development of operetta, involving American subjects and music influenced by jazz or rock (401)
Symbolism:
A late 19th-century movement in the arts that emphasized suggestion rather than precise reference (313)
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