FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MUSIC APP TEST 3

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MUSIC APP TEST 3

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-Guarantee passing score -169 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: The composer and pianist Amy Beach contributed to many genres except the

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• fuging tune.

Question 2: Ligeti's composition Lux aeterna demonstrates the search for

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• new sonorities.

Question 3: Included in Wagner's anti-Semitic writings was a vicious attack on a fellow composer who had just died; that composer was

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• Mendelssohn.

Question 4: Toward the end of the big-band era, there was a need by discontented jazz musicians to return to

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• free improvisation.

Question 5: The concert overture, a work that followed Classical models, used the _____ form.

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• sonata

Question 6: The second movement of a Classical symphony usually gives the listener a moment of _____ due to its _____ and _____.

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• contrast; slow tempo; quiet mood

Question 7: One of the first scales with which modernist composers experimented was the

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• pentatonic scale.

Question 8: The number of movements in a symphony usually is

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• four.

Question 9: As we might expect from a movement focused on transcending the ordinary, Romantic music and literature often showed a fascination with

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• the supernatural and the macabre.

Question 10: What was the public forum for orchestral music?

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• the concert hall

Question 11: Stravinsky's three ballets written for the Ballets Russes in Paris reveal his progressively abstract use of

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• folk tunes.

Question 12: The first rock'n'roll style to emerge after World War II was called

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• rockabilly.

Question 13: One of the teachers who contributed to Beethoven's roots in Classical musical expression was the composer

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• Franz Joseph Haydn.

Question 14: Because of the need for variety in music, Classical composers refined the rhythmic differences between musical themes, creating music that moves

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• less predictably than Baroque music.

Question 15: One of the style features of Beethoven's writing that dominates the first movement of his Symphony No. 5 is

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• motivic consistency.

Question 16: The use of a single theme to represent the musician's beloved in the Fantastic Symphony by Berlioz was called the

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• idée fixe.

Question 17: When a song is composed with the same music for each stanza of the poem, it is called

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• strophic.

Question 18: In Austria and Germany, composers were writing increasingly complex and emotional music, touching on the nightmarish, as part of an artistic movement called

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• expressionism.

Question 19: Which is true of Schumann's Dichterliebe?

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• It is a song cycle.

Question 20: The complex, richly ornamented melodic lines of the Baroque period gave way to

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• singable melodies with clear phrases.

Question 21: As Wagner developed his ideas and philosophy about opera, he grew to distinguish his new style of _____ from ordinary opera

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• music drama

Question 22: The first group of modernists to capture the attention of the artistic world emerged during the period from

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• 1890 to 1918.

Question 23: Both the sound and the direction of the players in Reich's Music for 18 Musicians is similar to that of

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• gamelan orchestras of Indonesia.

Question 24: One of the most frequently performed operas of Verdi's is

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• Rigoletto.

Question 25: Tchaikovsky's way of musically following the Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet was to

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• have the interaction and transformation of the themes in the piece "tell" the story.

Question 26: Wagner's opera The Valkyrie is one of four parts in the larger music drama called

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• The Nibelung's Ring.

Question 27: Instead of making his living as a composer, Ives had a job

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• in business.