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Course Introduction
Introduction to Music is a foundational course designed to acquaint students with the basic elements and cultural significance of music across diverse periods and styles. Through listening, analysis, and discussion, students explore fundamental concepts such as rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, texture, and form. The course covers a wide range of genres, from classical to contemporary popular music, introducing major composers, performers, and traditions from around the world. Students also develop critical listening skills and an appreciation for musics role in historical and social contexts, fostering informed and engaged musical experiences.
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Americas Musical Landscape 5th Edition by Jean Ferris
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Chapter 1: North American Indian Music
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Q1) Native Americans are not permitted to listen to rock music.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) There is no Native American word for the term "music."
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following is traditionally not a performance setting for Native American music?
A) healing ceremony
B) prayer ceremony
C) concert
D) work area
Answer: C
Q4) Native Americans create patterns of repetition in both visual art and music.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Folk Music
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Q1) A drone is _______
A) a type of African drum
B) a type of banjo
C) a long-held, constant pitch
D) a steady rhythmic pattern
Answer: C
Q2) How is folk music impacted geographically and historically? List several genres and explain how regionalism and era impact folk music lyrics.
Answer: Folk music reflects topics of interest to local people at a given time in history.Sea chanteys were created in places where people worked on or near the water.Cowboy songs were popular in the American West."The Ballad of Casey Jones" reflects the building of the American railroad,and would have been of limited interest to someone from another country.While some folk songs are timeless because of their wonderful stories or great melodies,others fade into history because they lack interest to people outside of the original folk setting.
Q3) Most ballads are attributed to known composers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Religious Music in Colonial Revolutionary and Federal Periods
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Q1) The development of psalms and hymns in the United States was dominated by Catholic traditions.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The Calvinists preferred a cappella singing of psalms in church because
A) harmony was considered too sensuous for that setting
B) few congregations could afford organs
C) a cappella singing was much easier than accompanied singing
D) there were not enough song books to distribute among the people
Answer: A
Q3) The "Bay Psalm Book" was created because a large number of music readers desired notated music.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Psalm tune texts are paraphrased from the Bible.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Secular Music in Colonial Revolutionary and Federal Periods
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Q1) Which of the following genres is associated with texts of literary merit?
A) rondo
B) art song
C) ballad opera
D) sonata
Q2) Why did European musicians during the Colonial and Revolutionary periods dominate the American music scene in terms of composing and teaching?
Q3) The text mentions that children and women took music lessons from immigrant professional musicians.Find out whether or not men studied in a similar manner.Why or why not?
Q4) The first secular songs published in America were usually associated with A) theatre
B) the military
C) the emerging concert scene
D) political campaigns
Q5) Concert music by contemporary European composers such as Mozart and Haydn was widely appreciated by most American audiences in the 1700s.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Some African-American spirituals eventually became regarded as art music.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Regarding spirituals,which of the following is not primarily an African influence?
A) call and response
B) melodic improvisation
C) rhythmic complexity
D) simple folk melody
Q3) The Great Revival featured musical events as well as prayer.
A)True
B)False
Q4) "They'll be Joy,Joy,Joy" features which of the following textures?
A) polyphonic
B) monophonic
C) homophonic
D) heterophonic
Q5) Considering American music today,what was the musical impact of the conversion of many African slaves to Christianity?
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Chapter 6: Popular Music of the Civil War Era
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Q1) Why do you think that many Americans currently consider "Dixie" a disturbing song? Can you identify two major social issues that could be connected to their reasoning?
Q2) The first American concert band to function as a professional ensemble was
A) the Gilmore Band
B) the Sousa Band
C) the United States Marine Band
D) the American Fife and Drum Corps
Q3) Since women were the primary benefactors of music lessons in nineteenth-century America,why are there so few recognized women composers from that era,especially considering that their teachers were highly educated European masters?
Q4) Which best describes the "Hutchisons?"
A) the most popular singing family in America
B) a minstrel group from Alabama
C) a specialized segment of the United States Marine Band
D) a group of all-male minstrel performers
Q5) Some concert bands during the 1850s consisted only of brass instruments.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Early Concert Music
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Q1) European virtuosos traveled to the United States when Europeans tired of their dazzling performances.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Some American concert halls were specifically built to accommodate appearances by Jenny Lind.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Opera are located in
A) Cincinnati
B) Boston
C) Chicago
D) New York City
Q4) Which of the following offered a series of public music appreciation lectures in an effort to promote American music?
A) P. T. Barnum
B) Anthony Philip Heinrich
C) William Henry Fry
D) George Bristow
Q5) Why did early attempts to promote a nationalistic American art music fail?
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Chapter 8: American Concert Music Comes of Age
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Q1) Romanticists often investigated relationships between the arts and literature,frequently exploring multiple arts areas themselves.What commonalities in these areas would have intrigued intellectuals to explore across disciplines?
Q2) In the late nineteenth century,music in America continued to be dominated by which style?
A) Russian
B) classical
C) German Romantic
D) Italian
Q3) The artist colony at Peterboro,New Hampshire is known today as the
A) Paine Colony
B) MacDowell Colony
C) Parker Colony
D) Chadwick Colony
Q4) Nineteenth century symphonic literature was significantly impacted by technological advances.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Rise of Popular Culture
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Q1) Ragtime's roots were solely African-American.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The cakewalk rhythm that became a cliché of ragtime was
A) short-short-long
B) long-long-short
C) short-long-short
D) long-short-long
Q3) The cakewalk is a dramatic
A) march
B) dance
C) theatrical production
D) play
Q4) Irving Berlin was especially prolific because
A) he wrote for Tin Pan Alley as well as Hollywood
B) he helped found ASCAP
C) he became heavily involved in instrumental music
D) he taught dozens of now-famous songwriters
Q5) Technically speaking,why is ragtime difficult for the average pianist to perform?
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Chapter 10: Country Music
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Q1) Western swing was developed in
A) Arizona
B) California
C) Nashville
D) Texas
Q2) The oral tradition in the world of country music declined with commercialization of the music.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Rockabilly used the rhythms and instrumentation of
A) rock and roll
B) country music
C) commercial pop
D) the Nashville sound
Q4) Who is often considered country music's first protest singer?
A) June Carter
B) Johnny Cash
C) Chet Atkins
D) Hank Williams
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Chapter 11: Ethnic Traditions and the Urban Folk Revival
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Q1) Woody Guthrie began his career as a hillbilly singer.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Cajun music evolved in a remote area of
A) Louisiana
B) Texas
C) Tennessee
D) Virginia
Q3) Groups such as the Weavers were forced to perform at venues such as college campuses because
A) they did not appeal to an older audience
B) they were free to express their political views there
C) they were not allowed in union halls
D) they were blacklisted from television
Q4) Which is true regarding Bob Dylan?
A) He was always true to the folk music format.
B) He inspired other folk musicians to write original songs.
C) He began his career as a poet.
D) He rarely addressed social issues in his songs.
Q5) Describe the ties between folk music performers and folk music preservationists.
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Chapter 12: The Jazz Age
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Q1) The roots of the jazz combo are in New Orleans.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Unrequited love is a typical blues topic.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How did the vocally-based blues become a primary foundation for instrumentally-based jazz?
Q4) "Stride" and "boogie-woogie" are terms that are both related to
A) melodic embellishments
B) jazz piano
C) New Orleans jazz
D) sweet jazz
Q5) Urban blues had a strong association with jazz.
A)True
B)False
Q6) The roots of rural blues are found in the field holler.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Jazz 1930-1960
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Q1) The complex,dissonant,virtuosic style of jazz introduced in the 1940s was called
A) blues
B) bebop
C) boogie-woogie
D) cool
Q2) Cool is often considered a "white" sounding style in the jazz world.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Charlie Parker was an amazing piano virtuoso.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Count Basie was a big band leader as well as an arranger.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Count Basie is most closely associated with A) big band
B) bebop
C) cool
D) Dixieland
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Chapter 14: Jazz Since 1960
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Q1) Which jazz instrument cannot produce microtones,and was thus eliminated from some ensembles that explored non-Western tonality?
A) saxophone
B) piano
C) trumpet
D) bass
Q2) How did the availability of electricity change jazz after the mid-twentieth century?
Q3) Jazz and rock both come from the same roots.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Ornette Coleman upheld the principle that jazz should be accessible to the ordinary listener.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Bitches Brew combined jazz and classical styles.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Ornette Coleman compared his music to abstract art.Can you justify this assertion?
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Chapter 15: Latin Popular Musics
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Q1) Which of the following does<b> not</b> reflect African influences?
A) tango
B) reggae
C) bata drums
D) mariachi
Q2) An accordion dominates the sound of which of the following?
A) mariachi
B) conjunto
C) salsa
D) Cu-bop
Q3) Reggae has ties to politics as well as religion.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Conjunto ensembles are associated with Mexican Americans
A)True
B)False
Q5) Both Cuban and Puerto Rican music reflects African influence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Rock and Roll
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Q1) Which of the following rock and roll stars was a successful songwriter <b>and</b> an outstanding guitarist?
A) Elvis Presley
B) Chuck Berry
C) Little Richard
D) Brian Wilson
Q2) Bill Haley and Elvis Presley were able to enter the rock music scene in large part because of their outstanding songwriting skills.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which one of the following was <b>not</b> popular in the early 1960s?
A) Elvis Presley
B) Motown recordings
C) acid rock
D) urban folk music
Q4) "Payola" refers to the practice of plugging records in exchange for payment.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: Popular Music Since 1970
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Q1) Which of the following was<b> least</b> influential on the development of rap?
A) urban street jive
B) Afro-Caribbean techniques
C) Motown
D) black radio DJs
Q2) Rapidly spoken words accompanied by funk-style rhythms is characteristic of
A) grunge
B) rap
C) reggae
D) punk
Q3) Grunge originated in the Seattle area.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following artists focused on socially relevant topics ranging from the Vietnam War to world hunger?
A) Bruce Springsteen
B) Madonna
C) Paul McCartney
D) Kurt Cobaine
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Chapter 18: Music for Theatre and Film
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Q1) Which of the following is a current American composer who is sometimes considered America's premiere composer for the musical stage?
A) John Kander
B) Claude-Michel Schonberg
C) Andrew Lloyd Webber
D) Stephen Sondheim
Q2) A "book show" is a musical based on a famous novel.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The famous song "Ol' Man River" was written for
A) Show Boat
B) West Side Story
C) Annie Get Your Gun
D) Carousel
Q4) The 1942 movie Yankee Doodle Dandy is about the life of
A) George M. Cohan
B) Leonard Bernstein
C) George Gershwin
D) Richard Rodgers
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Chapter 19: Music for Films
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Q1) Newman,Steiner and Korngold are best remembered for
A) lush orchestral scoring
B) creating instrumental suites
C) writing dramatic fanfares
D) incorporating synthesizers into their scores
Q2) Silent films involved no music at all.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The first movie to use sound was The Jazz Singer.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A temp is written by
A) a playwright
B) a composer
C) a choreographer
D) an author
Q5) With an historical perspective in mind,describe the connection between film music and commercial sale of music in America.
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Chapter 20: American Opera
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Q1) Which American opera is based on the lives of people who lived in a black tenement area in Charleston,South Carolina?
A) Four Saints in Three Acts
B) Porgy and Bess
C) The Cradle Will Rock
D) Amahl and the Night Visitors
Q2) Porgy and Bess was the first opera conceived especially for television.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The orchestra sometimes assumes a psychological role in opera,making references to ideas.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following was an Italian who came to America and wrote opera?
A) Virgil Thomson
B) Gian-Carlo Menotti
C) George Gershwin
D) William Henry Fry
Q5) What is the dramatic role of each of the following opera components? aria,recitative,overture,chorus
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Chapter 21: Experimental Music - Revolution
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Q1) Name several "Eastern ideas" that impacted art music composition in America in the twentieth century.
Q2) Music experimentalists are particularly interested in exploring
A) form
B) timbre
C) harmony
D) melody
Q3) Did American composers continue to turn to Europe for inspiration in the mid-twentieth century? Provide evidence to support your claim.
Q4) Which of the following was the title of a quarterly journal as well as a term associated with experimental music?
A) Avant-garde
B) New Music
C) Twelve-Tone
D) New Age
Q5) The Concord Sonata musically refers to the Transcendentalists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Mainstream Concert Music - Evolution
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Q1) Coplands' Rodeo is true to classical ballet format.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which best describes the Harlem Renaissance?
A) cultural movement in 1920s Harlem focusing on "high art" in various art forms
B) jazz movement in 1920s Harlem focusing on promoting jazz performers
C) music movement in 1920s Harlem in which concert music was the focus
D) art music movement in 1920s Harlem that focused on rural black roots
Q3) "Second New England School" composers were still teaching in the twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A choreographer for Aaron Copland would be connected to which of the following?
A) classical ballet
B) folk dance
C) jazz dance
D) modern dance
Q5) How did Nadia Boulanger's teaching style impact the development of distinctively American-sounding art music?
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Chapter 23: The Avant-Garde Continued
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Q1) Which of the following is<b> not</b> aleatoric music?
A) concrete music
B) chance music
C) random music
D) indeterminate music
Q2) Whose compositional technique is mostly strongly aligned with mathematical principles?
A) Harry Partch
B) Pauline Oliveros
C) John Cage
D) Milton Babbitt
Q3) "Tape music" originated in the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Twentieth century music scores sometimes focused on visual appeal as well as musical guidance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In what ways are serial works and music of chance complete opposites? Hypothesize about possible commonalities.
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Chapter 24: The Recent Mainstream
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Q1) Which composer was inspired by a wide variety of music,including Native American music,Chinese opera and Gregorian chant?
A) William Schuman
B) Lou Harrison
C) John Cage
D) Terry Riley
Q2) Minimalism is a visual art movement as well as a musical genre.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Modern melodies are often more __________ than melodies of the nineteenth century.
A) smooth
B) angular
C) singable
D) melodic
Q4) Minimalist music is rooted in the principle of repetition.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How do modern "traditionalists" differ from experimentalist composers? What do they have in common?
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Chapter 25: Prelude
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Q1) Which of the following is most related to the number of pulses or beats per measure?
A) bars
B) meter
C) rhythm
D) harmony
Q2) Which of the following elements of music has to do with time relationships in music?
A) melody
B) harmony
C) rhythm
D) form
Q3) The distance between two tones is referred to as
A) an interval
B) a space
C) a measure
D) a triad
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Chapter 26: Music in Early America
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Q1) Which of the following would be an incorrect generalization regarding Native American traditional music?
A) It is strongly connected to spirituality.
B) It sounded the same from culture to culture.
C) It was interrelated to other art forms.
D) It was sometimes depicted in visual art.
Q2) African,European and Native American music had which of the following in common in eighteenth-century America?
A) It was performed with no rhythmic pulse.
B) It was usually performed by amateurs rather than professionals.
C) It was monophonic.
D) It was confined to the concert hall.
Q3) Which statement is<b> incorrect</b> regarding many of the Puritans of early New England?
A) They were very intellectual people.
B) They did not favor high art in their churches.
C) They enjoyed poetry, art, and music.
D) They protested against Roman Catholic music practices.
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Chapter 27: The Tumultuous Nineteenth Century
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Q1) Which of the following is not usually associated with Romanticism?
A) fascination with the unknown
B) balance and reason
C) love of nature
D) fierce independence
Q2) "Yankee" musicians tended to emulate which of the following countries most?
A) France
B) Italy
C) Germany
D) England
Q3) Which of the following is <b>not</b> true regarding nineteenth century American music?
A) there was an increased fusion of other arts with music
B) musicians were increasingly dependent on approval of the public
C) musicians relied on each other for practical and moral support
D) music was rarely connected to art forms such as poetry
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Chapter 28: The Growth of Vernacular Traditions
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Q1) Which type of musical genre is frequently associated with the term "vernacular?"
A) classical
B) art music
C) popular music
D) Baroque
Q2) Which statement is <b>not</b> true regarding vernacular music in America?
A) Vernacular music was popular in early American music.
B) Vernacular music composition required extensive musical training.
C) Vernacular music was associated with minstrel shows and circuses.
D) Vernacular music was sporadically preserved.
Q3) Which of the following is <b>least</b> associated with the vernacular?
A) collage
B) comic books
C) swing music
D) impressionism
Q4) American vernacular music reflects which of the following?
A) regional influences
B) sophisticated compositional rules
C) highly recognized composers
D) European compositional style
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Chapter 29: A Diversity of Popular Musics
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Q1) Which can be said about the "beat generation?"
A) they detested vernacular music
B) they promoted only visual art
C) they were champions of nonconformity
D) they ignored American culture
Q2) Which of the following was a visual pop artist?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Andy Warhol
C) James Dean
D) Chuck Berry
Q3) American vernacular music of the 1990s was probably most influenced by A) art and literature
B) technological advances and computerization
C) European trends
D) 1950s rock
Q4) American vernacular music especially diversified after the birth of A) jazz
B) rock
C) country
D) new wave
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Chapter 30: Music for Theater and Film
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Q1) The inclusion of provocative dance scenes in musicals reflected which of the following trends in American culture?
A) the waning of the severe Protestant ethic
B) the growth of diversity in America
C) the legalization of alcohol sales
D) the grounding in European traditions
Q2) Early American musical theatre was imported from
A) Greece
B) England
C) Germany
D) Italy
Q3) The connection between music and theatre dates back to
A) Nineteenth century Italy
B) ancient Greece
C) Sixteenth century Germany
D) Eighteenth century America
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Chapter 31: Tradition and Innovation in Concert Music
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Q1) Which of the following is a musical trend that could not have occurred prior to the Twentieth Century?
A) fusion of literature and music
B) use of chance in performance
C) manipulation of recorded sound
D) written preservation of music
Q2) Some scholars connect pointillist visual art with musical manipulation of A) rhythm
B) form
C) timbre
D) meter
Q3) Which of the following is<b> not</b> frequently found in current American concert music?
A) inclusion of non-Western music
B) a unified musical language
C) interaction of the arts
D) multimedia performances
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