Music Appreciation Exam
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Course Introduction
Music Appreciation is an introductory course designed to enhance students understanding and enjoyment of music by exploring a wide range of musical styles, genres, and historical periods. Through guided listening, analysis, and discussion, students learn to identify musical elements, recognize influential composers and works, and appreciate the cultural and historical contexts of music. This course encourages critical listening skills and fosters a deeper appreciation for the role of music in diverse societies, helping students become more informed and engaged listeners.
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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) Which of the following best describes falsetto?
A) a singing style with strong vocal pulsation
B) a singing range that lies above the normal singing range
C) a strained, tense vocal sound
D) a nasal, harsh vocal sound
Answer: B
Q2) Vocables are meaningless syllables.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Native Americans think of their songs as received in a dream or vision.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) When a solo voice performs in alternation with a group,this technique is called
A) falsetto
B) call and response
C) vocal composition
D) strophic form
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Folk Music
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Q1) West African drumming is musically complex because
A) it requires the musicians to read difficult notation
B) it requires the use of the gourd banjo
C) the instruments are created out of natural materials
D) it involves multiple layers of underlying rhythms
Answer: D
Q2) Most ballads are attributed to known composers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Disasters,famous murders and other historical events are subjects frequently found in
A) broadsides
B) field hollers
C) work songs
D) spirituals
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Religious Music in Colonial Revolutionary and Federal Periods
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Q1) The form of a fuging tune may be described as
A) AAB
B) ABC
C) ABA
D) ABB
Answer: D
Q2) When performed as a canon,the texture of "When Jesus Wept" is
A) monophonic
B) heterophonic
C) homophonic
D) polyphonic
Answer: D
Q3) Protestants sang hymns in their vernacular language.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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) 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?
Q2) When an instrumental piece depicts a non-musical sound such as gunfire,the piece is said to be __________.
A) programmatic
B) imitative
C) march-like
D) Revolutionary
Q3) Which of the following is not true regarding Benjamin Franklin?
A) he invented an instrument that Mozart enjoyed playing
B) he wrote about the subject of music
C) he believed that American music was superior to European music
D) he played musical instruments
Q4) Household music refers to vocal and piano pieces accessible to amateur performers.
A)True
B)False
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Q5) Describe the attention given to unity and variety in art music as opposed to design principles in folk and popular music.
Chapter 5: Religious Music in the Early Nineteenth Century
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Q1) (p.several)
Which of the following least impacted professional American musical composers in the nineteenth century?
A) indigenous music
B) European trends
C) German musical masters
D) shape-note notation
Q2) "Amazing Grace" is in strophic form.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Some African-American spirituals eventually became regarded as art music.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Great Revival featured musical events as well as prayer.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Reflecting on your own pre-collegiate music education,do you think that Lowell Mason would have been pleased with the outcome of that education? Outline his goals,and compare this with your own experience.
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Chapter 6: Popular Music of the Civil War Era
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Q1) In a march,the section that is softer in dynamic level is called
A) the strain
B) the trio
C) the break
D) the beat
Q2) The "Star Spangled Banner" was named the American national anthem by President
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Theodore Roosevelt
C) Herbert Hoover
D) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Q3) 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
Q4) 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?
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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) Ole Bull was the outstanding ____________ of his day.
A) pianist
B) violinist
C) conductor
D) singer
Q3) Nationalistic folk tales and legends often glorified the peasant rather than the noble.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Nineteenth century Romanticism was dominated by French artists,writers and composers.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Describe the technical aspects of the piano that allowed it to be an ideal Romantic instrument.
Q6) 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) It is likely that Amy Beach favored the art song genre because
A) she found symphonic composition very difficult
B) this genre was considered more fitting for a woman of her day
C) she had to give up her solo career
D) she was a solo vocalist as well as a composer
Q2) Which of the following composers produced a sound distinctively different from his/her European contemporaries?
A) John Knowles Paine
B) Amy Beach
C) Edward MacDowell
D) George Chadwick
Q3) Which of the following terms does <b>not </b>refer to an entire work?
A) suite
B) fugue
C) sequence
D) symphony
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) Each melodic section in a march or rag is called a
A) trio
B) break
C) strain
D) finale
Q2) Most Tin Pan Alley songwriters had significant interest in jazz and classical music.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Ragtime's roots were solely African-American.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A cakewalk contains a repeated,syncopated rhythm.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following likely would be of the most interest to ASCAP today?
A) create and promote computerized music notation software
B) oppose Napster
C) encourage the diversification of music education
D) promote the development of music education texts
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Chapter 10: Country Music
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Q1) Country singers traditionally sang in a highly emotional manner.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Bluegrass contains elements of jazz.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which is<b> not </b>true regarding the Grand Ole Opry?
A) it was an early radio show
B) it was centered in Nashville
C) it featured a form of opera music
D) it was established in the 1920s
Q4) Gospel is exclusively an African-American genre.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Which of the following women is not part of the "new country" scene?
A) Patsy Cline
B) Shania Twain
C) LeAnn Rimes
D) Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Chapter 11: Ethnic Traditions and the Urban Folk Revival
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Q1) The Lomax and Seeger families were strictly performers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is <b>least</b> easy to define?
A) urban folk music
B) alternative country
C) Zydeco
D) Cajun
Q3) "Tom Dooley" exemplified
A) emerging ties between folk and country music
B) urban folk music's focus on themes of murder
C) the zydeco influence
D) Cajun overtones
Q4) Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" was written in response to which of the following songs that he greatly disliked?
A) God Bless America
B) America the Beautiful
C) America
D) Star Spangled Banner
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) How did the vocally-based blues become a primary foundation for instrumentally-based jazz?
Q2) Which of the following is <b>not</b> a way in which Chicago jazz differed from New Orleans jazz?
A) Chicago style featured different instruments
B) Chicago style featured more complex improvisation
C) Chicago style featured a backbeat
D) Chicago style abandoned blues form
Q3) Which of the following became a center for jazz immediately following the exodus of jazz musicians from New Orleans?
A) New York
B) Chicago
C) St. Louis
D) Dixieland
Q4) Classic blues was conceived primarily as entertainment.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Jazz roots are partially found in European marches and dances.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Jazz 1930-1960
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Q1) Which of the following women most defied traditional female roles in the jazz world?
A) Billie Holiday
B) Mary Lou Williams
C) Bessie Smith
D) Ella Fitzgerald
Q2) Which of the following did not perform with the others?
A) Charlie Parker
B) Lester Young
C) Thelonius Monk
D) Dizzy Gillespie
Q3) The dissonant complexity of post-1940s jazz made it like classical music in that
A) it was always strictly notated
B) it did not feature improvisation
C) it was more amenable to listening than to dancing
D) it was rarely performed at festivals
Q4) Harlem was not open to white music patrons in the big band era.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Jazz Since 1960
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Q1) Which of the following combines rock rhythms with collective improvisation,extreme ranges in volume,and rapid shifts in tempo and mood?
A) bebop
B) third stream
C) fusion
D) cool
Q2) Collective improvisation relies on
A) highly detailed written scores
B) few individual solos
C) musical interplay between ensemble members
D) a steady beat to hold the ensemble together
Q3) "Third stream" blends jazz and classical music techniques.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following introduced the free jazz style in his album Free Jazz?
A) Miles Davis
B) Ornette Coleman
C) John Coltrane
D)D.Wynton Marsalis
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Chapter 15: Latin Popular Musics
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Q1) Which of the following Latin areas is <b>least</b> influential in North American popular music today?
A) the Caribbean
B) Brazil
C) Argentina
D) Mexico
Q2) Conjunto ensembles are associated with Mexican Americans
A)True
B)False
Q3) The habanera is a dance from
A) Cuba
B) Brazil
C) Argentina
D) Mexico
Q4) Which of the following does<b> not</b> reflect African influences?
A) tango
B) reggae
C) bata drums
D) mariachi
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Chapter 16: Rock and Roll
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Q1) One of the first blacks to become technically adept with studio recording technology was
A) Jimi Hendrix
B) Ray Charles
C) James Brown
D) Aretha Franklin
Q2) Elvis Presley was deeply rooted in the country music tradition.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The end of the 1950s marked a time of great excitement regarding the future of rock and roll.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Gospel refers to a family including both white and black musics.
A)True
B)False
Q5) "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) The earliest roots of disco are in the 1970s.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) "Chicago" was a group that incorporated jazz elements into rock.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Disco was a commercial _________ music.
A) dance
B) concert
C) movie
D) folk
Q5) Hip-hop grew out of the rap movement.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: Music for Theatre and Film
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Q1) Which of the following shows became famous as a record album before it was produced on stage?
A) West Side Story
B) Jesus Christ Superstar
C) Godspell
D) Guys and Dolls
Q2) 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
Q3) Irene and Vernon Castle were famous ____________ on the Broadway stage.
A) singers
B) comedians
C) dancers
D) lyricists
Q4) Gilbert and Sullivan were early twentieth century American operetta composers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: Music for Films
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Q1) A "temp" is a synopsis of a film's plot.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The theremin was the earliest
A) electronic instrument used in films
B) keyboard instrument used in films
C) movie recording device
D) sound editing system
Q3) A temp is written by
A) a playwright
B) a composer
C) a choreographer
D) an author
Q4) Current film scores are sometimes "packaged" by Hollywood for an MTV-inspired audience.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Silent films involved no music at all.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: American Opera
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Q1) What is the dramatic role of each of the following opera components? aria,recitative,overture,chorus
Q2) Which of the following opera components is strictly instrumental?
A) aria
B) recitative
C) overture
D) chorus
Q3) Gertrude Stein was an influential music educator who lived in France.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is <b>not</b> normally included in an opera?
A) acting
B) costumes
C) elaborate staging
D) spoken dialogue
Q5) The "da capo aria" is best illustrated by which of the following forms?
A) BAB
B) AAB
C) ABA
D) ABB
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Chapter 21: Experimental Music - Revolution
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Q1) Which of the following sets of composers both discovered tone clusters at the same time?
A) Cage and Varese
B) Ives and Cowell
C) Varese and Ives
D) Cowell and Cage
Q2) Which of the following most appeals to mathematical principles?
A) programmatic music
B) 12-tone music
C) music of chance
D) concrete music
Q3) Which of the following is <b>not</b> associated with Henry Cowell's music?
A) Irish folklore
B) German Romanticism
C) modal music of the church
D) music of the East
Q4) Combining two or more rhythmic patterns creates polyphony.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Mainstream Concert Music - Evolution
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Q1) Which of the following composers worked very diligently to promote the music of American composers to the American public?
A) Aaron Copland
B) Samuel Barber
C) William Grant Still
D) Harry T. Burleigh
Q2) In the 1920s,young American composers traveled to _________ to study music.
A) Germany
B) England
C) France
D) Italy
Q3) 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
Q4) Coplands' Rodeo is true to classical ballet format.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: The Avant-Garde Continued
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Q1) Tape music and concrete music were developed in which two countries?
A) America and Germany
B) Germany and France
C) France and America
D) America and Italy
Q2) Abstract expressionist painters share many ideals with the composers of ______ music.
A) concrete
B) 12-tone
C) aleatoric
D) program
Q3) It is possible to play a continuum of pitches by using the _____________ on a synthesizer.
A) oscillator
B) fingerboard
C) keyboard
D) mouse
Q4) Jazz improvisation can be considered a form of indeterminate music.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: The Recent Mainstream
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Q1) William Schuman and Lou Harrison are considered experimental composers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) William Schuman primarily writes for orchestra.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Modern melodies are often more __________ than melodies of the nineteenth century.
A) smooth
B) angular
C) singable
D) melodic
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) The distance between two tones is referred to as
A) an interval
B) a space
C) a measure
D) a triad
Q2) Which of the following is most related to the number of pulses or beats per measure?
A) bars
B) meter
C) rhythm
D) harmony
Q3) The "home tone" of a piece,which is also the name of the key of a composition,is called the
A) subdominant
B) tonic
C) dominant
D) unison
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Chapter 26: Music in Early America
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Q1) Which of the following is true regarding African slaves in eighteenth century America?
A) African music was sometimes expressed via Christian worship.
B) African musicians were not taken into slavery.
C) Slaves were able to preserve traditional music via written notation.
D) Slaves lost all trace of their traditional musics.
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 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.
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Chapter 27: The Tumultuous Nineteenth Century
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) Romanticism dates from which of the following periods?
A) 1750-1800
B) 1800-1850
C) 1825-1900
D) 1900-1950
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Chapter 28: The Growth of Vernacular Traditions
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Q1) American vernacular music reflects which of the following?
A) regional influences
B) sophisticated compositional rules
C) highly recognized composers
D) European compositional style
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) Which type of musical genre is frequently associated with the term "vernacular?"
A) classical
B) art music
C) popular music
D) Baroque
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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) 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
Q3) American vernacular music especially diversified after the birth of
A) jazz
B) rock
C) country
D) new wave
Q4) Which of the following was a visual pop artist?
A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Andy Warhol
C) James Dean
D) Chuck Berry
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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) The connection between music and theatre dates back to
A) Nineteenth century Italy
B) ancient Greece
C) Sixteenth century Germany
D) Eighteenth century America
Q3) Broadway has recently revived many older musicals for which of the following reasons?
A) aesthetic
B) financial
C) lack of imagination
D) no available story lines
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Chapter 31: Tradition and Innovation in Concert Music
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Q1) 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
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 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
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