Deck 21: Experimental Music - Revolution

Question 1

The Concord Sonata musically refers to the Transcendentalists.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Music experimentalists are particularly interested in exploring

A) form
B) timbre
C) harmony
D) melody

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Two or more songs performed simultaneously automatically create bitonality.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The experimentalist who shared many ideas with the transcendentalists was

A) Henry Cowell
B) Edgar Varese
C) Charles Ives
D) John Cage

Question 5

The Banshee utilizes which of the following techniques?

A) twelve-tone
B) prepared piano
C) concrete music
D) ostinato

Question 6

Which of the following requires that the performer capture a live sound before it is electronically manipulated?

A) concrete music
B) 12-tone music
C) prepared piano
D) New Music

Question 7

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

Question 8

John Cage extensively used the gamelan in his compositions.

Question 9

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

Question 10

A tone cluster is a chord built upon which intervals?

A) seconds
B) thirds
C) fourths
D) fifths

Question 11

The first significant American composer to turn to the East for inspiration was

A) Henry Cowell
B) Edgar Varese
C) Charles Ives
D) John Cage

Question 12

Combining two or more rhythmic patterns creates polyphony.

Question 13

Which of the following is an early example of chance music?

A) The Banshee
B) Ionisation
C) The Unanswered Question
D) Putnam's Camp

Question 14

Prepared piano requires that the performer physically modify the piano.

Question 15

The Concord Sonata and General Putnam's Camp both represent which of the following?

A) programmatic tendencies in Ives' instrumental works
B) literary references in Ives' vocal works
C) the complexity of Ives' songs
D) Ives' use of concert band as a performance medium

Question 16

Musical quotations are an inherent part of the compositions of

A) Henry Cowell
B) Edgar Varese
C) Charles Ives
D) John Cage

Question 17

Which of the following is not associated with Henry Cowell's music?

A) Irish folklore
B) German Romanticism
C) modal music of the church
D) music of the East

Question 18

Twelve-tone technique was developed in Germany.

Question 19

Which of the following most appeals to mathematical principles?

A) programmatic music
B) 12-tone music
C) music of chance
D) concrete music

Question 20

It is possible to perform microtones on a traditional piano.

Question 21

The instrument on which Henry Cowell performed most of his experiments was the

A) trumpet
B) piano
C) synthesizer
D) gamelan

Question 22

Did American composers continue to turn to Europe for inspiration in the mid-twentieth century? Provide evidence to support your claim.

Question 23

Name several "Eastern ideas" that impacted art music composition in America in the twentieth century.

Question 24

Most of Ives' music was written in the _________ century.

A) late nineteenth
B) early twentieth
C) mid-twentieth
D) recent twentieth