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1
Some people, like Billy Taylor, think Jazz is America's "classical" music.
A)True
B)False
2
Free jazz bears a close relationship with the electronic avant-garde of the 1960s.
A)True
B)False
3
Free Jazz allowed musicians to explore non-Western scales and playing techniques, including microtones.
A)True
B)False
4
Since 1950, Ornette Coleman has been a composer of "classical" music.
A)True
B)False
5
Free jazz is often intellectually rigorous.
A)True
B)False
6
Fusion usually does NOT include a vocalist.
A)True
B)False
7
Some critics considered Miles Davis' "On the Corner" as ultra-jazz.
A)True
B)False
8
"Third Stream" jazz has continued to develop since its start in the mid-1950s.
A)True
B)False
9
Pat Metheny collaborated with David Bowie in a jazz recording of music from the Tin Pan Alley days.
A)True
B)False
10
Anthony Braxton has composed music for such diverse ensembles as a solo saxophone to opera and full orchestra.
A)True
B)False
11
Wynton Marsalis believes that "bebop" is the foundation of modern jazz.
A)True
B)False
12
Wynton Marsalis's jazz composition "Blood on the Fields" was the first jazz composition to receive the Pulitzer Prize.
A)True
B)False
13
The Turtle Island String Quartet adventurously fuses classical string quartet music with American popular musics including jazz.
A)True
B)False





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