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1
Which experimental composer derived his musical inventiveness from his father?
A)Henry Cowell
B)John Cage
C)Elliott Carter
D)Charles Ives
2
Ives received a Bachelor of Music degree studying with Horatio Parker at:
A)Harvard University
B)Yale University
C)Princeton University
D)New England Conservatory of Music
3
Which experimental composer made his living at selling insurance?
A)Henry Cowell
B)Harry Partch
C)Charles Ives
D)Virgil Thomson
4
Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and other Transcendentalists were important to:
A)John Cage
B)Charles Ives
C)Henry Cowell
D)Leo Ornstein
5
Ives's idea of having music played in more than one key at a time is called:
A)polymodal
B)polyscalar
C)polytonal
D)biharmonic
6
Henry Cowell had a life long interest in what other kind of music?
A)chance determined music
B)experimental harmonies
C)experimental playing techniques
D)East Asian music
7
Henry Cowell's "tone clusters" are chords built in:
A)thirds
B)fourths
C)seconds
D)chromatic notes either all black or all white
8
Rather than the European idea of music being primarily built on melody and harmony, Cowell, and other composers of his time, began to discover that _________ and __________ offered them many new and stimulating ideas.
A)texture and rhythm
B)tone clusters and polyrhythms
C)microtones and alternative tuning techniques
D)familiar tunes and dissonant harmonies
9
While still a college student Cowell wrote this influential new music treatise:
A)On Dissonant Harmony
B)Explorations in New Music
C)Timbre, Texture and Rhythm
D)New Musical Resources
10
Manipulating recorded music became known as:
A)tape music
B)electronic music
C)musique concrete
D)regenerative music
11
John Cage "invented" this instrument:
A)gamelan
B)harvark
C)pseudophone
D)prepared piano
12
Which artist painted an interpretation of John Cage's "The Perilous Night"?
A)Robert Rauschenberg
B)Merce Cunningham
C)Andy Warhol
D)Jasper Johns





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