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1
For Charles Ives there was a big difference between the music of Stephen Foster and Johann Sebastian Bach.
A)True
B)False
2
Most of Charles Ives's 150 songs are based on familiar tunes.
A)True
B)False
3
In order to "explain" his Three Places in New England, Charles Ives needed to write a lengthy essay.
A)True
B)False
4
Ives's "Unanswered Question" has moments of chance determined music.
A)True
B)False
5
Ives's work "Unanswered Question" was written to accompany a film of the same title.
A)True
B)False
6
Though Ives stopped composing in the 1920s, he won a Pulitzer Prize for music in 1947.
A)True
B)False
7
Henry Cowell was attracted to the American Colonial music called "Fuging tunes."
A)True
B)False
8
Henry Cowell was one of the first composers to play directly on the strings of a piano.
A)True
B)False
9
Each of the circled letters in Cowell's piano composition "The Banshee" represent a specific place for the pianist to pluck a string.
A)True
B)False
10
Musical sounds that are recorded and then manipulated resulted in distortion and dissonance.
A)True
B)False
11
"Montage" was a way of creating musical compositions using pre-recorded musical sounds.
A)True
B)False
12
John Cage studied with Charles Ives.
A)True
B)False
13
A piano becomes prepared when it is tuned in microtones rather than the half steps we normally use.
A)True
B)False





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