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1
At the dawn of the Twentieth century all but one of the following proved to be a source to composers for creating American music. Which one was not a widely used source of material?
A)jazz
B)Native American melodies
C)folk music
D)popular music
2
American composers of the 1920s and 1930s went to this country to finish their academic training:
A)Italy
B)Germany
C)France
D)England
3
The most important teacher of American composers in the 1920s and 1930s was:
A)Max Steiner
B)Arnold Schoenberg
C)Paul Hindemith
D)Nadia Boulanger
4
Aaron Copland's teacher recommended that he borrow from what genre of music?
A)Baroque music forms
B).b jazz
C)Native American Indians
D)Impressionism
5
Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico premiered in 1937 in what city?
A)New York
B)Boston
C)Mexico City
D)Los Angeles
6
Aaron Copland along with this composer created a series of concerts to promote new American music:
A)Leonard Bernstein
B)Paul Hindemith
C)George Gershwin
D)Roger Sessions
7
The music Aaron Copland wrote before the stock-market crash of 1929 is described as:
A)austere
B)difficult
C)uncompromising
D)all of the above
8
In response to the Great Depression of the 1930s, what did Aaron Copland do?
A)simplify his music
B)use jazz rhythms and harmonies to relate to the people
C)turn to writing popular songs for the radio
D)all of the above
9
This work, written in 1942, has become Aaron Copland's most famous piece of music:
A)Appalachian Spring
B)Billy the Kid
C)The Red Pony
D)Fanfare for the Common Man
10
Copland's best-known ballet scores were composed for:
A)Agnes deMille
B)Martha Graham
C)Fred Astaire
D)Merce Cunningham
11
Broadway choreographer Agnes de Mille choreographed Oklahoma! and which Copland ballet?
A)Appalachian Spring
B)Rodeo
C)Billy the Kid
D)Music for the Theater
12
Composers who prefer to write in a conservative and more tonal style are called:
A)neo-tonalists
B)neo-romantics
C)expressionistic
D)neo-modal
13
The movies Platoon and The Elephant Man both prominently featured:
A)Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man
B)opland's Lincoln Portrait
C)arber's Knoxville Summer of 1942
D)Barber's Adagio for Strings
14
A rebirth of black "high-art" was called:
A)BeBop
B)Harlem Renaissance
C)The Apollo
D)The Age of Innocence
15
William Grant Still studied composition with this composer:
A)Aaron Copland
B)Samuel Barber
C)William Schuman
D)Edgard Varese





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