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1
This composer built his own instruments to perform his music:
A)George Crumb
B)Virgil Thomson
C)Harry Partch
D)all of the above
2
This device enables composers to design a sound of their own making:
A)tape recorder
B)oscilloscope
C)a theremin
D)an oscillator
3
The first computer to make music was:
A)driven by whole punched paper
B)filled an entire room with tubes
C)required long processing time for sound generation
D)all of the above
4
One of the earliest enthusiasts of electronic music was:
A)Leonard Bernstein
B)Milton Babbitt
C)Harold Shapero
D)Arthur Berger
5
A composer who is interested in making each note "count" is:
A)Milton Babbitt
B)Edgard Varese
C)John Cage
D)Harry Partch
6
This composer created a kind of music that was determined by "chance operations."
A)William Schuman
B)Otto Luening
C)Milton Babbitt
D)John Cage
7
John Cage's "Imaginary Landscape no. 4" uses this as a novel sound device:
A)prepared piano
B)orchestra with no percussion instruments
C)12 radios
D)an all percussion orchestra
8
This composer was the most influential and controversial American composer of the Twentieth century.
A)Milton Babbitt
B)Harry Partch
C)LaMonte Young
D)John Cage
9
Who is quoted as having said: "Freedom is one thing, but liberty is, so to speak, going too far."
A)Milton Babbitt
B)Roger Sessions
C)Irving Fine
D)John Cage
10
Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, Henry Cowell and Christiann Wolff all composed this kind of music:
A)minimal music
B)twelve-tone music
C)electronic music
D)chance determined music
11
This composer has decided to give up control over their works by often guiding a group through a mutually creative experience.
A)John Cage
B)Pauline Oliveros
C)Samuel Gerhard
D)Joan Tower
12
One of today's best known "performance artist" is:
A)Pauline Oliveros
B)John Cage
C)Laurie Anderson
D)Diamanda Galas
13
A piece of music that includes visual and dramatic elements as well as music is called:
A)theater score
B)synthesizer music
C)chance determined music
D)performance art
14
The application of twelve-tone concepts to other aspects of composition (such as timbre, rhythm, or form) is called:
A)absolute music
B)musique concrete
C)total serialism
D)computer generated music





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