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1
About the same time that painters started to use color for expressive purposes, composers turned to long melodic lines and more elaborate forms.
A)True
B)False
2
Romantic composers often avoid phrases of regular length.
A)True
B)False
3
It was Antonin Dvorák who advocated that the scales used by Indians and black people would generate a thoroughly American sound.
A)True
B)False
4
Theodore Thomas premiered the much admired "Symphony No. 1" of John Knowles Paine.
A)True
B)False
5
One successful composer of the Second New England School was a woman named Amy Fay.
A)True
B)False
6
Edward MacDowell was a staunch supporter of nationalism.
A)True
B)False
7
Edward MacDowell's estate in Peterborough, NH has become a well-established artists' colony.
A)True
B)False
8
Wa-Wan Press was named after an established Indian composer.
A)True
B)False
9
Some American composers took to harmonizing Indian melodies with tonal harmonies and/or scored their works for orchestras.
A)True
B)False
10
An arrangement of a piece of music originally for another instrument or instrumental combination that is "adapted" to fit other instruments is what most composers did to evoke Indian music in their large symphonic works.
A)True
B)False





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