Question 1

Name three different facets of Béla Bartók's career.

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Question 2

Béla Bartók was a(n) ________ as well as a composer.

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A)   painter
B)   journalist
C)   economist
D)   director of the Budapest Academy of Music

Question 3

Name two composers who incorporated jazz or blues elements into their works,and name one composition by each that shows the use of these elements.

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Question 4

Prelude for Piano No.6 is a:

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A)   piano miniature.
B)   song cycle.
C)   symphony.
D)   concerto.

Question 5

In Nazi Germany,the musical works of ________ and ________ were promoted.

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A)   Bartók; Weill
B)   Schoenberg; Berg
C)   Berlioz; Mahler
D)   Beethoven; Wagner

Question 6

Briefly analyze the oppression that modernist composers suffered under totalitarian regimes during the first half of the twentieth century.List three composers who were affected.

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Question 7

Describe the musical climate in America in the 1920s.How did American composers react to European modernism?

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The musical climate in America in the 19...

Question 8

Each movement of Afro-American Symphony is associated with verses by which poet?

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A)   Emily Dickinson
B)   Paul Laurence Dunbar
C)   Robert Frost
D)   Langston Hughes

Question 9

Prelude for Piano No.6 was composed in the:

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A)   1910s.
B)   1920s.
C)   1930s.
D)   1940s.

Question 10

The texture of Prelude for Piano No.6 is:

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A)   monophonic.
B)   homophonic.
C)   heterophonic.
D)   contrapuntal, in three layers.

Question 11

The first movement of the Piano Concerto in G opens with a:

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A)   lively, folklike tune played by the piccolo.
B)   dreamy chord progression in the string section.
C)   romantic torch song played by a solo trumpet.
D)   blues melody played by the piano.

Question 12

The second movement of Music for Strings,Percussion,and Celesta is in ________ form.

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A)   rondo
B)   through-composed
C)   arch
D)   sonata

Question 13

The most prevalent style of film music is:

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A)   avant-garde modernism.
B)   minimalism.
C)   jazz.
D)   late Romantic.

Question 14

Which style did Bartók embrace?

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A)   expressionism
B)   nationalism
C)   serialism
D)   impressionism

Question 15

Which is true of the musical climate in the early twentieth century?

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A)   All the major composers were avant-garde.
B)   All the major composers adopted serialism.
C)   Many major composers never joined the avant-garde.
D)   All the major composers experimented with avant-garde innovation, then turned back to traditional styles.

Question 16

Alexander Nevsky was composed in the:

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A)   1910s.
B)   1920s.
C)   1930s.
D)   1940s.

Question 17

The main A theme in the fourth movement of Afro-American Symphony is a(n) :

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A)   ostinato.
B)   series of parallel chords.
C)   melody of staccato eighth notes.
D)   blues-derived hymn theme.

Question 18

Who composed Prelude for Piano No.6?

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A)   Béla Bartók
B)   William Grant Still
C)   Aaron Copland
D)   Ruth Crawford

Question 19

What was Bartók's opinion of the Nazis? What did this mean for him in terms of performing and publishing his music?

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Béla Bartók was strongly opposed to the ...

Question 20

Who composed the opera Der Rosenkavalier?

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A)   Igor Stravinsky
B)   Richard Strauss
C)   Johann Strauss
D)   Giacomo Puccini

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Béla Bartók was a(n) ________ as well as a composer.

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The second movement of Music for Strings,Percussion,and Celesta is in ________ form.

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In Nazi Germany,the musical works of ________ and ________ were promoted.

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