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The experimentalist who shared many ideas with the transcendentalists was


A) Henry Cowell
B) Edgar Varese
C) Charles Ives
D) John Cage

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Which of the following requires that the performer capture a live sound before it is electronically manipulated?


A) concrete music
B) 12-tone music
C) prepared piano
D) New Music

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The Concord Sonata musically refers to the Transcendentalists.

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The instrument on which Henry Cowell performed most of his experiments was the


A) trumpet
B) piano
C) synthesizer
D) gamelan

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Which of the following is not associated with Henry Cowell's music?


A) Irish folklore
B) German Romanticism
C) modal music of the church
D) music of the East

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The Banshee utilizes which of the following techniques?


A) twelve-tone
B) prepared piano
C) concrete music
D) ostinato

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The first significant American composer to turn to the East for inspiration was


A) Henry Cowell
B) Edgar Varese
C) Charles Ives
D) John Cage

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Did American composers continue to turn to Europe for inspiration in the mid-twentieth century? Provide evidence to support your claim.

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Which of the following is an early example of chance music?


A) The Banshee
B) Ionisation
C) The Unanswered Question
D) Putnam's Camp

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Which of the following sets of composers both discovered tone clusters at the same time?


A) Cage and Varese
B) Ives and Cowell
C) Varese and Ives
D) Cowell and Cage

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Music experimentalists are particularly interested in exploring


A) form
B) timbre
C) harmony
D) melody

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Combining two or more rhythmic patterns creates polyphony.

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John Cage extensively used the gamelan in his compositions.

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Most of Ives' music was written in the _________ century.


A) late nineteenth
B) early twentieth
C) mid-twentieth
D) recent twentieth

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Prepared piano requires that the performer physically modify the piano.

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The Concord Sonata and General Putnam's Camp both represent which of the following?


A) programmatic tendencies in Ives' instrumental works
B) literary references in Ives' vocal works
C) the complexity of Ives' songs
D) Ives' use of concert band as a performance medium

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Twelve-tone technique was developed in Germany.

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Musical quotations are an inherent part of the compositions of


A) Henry Cowell
B) Edgar Varese
C) Charles Ives
D) John Cage

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Which of the following was the title of a quarterly journal as well as a term associated with experimental music?


A) Avant-garde
B) New Music
C) Twelve-Tone
D) New Age

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It is possible to perform microtones on a traditional piano.

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