MUSI 200 Week 6 Quiz

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Week 6 Quiz

What is serialism?

Question options: 

a musical style for instrumental and vocal music using 12-note sets 

a musical style used in only vocal music, using 12-note sets 

a study in the way eating breakfast cereal affected composers 

a musical style for instrumental music only, using 12-note sets

Question 2

Who is the founder of "Deep Listening"?

Question options: 

Iannis Xenakis 

Pauline Oliveros  

Terry Riley 

Ruth Crawford Seeger

Question 3

Which of the following is true about music after the Romantic period?

Question options: 

Clear, unified styles emerged. 

It became more predictable and orderly. 

Music became more conservative in general as a reaction to the Romantic period.

Unusual trends developed. 

Question 4

Which musical style reverted to older tonalities, forms, or rules from the Classical era combined with modern elements?

Question options: 

Post-modernism 

Romanticism 

Modernism 

Neoclassicism

Question 5

Which of the following traits effectively describe modernist music?

Question options: 

predictable 

repetitious 

orderly 

Innovative 

Question 6

Which of the following musical movements developed in the 1900's?

Question options: 

expressionism, serialism, and constructivism 

rationalism, minimalism, and chance music 

serialism, constructivism, and rationalism 

expressionism, serialism, and minimalism 

Question 7

Which composer challenged traditional tonal sounds by composing music that included chance noises, non-musical sounds, and silence?

Question options:

John Cage  

Igor Stravinsky 

Arnold Schoenberg

Hector Berlioz

Question 8

Who published "American Folk Songs for Children" designed for teaching elementary school students?

Question options: 

Charles Ives 

Ruth Crawford Seeger  

Igor Stravinsky 

Aaron Copland

Question 9

Who was a prolific composer for animation and worked primarily for Warner Brothers?

Question options: 

Philip Glass 

Richard Rodgers 

Carl Stalling  

John Williams

Question 10

Which of the following events were part of the Great Depression?

Question options:

World War 1 occurred, stock prices declined 89%, and Truman was elected president. 

unemployment hit 24%, stocks declined in value, and Nixon was elected president. 

economic hardship overcame the world, stock prices declined 89%, and Roosevelt 

was elected president. 

World War 2 occurred, unemployment hit 24%, and Ford was elected president.