Chapter 34 Quiz

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. Which of the following is associated with Postmodernism?

a) Eclecticism correct incorrect

b) Loss of faith in progress correct incorrect

c) Relative truth correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. Of the following, who were considered "uptown" musicians?

a) Minimalist composers correct incorrect

b) Opera composers correct incorrect

c) Experimentalist composers correct incorrect

d) Milton Babbitt and serialist composers correct incorrect

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. Of the following, who were considered "downtown" musicians?

a) Minimalist composers correct incorrect

b) Opera composers correct incorrect

c) Experimentalist composers correct incorrect

d) Milton Babbitt and serialist composers correct incorrect

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. The uptown-midtown-downtown divisions of late twentieth-century musical style are modeled on the geography of ___________.

a) Paris correct incorrect

b) New York correct incorrect

c) Berlin correct incorrect

d) San Francisco correct incorrect

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. Whereas pastiche was a cutting-and-pasting technique, collage was newly composed music in past styles.

a) TRUE correct incorrect

b) FALSE correct incorrect

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. The third movement of George Rochberg's Third Quartet features ___________.

a) Pastiche correct incorrect

b) Collage correct incorrect

c) Serialism correct incorrect

d) Indeterminacy correct incorrect

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. All of the following composed in a neo-tonal style in the late twentieth century except ___________.

a) David Del Tredici correct incorrect

b) John Adams correct incorrect

c) Sofia Gubaidulina correct incorrect

d) Elliott Carter correct incorrect

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. Which composer was influenced by, and set the poetry of, Federico Garcia Lorca?

a) David Del Tredici correct incorrect

b) Sofia Gubaidulina correct incorrect

c) George Crumb correct incorrect

d) John Adams correct incorrect

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. In the late twentieth century, many Modernist composers converted to a neo-tonal style.

a) TRUE correct incorrect

b) FALSE correct incorrect

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. Brian Ferneyhough is associated with which aesthetic movement?

a) The New Complexity correct incorrect

b) Minimalism correct incorrect

c) Neo-tonality correct incorrect

d) Performance art correct incorrect

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. All of the following describe Laurie Anderson except ___________.

a) She is a leading figure in performance art. correct incorrect

b) She uses technology to create multimedia performances. correct incorrect

c) All of her music is written out, and her scores are meant to be "read" as a part of the artistic process. correct incorrect

d) She engages in self-parody. correct incorrect

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. Which development, in the 1980s, foreshadows music's possible liberation from the literate tradition?

a) Performance art correct incorrect

b) The New Complexity correct incorrect

c) Pastiche correct incorrect

d) The digital revolution correct incorrect

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. A sampler is a digital device that ___________.

a) Stores individual audio units for manipulation correct incorrect

b) Mixes many audio channels together to create a final audio signal correct incorrect

c) Organizes a series of individual audio units into a sequence correct incorrect

d) Amplifies a low sound signal correct incorrect

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. Nixon in China is best described as ___________.

a) A concerto grosso by Alfred Schnittke correct incorrect

b) An opera by John Adams correct incorrect

c) An opera by Kaija Saariaho correct incorrect

d) A film by Philip Glass correct incorrect

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. Which opera tells the story of a twelfth-century troubadour and his love of Clémence?

a) Nixon in China correct incorrect

b) L'amour de loin correct incorrect

c) El Niño correct incorrect

d) Dr. Atomic correct incorrect