Exam 3: The American Scene, Lecture

Question 1

What did American music draw on for its musical culture

Answer 1

Europe

Question 2

American composers that studied in Europe were___ who came on the scene too late

Answer 2

Romantistics

Question 3

Edward McDowell was an_ composer with__recognition

Answer 3

American, some

Question 4

Americans were___as musicians and___ and an American style of___ was needed

Answer 4

Inferior,composers, writing

Question 5

American composers began to be noticed when the music scene switched from___ romanticism to ___ Impressionism

Answer 5

German, French

Question 6

With the musical shift from German to French, comparisons ___ ___ so apt to be made

Answer 6

Were not

Question 7

Who was most prominent of American impressionists: Charles ___

Answer 7

Griffes

Question 8

What two things was Charles Griffes most noted for

Answer 8

White peacock, poem for flute

Question 9

Charles Ives did not have fame until after his ___ but is considered ___ of American music

Answer 9

Death, father

Question 10

Who was the first original voice of American composers

Answer 10

Charles Ives

Question 11

Where was Charles Ives born

Answer 11

Connecticut

Question 12

Who challenged Charles Ives musically

Answer 12

His father

Question 13

Charles Ives studied at___ with horatio ___

Answer 13

Yale, Parker

Question 14

Who was not a musician by vocation but owned an insurance company, wrote music on the weekends

Answer 14

Charles Ives

Question 15

Conductors wouldn’t play this person’s music and scoffed at it

Answer 15

Charles Ives

Question 16

What age did Charles Ives stop composing due to illness

Answer 16

Charles Ives

Question 17

Where did Charles Ives’ music first gain attention, and what sonata gained him recognition

Answer 17

Europe, concord

Question 18

Which number of Charles Ives symphonies was awarded the ___ prize in ___ (year) this was how many years after it was composed?

Answer 18

3, Pulitzer, 1947, 50

Question 19

Ives’ music made use of hymns, folk, and popular songs indigenous to ___

Answer 19

America

Question 20

Ives’ music subjects were ___ themed (country)

Answer 20

American

Question 21

Ives’ was influenced by ___ experiences like ___ bands playing in a parade (diff. Tempo and keys)

Answer 21

Childhood, 2

Question 22

Ives used polytonality,___, clusters, ___, and ___

Answer 22

Atonality, polyrhythms

Question 23

Who was one of the first to write without bars or time signatures?

Answer 23

Charles Ives

Question 24

Who and where was new music in America promoted? And in what year?

Answer 24

Conductors, universities, 1920s

Question 25

As music scene shifted from Vienna to France, American composers went to ___ to study (country)

Answer 25

France

Question 26

Who was the most prominent teacher in France? Nadia ___

Answer 26

Boulanger

Question 27

Nadia Boulanger taught which 4 American composers? (CHPT)

Answer 27

Copland, Harris, Piston, Tomson

Question 28

Which 4 composers were considered experimentalists? (CHPT)

Answer 28

Copland, Harris, Piston, Thomson

Question 29

Edgar ___ was born in ___ and came to USA in ___

Answer 29

Varese, Paris, 1915

Question 30

Who founded international composer’s guild to perform new works? This gave the American premier of ___ lunaire

Answer 30

Edgar Varese

Question 31

Edgar varese stopped composing b/c public ___ like his works (year too)

Answer 31

Didn’t, 1930s

Question 32

Edgard varese resumed composing in ___ the world caught up with him and what he was doing and he gained___

Answer 32

1952, recognition

Question 33

Who was the first to experiment with electronic music

Answer 33

Edgard Varese

Question 34

Edward varies was one of the extreme ___ of music at that time

Answer 34

Radicals

Question 35

Edward Varese ‘s music rejected ___ interest in ___, sound for sound’s sale

Answer 35

Tonality, rhythm

Question 36

Which composer “used good titles”

Answer 36

Edgard Varese

Question 37

Two sections eager mostly interestedd

Answer 37

Winds, percussion

Question 38

Who was the 1st of the so-called experimentalists

Answer 38

Henry cowell

Question 39

Lowell had an interest in music of the far ___ and was influenced by it

Answer 39

East

Question 40

Cowell’s music encompassed aleatory, ___, polytonality

Answer 40

Atonality

Question 41

Cowell and Varese are similar in they both used tone ___ for sound rather than harmony

Answer 41

Clusters

Question 42

1903s, music was inspired more by American. … music

Answer 42

Folk

Question 43

In 1903s what city became the new music capital of the world

Answer 43

New york

Question 44

Where was George Gershwin born

Answer 44

Brooklyn

Question 45

Gershwin had an interest for … at an early age

Answer 45

Jazz

Question 46

Gershwin got fame with

Answer 46

Swanee

Question 47

Gershwin’s … was his lyricist

Answer 47

Brother