A large-scale work in several movements for solo instrument(s) and orchestra is called:
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a concerto.
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Which american Jazz composer was also a pianist and a master of big-band orchestration?
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Duke Ellington
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What Viennese composer invented the twelve-tone method after writing in both post-Romantic and atonal styles?
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Schoenberg
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Atonality may be characterized by:
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all of the above
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The approximate dates for the Modern Period, or Twentieth Century Period are:
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1900-Present
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What American composer is known as the king of ragtime?
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Joplin
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Music that features the repetition, with little variation, of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns is known as:
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minimalist
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What is the African-American music that developed around the turn of the twentieth century and incorporates elements of African music and Western popular and art music called?
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jazz
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During the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk developed:
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bebop
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Of the following, which type of music was NOT composed by William Grant Still?
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avant-garde electronic music
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Of the following, which does NOT describe symphony composition in the Romantic era?
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Composers wrote more symphonies than their Classical counterparts.
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Mendelssohn played an important role in the revival of music by which Baroque composer?
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Bach
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The cantata Carmina Burana was written by:
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Carl Orff.
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The Rite of Spring is characterized by:
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all of the above
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Unity in film music through the use of leitmotifs was inspired by which nineteenth-century composer?
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Wagner
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Copland's Appalachian Spring depicts:
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a wedding in the Appalachians.
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The musical style of the 1960s that combines jazz improvisation with amplified instruments and a rock beat is called: