Multiple Choice Questions

Ewe drummers developed a performance method called _______ in which each musician plays a unique rhythm pattern continuously.
  • polyrhythm
  • Pat Metheny
  • minimalists
  • phase music
Which describes Steve Reich's musical style?
  • minimalist
  • Pat Metheny
  • False
  • use of serial technique
Composers of phase music took advantage of magnetic tape recording technologies developed
  • during WWII
  • phase music
  • minimalist
  • serial
In the 1970s, Steve Reich spent a month playing with and listening to drummers in
  • serial
  • False
  • canon
  • Ghana
Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint was premiered by
  • False
  • minimalist
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • Pat Metheny
Experimental composers of phase music include all of the following EXCEPT
  • Pat Metheny
  • emancipation of dissonance
  • use of serial technique
  • Leonard Bernstein
The scientific rigor of twelve-tone music lent it prestige in both European and American institutions in the
  • minimalist
  • during WWII
  • 1940s-50s
  • phase music
____ is a technique in which a composer chooses a very simple and harmonically clear musical idea—one or two chords, or a few notes forming a consonant snippet—and repeats it over and over again, gradually changing or elaborating it.
  • phase music
  • Process music
  • during WWII
  • Leonard Bernstein
Which Baroque feature does Reich employ in Electric Counterpoint?
  • minimalist
  • Ghana
  • canon
  • False
Electric Counterpoint is characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:
  • emancipation of dissonance
  • Leonard Bernstein
  • three-movement structure of a Baroque concerto
  • use of serial technique
Who is a pioneer of process music?
  • False
  • Steve Reich
  • True
  • He preferred not to write tonal music
Electric Counterpoint
  • emancipation of dissonance
  • was valued by musicians for new expressive avenues. became widespread in the 1940s and 50s. gained prestige because of its "scientific" nature
  • three-movement structure of a Baroque concerto
  • is performed by one guitarist and up to fourteen prerecorded tracks. is often performed by guitar ensemblesis written for twelve guitars.
Electric Counterpoint follows the
  • use of serial technique
  • three-movement structure of a Baroque concerto
  • is performed by one guitarist and up to fourteen prerecorded tracks. is often performed by guitar ensemblesis written for twelve guitars.
  • emancipation of dissonance
Which of the following is NOT true about Steve Reich's career?
  • He preferred not to write tonal music
  • True
  • False
  • Steve Reich
Twelve-tone technique
  • is performed by one guitarist and up to fourteen prerecorded tracks. is often performed by guitar ensemblesis written for twelve guitars.
  • three-movement structure of a Baroque concerto
  • Pat Metheny
  • was valued by musicians for new expressive avenues. became widespread in the 1940s and 50s. gained prestige because of its "scientific" nature
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