Ives Quiz

Ives worked as

• a travel agent

• a sports agent

• an insurance agent

• a secret agent

While in college, Ives studied

• business

• music

• both a and b

• neither a nor b

True or False; Ives music is very easy to play

• True

• False

True or False; Ives music was widley performed during his lifetime

• True

• False

True or False; Ives music is now more widley performed than the music of any other 20th century composer

• True

• False

Charles Ives 4th symphony was performed how many years after his death

• 9 Hours

• 9 Days

• 9 Months

• 9 Years

True or False: Ives wrote little to no music the last 40 years of his life.

• True

• False

The listening example "America" was originally written for

• Piano

• Organ

• Orchestra

• Trombone

"America" was later adapted for

• Mariachi

• Band and Orchestra

• Rock Band

Music that is dissonant is

• pleasing to the ear

• jaring to the year

• performed at Yale University

• not performed at Yale University