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During his years as a concert pianist, Ludwig van Beethoven’s career was suspended due to this health concern:

• deafness

• blindness

• diabetes

• dementia

Challenges to concert performances during Beethoven’s time included all of the following except for:

• the absence of permanent orchestras in Vienna

• a lack of public concert halls

• difficulty booking a hall and finding performers

• government restrictions on gatherings

In Beethoven's time, concerts typically included recently-composed music from a variety of composers and genres

• True

• False

Organicism is defined as:

• the development of a large-scale work from a single musical motif

• the development of a large-scale work from multiple motives

• the development of themes via mimesis

• the development of motifs from different ostinati

Organicism is most representative of which period of music history?

• Medieval

• Classical

• Romantic

• Renaissance

Which of the following parts of sonata form is optional?

• Exposition

• Development

• Recapitulation

• Coda

The earliest operas performed in Florence were private events for aristocrats.

• True

• False

During the Romantic era there was increased interest in individual experience, and the portrayal of heartbreak, illness, and personal struggle.

• true

• false

Paul Whiteman’s 1924 concert was intended to demonstrate the potential of jazz as entertaining dance music.

• true

• false

Which the following was NOT part of Whiteman's strategy to market jazz to white audiences?

• incorporating classical music into jazz

• inviting prominent critics and performers

• featuring an all-african american band

• having Gershwin compose "Rhapsody in Blue"