Music Prac. Test sec. 4

______________ and the “Hellfighters” band introduced numerous French listeners to jazz.

• Aaron Anderson

• John Mawer

• James Reese Europe

• Vernon Castle

• Paul Claudel

Maurice Ravel’s first violin sonata, a student work was not published until ______________.

• 1975

• 1943

• 1961

• 1950

• 1986

Who conducted the recording of Le création du monde that was used for the USAD listening example?

• Claudio Abbado

• Thomas Beecham

• Daniel Barenboim

• Pierre Boulez

• Leonard Bernstein

Aaron Copland’s most important teacher while he was in Paris was ______________.

• Eva Sautereau-Meyer

• Nadia Boulanger

• Erik Satie

• Paul Dukas

• Maurice Ravel

One of the earliest prominent interweaving of jazz into a classical genre was La création du monde, a 1923 ballet written by ______________.

• Maurice Ravel

• Paul Dukas

• Darius Milhaud

• Claude Debussy

• Francis Poulenc

In the beginning of Ravel’s Violin Sonata, the violin is in the key of G major but the piano is in the key of ______ major.

• A

• A flat

• D

• F

• E flat

Band leader _______________ had the idea for the work that became Rhapsody in Blue.

• George White

• Fletcher Henderson

• Joe “King” Oliver

• Ben Bernie

• Paul Whiteman

The Ballets Suédois commissioned Tailleferre to write her own ballet after she ____________________.

• won a major composition award

• performed at the Paris Opera

• replaced a missing contribution for a group ballet project

• completed her first violin sonata

• married Ralph Barton

The music of Les Six drew its inspiration from all of the following EXCEPT

• counterpoint classes

• machines

• the music hall

• jazz bands

• circus bands

All of the following are movements from Copland’s Music for the Theatre EXCEPT

• Burlesque

• Epilogue

• Prelude

• Interlude

• Dance