MUS 1705 Exam 1 Practice Questions And Correct Verified Answers Success Guaranteed.
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When was La Taranta made? - correct answer In 1961
Where did La Taranta take place? - correct answer In Southern Naples
What was the main key of La Taranta? - correct answer Women us...
When was La Taranta made? - correct answer In 1961
Where did La Taranta take place? - correct answer In Southern Naples
What was the main key of La Taranta? - correct answer Women used dancing as a
way to alleviate depression & limited freedoms.
Ethos in music - correct answer The effects that music can have on a listener
Ramifications include - correct answer censorship by Plato & education and therapy
by Aristotle
When was jazz banned? - correct answer In 1933
Why was jazz banned? - correct answer Contemporary attitudes and moral panics.
What did they call the jazz banning? - correct answer "Jazz intoxication" House bill
194
Edgard Varese - correct answer (1883-1965) French. He worked noise into musical
compositions. Mostly made with electronic and recorded sounds & indefinite pitches.
What did Varese compose? - correct answer "Ionisation" in 1931 for 13
percussionists. It included cowbells and sirens.
Oliver Messiaen - correct answer (1908-1992) He was French, Catholic, and liked
birds. He transcribed birdsong into beautiful compositions. Has something to do with St. Francis of
Assisi.
, John Cage - correct answer (1912-1992) American, practiced Zen Buddhism. He
treated all sounds and noise as equal (even silence).
What did Cage compose? - correct answer 4'33" in 1952 (a silent composition) and
"Water Walk" in 1960 (where he hit things with everyday objects)
Pauline Oliveros - correct answer American. Incorporated accordion into electronic
listening & sonic meditations. Their mind was very focused on open listening.
David Dunn - correct answer Wrote about the purposeful listening in Complex
States of Time (1997-1998).
What was the Purposeful Listening in Complex States of Time about? - correct answer
It gave precise directions on how to listen to a piece of music.
Pythagoras - correct answer (500 BCE) Heard hammers clanging at different pitches.
Experimented with proportions (intervals and such).
Boethius - correct answer (500 CE) Medieval philosopher who reviewed upon the
fundamentals of music.
What were Boethius' theories about producing music? - correct answer He
conceived music as numbers, produced by: 1. Musica universalis, 2. musica humana, 3. musica
instrumentalis.
Know these names: - correct answer Robert Fludd & Johannes Kepler)
What did David Dunn focus on in music? - correct answer Music in physics, bio-
acoustics, and ecology.
What did Dunn compose? - correct answer "Listening to what I cannot hear" (2008).
It included ultrasonic microphones and it was lowered to audible range.
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