Music: An Appreciation, 10th Edition (Kamien)

Chapter 2: Music and Musicians in Society

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the
A)1900s.
B)1920s.
C)1940s.
D)1960s.
2
The first opera created for television was Gian-Carlo Menotti's
A)Turandot.
B)Amahl and the Night Visitors.
C)Trouble in Tahiti.
D)The Telephone.
3
Recordings of much lesser-known music multiplied in 1948 through
A)the appearance of long-playing disks.
B)audience insistence for new works.
C)government grants.
D)demand created by radio stations.
4
The most influential organization sponsoring new music after World War I was
A)the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
B)the National Broadcasting Company and its orchestra.
C)the International Society for Contemporary Music.
D)the United Federation of Musicians.
5
The best-known American ensemble created in the 1930s by a radio network to broadcast live music was the
A)NBC Symphony Orchestra.
B)Lawrence Welk Orchestra.
C)New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
D)CBS Symphony Orchestra.
6
One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was
A)Amy Beach.
B)Nadia Boulanger.
C)Sergei Diaghilev.
D)Igor Stravinsky.
Music: An Appreciation, Brief
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