When listening to Brahms’ music, one can enjoy it by
a. mainly paying attention to its sensuous qualities
b. mainly paying attention to the craft and skill with the music is created
c. paying attention to both its sensuous qualities and the composer’s skill
d. imagining potential movie scenes that the music could enhance
e. None of these choices
ANS: c.
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years immediately preceding WWI, and died in New York in 1971. During his career he created masterpieces in many different genres, and he personified the cultural pluralism and stylistic diversity of cutting-edge art music.
a. Debussy b. Varése c. Schoenberg d. Copland e. Stravinsky
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
A steady movement from one chord to another in a song is known as a ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
What does Crawford use to give Piano Study in Mixed Accents a sense of a beginning, middle, and end?
a. tonal shifts b. register c. timbral changes d. dynamics