Section 6.4

James Horner composed the score for

A) Titanic B) Gone with the Wind C) Star Wars D) King Kong

The unique features of Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" is its

A) spoken text derived from Lincoln's speeches and letters

B) quotations of Civil War melodies

C) spoken text from the Declaration Of Independence

D) use of quotations of Lincoln's favorite song

Which of the following pairs did not collaborate to write music and lyrics for a musical?

A) George and Ira Gershwin B) Joplin and Cohan C) Bernstein and Sondheim D) Rodgers and Hammerstein

Which of the following is Copland's best-known twelve-tone composition?

A) Billy the Kid B) Piano Variations C) Connotations for Orchestra D) Fanfare for the Common Man

New Orleans jazz is also known as

A) swing jazz B) Dixieland C) big band D) the blues

1) James Horner composed the score for A) Titanic. He is a famous American composer who wrote music to accompany movies. During his career, he wrote over 100 film scores, and Titanic was one of the project that he took up as a orchestrator. He also wrote scores for such famous movies as: Avatar, Aliens and for many others.

2) The unique features of Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" is i's A) spoken text derived from Lincoln's speeches and letters. This classical orchestral work includes the most famous quotes and excerpts excerpts of Abraham Lincoln's great documents. Most of the excerpts provided in the Portrait belong to Gettysburg Address.

3) The pair which did not collaborate to write music and lyrics for a musical B) Joplin and Cohan. Janis Joplin and Leonard Cohen had a very close, intimate relationships but they never collaborated one with another. Many critics would say that they inspired each other and kind of had an influence, but they did not work together.

4) C) Connotations for Orchestra is Copland's best-known twelve-tone composition. This technique, which is also known as dodecaphony, was created because of a Copland's will to make all the notes of the chromatic scale sound as often as one another in a piece of music. At the same time he aimed to prevent the emphasis of any one note.

5) New Orleans jazz is also known as B) Dixieland. You can also come across this style of music called hot jazz or sometimes traditional jazz. It's main pecularity is that it is based on the music that developed in New Orleans, at the very beginning of the 20th century.