MLIT Exam 3 – Radan questions with
correct answers graded A+ 2025/2026
cluster - correct answer ✔✔A chord made up of tones that are only half step or a whole step
apart is called:
Ostinato - correct answer ✔✔a motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch
throughout a section is called:
Atonality - correct answer ✔✔Absence of tonality or key is called:
The manager of an artistic ensemble - correct answer ✔✔What is an impresario?
Diaghilev - correct answer ✔✔Paris-based Russian ballet impresario who commissioned
Stravinsky to write several ballets?
A near riot - correct answer ✔✔The rite of spring opened in Paris in 1913 to:
D. All of the above - correct answer ✔✔The rite of spring is characterized by:
A. the percussive use of dissonance
B. polyrhythms
C. polytonality
D. all of above
Unpredictable rhythms and meters. - correct answer ✔✔Musical element in the Rite of Spring
could be considered the most innovative?
, Primitivism - correct answer ✔✔the deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent
rhythms and percussive sounds is known as:
A Harlem Renaissance - correct answer ✔✔In early years, William Grant Still was associated
with which artistic movement?
Ives child's impression of Fourth of July picnic and marching bands - correct answer ✔✔Charles
Ives orchestral piece "Putnam's camp, reading, Connecticut" is based
an African American spiritual - correct answer ✔✔Gershwin's summertime suggests:
Simple Gifts - correct answer ✔✔Copland's Appalachian Spring quotes the early American tune:
Jazz - correct answer ✔✔Style of African American music that developed around the turn of the
twentieth century and that incorporates elements of African music and western popular and art
music.
New Orleans - correct answer ✔✔Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?
Joplin - correct answer ✔✔American composer is known as the "King of Ragtime"?
A note whose pitch drops slightly - correct answer ✔✔What is a "blue," note?
rhythm section - correct answer ✔✔The backbone of a jazz ensemble is its
Mississippi Delta - correct answer ✔✔Which region of the United States was the birthplace of a
unique style of blues primarily sung by males?
correct answers graded A+ 2025/2026
cluster - correct answer ✔✔A chord made up of tones that are only half step or a whole step
apart is called:
Ostinato - correct answer ✔✔a motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch
throughout a section is called:
Atonality - correct answer ✔✔Absence of tonality or key is called:
The manager of an artistic ensemble - correct answer ✔✔What is an impresario?
Diaghilev - correct answer ✔✔Paris-based Russian ballet impresario who commissioned
Stravinsky to write several ballets?
A near riot - correct answer ✔✔The rite of spring opened in Paris in 1913 to:
D. All of the above - correct answer ✔✔The rite of spring is characterized by:
A. the percussive use of dissonance
B. polyrhythms
C. polytonality
D. all of above
Unpredictable rhythms and meters. - correct answer ✔✔Musical element in the Rite of Spring
could be considered the most innovative?
, Primitivism - correct answer ✔✔the deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent
rhythms and percussive sounds is known as:
A Harlem Renaissance - correct answer ✔✔In early years, William Grant Still was associated
with which artistic movement?
Ives child's impression of Fourth of July picnic and marching bands - correct answer ✔✔Charles
Ives orchestral piece "Putnam's camp, reading, Connecticut" is based
an African American spiritual - correct answer ✔✔Gershwin's summertime suggests:
Simple Gifts - correct answer ✔✔Copland's Appalachian Spring quotes the early American tune:
Jazz - correct answer ✔✔Style of African American music that developed around the turn of the
twentieth century and that incorporates elements of African music and western popular and art
music.
New Orleans - correct answer ✔✔Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?
Joplin - correct answer ✔✔American composer is known as the "King of Ragtime"?
A note whose pitch drops slightly - correct answer ✔✔What is a "blue," note?
rhythm section - correct answer ✔✔The backbone of a jazz ensemble is its
Mississippi Delta - correct answer ✔✔Which region of the United States was the birthplace of a
unique style of blues primarily sung by males?
