Chapter 15: The Avant-Garde
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The term avant-garde means all of these things EXCEPT:
a. originally a French military term for troops sent ahead of the regular army to scout
unknown territory
b. in E
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Chapter 15: The Avant-Garde
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The term avant-garde means all of these things EXCEPT:
a. originally a French military term for troops sent ahead of the regular army to scout
unknown territory
b. in English, a reference to innovative artists
c. a movement to liberate artists from the restraints of tradition
d. an artistic movement typically associated with conservative social ideas
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: p. 307
TOP: The Avant-Garde
2. Which alternative term for avant-garde jazz was inspired by the title of an album by Ornette Coleman
with a reproduction of a Jackson Pollock painting on the cover?
a. fire music c. free jazz
b. anti-jazz d. the New Thing
ANS: C PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: p. 308
TOP: The Avant-Garde
3. All of the following general parameters of avant-garde jazz are described correctly EXCEPT:
a. rhythm: ambiguous pulse or several pulses at once
b. melody: no longer reliant on harmonic patterns and resolutions
c. harmony: no longer reliant on patterns based on chords or scales
d. structure: retained blues and song forms
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: pp. 308–9
TOP: The Avant-Garde
4. All of the following general parameters of avant-garde jazz are correctly described EXCEPT:
a. presentation: presented as serious, challenging art
b. instrumentation: limited to rhythm section plus horns
c. politics: entrenched in racial and antiwar struggles
ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: p. 309
TOP: The Avant-Garde
5. All of the following are true of Ornette Coleman’s early reception in New York EXCEPT:
a. He had a long engagement at the Five Spot.
b. Leonard Bernstein and Gunther Schuller declared him a genius.
c. Miles Davis and Charles Mingus were skeptical about his music.
d. No other established musicians came to hear his music.
ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: 1 REF: p. 309
TOP: The Avant-Garde
6. All of the following played in Ornette Coleman’s early groups EXCEPT:
a. Ed Blackwell c. Billy Higgins
b. Charlie Haden d. John Lewis
ANS: D PTS:
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