Tham khảo tài liệu 'how to prepare for the toefl part 45', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | MODEL TEST 8 441 12. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage CD Modem musical composition CD Charles Ives life CD The Pulitzer Prize CD Career choices 15. The word they in paragraph 1 refers to CD conductors CD performers CD interest CD compositions 13. Why didn t the public appreciate Ives music CD It was not performed for a long time. CD It was very different from the music of the time. CD The performers did not play it well. CD He did not write it down. 14. Look at the word dissonance in the passage. Click on the word in the bold text that is closest in meaning to dissonance . More Available marches and battle songs while experimenting with the effects of polytonality or the simultaneous use of two or more keys and dissonance or the clash of keys with conflicting rhythms and time. Even when he could convince some musicians to show some interest in his compositions after assessing them conductors and performers said that they were essentially unplayable. Instead he became a successful insurance executive building his company into the largest agency in the country in only two decades. Although he occasionally hired musicians to play one of his works privately for him he usually heard his music only in his imagination. After he recovered from a serious heart attack he became reconciled to the fact that his ideas especially the use of dissonance and special effects were just too different for the musical mainstream to accept. Determined to share his music with the few people who might appreciate it he published his work privately and distributed it free. In 1939 when Ives was sixty-five American pianist John Kirkpatrick played Concord Sonata in More Available marches and battle songs while experimenting with the effects of polytonality or the simultaneous use of two or more keys and dissonance or the clash of keys with conflicting rhythms and time. Even when he could convince some musicians to show some interest in his compositions after assessing .
