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What influenced Charles Ives' music composition?
What influenced Charles Ives' music composition?
- His father's influence and his teacher's guidance
- His hometown and his father's dissonant piano playing (correct)
- His father's dissonant piano playing and his own travels
- His father's bandmaster role and his mother's singing
What did Charles Ives' father encourage him to do?
What did Charles Ives' father encourage him to do?
- Compose traditional symphonies
- Avoid experimenting with dissonance
- Learn to stretch his ears (correct)
- Focus on playing a single melody on the piano
What did Charles Ives' childhood memories of Danbury bring to his music?
What did Charles Ives' childhood memories of Danbury bring to his music?
- Nostalgia (correct)
- Dissonance
- Classical influences
- Innovation
