Chapter 50. Jubilees and Jubilation: The African American Spiritual Tradition, MUS189 Final- Module 8, MUSIC CH 49 DEBUSSY, Music Test 2

Which of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?

Dostoyevsky

Programmatic music was discontinued in the Impressionist period.

F

impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.

F

After his conservatory studies, Chopin spent most of his productive career in _____.

France

A Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in _____.

German

Which of the following describes Harry T. Burleigh's career?

He worked for Dvořák. He arranged spirituals for voice and piano. He became an editor for a music publisher.

What is unusual about the ending of the song In the Lovely Month of May?

It does not cadence on the tonic.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Robert Schumann's In the Lovely Month of May?

It is in through-composed form.

Puccini makes reference to the music of which culture in Madame Butterfly?

Japanese usa

Which of the following composers was NOT a student of Arnold Schoenberg?

Leonard Bernstein

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is considered to reflect a combination of which cultures?

Native American African American European American

Which of the following operas is considered part of the verismo tradition?

Puccini's Tosca Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci Puccini's La bohème

Which of the following is a post-Romantic composer?

Richard Strauss Giacomo Puccini Gustav Mahler

Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

Select one: a. Chromatic and with a free rhythm b. Diatonic and dancelike c. Disjunct and forceful Feedback The correct answer is: Chromatic and with a free rhythm

The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world.

T

The whole-tone scale was a favored device of Impressionist composers.

T

mpressionist composers used various non-Western scale patterns in their works.

T

Which of the following describes the Fisk Jubilee Singers?

They raised enough money to construct a major building on the Fisk campus. They were a part of Fisk University. They toured in the United States. They toured in Europe.

A song form that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is in which form?

Through-composed form

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?

a. Pentatonic scales b. Rich orchestral color c. Unresolved dissonances d. Large-scale forms Feedback The correct answer is: Large-scale forms

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" does NOT feature _____.

a. chromaticism b. accented rhythmic drive c. homophonic texture d. antique cymbals IncorrectFEEDBACK: See p. 280. Difficulty - Hard Feedback The correct answer is: accented rhythmic drive

The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns a _____.

a. mythological creature in a dreamlike state b. baby deer just finding its legs c. magic ring that brings bad luck to its owner d. mythological creature who meets school-age children in war-torn Britain Feedback The correct answer is: mythological creature in a dreamlike state

The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as _____.

a. sonata-allegro b. rondeau c. ternary (A-B-A') d. theme and variations Feedback The correct answer is: ternary (A-B-A')

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" does NOT feature _____.

accented rhythmic drive

Harry T. Burleigh worked with the European composer ___________________ while he was teaching in the United States.

antoin darvark

Which instrument begins with the melody in the introduction to The Rite of Spring, playing in its upper-most range?

bassoon

Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

chromatic and with a free rhythm

Which of the following songs was NOT written by Stephen Foster?

coal black rose

Japan's two hundred years of isolation ended when the US Navy arrived in 1854, lead by ___________.

commeddo perry

Which European composer was an early supporter of African American musical styles like the spiritual?

dovark

The nineteenth-century trend towards evoking a culture outside the composer's in opera was known as:

exotism

Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is associated with the twentieth-century arts movement known as _____.

expressionism

According to legend, a child touched by the Elfking must die.

false

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter. (T/F)

false

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair was the most famous of Foster's songs during his lifetime.

false

Most Lied composers wrote their own words for the song.

false

Music in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America was wildly divergent from European traditions.

false

Programmatic music was discontinued in the Impressionist period. (T/F)

false

Puccini found his inspiration for Madame Butterfly after visiting Tokyo and viewing a traditional play there.

false

Romantic Lieder texts often speak of love and/or nature.

false

Spirituals fell out of circulation after the Civil War in the United States.

false

Stravinsky included authentic French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring. (T/F)

false

The character Pierrot from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire derives from an early Japanese theatrical comedy genre. (T/F)

false

The characteristics of post-Romanticism were not found in works from Italy.

false

The movement of verismo focused on the imaginative/fantastic.

false

The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small. (T/F)

false

The piano changed little technically during the nineteenth century.

false

The piano was declining in popularity at the time of the Romantic Lied.

false

The premiere of The Rite of Spring was uneventful in Paris. (T/F)

false

The style and structure of African American spirituals were in strict imitation of European models

false

The twenty-one poems used in Pierrot lunaire are all in virelai form. (T/F)

false

Nineteenth-century songwriters in the United States combined elements of all of the following EXCEPT _____.

film music

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a favorite tune of which college-level performing group?

fisk

Which instruments did Puccini use in Madame Butterfly to evoke the Japanese gagaku orchestra?

flute harp bells piccolo

In order to marry her American love, Cio-Cio-San, in Puccini's Madame Butterfly, renounces her role as a ________________.

geisha

Foster's My Old Kentucky Home was inspired by _____.

his extensive visits to the American South

Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is primarily composed in what texture?

homophonic

Stravinsky included authentic French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring.Which of the following is NOT associated with Arnold Schoenberg?

impressionism (atonality Sprechstimme Klangfarbenmelodie)

The opera Madame Butterfly is set in:

japan

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?

large-scale forms

What specific musical technique did Puccini borrow from Wagner in his Madame Butterfly?

leitomis

Which of the following was a type of racially charged theatrical variety show in the United States in the nineteenth century?

minstrel show

The texture of African American spirituals is best described as:

monophic

The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns a _____.

mythical creature in a dreamlike state

Chopin was romantically involved with George Sand, the renowned French _____.

novelist

Japanese folk melodies are often built on a five note or _____________ scale.

pentatonic

What scale is utilized in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

pentatonic

The ideals of which movement best describes the music of The Rite of Spring?

primitivism

Stravinsky is largely recognized for his revitalizing of which musical element?

rhythm

What is the basis of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

scenes of pagan Russia

The German word Sprechstimme means _____.

speechlike melody

A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in popular music, is known as _____.

strophic form

The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as _____.

ternary (ABA)

Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?

the Harlem renaissance

The single melody of the solo violin at the opening of "Un bel dì" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly is evocative of:

the clear lines

In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n) _____.

troubled clown

At the turn of the 1800s, camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background.

true

Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music. (T/F)

true

Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, was established as a college for freed slaves.

true

Impressionist composers used various non-Western scale patterns in their works. (T/F)

true

Nineteenth-century parlor music in the United States was written to be accessible to amateurs.

true

Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly focuses on the heroine, a former geisha.

true

Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is considered exotic due to its setting and plot.

true

Romantic-era piano works often had fanciful titles.

true

Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method. (T/F)

true

Schoenberg employed Sprechstimme, or speechlike melody in his Pierrot lunaire. (T/F)

true

Stephen Foster is known for his ballads, minstrel show tunes, and plantation songs.

true

Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic. (T/F)

true

The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world. (T/F)

true

The music that accompanies the lyrics of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair reflects Foster's Anglo-Irish cultural heritage.

true

The nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists.

true

The piano was the most central instrument in nineteenth-century musical culture.

true

The premiere success of the Ballets Russes was largely due to the leadership of Serge Diaghilev. (T/F)

true

The short, lyric piano work might be considered the instrumental equivalent to the nineteenth-century Lied.

true

The singing of spirituals offered the slave community a sense of solidarity

true

The whole-tone scale was a favored device of Impressionist composers. (T/F)

true

Two prominent German Romantic poets whose texts were often set to music were Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

true

The nineteenth-century trend towards realism in opera was known as:

verismo