Final Exam v8 part 2
Schoenberg's most important students were
Alban Berg and Anton Webern.
Which of the following describes musical elements of Expressionism? extraordinarily wide leaps in melody instruments in their extreme registers hyper-expressive harmonies All possible answers.
All possible answers
Which of the following describes Pierrot lunaire? avant-garde experiments with sound pushed boundaries of convention All possible answers.
All possible answers.
Who established a system to give all twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance? Ludwig van Beethoven Arnold Schoenberg Claude Debussy Nadia Boulanger
Arnold Schoenberg
Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement?
Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern
For what purpose did Lili Boulanger write Psalm 24?
As an expression of personal devotion.
Serge Diaghilev was impresario for which Paris-based dance company?
Ballets Russes
Which statement does NOT describe dissonance in early-twentieth century music? Dissonance became the norm. Dissonance could serve as a final cadence. Dissonance was viewed as a temporary disturbance, resolving to consonance. Dissonance was freed from its need to resolve to consonance.
Dissonance was viewed as a temporary disturbance, resolving to consonance.
The art of _____, who is famous for his painting The Scream, influenced Arnold Schoenberg and his disciples.
Edvard Munch
Who of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All of the following composers were winners of the Prix de Rome EXCEPT
Gabriel Fauré
What did Stravinsky achieve through his ballet scores?
He became a leader in the revitalization of rhythm in European art music.
Why did Schoenberg leave Berlin in 1933? He found a better job in Vienna. He left after Adolf Hitler came to power. He was offered a position at the Royal College of Music in London. He won the Prix de Rome.
He left after Adolf Hitler came to power.
Which is NOT true of James Reese Europe?
He was the most successful and profitable Tin Pan Alley composer.
Which statement does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's family?
Her mother won the Prix de Rome in 1917
_____ designed the experimental stage design for The Rite of Spring.
Nicholas Roerich
Which describes Pierrot's actions in The Moonfleck? Pierrot is disturbed by a white spot on the collar of his jet-black jacket. The moon illuminates a crystal flask as Pierrot paints his face. Pierrot revels in memories of old times as he gazes at the moon. With a grotesquely large bow, Pierrot serenades on a viola in the moonlight.
Pierrot is disturbed by a white spot on the collar of his jet-black jacket.
Some of Stravinsky's melodies quote
Russian folk tunes
What is the subtitle of The Rite of Spring?
Scenes of Pagan Russia"
Which is NOT true of the text of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire? The text is drawn from a collection of poems by the Belgian poet Albert Giraud. The poetry is in German translation. Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry. Each poem is a rondeau (a fifteenth century verse form).
Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry.
Which describes Lili Boulanger's instrumental training? Correct!
She was a precocious child and learned to sing and play violin, cello, harp, and piano.
Which does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's compositional output?
She wrote only sacred music
Which describes the premiere of The Rite of Spring?
Shouts from the audience disrupted the dancers, which temporarily interrupted the show.
Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method. T or F
T
Which ballets did Diaghilev commission from the composer Igor Stravinsky?
The Rite of Spring Petrushka The Firebird
What was groundbreaking about Nijinsky's choreography for The Rite of Spring?
The dancers jumped up and down in place The dancers formed rotating geometric patterns onstage. The dancers made jerky and irregular movements with individual limbs.
Why would Psalm 24 have been incompatible with the rules governing the services of the Catholic Church until 1963?
The text is in French
What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?
They were influenced by movements in painting.
Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music.
True
Where did Stravinsky live in the last years of his life?
USA
Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?
University of California, Los Angeles
Schoenberg was born in
Vienna.
Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is
a song cycle
Which of the following does NOT pertain to modernism of the early twentieth century?
an embracing and continuation of nineteenth-century models
_____ music gives equal importance to the twelve tones of the chromatic scale.
atonal
Music that rejects the framework of key is called
atonal.
Which genre describes The Rite of Spring?
ballet
Which instrument, playing in its highest register, begins The Rite of Spring? Correct!
bassoon
During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?
big-band jazz
Many early twentieth-century composers exploited _____ meters.
changing
Which of the following does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?
clearly in a major key
All of the following reflect Dadaism EXCEPT:
complexities of Western art embraced
From the 1800s, composers of sacred music have
conveyed their own spiritual convictions
Who were Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina?
dancers with the Ballets Russes
The expression of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 is
dramatic, with an ethereal middle section
Klangfarbenmelodie is a technique in which
each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.
During the early years of the twentieth century, French composers
embraced both Impressionism and innovative harmonic language.
Features of early musical modernism included lyrical, conjunct melodic lines.
false
Lili Boulanger won the Prix de Rome for her setting of Psalm 24.
false
The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small.
false
Winners of the Prix de Rome traveled from Rome to Paris to study for three years.
false
Lili Boulanger rejected innovative harmonic language in her work
fasle
Which describes the instrumentation of Pierrot lunaire? solo voice and piano female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments female vocalist and string quartet solo voice, string quartet, and piano
female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments
Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 closes
fortissimo
The Prix de Rome was a competition open to composers from which country?
france
In which language is Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 sung?
french
Which two influential arts movements arose surrounding World War I?
futurism and Dadaism
Winners of the Prix de Rome
gained instant fame and recognition received a monetary award were granted three years of study in Rome
From which phase of Schoenberg's compositional output does Pierrot lunaire originate?
his second period, atonal-Expressionism
Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire? atonality klangfarbenmelodie Impressionism sprechstimme
impressionism
The Prix de Rome was open to women
in the early years of the twentieth century
Early in the twentieth century, musical Impressionism
influenced composers across Europe and the United States
The melodic element of twentieth-century music can be described as
instrumentally conceived
When did the first wave of modernist attitudes take hold?
just before World War I
______ was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome.
lili Boulanger
The Rite of Spring can be described as all of the following EXCEPT
neo classical
How many Psalm texts did Lili Boulanger set to music in Psalm 24?
one
In which discipline of the arts did Expressionism originate?
painting
In The Dance of Youths and Maidens, which musical elements do NOT contribute to the primeval sound of the orchestra?
parallel chords, floating harmonies
Which of the following does Stravinsky use to minimize harmonic changes?
pedal points melodic repetition ostinatos
Stacked chords of six or seven notes eventually led to
polyharmony
Two or more streams of harmony against each other creates
polyharmony
Simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns is referred to as
polyrhythm
What is NOT an example of an early twentieth-century modernism?
post-Romanticism
The ideals of which movement describes the music of The Rite of Spring?
primitivism
What powerful cultural phenomenon did modern musicians often grapple with?
prominence of sound recordings of vernacular traditions
Which does NOT apply to Irving Berlin's legacy?
received the Congressional Medal of Honor
Which Baroque-era compositional technique is NOT used in The Moonfleck?
ritornello form
Where was Stravinsky born?
russia
Which describes the melodic material in The Rite of Spring?
short fragments, limited ranges, extended repetition
Which of the following does NOT describe modernist composers' use of rhythm?
single meter prevailing for an entire movement
Avant-garde composers
sought to break from social and artistic conventions. distinguished themselves from mass-market taste distinguished themselves from high culture
The German word Sprechstimme means
speechlike melody
MUSICAL MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES Tin Pan Alley was a
street in Manhattan where music publishers had their businesses.
Which does not apply to early-twentieth century orchestration?
strings continue to be the heart of the orchestra
Lili Boulanger
suffered chronic illness most of her life and died at the young age of twenty-four.
Which describes the performing forces of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?
tenor solo, SATB chorus, brass, harp, organ, timpani
Which describes the form of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?
three part, A-B-A
In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n)
troubled clown.
Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe provided fresh ideas of rhythm for some Western composers in the twentieth century.
true
Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.
true
Lili Boulanger was influenced by Impressionism.
true
Songwriter George M. Cohan received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his inspirational song Over There.
true
Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic.
true
The Rite of Spring can be performed as a concert work.
true
Which describes Arnold Schoenberg's approach to harmonic organization?
twelve-tone technique atonality serialism
Which does NOT describe the goal of early twentieth-century modernists?
unity of expression, one modernism
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?
use of chamber orchestra
Stravinsky revitalized rhythm by
using polyrhythms using changing meters increasing its complexity
Which musical element is NOT heard in Game of Abduction?
velvety flute solo in the lower register
