Module 7: 20th Century Modernism

What was Tin Pan Alley?

28th Street in Manhattan where music publishers had their businesses

Who of the following composers were students of Arnold Schoenberg?

Correct Answer(s) Anton Webern Alban Berg Incorrect Answer(s) Alban Elfed Anton Bruckner

Which of the following composers were students of Arnold Schoenberg?

Correct Answer(s) Anton Webern Alban Berg Incorrect Answer(s) Leonard Bernstein Steven Spielberg

Which of these orchestras did Nadia Boulanger conduct during her career?

Correct Answer(s) Boston Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic New York Philharmonic Incorrect Answer(s) Los Angeles Philharmonic Seattle Symphony

Which of the following statements describe George Gershwin's career?

Correct Answer(s) He wrote film scores. He won international acclaim with Rhapsody in Blue. His first big hit was with the song Swanee in 1920. Incorrect Answer(s) He lived to old age.

Which of the following composers won the Prix de Rome?

Correct Answer(s) Hector Berlioz Claude Debussy Georges Bizet Incorrect Answer(s) Fanny Mendelssohn

Which are true of Billie's Blues?

Correct Answer(s) It features clarinet improvisations. It features trumpet playing. Incorrect Answer(s) It was written by Duke Ellington. Holiday sings without embellishments.

Which of the following describe Copland's Appalachian Spring?

Correct Answer(s) It was originally a ballet. It contains an early American song associated with the Shakers. Incorrect Answer(s) It was originally an orchestral suite. It is about the Civil War.

Which of the following artists is associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s?

Correct Answer(s) Langston Hughes Richmond Barthé Augusta Savage Incorrect Answer(s) Alice Walker

Who of the following were associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?

Correct Answer(s) Nijinsky Karsavina Picasso Incorrect Answer(s) Dostoyevsky

Who of the following artists are famous for their Cubist-style works?

Correct Answer(s) Picasso Gris Braque Incorrect Answer(s) Dalí

William Grant Still based the movements of his Suite for Violin and Piano on works of which of the following artists?

Correct Answer(s) Richmond Barthé Sargent Johnson Augusta Savage Incorrect Answer(s) Alain Locke

Which types of tunes did Charles Ives incorporate in his Country Band March?

Correct Answer(s) Sousa marches patriotic tunes children's songs hymns Incorrect Answer(s) big band jazz New Orleans jazz

Which of the following characterize the premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in 1924?

Correct Answer(s) The concert was billed as "An Experiment in Modern Music." The work was conducted by Paul Whiteman. Incorrect Answer(s) It was poorly attended. Gershwin's work was not well-received.

Which of the following are characteristics of big-band jazz?

Correct Answer(s) The music is arranged and composed. Duke Ellington played a major role in its development. Incorrect Answer(s) It wasn't very popular in the 1930s and 40s. The performances are entirely improvised.

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

Correct Answer(s) University of California at Los Angeles University of Southern California Incorrect Answer(s) Princeton University Leipzig Conservatory

Which of the following were popular during the Great Depression in the United States?

Correct Answer(s) big-band jazz Broadway musical theater film music Incorrect Answer(s) organum

Listen to this excerpt from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which was written in the early twentieth century: Stravinsky: Rite of Spring0:54 Keeping in mind the changes in rhythm, melody, harmony, and orchestration that occured during the early twentieth century, choose the musical traits that best describe this piece.

Correct Answer(s) changing meters with strong, uneven accents harsh, dissonant block chords Incorrect Answer(s) steady meter with evenly placed accents consonant, lyrical melody

Which of the following describe Revueltas's Homage to Federico García Lorca?

Correct Answer(s) dissonant harmony polyphonic syncopated rhythm Incorrect Answer(s) evokes a flamenco ensemble homophonic

Which of the following describes the harmony and melody in William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano?

Correct Answer(s) flatted (lowered) sevenths flatted (lowered) thirds modal Incorrect Answer(s) atonal

Which of the following describes Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?

Correct Answer(s) homophonic texture triple meter Incorrect Answer(s) monophonic texture duple meter

Which styles are incorporated in the music of early twentieth-century modernist composers from the United States?

Correct Answer(s) jazz blues folk Incorrect Answer(s) Indian raga

Which of the following are characteristics of George Gershwin's Summertime from Porgy and Bess and which are not?

Correct Answer(s) minor key homophonic Incorrect Answer(s) major key polyphonic

Which of the following is a characteristic of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

Correct Answer(s) polytonality large orchestra dissonance Incorrect Answer(s) use of chamber orchestra regularly accented meter

Which of the following describe mariachi music?

Correct Answer(s) shifting meters verse/chorus structure strong accents Incorrect Answer(s) nonmetric repertory of mostly marches

Which of the following are characteristics of mariachi music?

Correct Answer(s) syncopated rhythms trumpets and violins, playing in thirds Incorrect Answer(s) flute and clarinets dominating the melody lines quarter tones

Listen to this excerpt from Webern's Variations for Orchestra, which was written in the early twentieth century: Webern: Variations for Orchestra, Op. 300:45 Keeping in mind the changes in rhythm, melody, harmony, and orchestration that occured during the early twentieth century, choose the musical traits that best describe this piece.

Correct Answer(s) unpredictable melodic lines sparse, thin orchestral texture Incorrect Answer(s) lyrical, consonant melody lush, strings-focused orchestral accompaniment

Listen to this excerpt from Berg's Wozzeck, which was written in the early twentieth century: Berg: Wozzeck1:00 Keeping in mind the changes in rhythm, melody, harmony, and orchestration that occured during the early twentieth century, choose the musical traits that best describe this piece.

Correct Answer(s) unpredictable orchestral accompaniment disjunct, speech-like melodic line Incorrect Answer(s) lyrical, consonant melody lush, strings-focused orchestral accompaniment

Which instruments did Lili Boulanger learn to play as a child?

Correct Answer(s) violin harp piano Incorrect Answer(s) marimba trombone

Which of the following were common forms of musical expression amongst African American communities in the nineteenth century?

Correct Answer(s) work songs ring shouts spirituals Incorrect Answer(s) 16-bar blues

Who of the following was an artist in the Dada group?

Marcel Duchamp

Which composer is credited with abandoning music that has a tonal center and establishing a new system?

Schoenberg

During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?

big-band jazz

Match each characteristic to the blues or jazz style that it describes.

big-band jazz: arranged and composed music cool jazz: laid-back with dense harmonies blues: three-line stanzas set to a repeating harmonic pattern New Orleans jazz: small ensemble improvising simultaneously bebop: two-note trademark phrase

Many early twentieth-century composers explored - meters.

changing

The big band phenomenon ended prior to World War II.

false

The string section remained the heart of the orchestra in the early twentieth century.

false

The melodic element of twentieth-century music can be described as which?

instrumentally conceived

George M. Cohan was a composer of - songs.

patriotic

The early twentieth-century emphasis on rhythm brought the -group into greater prominence, and the piano found a place in the - ensemble.

percussion orchestral

Dadaists rejected the thought that art was something to be revered.

true

Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.

true

Salvador Dalí was a part of the surrealist movement.

true

The term "modernisms" describes a group of stylistic movements in the early twentieth century.

true

Immigrant composers were important in the history of -.

vaudeville

In the early twentieth century, throughout the United States, minstrel shows expanded into the tradition of -.

vaudeville