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In the - century, composers emancipated dissonance by freeing it from the obligation that it need resolve to a -.

twentieth , consonance

What type of character is Pierrot from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?

a poet rascal-down

- is a technique in which each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.

klangfarbenmelodie

- composer Arnold Schoenberg was highly influential in the movement called -.

Austrian , expressionism

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

Expressionism

- painting, such as the works of Edvard Munch, influenced composers and writers.

Expressionist

The twenty-one poems used in Pierrot lunaire are all in virelai form.

False

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First period Post-Wagnerian Romantic style in which he used key signatures and tonality Second period Atonal-Expressionist style in which he emancipated dissonance and any sense of a home key Third period twelve-tone method developed and later refined in the United States

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Klangfarbenmelodie - each note of a melody is played by a different instrument Sprechstimme - melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches

What does the German word sprechstimme mean in English?

Speed-Like melody

Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music.

True

In his third style period, Schoenberg exploited a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method

True

Schoenberg employed sprechstimme, or speech-like melody, in his Pierrot lunaire.

True

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

University of California at Los Angeles University of Southern California

The system in music composition in which all twelve tones of the chromatic scale are equally important is known as -.

atonality

Which of the following characteristics are found in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire and which are not?

disjunct melody fast, free-flowing rhythm

Twentieth-century composers ___ dissonance by freeing it from the obligation to resolve to ___

emancipated , consonance

Match the characteristics of Schoenberg's The Moonfleck to their correct musical elements.

melody - disjunct texture - counterpoint with imitation harmony - dissonance form - rondeau

Schoenberg's composition Pierrot lunaire is a(n) -.

song cycle

Which of the following characterize the musical language of Expressionism and which do not?

extreme instrumental registers wide leaps in melody

What is Pierrot attempting to do in The Moonfleck?

rub a spot of moonlight off his jacket

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

troubled crown