MUSI 2730 Buergel Exam 4

False

Alban Berg wrote only one opera, Wozzeck. True or false?

False

Appalachian Spring is never performed as a concert work. True or false?

False

Arnold Schoenberg was a student of Alban Berg. True or false?

Second Viennese School.

Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern are known as the

All possible answers.

Art is sometimes designed to create a place of inspiration. shine a light on social problems. evoke ideal beauty. All possible answers.

Martha Graham

At its premiere, who danced the lead role in Appalachian Spring?

Expressionist

Berg's Wozzeck is considered to be a(n) _____ work.

an early Romantic play by Georg Büchner.

Berg's Wozzeck was inspired by

False

Berg's use of harmony in Wozzeck is strictly atonal. True or false?

American modernist

Charles Ives is best described as a(n) ______ composer.

the Far West and rural life

Copland wrote music about which part of the United States and its culture?

Anglo-American folk melodies.

Copland's American style is primarily rooted in

True

Copland's music continues to be widely heard at events (or even in commercials) that aim to emphasize national pride, as well as incorporated in movie scenes that illustrate the grandeur of the West. True or false?

well-known musical quotations from his Protestant New England upbringing

Country Band March includes ______, an integral part of Ives's compositional technique.

wind band.

Country Band March is arranged for

True

Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music. True or false?

his second period, atonal-Expressionism

From which phase of Schoenberg's compositional output does Pierrot lunaire originate?

blood poisoning from an infected insect bite

How did Berg die?

selling insurance

How did Charles Ives make a living?

having killed his lover.

In Berg's opera Wozzeck, the main character's final breakdown is the result of

troubled clown.

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

parallel chords, floating harmonies

In The Dance of Youths and Maidens, which musical elements do NOT contribute to the primeval sound of the orchestra? pizzicato and successive down-bow strokes in the strings unpredictable accents parallel chords, floating harmonies dissonant, violent chords

True

In Wozzeck, the title character has hallucinations and is the subject of experimentation by his superiors. True or false?

All possible answers.

In his Country Band March, Ives simulates the realism of an amateur band by having the musicians

painting

In which discipline of the arts did Expressionism originate?

as the norm of American musical life.

Ives viewed dissonance

each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.

Klangfarbenmelodie is a technique in which

atonal.

Music that rejects the framework of key is called

True

Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method. True or false?

Vienna

Schoenberg was born in

a song cycle.

Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is

Alban Berg and Anton Webern.

Schoenberg's most important students were

Ballets Russes

Serge Diaghilev was impresario for which Paris-based dance company?

Russian folk tunes.

Some of Stravinsky's melodies quote

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Stravinsky revitalized rhythm by increasing its complexity. using polyrhythms. using changing meters. All possible answers.

True

Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic. True or false?

speechlike melody.

The German word Sprechstimme means

neo-Classical.

The Rite of Spring can be described as all of the following EXCEPT: avant-garde. neo-Classical. modernist. primitivist.

True

The Rite of Spring can be performed as a concert work. True or false?

Edvard Munch

The art of _____, who is famous for his painting The Scream, influenced Arnold Schoenberg and his disciples.

the children's discovery of the murder.

The final scene of Wozzeck revolves around

primitivism

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

Shaker

The melody, "Simple Gifts," heard in Appalachian Spring, comes from the ______ tradition.

False

The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small. True or false?

is a passionate lament for the life and death of Wozzeck.

The orchestral interlude before the last scene in Wozzeck

True

The play that inspired Berg to write Wozzeck is based on gruesome, real-life events. True or false?

New England

The source of inspiration for Charles Ives's music was rooted in the traditions of which region of America?

arranges twelve chromatic pitches, each carrying equal weight.

Twelve-tone technique

the "grand old man" of American music.

Upon receiving wider recognition of his music, Ives was proclaimed as the

a Pulitzer Prize

What did Ives win in 1947, at the age of seventy-three?

He became a leader in the revitalization of rhythm in European art music.

What did Stravinsky achieve through his ballet scores?

They were influenced by movements in painting.

What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?

"Scenes of Pagan Russia"

What is the subtitle of The Rite of Spring?

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What was groundbreaking about Nijinsky's choreography for The Rite of Spring? The dancers made jerky and irregular movements with individual limbs. The dancers jumped up and down in place. The dancers formed rotating geometric patterns onstage. All possible answers.

Yale University

Where did Ives study composition?

University of California, Los Angeles

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

United States

Where did Stravinsky live in the last years of his life?

rural Pennsylvania

Where does Appalachian Spring take place?

Brooklyn, New York

Where was Aaron Copland born?

Vienna

Where was Alban Berg born?

Russia

Where was Stravinsky born?

ritornello form

Which Baroque-era compositional technique is NOT used in The Moonfleck?

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Which ballets did Diaghilev commission from the composer Igor Stravinsky? The Firebird Petrushka The Rite of Spring All possible answers.

Aaron Copland

Which composer believed music should "serve the American people"?

All possible answers.

Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement? Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern All possible answers.

Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven

Which composers are from the so-called First Viennese School?

compositions designed for wide appeal

Which describes Copland's compositional aim?

Pierrot is disturbed by a white spot on the collar of his jet-black jacket.

Which describes Pierrot's actions in The Moonfleck?

female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments

Which describes the instrumentation of Pierrot lunaire?

short fragments, limited ranges, extended repetition

Which describes the melodic material in The Rite of Spring?

Shouts from the audience disrupted the dancers, which temporarily interrupted the show.

Which describes the premiere of The Rite of Spring?

post-Impressionist

Which description does not apply to Berg's Wozzeck?

rooted in French Impressionist traditions

Which does NOT describe Berg's musical style? rooted in German Romanticism drew on twelve-tone system leaned toward formal structures of the past rooted in French Impressionist traditions

Wozzeck and Marie get married.

Which does not occur in the Wozzeck story line? Wozzeck and Marie get married. Wozzeck cuts Marie's throat. Marie is unfaithful to Wozzeck. Wozzeck drowns.

lush, Romantic harmonies

Which elements are NOT associated with the music of Charles Ives? harsh dissonance lush, Romantic harmonies polyrhythms All possible answers

opera

Which genre describes Berg's Wozzeck?

ballet

Which genre describes The Rite of Spring?

bassoon

Which instrument, playing in its highest register, begins The Rite of Spring?

"jazz concertos"

Which is NOT part of Copland's compositional output? three ballets film scores "jazz concertos" orchestral works

Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry.

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)

velvety flute solo in the lower register

Which musical element is NOT heard in Game of Abduction? velvety flute solo in the lower register seemingly random accents horn calls scurrying melodic figures

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Which musical element is present in Wozzeck? use of leitmotifs Sprechstimme passionate lyricism 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.

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.

children play on hobbyhorses

Which of the following does NOT reflect Expressionism in Wozzeck? characters who were utterly powerless to control the world around them focus on human foibles and depravity children play on hobbyhorses disturbed man moves between reality and hallucination

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Which of the following does Stravinsky use to minimize harmonic changes? ostinatos pedal points melodic repetition All possible answers.

use of chamber orchestra

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring? dissonance polytonality use of chamber orchestra polyrhythms

Impressionism

Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire? atonality klangfarbenmelodie Impressionism sprechstimme

The Star Spangled Banner

Which of the following is NOT quoted in Ives's Country Band March?

Dissonance was viewed as a temporary disturbance, resolving to consonance.

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.

Nadia Boulanger.

While in Paris during his early twenties, Copland studied with

Arnold Schoenberg

Who established a system to give all twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Who of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev? Pablo Picasso Vaslav Nijinsky Nicholas Roerich Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Martha Graham

Who was Copland's collaborator for Appalachian Spring?

dancers with the Ballet Russes

Who were Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina?

Alban Berg

Who wrote the libretto to Wozzeck?

He left after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Why did Schoenberg leave Berlin in 1933?

Twelve-tone works were alien to the spirit of the Third Reich.

Why were Berg's works banned in Germany during WWII?

German

Wozzeck is sung in which language?

Nicholas Roerich

______ designed the experimental stage design for The Rite of Spring.