Music 121 Test 3

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Which is true of the fifth movement of Fantastic symphony

A plainchant, melody, Dies, Irae, is heard in this section

Who composed the Nocturne in F-sharp

Federick Chopin

Who was the earliest and known as the greatest master of the lied

Franz Schubert

Which terms refers to a synthesis of many of the arts into one unified work or total work of art

Gesamtkunstwerk

Which Statement about Aaron Copland is False?

He was a greatly Avant-grade modernist innovator and was not interested in writing music "for the people"

Which statement about Charles Ive's compositional style is False

He wrote music in a Romantic period style

Who composed the Fantastic Symphony

Hector Berlioz

Which statement about Fanny Mendelssohn is false?

Her compositions were widely admired and she was accepted as a professional composer during her lifetime

The Fantastic Symphony includes

Idee Fixe

Who composed The Rite of Spring

Igor Stravinsky

Which important Late Romantic Composer , who's violin concerto we studied, responded to the unbridled emotionalism of Romanticism with a return to older structures: Viennese Criticism

Johannes Brahms

The father of chance music is

John Cage

We Watched an excerpt from an old black and white TV game show featuring

John Cage

The composer most reliable for evaluating to a new level of self-expression to begin the romantic era:

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Which two composers were known for their large Orchestras and great orchestration?

Mahler and Berlioz

Which statement is false

Schumann's musical carer was over shadowed by that of his wife, the musical gifted Clara Wieck

What were the two most important elements of Wagner's operatic style?

The concept of Gesmikunstwerk and the technique of letmotiv

The quality most prized by Romantic Artists was:

The integrity of the expression of individual feeling

What is Characteristics of most nationalistic Music?

The use of the folk music in each century

Leitmotivs are developed by means of

Thematic Transformation

What happens to Radames and Aida in the Tomb Scene

They will die in the tomb

The cartoon we watched in class, featured in music of Franz Liszt and which two characters?

Tom and Jerry

Maurice Ravels Piano Concerto in G:

Uses elements of American Jazz

All of the following are characteristics of thematic unity in Romantic symphonic music except:

Using the same themes in several different symphonies

Romantic treatment of tone color included?

combining and blending different instrumental tone colors in innovative ways with larger orchestras

What does the piano accompaniment to Erlkonig bring to mind

the pounding of a horse' hooves

Arnold Schoenberg invented a method that garuntees that no one pitch in the chromatic scale is more important than the others. This method is

the twelve-tone system (serialism

All of the following characterize a modernist approach to melody except:

the use of long, sweeping, beautiful, inspired melodies

Who composed Music for strings, percussion, and celesta

Bela Bartok

The composer____ is generally regarded as the most flamboyant pianist and greatest virtuosos of the Romantic Era

Franz Liszt

Who composed "Erikonig"

Franz Schubert

Who composed Aidia

Giuseppe Verdi

Which late Romantic Composer responded to late Romanticism with a bittersweet Nostalgia for Lost Innocence

Gustav Mahler

The model for El Nino was

Handel's Messiah

Who composed El Nino

John Adams

Who composed West Side story?

Leonard Bernstein

What did Wagner call his new style of Opera in the 1850's

Music Drama

Swan Lake, The Nut Cracker, and Sleeping Beauty are all ballets composed by

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Who composed Romeo and Juliet?

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Three of the leading first-phase modernists composers were

Stravinsky, Debussy, and Schoenburg

A song cycle

group of songs with a common poetic theme or common poet or other unifying element

Cultivated music is _______ and vernacular music is _____

imported western art music and ; of the people

Which is true of Webern's Five Orchestral Pieces?

it is extremely short and atonal

Which is true of program music?

it refers to some non-musical idea such as a poetic or literary work.

Which American musical style caught Stravinsky's ear?

jazz

Which of the other arts had the greatest influence on the early Romantic composers

literature

Who had the greatest influence on early romantic composers

ludwig van Beethoven

A character piece is a

miniature composition for piano

In the nineteenth century, what instrument was the most likely to be composed for and played as a solo instrument?

piano

Post_World War 2 composers were intent on:

searching for a new sound materials

What are the two basic forms of lieder?

strophic and through-composed

Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg are often referred to as

the Second Viennese School

Which describes the emotional goal of music in the nineteenth century?

a search for freedom of individual self-expression, artistic freedom

the important new member of the romantic orchestra was

conductor

The rhythm section of a jazz ensemble includes

drums piano bass

Aidia was commissioned for

A new Opera House in Cairo, Egypt

The Two key features of jazz preformance style are

improvisation and highly developed syncopation

George Gershwin was known for

including jazz in classical compositions

Compared to the classical orchestra, the typical Romantic orchestra was:

larger and blended tone colors in a new way

The nineteeth-century German genre consisting of a of a musical setting of a short poem for voice and piano is the

lied

Debussy's enduring contributions to twentieth- century music were in the areas of

piano music, orchestration and elevation of tone color

The Premier of The Rite of Spring involve

primitive fertility rites

Music without signing but derived from a poem, story, or other literacy source, is called:

program music

Pictures at an Exhibition are considered

program music

Fantastic Symphony is an

program symphony

Increasingly, the focal point for the performance of Romantic music was the

public concert hall

Varese was known as an innovative composer in the area of

rhythm and electronic music

The musical term applied to flexibility in rhythm and tempo is?

rubato

A Combination of song and speech( speech-song) used by Schoenberg is called:

sprechstimme

An Orchestral work composed later in the romantic period in one movement with a free from and with a program is called

symphonic poem

When the accents are moved slightly ahead of the beat, the effect is called:

syncopation

Which purpose does harmony have in the romantic period?

-To accompany melodies -Composed for its own sake; just the sound of it

The dates of the Musical period "The 20th Century"

1900-Present

in the early twentieth century, harmony definitely:

became more dissonant

Modernist composers composed the music they did

because they felt the natural progression of where music should go

Chopin was most noted for composing

character pieces for piano

The preforming forces in Erkonig are consistent with all German Leid and they are:

one soloist and piano

Euibius and Florestan are

Charector pieces

Who composed The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People's Outdoor meeting?

Charles Ives

Who composed Poeme Electronique?

Edgard Varese

Who was not a Romantic Composer

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Rite of Spring is

a ballet

Another term for chance music is

aleatoric music

Poeme Electronique

an electronic composition

What is a concert overture

an over that is not connected to any following music, such as an opera, but usually has a programmatic element

Miniatures were generally heard

as separate composition

Wasseck is

atonal

The New modernist Composers

changed melody,harmony and Tonailty

Bela Bartok had many careers. He was a composer as well as an

ethno musicologist and co director of the Budapest Academy of Music

Music in which simple melodies, motives, harmonies, are repeated many times and change in small increments over long periods of time is called

minimalism

In composing a romantic grandiose composition, composers created works with

more movements, longer length and bigger orchestras

The technique of having the same theme fragment reappear with some transformation at loosely recurring intervals is:

thematic transformation

Who composed Appalachian Spring

Aaron Copland

IN class, we watched an excerpt from

Aidia and the Valkyrie

Who composed Wasseck

Alban Berg

The composer who originated serialism was

Arnoald Schoenberg

The leading expressionist composer was

Arnold Schoenberg

Appalachian Spring is an

Ballet about a pioneer celebration in Pennsylvania

The major works of Stravinsky's early period were

Ballets

One of the main sources of American popular music in the form of Musical theater was and is

Broadway in New York

Which composer was called an Impressionist

Claude Debussy

Who composed Clouds from Three nocturnes?

Claude Debussy

Who composed Pictures at an Exhibition?

Modest Mussorgky

Which style did Bartok Embrace>

Nationalism

The Artistic movement that came about after World War 1 and that signified a rejection of Modernism, Romantic emotionality and a return to the styles of earlier composers was

Neoclassicism

Wasseck is an

Opera

The progression of Jazz History progresses from

Ragtime- Blues- New Orleans Jazz- Swing to Bebop

The following were popular themes in the Romantic Period

Revolt, and the Macabre and love

Who composed Valkyrie?

Richard Wagner

The composer who started a music Magazine (The New Music Journal) to defend the music of the Romantics

Robert Schumann

Who composed "Eusebius and "florestan" from carnival?

Robert Schumann

A program symphony

Romantic Multi- movement symphony that is based on a program

Which describes Romantic Composers' view of form

Romantic composers did not allow form to restrain spontaneous creativity ; they transformed forms

Which statement is false

Romantic melodies have more regular phrase lengths and are less interesting than Classical Melodies.

The plot of West Side Story bears a resemblance to which Shakespeare's play?

Romeo and Juliet

Which country were the kushka from?

Russia

John Cage's 4'33" consists of

any sound and silences occurring in the performance hall while the pianists is silent

IN which category is a symphonic poem different from a concert ovature

form

the lied is a type of

miniature Romantic composition

Erikonig is a

miniature composition

The Use of recorded sounds from life is called

music concerte

Influences on early American Music include

no professional musicians among founders That America is a Melting Pot

The scale which eight pitches are made to fit into the octave by alternating whole steps and half steps is the _____ scale

octatonic

Aidia is an

opera

The five note scale playable on the black keys of the piano is called the ____ scale

penatatonic

The rise of nationalism in music was a reflection of

people cherishing their distinctive artistic heritage

Which family of the orchestra underwent the most growth and innovation in the 20th century

percusion

IN Berlioz, Symphony Fantastique, what family of instruments did we hear that we had not heard before

percussion

An example of aleatoric music is

throwing dice to determine the order of sections to be preformed in a composition

Atonal music is music in which no ____ can be found

tonal center

The expressionist style was characterized by

tonal melodies to bring out peoples emotions

Which musical element is the clearest in Clouds and elevated to great importance by Debussy?

tone color

What is chromaticism?

using all twelve notes of the chromatic scale liberally

The rhythms and tempo in The Rite of Spring seem to create a mood that is

violent, surging, and frantic

Miniatures were usually written for

voice and piano or piano alone

Thematic unity occurs

when a composer uses the same themes in all movements of a work

The scale in which the octave is divided into whole steps only is

whole- tone


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