Music 215 part 6

True

True or False

False

True or False: The premiere of The Rite of Spring was uneventful in Paris

John Cage Henry Cowell Harry Partch

Which of the following artists are considered American experimentalists?

On The Town

Which of the following is a musical theater work by Leonard Bernstein?

4'33"

Which piece by John Cage specifically questions the differentiation between noise and music, and the contribution of silence to music?

pizzicato

Which playing technique is featured by the strings in this short passage from the Introduction?

Clarinet Trumpet

Which two instruments have featured solos in Billie's Blues:

Ballets Rhythm

Beginning with his _______, Stravinsky was a leader in the revitalization of _______ in European art music.

Benny Goodman

Billie Holiday's first break into the music industry occurred when she recorded with which white clarinetist?

Chord changes

Sung over standard harmonic progressions usually 12 and occasionally 16 bars in length

Na'vi

The vocal music in the 2009 film Avatar is sung in which language?

John Cage

Who is the inventor of the "prepared piano"?

Charlie Patton, Bessie Smith, and B.B. King

A few of the greatest blues singers

Cool Jazz

A laid-back style characterized by dense harmonies, lowered levels of volume, moderate tempos, and new lyricism.

Chorus

A single statement of a melodic-harmonic pattern, like a twelve-bar blues or thirty-two-bar popular song.

West Coast Jazz

A small group, cool-jazz style that featured mixed timbres and contrapuntal improvisations, often without piano.

Igor Stravinsky

Born in Russia, and grew up in a musical environment. Studied composition with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His three ballets brought the young composer to fame.

Work Songs

Communal songs that synchronized the rhythm of work.

Harlem Renaissance

Cultural movement in the 1920s and 30s that highlighted African American contributions to the country's cultural heritage.

Folk-song Dissonant Irregular Instrumental

Dance of the Youths and Maidens alternates Russian ________ melodies with sound blocks. A ________ chord repeats in a basic duple pulse, but the rhythm is unpredictable due to ________ accents. The section features a wide variety of ________ colors and dynamics.

Wagner's music dramas

John Williams unifies his film scores using a technique also found in which?

Sporting Ringtone

John Williams's Imperial March has also been used for ________ events between rival teams and even as a popular ________.

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

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

Meter: Shifting and irregularly accented Texture: Dense and complex polyphony Form: Sectional

Match the descriptive words or phrases with the different elements of music as found in Part I of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Country, rural, or blues

New styles of music that came about in the South after the Civil War.

True

True or False: "Running counter to the action" is a technique that composers use to supply irony in film music.

True

True or False: A "blue note" is created by melodic pitch bending.

True

True or False: Bernstein explored his Jewish background in his music.

True

True or False: Bernstein's work shows a real feeling for the New York urban scene.

The bassoon plays at a slow pace. The violins play a pizzicato rhythmic figure.

Which correctly describe the first eighteen seconds of The Rite of Spring, heard in this excerpt?

Bassoon

Which instrument is featured in the opening ten seconds of the Introduction to Part I of The Rite of Spring?

Johnathan Larson's Rent

Which is the contemporary rock opera inspired by Puccini's La bohème?

Sergei Diaghilev

Who commissioned the three ballets, The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite Of Spring?

Thelonious Monk Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker

Who of the following were associated with the bebop style?

Bebop (bop)

At the end of the 1940s, musicians were belling against big-band jazz and developing new styles. _________ was a word mimicking the two-note trademark phrase of this style of fast tempos and complex harmonies.

operetta vaudeville/variety show

From which stage genres did American musical theater develop?

Blues text

Has three-line stanzas whose first two lines are identical. Consisted of blue notes and chord changes.

Clusters Strings

Henry Cowell's innovations with the piano include tone ________ and plucking the ________ directly.

Six

How many choruses does Billie's Blues have?

Folk

In The Rite of Spring some of Stravinsky's melodies quote Russian ______ songs.

Leitmotifs

In order to associate the music with a character, John Williams utilizes ________ in his film music.

Polyrhythm

Now composers turned to ____________ the simultaneous use of several patterns. This revitalization of rhythm is one of the major achievements of early twentieth-century music.

Jazz

Roots of ________ lie in African traditions, Western popular and art music, and African American ceremonial and work songs.

Binary with each section repeated.

The form of John Cage's Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes is ________________________.

True

True or False: Cage's Sonatas and Interludes is played on a conventional piano that has been altered with objects stuck between the strings.

True

True or False: In the movie Jaws, the shark is represented by a two-note oscillating motive.

True

True or False: Leonard Bernstein achieved fame with the New York Philharmonic when he filled in for a guest conductor who was taken ill.

Stephen Sondheim

Who wrote the lyrics for the musical West Side Story?

Howard Shore

Who wrote the score for the Lord of the Rings trilogy?

Igor Stravinsky wrote them

Who wrote the three ballets, The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite Of Spring?

Gunsmoke and Perry Mason

William Grant Still wrote theme music for which popular tv shows?

John Williams

________ ________ is credited as having revived the grand symphonic film score.

Show Boat

________ ________ was a popular Jerome Kern musical from the 1920s.

Primitivism

The ideals of ______ movement best describe the music of The Rite of Spring?

Rear Window

The movie ________ ________ is an example of a soundtrack that uses only source music.

Composer Lyricist Choreographer

The musical West Side Story is the result of collaboration between ________ Leonard Bernstein, ________ Stephen Sondheim, and ________ Jerome Robbins.

Polyharmony

The triads of traditional harmony gave way to stacked chords with more and more notes added, eventually forming highly dissonant chords of six or seven notes; these created multiple streams of harmony or ___________

True

True or False: Leonard Bernstein wrote three symphonies.

True

True or False: Plots for early musicals were often sentimental and contrived, but as the genre grew older, composers began looking to more sophisticated literary sources for their plots.

True

True or False: Source music refers to music that functions as part of the drama itself, such as a character turning on a radio.

False

True or False: Stravinsky quoted the melodies of French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring.

True

True or False: Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic.

Blue notes

Vocal lines featured melodic "pitch bending"

Louis Armstrong

Was associated with New Orleans-style jazz. His groundbreaking improvisatory style was a huge influence on jazz musicians, including Billie Holiday.

William Grant Still

What African American composer was the first to have his symphony performed by a major American Orchestra?

large orchestra polytonality dissonance

What are some characteristics of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

underscoring source music

What are the two main types of film music?

Two or more melodic ideas played simultaneously (polyphony)

What best describes the texture of the music at the beginning of Dance of the Youth and Maidens?

Billie Holiday

What black singer was one of the first ones to break the color barrier and sing in public with a white orchestra?

irregularly accented dissonant

What correctly describes the chords heard at the beginning of Dance of the Youths and Maidens from The Rite of Spring?

Bassoon

What instrument begins with the melody in the introduction to The Rite of Spring, playing in its uppermost range?

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

What is the literary basis for West Side Story?

Scat-singing

What was Armstrong's instrumental-like approach to singing?

Running counter to the action

When the mood of the music contradicts what is being shown on the screen, what is it called?

South Pacific Oklahoma! The Sound of Music

Which are Broadway musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein?

Orchestra

Which best describes the performing ensemble in Dance of the Youths and Maidens from Part I of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

Polyphonic

Which best describes the texture of Dance of the Youths and Maidens?

Harry Partch

Which composer adapted instruments to be capable of microtonality?

John Williams

Which composer wrote the scores to the first three Harry Potter films?

Nijinsky Picasso Karsavina

Who was associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?

Rodgers

________ and Hammerstein wrote the famous musicals Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.

Blues

a genre based on three-line stanzas set to a repeating harmonic pattern, was an essential factor in the rise of jazz.