Music App Test 5
Arnold Schoenberg
Alban Berg and Anton Webern were students of:
a soldier's obsession with unhappy love
Berg's opera Wozzeck centers on:
Buchner
Berg's opera Wozzeck is based on a play by:
break the color barrier by recording and performing with white musicians
Billie Holiday was one of the first African American singers to:
twelve-bar blues
Billie Holiday's song Billie's Blues is in ________ form.
Zoltan Kodaly
Béla Bartók traveled around Hungary collecting peasant songs with the composer
Aaron Copland
Carlos Chávez's music attracted the attention of the American composer
Billy Strayhorn
Duke Ellington's great musical collaborator in the 1940s was:
Brazil
During his career, Silvestre Revueltas was active in all of the following countries EXCEPT:
suggest the character of native music
During the "Aztec Renaissance," composers sought to:
Symphony No. 3
For which work was Ives awarded the Pulitzer Prize?
strophic
Gershwin's Summertimeis in ________ form.
twenty-one
How many songs are in Pierrot lunaire?
choral and chamber music
In her compositions, Lili Boulanger focused on:
Satchmo
Louis Armstrong was also known as:
scat singing
Louis Armstrong's instrument-like approach to singing is called:
atonal
Music that rejects the framework of key is described as:
teacher.
Nadia Boulanger was an extraordinarily gifted:
Giraud.
Pierrot lunaire is based on a cycle of poems written by:
complex rhythms, including polyrhythms and ostinatos.
Revueltas's mature compositional style features:
a mariachi ensemble.
Revueltas's orchestration for Son is similar to that of:
Sprechstimme
Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as:
variation
Section 7 of Copland's Appalachian Springis in ________ form.
a traditional song/dance of Mexico
Son is a Spanish-language term that refers to:
the United States
Stravinsky immigrated to ________ at the onset of World War II.
a New York City subway line
Take the A Train is a song that refers to:
the Nazis.
The "interruption" section in Bartók's Interrupted Intermezzo represents
Ethnomusicology
The comparative study of musics of the world is called:
Neo-Classicism
The early twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was:
the son of Marie and Wozzeck, alone.
The final, heartbreaking scene of Berg's Wozzeck concludes with:
Hungarian Folk Songs
The model for Bartók's melodies can be found in:
all of the above (Spanish music, Hispanic culture, Amerindian culture)
The music scene in early twentieth-century Mexico was strongly influenced by:
a chamber group
What accompanies the voice in Pierrot lunaire?
big band
What kind of jazz is Duke Ellington known for?
triumph
What mood opens and closes Boulanger's Psalm 24?
a two-note phrase
What was the trademark of bebop?
before the Revolutionary War
When was Yankee Doodle composed?
New Orleans
Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?
Duke Ellington
Which American jazz composer was also a pianist and a master of big-band orchestration?
Bartok
Which Hungarian composer combined native folk music characteristics with main currents of European music?
Berg
Which composer was a disciple of Schoenberg and is best known for his operas Wozzeck and Lulu?
It played a large role in twentieth-century music.
Which of the following best describes dissonance?
calm
Which of the following best describes the mood at the beginning of Copland's Appalachian Spring?
He lived a long life and was a mentor to other young composers
Which of the following did NOT characterize the career of George Gershwin?
a smooth, lyric melody
Which of the following does NOT characterize The Moonfleckfrom Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?
extended passages of consonance
Which of the following does NOT characterize the musical language of Expressionism?
Schoenberg
Which of the following early-twentieth-century composers moved to the United States and taught composition at the University of California, Los Angeles?
major-minor tonality
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Bartók's music?
major-minor tonality
Which of the following is NOT a musical trait of African origin?
It had no set forms or harmonic progressions
Which of the following is NOT true of New Orleans jazz?
unpredictable rhythms and meters
Which of the following musical elements in The Rite of Springcould be considered the most innovative?
Eric Satie
Which of the following was NOT a member of the so-called Second Viennese School of composition?
Mississippi Delta
Which region of the United States was the birthplace of a unique style of blues primarily sung by males?
avant-garde electronic music
William Grant Still composed music in all of the following genres EXCEPT:
the atonal-Expressionist phase
With which period in Schoenberg's career is Pierrot lunaire associated?
