Music Appreciation: Modern Era

This work is connected with the Nationalist movement in Eastern Europe during the early 20th century:

Bluebeard's castle

Claude Debussy had an impressive traditionalist resume - including a Prix de Paris victory and a degree from the Conservatory of Rome - which made his musical modernism somewhat surprising.

False

Schoenberg's pupil Alban Berg developed the technique he called, "Klangfarbenmelodie" (literally "sound-colors-melody"), in which he splits a melodic line between different instruments to emphasize their different timbres.

False

The common term for an interval smaller than a half step is a "demitone."

False

This work has more in common with the Romantic era than the Modern Era:

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

This work represents the change in pitch parameters found in the 20th century:

Music for String Instruments, Percussion, and Celesta, 3rd mvt.

This work is an example of 20th century psychological drama:

Peter Grimes

The composer of this work was considered one of the most important in the 20th century:

Piano Concerto, Op. 42, 2nd mvt.

This piece is the first to utilize the "Sprechstimme" technique:

Pierrot Lunaire

The composer of this work is one of the innovators of musical impressionism:

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

This work creates melodies which use all twelve chromatic tones:

Schweigt auch die Welt from Cantata No. 2

This work caused a near riot when it was first performed:

The Rite of Spring

Edward Eglar, composer of the famous Pomp and Circumstances marches, was the first major English-born composer since Henry Purcell.

True

Music that freely uses pitches from the chromatic scale while avoiding triads or references to traditional harmony is frequently described as atonal.

True

Stravinsky's Petrushka contains a celebrated passage of "polytonal" music, in which the composer performs simultaneously unrelated harmonies from different keys.

True

This work is an example of Expressionist opera:

Wozzeck, Act. 1, scene 4