Quiz 4

Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues What is the POETIC form of the verse?

AAB

Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail What is the form of this excerpt?

AABA

Which of the following is the standard form of the refrain or chorus in popular song?

AABA

Gershwin: I Got Rhythm What is the overarching form of this section?

AABA'

Scriabin: Vers la flamme In the variation of A, all of the following are varied except

All of the answers are correct

In addition to French impressionism, Ravel was greatly influenced by

Classical style

How does Dubussy's music resemble symbolist approaches to poetry?

Common-practice harmonic resolution is avoided, and individual musical ideas are instead the focus.

How is Le Tombeau de Couperin linked to World War I?

Each movement is dedicated to a friend of Ravel's who had died in the war

In the nineteenth century, programs of band concerts generally included

European classics, light dance music, and marches

Who developed the distinctive style of the American musical?

George M. Cohan

Ellington's Cotton Tail is a contrafact on

Gershwin's I Got Rhythm

How did Ralph Vaughn Williams assist English composers in asserting their national identities in art music?

He collected and published folk songs

In his piano music, how did Eric Satie critique concert music?

He printed commentary on the score, rather than the program, so that only performers could read it.

Who of the following was particularly known for writing patriotic American tunes?

Irving Berlin

The most successful band leader was

John Philip Sousa

Debussys's Prelude a "L'Apres-midi d'un faune" is based on a symbolist poem by

Mallarme

Which composer used Spanish folk songs to assert his nationality?

Manuel de Falla

Debussy's only completed opera is

Pelleas et Melisande

Rachmaninoff's compositions reflect

Romantic tradition

The leading ragtime composer was

Scott Joplin

Which off the following works by Debussy's inhabit the tradition of French Baroque keyboard music?

Suite bergamasque

How did the LP increase the possibilities of recorded music?

They allowed for much more to be included on each record

Who invented the phonograph?

Thomas Edison

Beginning in the 1880s, the American popular sheet music industry was centralized in

Tin Pan Alley

Gershwin: I Got Rhythm Which term best describes the style exemplified here?

Tin Pan Alley

In Scriabin's Vers la flamme, tritones of the referential sonority resolve to

a fifth

What is an integrated musical?

a show in which the musical numbers relate to the story

Debussy's L'Isle joyeuse features

a succession of distinct motives

Why was the American Civil War dubbed the most musical war in history?

almost every regiment had a band

Throughout his career, Vaughn Williams worked as

an opera conductor

Spirituals were

an oral tradition of sacred songs

A lowered note, particularly on the third, fifth, or seventh step of the scale, is sometimes known as a

blue note

Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues In this opening vocal phrase, the words "five" and "dark" are sung as ___________, which are a characteristic trait of this song's musical style.

blue notes

What was one of the main training grounds for African-American musicians?

brass bands

Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues The low, skipping bass line motive interjected by the piano between the vocal line phrases exemplifies a commonly used African American musical trait known as

call and response

Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail The interaction between the reeds and the brass here is termed

call and response

Which of the following is one trait of African-American music?

call and response

King Oliver: West End Blues This solo section is termed as the ______ in jazz music.

chorus

Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges Melodic motion in the excerpt is chiefly

chromatic

Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail What is the best term to describe this passage?

chromatic

King Oliver: West End Blues The two performing forces featured here are a __________ and a _________.

clarinet; scat singer

Debussy's approach to modernism involved

decoration, pleasure, non-German models, and lack of harmonic resolution

The avant-grade differed from modernists in the they

directly challenged the canon and tradition

Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges The opening motive consists of alternating

fifths and thirds

New Orleans jazz centers on

groups variations of a tune

In The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto, Luigi Russolo opined

instrumental sounds had become irrelevant and the music based on noise would emerge

Gershwin: I Got Rhythm Much like Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag, the melodic line here

is syncopated

Ragtime draws on the form of

marches

One component of Sibelius's musical style was

motivic repetition

In the typical twelve-bar blues the second line

moves from subdominant to tonic

Gershwin: I Got Rhythm In this excerpt the performer, Ethel Merman, sings with her signature

nasal, chest, voice.

Le Tombeau de Couperin is an example of

neoclassicism

Many classical Hollywood film scores adopted the techniques of

nineteenth-century opera

Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges The English horn motive consists of notes from which scale?

octatonic

Scriabin: Vers la flamme Harmony in the excerpt is

octatonic

Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges Phrases unfold in the excerpt through

oscillation and repetition

Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges The descending chords in the strings are

parallel ninths

What is one way in which Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin reflects

parallel triads

Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges The melody in the flute and harp is drawn from the

pentatonic scale

Diagetic music is

performed or heard by the characters

Serge Rachmaninoff made most of his money as a

pianist

Janaeek's style involves

repeated and juxtaposed sonorities, harmonies, motives, and tone colors that contrast.

King Oliver: West End Blues The instruments supporting the melody here are referred to as the

rhythm section

New Orleans jazz ensembles consist of a front line and a

rhythm section

Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail The tenor saxophone begins this chorus with a(n)

sequence

Scriabin: Vers la flamme The theme heard in the first four measures is then treated in

sequence

Each of Scriabin's compositions is organized around a

source chord

The Frisk Jubilee Singers popularized

spirituals

Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues The piano's introductory measures exemplify what style(s)?

stride

Swing music combined jazz rhythms, improvisation, and

stylish, careful arrangements

Debussy's music is often connected to

symbolism

Scriabin: Vers la flamme The final chord is

tertian in the left hand, quartal in the right

Scriabin: Vers la flamme The variant derives from

the B theme

Ellington began to garner national attention while working at

the Cotton Club

Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail What is similar between these two excerpts?

the harmonic progression

In Nuages, Debussy suggests clouds by employing motives, scales, and

timbre

King Oliver: West End Blues This section exemplifies the _______ form.

twelve bar-blues

Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues What is the HARMONIC form of this verse?

twelve-bar blues

Gershwin: I Got Rhythm The performer enters here with the song's

verse

King Oliver: West End Blues Like most jazz tunes, these measures feature the performer's

virtuosity

Scriabin viewed music as a

way to transcend daily experience and access divine ecstasy