Survey of Music: Early 20th Century

Name the American composer who was the son of a Civil War bandmaster

Charles Ives

Debussy preferred to use sonata-allegro structures in his music.

False

Shape note notation was written for people who could not read music.

True

The approximate dates of the Post-Romantic era are:

1890-1910

Billy the Kid, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring are ballets by.

Aaron Copland

Which American composer studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and wrote a symphony for organ and orchestra for her to perform?

Aaron Copland

Who was the Expressionist artist famous for painting The Scream?

Edvard Munch

Which of the following was an American poet who strongly influenced the symbolism movement?

Egard Allen Poe

Impressionist music uses strongly accented meters.

False

The orchestra grew even larger in the early twentieth century.

False

Which is NOT true of Expressionism?

It was principally a French movement

Which composer is an impressionist?

Maurice Ravel

Which of the following is NOT an impressionist painter?

Paul Klee

Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid and Rodeo all come from which of Aaron Copland's three compositional periods?

Populist- second

The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring are ballets by

Stravinksy

What famous band was founded in 1798?

The President's own United States Marching Band

Which is NOT a ballet by Aaron Copland?

The Rite of Spring

Which is NOT true of the origins of Impressionism?

The style was first popular in Italy

Who did Charles Ives hire when the New York Philharmonic was incapable of playing his music?

Theater pit orchestras

Aaron Copland wrote music for both ballet and films.

True

Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun draws its programs from a pastoral poem of Stephane Mallarme.

True

Debussy's music reflects his interest in non-Western scales and instruments.

True

Debussy's orchestration features individual instrumental colors rather than families of instruments.

True

Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth century music.

True

Impressionist composers used the church modes of the Middle Ages and various non-Western scale patters in their works

True

In addition to his orchestral works, Debussy is known for his songs, chamber music and piano works.

True

In his ballet Appalachian Spring, Copland cites a melody written for the Shakers, a religious cult.

True

John Philip Sousa conducted both The President's United States Marine Band and his own.

True

Pizzicato strings and irregular accents are characteristic of Glorification of the Chosen one from the Rite of Spring.

True

Stephen foster is known for his ballads, minstrel show tunes and plantation songs.

True

Texture in twentieth century music is often based on dissonant counterpoint.

True

The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composer the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world.

True

The program for Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun concerns

a mythological creature in a wine-induced sleep

A tone row is:

a particular arrangement of the twelve chromatic tones

Which of the following characteristics is best associated with Neoclassicism?

a preference for absolute forms

Which best describes Schoenberg's harmonic language in Pierrot lunaire?

atonal

Serial music is:

based on the twelve-tone method

Many early twentieth century composers exploited

changing meters

Which best describes the character or the opening theme of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun?

chromatic and freely flowing

Bartok and fellow composer Zoltan Kodaly are known for

collecting the folk music of Hungary

Twentieth century music can be described as

disjunct with dissonant intervals

Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is associated with twentieth century arts movement known as

expressionism

In which element of music is polytonality most evident?

harmony

Which of the following is NOT characteristic of Impressionist music?

large scale forms

Which is NOT a musical characteristic of Expressionism?

lyrical conduct melodic lines

Dissonant chords consisting of six of seven tones are known as

polychords

A piece of music in which the melody is one key and the accompaniment in another would be described as

polytonal

What is Pierrot attempting to do in The Moonfleck?

rub a spot of moonlight off his jacket

What is the basis of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring?

scenes of Pagan Russia

What ritual is portrayed in The Rite of Spring?

the sacrifice of a young girl to the God of Spring

Which of the following is NOT associated with Arnold Schoenberg?

whole tone scales