CH 21 LISTENING QUIZ (Pierrot lunaire, Nuages: Clouds, and Rite of Spring)

(Q020) What solo instrument plays a prominent theme in the second half of this excerpt from Debussy's Clouds?

English horn

(Q002) In what style is the soprano singing in this excerpt of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?

Sprechstimme

(Q014) What instruments play the main motive in this excerpt of The Rite of Spring?

bassoons and contrabassoons

(Q003) Which term describes the repeated chord that begins this passage from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

dissonant

(Q001) Which describes the piano music that begins this excerpt of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?

dissonant and atonal

(Q013) Stravinsky derives the main motive in this excerpt of The Rite of Spring from the folk music of what country?

Russia

(Q016) Schoenberg called "Night" a passacaglia, referring to

a type of ostinato piece from the Baroque period.

Q004) What creates the irregular rhythm of this passage from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

heavy accents on unexpected beats

(Q006) In this passage from Debussy's Clouds, the tunes played by the flute and harp and then by the English horn are built on what scale(s)?

pentatonic and octatonic

(Q019) What musical instrument family dominates this excerpt from Debussy's Clouds?

woodwinds