Chapter 52

Schoenberg was born in

Vienna.

Schoenberg's most important students were

Alban Berg and Anton Webern.

Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is

a song cycle

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

University of California, Los Angeles

In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n)

troubled clown.

Which of the following describes musical elements of Expressionism? extraordinarily wide leaps in melody instruments in their extreme registers hyper-expressive harmonies All possible answers.

All possible answers

Which of the following describes Pierrot lunaire? avant-garde experiments with sound pushed boundaries of convention All possible answers.

All possible answers.

Who established a system to give all twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance? Ludwig van Beethoven Arnold Schoenberg Claude Debussy Nadia Boulanger

Arnold Schoenberg

Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement?

Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern

Which statement does NOT describe dissonance in early-twentieth century music? Dissonance became the norm. Dissonance could serve as a final cadence. Dissonance was viewed as a temporary disturbance, resolving to consonance. Dissonance was freed from its need to resolve to consonance.

Dissonance was viewed as a temporary disturbance, resolving to consonance.

The art of _____, who is famous for his painting The Scream, influenced Arnold Schoenberg and his disciples.

Edvard Munch

Why did Schoenberg leave Berlin in 1933? He found a better job in Vienna. He left after Adolf Hitler came to power. He was offered a position at the Royal College of Music in London. He won the Prix de Rome.

He left after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Which describes Pierrot's actions in The Moonfleck? Pierrot is disturbed by a white spot on the collar of his jet-black jacket. The moon illuminates a crystal flask as Pierrot paints his face. Pierrot revels in memories of old times as he gazes at the moon. With a grotesquely large bow, Pierrot serenades on a viola in the moonlight.

Pierrot is disturbed by a white spot on the collar of his jet-black jacket.

Which is NOT true of the text of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire? The text is drawn from a collection of poems by the Belgian poet Albert Giraud. The poetry is in German translation. Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry. Each poem is a rondeau (a fifteenth century verse form).

Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry.

Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method. T or F

T

What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?

They were influenced by movements in painting.

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

True

Music that rejects the framework of key is called

atonal.

Klangfarbenmelodie is a technique in which

each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.

Which describes the instrumentation of Pierrot lunaire? solo voice and piano female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments female vocalist and string quartet solo voice, string quartet, and piano

female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments

From which phase of Schoenberg's compositional output does Pierrot lunaire originate?

his second period, atonal-Expressionism

Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire? atonality klangfarbenmelodie Impressionism sprechstimme

impressionism

In which discipline of the arts did Expressionism originate?

painting

Which Baroque-era compositional technique is NOT used in The Moonfleck?

ritornello form

The German word Sprechstimme means

speechlike melody