chapter 52
The text heard in this excerpt appears more than once in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire. Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:02
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Match the descriptive words or phrases with the different elements of music as found in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire.
tempo:very fast harmony:dissonant vocal technique:Sprechstimme text:German
Match the characteristics of Schoenberg's The Moonfleck to their correct musical elements.
texture: counterpoint with imitation melody: disjunct harmony: dissonance form: rondeau
What is the relationship between these two excerpts from The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire? (Ignore the first second of the second excerpt.)0:00-0:080:090:23-0:290:08
they both contain the same text
In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n) -
troubled clown
In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n)
troubled clown.
In the - century, composers emancipated dissonance by freeing it from the obligation that it need resolve to a -
twentieth; consonance
Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?
University of California, Los Angeles
Schoenberg employed sprechstimme, or speech-like melody, in his Pierrot lunaire.
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- is a technique in which each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.
klangfarbenmelodie
Which describes the performing forces heard in Schoenberg's Der Mondfleck?
one voice and five instruments
In which discipline of the arts did Expressionism originate?
painting
Which best describes the texture of this excerpt?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:12
polyphonic
Which Baroque-era compositional technique is NOT used in The Moonfleck?
ritornello form
What is Pierrot attempting to do in The Moonfleck?
rub a spot of moonlight off his jacket
Which best describes the relationship between the vocal and instrumental parts?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:12
several complex melodies played simultaneously
Which best describes the music in this excerpt?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:01
solo voice and chamber ensemble
Schoenberg's composition Pierrot lunaire is a(n) -
song cycle
What does the German word sprechstimme mean in English?
speech-like melody
Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?
*University of South California *University of California at Los Angeles
Which of the following characteristics are found in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire and which are not?
*disjunct melody *fast, free-flowing rhythm
Which of the following characterize the musical language of Expressionism and which do not?
*wide leaps in melody *extreme instrumental registers
Which of the following statements correctly describe Schoenberg's The Moonfleck? Loading...Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:00
-The music is very dissonant. -It is from a song cycle.
Put the excerpts in the correct order in which they appear in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire. BE VERY CAREFUL to click only on the white play button to hear the excerpt; clicking anywhere else in the card will select it as an answer.
1. Pierre strolls about, 0:09 2. Something strikes him, 0:08 3. He rubs and rubs, 0:04
Schoenberg's most important students were
Alban Berg and Anton Webern.
The Moonfleck is the eighteenth song in Schoenberg's song cycle Pierrot lunaire, which sets twenty-one poems by Belgian poet - . Through the use of - , the vocalist embodies the spirit of the drunken clown with a speechlike singing style. The - instruments play in complex counterpoint underneath the singer's disjunct vocal line.
Albert Giraud. Sprechstimme, five
Who established a system to give all twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance?
Arnold Schoenberg
Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement?
Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern
- composer Arnold Schoenberg was highly influential in the movement called -
Austrian , expressionism
Which statement does NOT describe dissonance in early-twentieth century music?
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
Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is associated with the twentieth-century arts movement known as -
Expressionism
- painting, such as the works of Edvard Munch, influenced composers and writers.
Expressionist
Match the description to the correct period in Arnold Schoenberg's compositional career.
First period: Post-Wagnerian Romantic style in which he used key signatures and tonality Second period: Atonal-Expressionist style in which he emancipated dissonance and any sense of a home key Third period: twelve-tone method developed and late refined in the United States
What language is heard in this work?
German
Why did Schoenberg leave Berlin in 1933?
He left after Adolf Hitler came to power.
Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire?
Impressionism
What term below refers to the pointillistic treatment of the instruments?
Klangfarbenmelodie
Match the term related to Schoenberg's musical style to its correct definition.
Klangfarbenmelodie: each note of a melody is played by a different instrumen tSprechstimme: melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches
Which best describes the vocal style heard in this excerpt from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:12
speechlike and disjunct
The German word Sprechstimme means
speechlike melody.
Which describes Pierrot's actions in The Moonfleck?
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?
Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry.
What term describes the vocal style heard in this excerpt?
Sprechstimme
Which best describes the vocal style heard here?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:01
Sprechstimme
Which best describes the vocal style heard here?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:02
Sprechstimme
Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music.
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In his third style period, Schoenberg exploited a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.
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Listen to the following three excerpts. Which statement is true?
The excerpts are a poetic and musical refrain which recurs three times.
Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.
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What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?
They were influenced by movements in painting.
Schoenberg was born in
Vienna
What type of character is Pierrot from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?
a poet-rascal-clown
Which specific structural component does this song employ?
a refrain
Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is
a song cycle.
Music that rejects the framework of key is called
atonal
The tonality in this work is
atonal.
The system in music composition in which all twelve tones of the chromatic scale are equally important is known as -
atonality
Which of the following describes Pierrot lunaire?
avant-garde experiments with sound pushed boundaries of convention
What is the lowest-sounding woodwind instrument heard in this composition?
bass clarinet
Which term describes the texture of this work?
contrapuntal
Which describes the vocal style heard in this excerpt?
disjunct and speechlike
The harmony in this work is
dissonant
Which best describes the music in this excerpt?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:12
dissonant and unstable
Klangfarbenmelodie is a technique in which
each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.
Twentieth-century composers - dissonance by freeing it from the obligation to resolve to -
emancipated; consonance
Which of the following describes musical elements of Expressionism?
extraordinarily wide leaps in melody instruments in their extreme registers hyper-expressive harmonies
The twenty-one poems used in Pierrot lunaire are all in virelai form.
f
There is no counterpoint in The Moonfleck from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire.
f
Which describes the instrumentation of Pierrot lunaire?
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