MODULE 6
What is the subtitle of The Rite of Spring?
"Scenes of Pagan Russia"
Schoenberg's most important students were
Alban Berg and Anton Webern.
Avant-garde composers
All possible answers.
Stravinsky revitalized rhythm by
All possible answers.
Verse 4: Which describes the musical setting of verse 4 from Boulanger's Psalm 24? 00:26
All possible answers.
What was groundbreaking about Nijinsky's choreography for The Rite of Spring?
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Which ballets did Diaghilev commission from the composer Igor Stravinsky?
All possible answers.
Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement?
All possible answers.
Which describes Arnold Schoenberg's approach to harmonic organization?
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Which of the following describes Pierrot lunaire?
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Which of the following describes musical elements of Expressionism?
All possible answers.
Which of the following does Stravinsky use to minimize harmonic changes?
All possible answers.
Who established a system to give all twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance?
Arnold Schoenberg
For what purpose did Lili Boulanger write Psalm 24?
As an expression of personal devotion.
_____ music gives equal importance to the twelve tones of the chromatic scale.
Atonal
Serge Diaghilev was impresario for which Paris-based dance company?
Ballets Russes
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
Features of early musical modernism included lyrical, conjunct melodic lines.
False
Lili Boulanger rejected innovative harmonic language in her work.
False
Lili Boulanger won the Prix de Rome for her setting of Psalm 24.
False
The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small.
False
The Prix de Rome was a competition open to composers from which country?
France
In which language is Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 sung?
French
Verse 5: What language is heard in this work? 00:25
French
Who of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All of the following composers were winners of the Prix de Rome EXCEPT
Gabriel Fauré.
What did Stravinsky achieve through his ballet scores?
He became a leader in the revitalization of rhythm in European art music.
Why did Schoenberg leave Berlin in 1933?
He left after Adolf Hitler came to power.
Which is NOT true of James Reese Europe?
He was the most successful and profitable Tin Pan Alley composer.
Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire?
Impressionism
______ designed the experimental stage design for The Rite of Spring.
Nicholas Roerich
Which describes Pierrot's actions in The Moonfleck?
Pierrot is disturbed by a white spot on the collar of his jet-black jacket.
Where was Stravinsky born?
Russia
Some of Stravinsky's melodies quote
Russian folk tunes.
Which is NOT true of the text of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?
Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry.
Which describes the premiere of The Rite of Spring?
Shouts from the audience disrupted the dancers, which temporarily interrupted the show.
Verses 1-3: Which describes the melody in the opening section of this work? 00:40
The pitches in the melody are fairly close together, with no big leaps.
What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?
They were influenced by movements in painting.
Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe provided fresh ideas of rhythm for some Western composers in the twentieth century.
True
Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music.
True
Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.
True
Lili Boulanger was influenced by Impressionism.
True
Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.
True
Songwriter George M. Cohan received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his inspirational song Over There.
True
Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic.
True
The Rite of Spring can be performed as a concert work.
True
Where did Stravinsky live in the last years of his life?
United States
Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?
University of California, Los Angeles
Schoenberg was born in
Vienna.
Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is
a song cycle.
Which of the following does NOT pertain to modernism of the early twentieth century?
an embracing and continuation of nineteenth-century models
Music that rejects the framework of key is called
atonal.
Which genre describes The Rite of Spring?
ballet
Which instrument, playing in its highest register, begins The Rite of Spring?
bassoon
During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?
big-band jazz
Many early twentieth-century composers exploited _____ meters.
changing
All of the following reflect Dadaism EXCEPT:
complexities of Western art embraced.
From the 1800s, composers of sacred music have
conveyed their own spiritual convictions.
Who were Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina?
dancers with the Ballets Russes
Which describes the mood of the opening section from Boulanger's Psalm 24? 00:40
dramatic, fanfare-like
The expression of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 is
dramatic, with an ethereal middle section.
Klangfarbenmelodie is a technique in which
each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.
During the early years of the twentieth century, French composers
embraced both Impressionism and innovative harmonic language.
Verse 6: Which describes the musical expression in verse 6 from Boulanger's Psalm 24? 00:26
ethereal, chant-like
Which describes the instrumentation of Pierrot lunaire?
female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments
Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 closes
fortissimo.
Which describes the music in this excerpt? 1:21
full chorus, brass, organ, and timpani
Which two influential arts movements arose surrounding World War I?
futurism and Dadaism
From which phase of Schoenberg's compositional output does Pierrot lunaire originate?
his second period, atonal-Expressionism
Which describes the overall texture of Boulanger's Psalm 24? 00:40
homophonic
The Prix de Rome was open to women
in the early years of the twentieth century.
Early in the twentieth century, musical Impressionism
influenced composers across Europe and the United States.
The melodic element of twentieth-century music can be described as
instrumentally conceived.
When did the first wave of modernist attitudes take hold?
just before World War I
Verse 7 and 8: The overall mood in the following verses is 01:21
martial and triumphant.
The Rite of Spring can be described as all of the following EXCEPT:
neo-Classical.
How many Psalm texts did Lili Boulanger set to music in Psalm 24?
one
In which discipline of the arts did Expressionism originate?
painting
In The Dance of Youths and Maidens, which musical elements do NOT contribute to the primeval sound of the orchestra?
parallel chords, floating harmonies
Stacked chords of six or seven notes eventually led to
polyharmony.
Two or more streams of harmony against each other creates
polyharmony.
Simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns is referred to as
polyrhythm.
What is NOT an example of an early twentieth-century modernism?
post-Romanticism
The ideals of which movement describes the music of The Rite of Spring?
primitivism
What powerful cultural phenomenon did modern musicians often grapple with?
prominence of sound recordings of vernacular traditions
Which does NOT apply to Irving Berlin's legacy?
received the Congressional Medal of Honor
Which Baroque-era compositional technique is NOT used in The Moonfleck?
ritornello form
Which describes the melodic material in The Rite of Spring?
short fragments, limited ranges, extended repetition
Which of the following does NOT describe modernist composers' use of rhythm?
single meter prevailing for an entire movement
Which describes the performing forces heard in this verse? 00:25
solo tenor voice with harp, organ, and French horn
The German word Sprechstimme means
speechlike melody.
MUSICAL MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES Tin Pan Alley was a
street in Manhattan where music publishers had their businesses.
Which does not apply to early-twentieth century orchestration?
strings continue to be the heart of the orchestra
Lili Boulanger
suffered chronic illness most of her life and died at the young age of twenty-four.
Which describes the meter of this excerpt? 00:26
triple
In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n)
troubled clown.
Which does NOT describe the goal of early twentieth-century modernists?
unity of expression, one modernism
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?
use of chamber orchestra
Which musical element is NOT heard in Game of Abduction?
velvety flute solo in the lower register
