MUSI 2733 module 6

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What is the subtitle of The Rite of Spring?

"Scenes of Pagan Russia"

Schoenberg's most important students were

Alban Berg and Anton Webern.

Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement?

All possible answers

Avant-garde composers

All possible answers.

Stravinsky revitalized rhythm by

All possible answers.

What was groundbreaking about Nijinsky's choreography for The Rite of Spring?

All possible answers.

Which ballets did Diaghilev commission from the composer Igor Stravinsky?

All possible answers.

Which describes Arnold Schoenberg's approach to harmonic organization?

All possible answers.

Which of the following describes Pierrot lunaire?

All possible answers.

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.

Winners of the Prix de Rome

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

The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small.

False

Winners of the Prix de Rome traveled from Rome to Paris to study for three years.

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

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 statement does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's family?

Her mother won the Prix de Rome in 1917

Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire?

Impressionism

______ was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome.

Lili Boulanger

______ 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 Lili Boulanger's instrumental training?

She was a precocious child and learned to sing and play violin, cello, harp, and piano.

Which does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's compositional output?

She wrote only sacred music.

Which describes the premiere of The Rite of Spring?

Shouts from the audience disrupted the dancers, which temporarily interrupted the show.

Why would Psalm 24 have been incompatible with the rules governing the services of the Catholic Church until 1963?

The text is in French.

What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?

They were influenced by movements in painting.

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

Which of the following does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?

clearly in a major key

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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

The German word Sprechstimme means

speechlike melody.

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 performing forces of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?

tenor solo, SATB chorus, brass, harp, organ, timpani

Which describes the form of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?

three part, A-B-A

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

troubled clown.

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

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


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