Music 121 Test 3
Which is true of the fifth movement of Fantastic symphony
A plainchant, melody, Dies, Irae, is heard in this section
Who composed the Nocturne in F-sharp
Federick Chopin
Who was the earliest and known as the greatest master of the lied
Franz Schubert
Which terms refers to a synthesis of many of the arts into one unified work or total work of art
Gesamtkunstwerk
Which Statement about Aaron Copland is False?
He was a greatly Avant-grade modernist innovator and was not interested in writing music "for the people"
Which statement about Charles Ive's compositional style is False
He wrote music in a Romantic period style
Who composed the Fantastic Symphony
Hector Berlioz
Which statement about Fanny Mendelssohn is false?
Her compositions were widely admired and she was accepted as a professional composer during her lifetime
The Fantastic Symphony includes
Idee Fixe
Who composed The Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky
Which important Late Romantic Composer , who's violin concerto we studied, responded to the unbridled emotionalism of Romanticism with a return to older structures: Viennese Criticism
Johannes Brahms
The father of chance music is
John Cage
We Watched an excerpt from an old black and white TV game show featuring
John Cage
The composer most reliable for evaluating to a new level of self-expression to begin the romantic era:
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Which two composers were known for their large Orchestras and great orchestration?
Mahler and Berlioz
Which statement is false
Schumann's musical carer was over shadowed by that of his wife, the musical gifted Clara Wieck
What were the two most important elements of Wagner's operatic style?
The concept of Gesmikunstwerk and the technique of letmotiv
The quality most prized by Romantic Artists was:
The integrity of the expression of individual feeling
What is Characteristics of most nationalistic Music?
The use of the folk music in each century
Leitmotivs are developed by means of
Thematic Transformation
What happens to Radames and Aida in the Tomb Scene
They will die in the tomb
The cartoon we watched in class, featured in music of Franz Liszt and which two characters?
Tom and Jerry
Maurice Ravels Piano Concerto in G:
Uses elements of American Jazz
All of the following are characteristics of thematic unity in Romantic symphonic music except:
Using the same themes in several different symphonies
Romantic treatment of tone color included?
combining and blending different instrumental tone colors in innovative ways with larger orchestras
What does the piano accompaniment to Erlkonig bring to mind
the pounding of a horse' hooves
Arnold Schoenberg invented a method that garuntees that no one pitch in the chromatic scale is more important than the others. This method is
the twelve-tone system (serialism
All of the following characterize a modernist approach to melody except:
the use of long, sweeping, beautiful, inspired melodies
Who composed Music for strings, percussion, and celesta
Bela Bartok
The composer____ is generally regarded as the most flamboyant pianist and greatest virtuosos of the Romantic Era
Franz Liszt
Who composed "Erikonig"
Franz Schubert
Who composed Aidia
Giuseppe Verdi
Which late Romantic Composer responded to late Romanticism with a bittersweet Nostalgia for Lost Innocence
Gustav Mahler
The model for El Nino was
Handel's Messiah
Who composed El Nino
John Adams
Who composed West Side story?
Leonard Bernstein
What did Wagner call his new style of Opera in the 1850's
Music Drama
Swan Lake, The Nut Cracker, and Sleeping Beauty are all ballets composed by
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Who composed Romeo and Juliet?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Three of the leading first-phase modernists composers were
Stravinsky, Debussy, and Schoenburg
A song cycle
group of songs with a common poetic theme or common poet or other unifying element
Cultivated music is _______ and vernacular music is _____
imported western art music and ; of the people
Which is true of Webern's Five Orchestral Pieces?
it is extremely short and atonal
Which is true of program music?
it refers to some non-musical idea such as a poetic or literary work.
Which American musical style caught Stravinsky's ear?
jazz
Which of the other arts had the greatest influence on the early Romantic composers
literature
Who had the greatest influence on early romantic composers
ludwig van Beethoven
A character piece is a
miniature composition for piano
In the nineteenth century, what instrument was the most likely to be composed for and played as a solo instrument?
piano
Post_World War 2 composers were intent on:
searching for a new sound materials
What are the two basic forms of lieder?
strophic and through-composed
Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg are often referred to as
the Second Viennese School
Which describes the emotional goal of music in the nineteenth century?
a search for freedom of individual self-expression, artistic freedom
the important new member of the romantic orchestra was
conductor
The rhythm section of a jazz ensemble includes
drums piano bass
Aidia was commissioned for
A new Opera House in Cairo, Egypt
The Two key features of jazz preformance style are
improvisation and highly developed syncopation
George Gershwin was known for
including jazz in classical compositions
Compared to the classical orchestra, the typical Romantic orchestra was:
larger and blended tone colors in a new way
The nineteeth-century German genre consisting of a of a musical setting of a short poem for voice and piano is the
lied
Debussy's enduring contributions to twentieth- century music were in the areas of
piano music, orchestration and elevation of tone color
The Premier of The Rite of Spring involve
primitive fertility rites
Music without signing but derived from a poem, story, or other literacy source, is called:
program music
Pictures at an Exhibition are considered
program music
Fantastic Symphony is an
program symphony
Increasingly, the focal point for the performance of Romantic music was the
public concert hall
Varese was known as an innovative composer in the area of
rhythm and electronic music
The musical term applied to flexibility in rhythm and tempo is?
rubato
A Combination of song and speech( speech-song) used by Schoenberg is called:
sprechstimme
An Orchestral work composed later in the romantic period in one movement with a free from and with a program is called
symphonic poem
When the accents are moved slightly ahead of the beat, the effect is called:
syncopation
Which purpose does harmony have in the romantic period?
-To accompany melodies -Composed for its own sake; just the sound of it
The dates of the Musical period "The 20th Century"
1900-Present
in the early twentieth century, harmony definitely:
became more dissonant
Modernist composers composed the music they did
because they felt the natural progression of where music should go
Chopin was most noted for composing
character pieces for piano
The preforming forces in Erkonig are consistent with all German Leid and they are:
one soloist and piano
Euibius and Florestan are
Charector pieces
Who composed The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People's Outdoor meeting?
Charles Ives
Who composed Poeme Electronique?
Edgard Varese
Who was not a Romantic Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Rite of Spring is
a ballet
Another term for chance music is
aleatoric music
Poeme Electronique
an electronic composition
What is a concert overture
an over that is not connected to any following music, such as an opera, but usually has a programmatic element
Miniatures were generally heard
as separate composition
Wasseck is
atonal
The New modernist Composers
changed melody,harmony and Tonailty
Bela Bartok had many careers. He was a composer as well as an
ethno musicologist and co director of the Budapest Academy of Music
Music in which simple melodies, motives, harmonies, are repeated many times and change in small increments over long periods of time is called
minimalism
In composing a romantic grandiose composition, composers created works with
more movements, longer length and bigger orchestras
The technique of having the same theme fragment reappear with some transformation at loosely recurring intervals is:
thematic transformation
Who composed Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland
IN class, we watched an excerpt from
Aidia and the Valkyrie
Who composed Wasseck
Alban Berg
The composer who originated serialism was
Arnoald Schoenberg
The leading expressionist composer was
Arnold Schoenberg
Appalachian Spring is an
Ballet about a pioneer celebration in Pennsylvania
The major works of Stravinsky's early period were
Ballets
One of the main sources of American popular music in the form of Musical theater was and is
Broadway in New York
Which composer was called an Impressionist
Claude Debussy
Who composed Clouds from Three nocturnes?
Claude Debussy
Who composed Pictures at an Exhibition?
Modest Mussorgky
Which style did Bartok Embrace>
Nationalism
The Artistic movement that came about after World War 1 and that signified a rejection of Modernism, Romantic emotionality and a return to the styles of earlier composers was
Neoclassicism
Wasseck is an
Opera
The progression of Jazz History progresses from
Ragtime- Blues- New Orleans Jazz- Swing to Bebop
The following were popular themes in the Romantic Period
Revolt, and the Macabre and love
Who composed Valkyrie?
Richard Wagner
The composer who started a music Magazine (The New Music Journal) to defend the music of the Romantics
Robert Schumann
Who composed "Eusebius and "florestan" from carnival?
Robert Schumann
A program symphony
Romantic Multi- movement symphony that is based on a program
Which describes Romantic Composers' view of form
Romantic composers did not allow form to restrain spontaneous creativity ; they transformed forms
Which statement is false
Romantic melodies have more regular phrase lengths and are less interesting than Classical Melodies.
The plot of West Side Story bears a resemblance to which Shakespeare's play?
Romeo and Juliet
Which country were the kushka from?
Russia
John Cage's 4'33" consists of
any sound and silences occurring in the performance hall while the pianists is silent
IN which category is a symphonic poem different from a concert ovature
form
the lied is a type of
miniature Romantic composition
Erikonig is a
miniature composition
The Use of recorded sounds from life is called
music concerte
Influences on early American Music include
no professional musicians among founders That America is a Melting Pot
The scale which eight pitches are made to fit into the octave by alternating whole steps and half steps is the _____ scale
octatonic
Aidia is an
opera
The five note scale playable on the black keys of the piano is called the ____ scale
penatatonic
The rise of nationalism in music was a reflection of
people cherishing their distinctive artistic heritage
Which family of the orchestra underwent the most growth and innovation in the 20th century
percusion
IN Berlioz, Symphony Fantastique, what family of instruments did we hear that we had not heard before
percussion
An example of aleatoric music is
throwing dice to determine the order of sections to be preformed in a composition
Atonal music is music in which no ____ can be found
tonal center
The expressionist style was characterized by
tonal melodies to bring out peoples emotions
Which musical element is the clearest in Clouds and elevated to great importance by Debussy?
tone color
What is chromaticism?
using all twelve notes of the chromatic scale liberally
The rhythms and tempo in The Rite of Spring seem to create a mood that is
violent, surging, and frantic
Miniatures were usually written for
voice and piano or piano alone
Thematic unity occurs
when a composer uses the same themes in all movements of a work
The scale in which the octave is divided into whole steps only is
whole- tone