Music 125 final 2

Hector Berlioz

1. French composer, conductor 2. first great proponent of musical Romanticism in France 3. left medical school to study music 4. influenced by Beethoven and Shakespeare 5. infatuated with Shakespearean actress, Harriet Smithson 6. 1830, won Prix de Rome, studied in Italy 7. musical style: intense, bold, passionat

John Cage

1. Los Angeles-born composer 2. experimental compositions and writings, leader in postwar avant-garde 3. student of Henry Cowell, early interest in non-Western scales 4. 1938 invented the "prepared piano" 5. interests: rhythm, opposition between music and noise, indeterminacy (chance or aleatoric), the role of silence (4′33", 1952) 6. works: orchestral music, works for percussion, prepared piano works, electronic music, indeterminate works

Silvestre Revueltas

1. Mexican composer, conductor, violin prodigy 2. studied composition in Mexico City and United States 3. assistant conductor, Orquesta Sinfónica de Mexico 4. representative of "mestizo realism" 5. late 1930s, Spanish Civil War, went to Spain, worked for Loyalist government 6. composed anti-Fascist works 7. style: Mexican folk elements, Romantic in inspiration, lyrical, dissonance and chromaticism, polyrhythms and ostinatos 8. works: orchestral music, film scores, chamber music, ballets, songs

Edvard Grieg

1. Norwegian composer, pianist; international figure 2. studied in Leipzig: influenced by Mendelssohn and Schumann 3. promoted Scandinavian music 4. style: smaller-scale works, lyricism, nationalistic use of folk music and dances 5. output: orchestral works, piano music, chamber music, song

Igor Stravinsky

1. Russian composer, pianist, conductor 2. Ballets Russes commissions: The Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring 3. WWI: refuge in Switzerland, then France 4. WWII: emigrated to United States, 1945 became U.S. citizen 5. concertized around the world 6. musical style evolved: post-Impressionism, primitivism, controlled Classicism, twelve-tone works 7. great orchestrator: polished brightness, clear texture 8. output: orchestral music, ballets, operas, other theater works, choral music, chamber music, piano music, songs

Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849)

1. born in Warsaw, Poland; composer, pianist 2. age 21: moved to Paris, artistic center in 1830s 3. tumultuous affair with novelist Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant (George Sand) 4. works central to piano repertoire 5. died of tuberculosis, age 39 6. output: concertos, ballads, sonatas, preludes, études, mazurkas, polonaises, scherzos, waltzes, impromptus, nocturnes, chamber music, and songs

Symphonie fantastique

1. five-movement program symphony 2. program by Berlioz: autobiographical 3. idée fixe (fixed idea): recurrent theme

Symphonie fantastique is comprised of how many movements

5

which movement does Berlioz use the Dies irae (Day of Wrath) chant?

5

derived from Polish peasant dance

A Mazurka

From whose rule did Italy seek to liberate itself

Austrian Hapsburgs

A Mazurka

By chopin

Whom of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?

Dostoyevsky

Which European composer was an early supporter of African American musical styles like the spiritual?

Dvořák

Which composer is generally credited with creating the symphonic poem

Franz Liszt

Which term refers to Wagner's concept of a total artwork, encompassing all the arts?

Gesamtkunstwerk

Debussy is considered to be an _____ composer.

Impressionist

What opera house did Verdi write for early in his career?

La Scala in Milan

The American debut tour of international singing sensation Jenny Lind was managed by:

P.T. Barnum.

What was Wagner's final work?

Parsifal

Which of the following is an opera by Debussy?

Pelléas et Mélisande

Which composer nurtured Brahms's talents, taking him into his home?

Robert Schumann

1 / 1 pts Which of the following is Silvestre Revueltas's best known orchestral work?

Sensemayá

The man that Revueltas is honoring in Homage was a:

Spanish poet killed by the Fascists.

Le sacre du printemps

Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring

The Firebird, Petrushka, and Rite of Spring are ballets by:

Stravinsky.

The famous school of Russian nationalist composers in the nineteenth century was called:

The Mighty Handful.

Who choreographed the ballet version of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

Vaslav Nijinksy

What is the basis for the story of Die Walküre?

a medieval German epic poem

The program for Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns

a mythological creature in a dreamlike state

March to the Scaffold, mvt. 4

a. opium-induced dream b. artist dreams he has killed the beloved c. witnesses his own execution d. instruments in unusual ranges e. sudden dynamic changes

Which Verdi opera is set in Egypt

aida

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects which of the following traditions?

all of them

In Die Walküre, the role of Wotan is sung by a

baritone

In Verdi's opera, the role of Rigoletto is sung by a:

baritone

Which instrument, playing in its highest register, begins The Rite of Spring

bassoon

Billie Holiday's first break came when she recorded with white clarinetist _______.

benny goodman

Bedrich Smetana

bohemian

What best describes Wagner's harmonic language?

chromatic

Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"

chromatic and languorous

Antonín Dvořák represents the:

czech

Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk were figureheads of what jazz style?

debop

Which best describes the character of the fourth movement of Symphonie fantastique?

diabolical march

Jenny Lind was a famous nineteenth-century composer of opera t/f

fals

Jenny Lind was an American soprano

fals

Brahms's Symphony No. 3 in F major uses none of the forms often found in late eighteenth-century symphonies t/f

false

Chopin's Mazurka in B-flat Minor, Op. 24, No. 4 is in simple ternary form. t/f

false

Copland refused to write film scores.

false

Copland's ballet Billy the Kid was composed to be a portrayal of urban life.

false

Germany is noted for its long-established opera traditions.

false

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter t/f

false

Revueltas uses poetry by Federico García Lorca in his Homenaje

false

Tchaikovsky believed that African American musical traditions were the true root of American music.

false

The Romantic symphony typically has three movements. t/f

false

The mazurka was originally a noble, processional dance. t/f

false

The premiere of The Rite of Spring was uneventful in Paris.

false

The scherzo movement in nineteenth-century symphonies generally is characterized by a slow march temp t/f

false

Copland wrote music about which part of the United States and its culture?

far west and rural life

Which best describes the character of Wotan?

father of the gods

Which verse of Billie's Blues has a typical blues tex

first

How many music dramas make up Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung? You Answered

four

Chopin was romantically involved with George Sand, the renowned:

french novelist

Peer Gynt is a play by

henrik ibsen

Brahms wrote his German Requiem in memory of:

his mother

Program music:

instrumental music with literary or pictorial associations

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music

large scale forms

Who was one of the principal performers of cool jazz?

miles davis

What did Wagner call his large-scale sung theatrical works

music drama

Which opera did Verdi write based on the story of the king of Babylon?

nabucco

There are ____ Valkyries, all daughters of Wotan.

nine

In which of the following places did Brahms NOT live or work?

paris

What scale is utilized in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

pentatonic

most central to Western musical tradition

piano

Peer Gynt

play by Henrik Ibsen a. based on Norwegian folk tale, strong moral message 2. Grieg's Peer Gynt: incidental music for the play Morning mood and in the hall of the mountain king

Stravinsky's revitalization of rhythm in The Rite of Spring is closely associated with

primitivism

Stravinsky is largely recognized for his revitalizing of which musical element?

rhythm

. rubato ("robbed time")

rhythmic liberties

Jean Sibelius

scandinavian

The third movement of the nineteenth-century symphony is most likely in:

scherzo form.

Billie's Blues consists of an introduction and _______ choruses.

six

Which is NOT an example of a character piece

sonata

The title of the second movement of Revueltas's Homenaje means what?

sorrow

Which category of program music best describes The Moldau?

symphonic poem

Which genre best describes Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

symphonic poem

The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as:

ternary (A-B-A')

In the fourth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantasique, what does the loud chord immediately after the solo clarinet's statement of the idée fixe represent

the falling of the guillotine's blade

Which of the following scores is by Aaron Copland?

the heiress

What is the form of Copland's Appalachian Spring, Section 7?

theme and variations

A blue note implies a slight drop in pitch on the 3rd, 5th, or 7th scale tone.

true

At the turn of the 1800s, camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background. t/f

true

Berlioz wrote a Requiem Mass. t/f

true

Harry Partch was a serious proponent of microtonal music.

true

One of Berlioz's key areas of innovation was orchestration. T/F

true

Revueltas studied for a time in the United States.

true

Stravinsky did not include authentic French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring. t/f

true

The idée fixe appears in every movement of Symphonie fantastique t/f

true

The third movement, Son, can be described as rondolike with its sectional form.

true

Which of the following best characterizes the third movement of Brahms's Symphony No. 3?

waltz

Where did Appalachian Spring premiere?

washington dc

What gave Hector Berlioz the opportunity to work in Italy?

winning the Prix de Rome