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"Swing," a form of jazz meant for dancing, is also known as

Big Band Jazz

In Debussy's "Dialogue of the Wind and Waves" from La Mer, which instruments portray the water?

Low string instruments

Prokofiev's first symphony is usually associated with

Neoclassicism

Although it is difficult to mark the exact birthplace of jazz, usually its roots leads us to the city of

New Orleans, LA

Who was the artistic equivalent of Stravinsky?

Pablo Picasso

Look at the timeline of Chapter 12 carefully. What happened on August 18, 1920 in the United States?

The 19th Amendment was ratified, thus women were granted the right to vote.

Although he won a Pulitzer Price, Ives was not a professional composer; he made a career selling insurance.

True

Arnold Schoenberg suffered from triskaidekaphobia, the fear of the number 13.

True

Dodecaphonic music is atonal but atonal music is not necessarily dodecaphonic.

True

During the première of The Rite of Spring, a riot broke out.

True

Frequent meter changes paired with the absence of a key signature are two of the most significant characteristics of Bartók's works.

True

Impressionistic art depicts more the "impression of something" rather than the thing itself. It is characterized by a play of lights and colors, as if a painter took an out-of-focus picture of a landscape, a person, or an object.

True

In addition to being a pianist and a composer, Béla Bartók was also an ethnomusicologist.

True

In his first symphony, Classical, Prokofiev uses sonata form as well as an orchestra the size of a Classical orchestra.

True

In spite of his difficult childhood, Louis Armstrong became one of the most beloved jazzmen in the world, thanks to his talent, work ethic, and bubbly personality.

True

Joplin wrote both the libretto and the music of his opera Treemonisha.

True

Joseph Stalin and Sergei Prokofiev died on the same day, March 5, 1953. Sadly, the dictator's death eclipsed that of the composer.

True

Just like Schoenberg did in Pierrot Lunaire, Berg uses the Sprechstimme technique in Wozzeck.

True

Like Stravinsky before, Prokofiev lived in Paris for a while and wrote ballet music for Diaghilev's company Les Ballets Russes.

True

Louis Armstrong was a trumpeter, a singer, a composer, and a formidable improviser.

True

Louis Armstrong was the first jazz musician to be featured on the cover of the Time magazine.

True

Modernism rejected traditional values in favor of experimentation and abstraction. Modernist artists aimed at creating bold, often provocative works.

True

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta has been used in many movies, including Stanley Kubrick's The Shining in 1980.

True

Neoclassicism in music can be viewed as a reaction against the unconstrained emotionalism of Romantic music. Additionally, the composers associated with neoclassicism abandoned program music in favor of abstract music.

True

On the one hand, the twentieth century was a century of remarkable achievements and technology prowesses, on the other, it was a century marked by wars and atrocities.

True

Pierrot Lunaire is an example atonal music.

True

Popular music and jazz were extremely well-served by technology whereas classical music suffered greatly from the rise of technology. Intellectually more demanding and thus far less accessible than pop music, classical music no longer appealed to large audiences as it did in the past.

True

Porgy and Bess helped launch the careers of many African American opera singers.

True

Porgy and Bess is now an American classic and one of the best known American operas in history. Yet, at the time, it was a commercial failure.

True

Scott Joplin died at 48. He was buried in a pauper's grave that remained unmarked for over fifty years. His ragtime piece The Entertainer was featured in the 1973 movie The Sting, which brought back fame and recognition to Joplin. In 1976, Scott Joplin won a Pulitzer price posthumously for his "contributions to American music."

True

Sometimes called "naïve art," primitivism exhibits vivid colors and bold simplicity. Artists associated with this movement enjoyed and celebrated nature as well as the lack of urbanization of non-Western cultures.

True

Stravinsky was a citizen of three countries: Russia, France, and The United States.

True

Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is featured in Walt Disney's movie Fantasia.

True

The state of Louisiana was named after Louis XIV of France.

True

Three Places in New England is an orchestral piece in three movements in which the pattern fast-slow-fast is reversed: Ives marks the first and last movements as "slow" and the middle one as "fast."

True

To Schoenberg, atonal music was the logical continuation/ progression of music.

True

Tonal music means music with a key center whereas atonal music means music without a key center.

True

Unconventional, experimental, and bold, Charles Ives is considered the first American Modernist composer.

True

While European traditions were still dominating the West before World War I, America was gradually finding her voice, especially thanks to jazz which found an audience in Europe as well.

True

Wozzeck has the particularity of being the first expressionist and the first atonal opera in history.

True

In Pierrot Lunaire, the singer is excepted to follow the music precisely (pitch and duration) but the notes are spoken and not sung. What is the name of this technique?

Sprechstimme or sprechgesang

Who composed the "New World Symphony"?

Antonin Dvořák

Who are the three composers of the Second Viennese School?

Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg

Alban Berg was a student of Anton Webern's.

False

Although Expressionism explores the human psyche and all the hidden and darkest emotions in a subject through distortion, abstraction, and even exaggeration, it nevertheless remains very objective.

False

Although he was American, Ives wrote music that was deeply rooted in European culture: he usually wrote programmatic music about Europe's wars and/or famous heroes from European literature.

False

Although he was Jewish, Arnold Schoenberg was able to remain in Austria all his life and became very famous there.

False

Sadly, Ives's piece Three Places in New England was never commercially published.

False

To Schoenberg, what holds a piece of music together is its tonality, nothing else.

False

When he died, Béla Bartók was one of the wealthiest and most famous composer of the twentieth century.

False

Which composer wrote An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue?

George Gershwin

Look at the timeline of Chapter 12 carefully. What happened on September 1, 1939?

Germany invaded Poland which marked the beginning of World War 2.

Claude Debussy is usually associated with

Impressionism

Ragtime music is usually written for

Piano

What are the three main categories of music?

Pop, Folk/Traditional, Classical

Igor Stravinsky is usually associated with

Primitivism

Stravinsky's rich, long, and eclectic career is usually divided in three periods: what are they?

Russian, Neoclassical, Serial

A passage of music sung on wordless vocal syllables is known as

Scat

Who was known as "The King of Rag"?

Scott Joplin

Stravinsky wrote the ballets L'Oiseau de Feu and Le Sacre du Printemps for Les Ballets Russes. Who directed this company? Where?

Sergei Diaghilev, Paris

Arnold Schoenberg is usually associated with

expressionism