Chapter 34

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.

False

Ravel focused solely on music and art from France.

False

Ravel's music rarely looks to influences form other cultures.

False

The whole-tone scale, a favored device of Impressionist composers, is built entirely of semitones.

False

Impressionist composers used the church modes of the Middle Ages and various non-Western scale patterns in their works.

True

Many composers in the early twentieth century continued to be influenced by non-Western music.

True

Maurice Ravel is considered a Post-Impressionist composer.

True

Programmatic music continued in the Impressionist period.

True

The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world.

True

Which family of instruments is featured in the opening melody of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

Woodwinds

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

a mythological creature in a wine-induced sleep

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

chromatic and freely flowing

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" features:

homophonic texture

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?

large-scale forms

Which genre best describes the 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)