Chapter 43
The Symbolist poets were strongly influenced by the works of:
Edgar Allen Poe
Claude Monet and Auguste Renoir were both Symbolist poets.
False
Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" was inspired by a poem by Maurice Maeterlinck
False
Which of the following best describes the work of the Impressionist painters?
They attempted to capture the freshness of first impressions.
Impressionism takes its name from a painting by Claude Monet.
True
Impressionist artists abandoned the grandiose subjects of Romanticism.
True
Which of the following best describes the effect achieved by Impressionist painting?
luminous, shimmering colors
Symbolism in music is best exemplified by the works of
Claude Debussy
Impressionism: Sun Rising, the painting that sparked the Impressionist art movement, was created by:
Claude Monet
Symbolist composers avoided ninth chords because they were prohibited in the Classical system of harmony.
False
Symbolist composers felt, even more strongly than their predecessors, the need to resolve all chords back to the tonic
False
The Symbolist movement began in England.
False
The earliest harbingers of modernism were artists and writers from:
France
What nationality was Claude Debussy?
French
Which of the following does NOT characterize Nijinsky's choreography for Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
It continued the traditions of classical ballet.
Impressionism was a style of painting that was cultivated principally in:
Paris
Which of the following painters was associated with the Impressionist school?
Renoir
The French movement in poetry that revolted against traditional modes of expression is called:
Symbolism
Mallarmé and Verlaine were:
Symbolist Poets
The Symbolist movement in poetry was a parallel development to Impressionism.
True
The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" evokes:
a landscape with a mythological creature.
Which of the following is/are characteristic of Symbolist music?
a. whole-tone scales b. ambiguous tonality c. ninth chords (d.) all of the answers shown
The Symbolists sought to evoke poetic images:
through suggestion rather than description.
