chapter 52

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The text heard in this excerpt appears more than once in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire. Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:02

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Match the descriptive words or phrases with the different elements of music as found in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire.

tempo:very fast harmony:dissonant vocal technique:Sprechstimme text:German

Match the characteristics of Schoenberg's The Moonfleck to their correct musical elements.

texture: counterpoint with imitation melody: disjunct harmony: dissonance form: rondeau

What is the relationship between these two excerpts from The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire? (Ignore the first second of the second excerpt.)0:00-0:080:090:23-0:290:08

they both contain the same text

In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n) -

troubled clown

In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n)

troubled clown.

In the - century, composers emancipated dissonance by freeing it from the obligation that it need resolve to a -

twentieth; consonance

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

University of California, Los Angeles

Schoenberg employed sprechstimme, or speech-like melody, in his Pierrot lunaire.

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- is a technique in which each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.

klangfarbenmelodie

Which describes the performing forces heard in Schoenberg's Der Mondfleck?

one voice and five instruments

In which discipline of the arts did Expressionism originate?

painting

Which best describes the texture of this excerpt?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:12

polyphonic

Which Baroque-era compositional technique is NOT used in The Moonfleck?

ritornello form

What is Pierrot attempting to do in The Moonfleck?

rub a spot of moonlight off his jacket

Which best describes the relationship between the vocal and instrumental parts?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:12

several complex melodies played simultaneously

Which best describes the music in this excerpt?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:01

solo voice and chamber ensemble

Schoenberg's composition Pierrot lunaire is a(n) -

song cycle

What does the German word sprechstimme mean in English?

speech-like melody

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

*University of South California *University of California at Los Angeles

Which of the following characteristics are found in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire and which are not?

*disjunct melody *fast, free-flowing rhythm

Which of the following characterize the musical language of Expressionism and which do not?

*wide leaps in melody *extreme instrumental registers

Which of the following statements correctly describe Schoenberg's The Moonfleck? Loading...Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:00

-The music is very dissonant. -It is from a song cycle.

Put the excerpts in the correct order in which they appear in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire. BE VERY CAREFUL to click only on the white play button to hear the excerpt; clicking anywhere else in the card will select it as an answer.

1. Pierre strolls about, 0:09 2. Something strikes him, 0:08 3. He rubs and rubs, 0:04

Schoenberg's most important students were

Alban Berg and Anton Webern.

The Moonfleck is the eighteenth song in Schoenberg's song cycle Pierrot lunaire, which sets twenty-one poems by Belgian poet - . Through the use of - , the vocalist embodies the spirit of the drunken clown with a speechlike singing style. The - instruments play in complex counterpoint underneath the singer's disjunct vocal line.

Albert Giraud. Sprechstimme, five

Who established a system to give all twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance?

Arnold Schoenberg

Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement?

Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern

- composer Arnold Schoenberg was highly influential in the movement called -

Austrian , expressionism

Which statement does NOT describe dissonance in early-twentieth century music?

Dissonance was viewed as a temporary disturbance, resolving to consonance.

The art of _____, who is famous for his painting The Scream, influenced Arnold Schoenberg and his disciples.

Edvard Munch

Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is associated with the twentieth-century arts movement known as -

Expressionism

- painting, such as the works of Edvard Munch, influenced composers and writers.

Expressionist

Match the description to the correct period in Arnold Schoenberg's compositional career.

First period: Post-Wagnerian Romantic style in which he used key signatures and tonality Second period: Atonal-Expressionist style in which he emancipated dissonance and any sense of a home key Third period: twelve-tone method developed and late refined in the United States

What language is heard in this work?

German

Why did Schoenberg leave Berlin in 1933?

He left after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire?

Impressionism

What term below refers to the pointillistic treatment of the instruments?

Klangfarbenmelodie

Match the term related to Schoenberg's musical style to its correct definition.

Klangfarbenmelodie: each note of a melody is played by a different instrumen tSprechstimme: melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches

Which best describes the vocal style heard in this excerpt from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:12

speechlike and disjunct

The German word Sprechstimme means

speechlike melody.

Which describes Pierrot's actions in The Moonfleck?

Pierrot is disturbed by a white spot on the collar of his jet-black jacket.

Which is NOT true of the text of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?

Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry.

What term describes the vocal style heard in this excerpt?

Sprechstimme

Which best describes the vocal style heard here?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:01

Sprechstimme

Which best describes the vocal style heard here?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:02

Sprechstimme

Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music.

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In his third style period, Schoenberg exploited a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.

t

Listen to the following three excerpts. Which statement is true?

The excerpts are a poetic and musical refrain which recurs three times.

Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.

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What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?

They were influenced by movements in painting.

Schoenberg was born in

Vienna

What type of character is Pierrot from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?

a poet-rascal-clown

Which specific structural component does this song employ?

a refrain

Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is

a song cycle.

Music that rejects the framework of key is called

atonal

The tonality in this work is

atonal.

The system in music composition in which all twelve tones of the chromatic scale are equally important is known as -

atonality

Which of the following describes Pierrot lunaire?

avant-garde experiments with sound pushed boundaries of convention

What is the lowest-sounding woodwind instrument heard in this composition?

bass clarinet

Which term describes the texture of this work?

contrapuntal

Which describes the vocal style heard in this excerpt?

disjunct and speechlike

The harmony in this work is

dissonant

Which best describes the music in this excerpt?Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire0:12

dissonant and unstable

Klangfarbenmelodie is a technique in which

each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.

Twentieth-century composers - dissonance by freeing it from the obligation to resolve to -

emancipated; consonance

Which of the following describes musical elements of Expressionism?

extraordinarily wide leaps in melody instruments in their extreme registers hyper-expressive harmonies

The twenty-one poems used in Pierrot lunaire are all in virelai form.

f

There is no counterpoint in The Moonfleck from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire.

f

Which describes the instrumentation of Pierrot lunaire?

female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments

From which phase of Schoenberg's compositional output does Pierrot lunaire originate?

his second period, atonal-Expressionism


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