MUHS 2 Final

The years between the end of World War I and the start of World War II are

1918-1939

Which of the following propositions was among Debussy's aesthetic views?

A composer need not be bound by traditional rules of harmonic progression.

Minimalism originated as

A reaction against the intellectual and technical complexity of much modernistic music of the mid 20th century

Match each musical technique or movement to the composer with which it is associated polystylism tintinnabuli neo-Romanticism nuevo tango postminimalism

A. Alfred Schnittke C. Arvo Pärt B. David del Tredici E. Ástor Piazzola D. John Adams

Count Basie Tommy Dorsey Scott Joplin Bessie Smith John Philip Sousa

A. Big Band C. Swing D. ragtime E. the blues B. band marches

Pierrot lunaire The Unanswered Question Petrushka The Rite of Spring Pulcinella

A. expressionism B. experimental music C. cubism D. primitivism E. neoclassicism

Ernst Krenek's Jonny spielt auf examines the cultural dichotomy between

American musical innovation and European tradition

All of the following compositions were responses to contemporary political issues except

Arthur Honneger's Pacific 231

Match each concept or technique to the composer who prominently used it. Harry Partch Krzysztof Penderecki Henry Cowell John Cage Elliott Carter

B. monophonic music C. process music D. assimilation of Asian and Indian elements A. chance music E. metric modulation

General William Booth Enters into Heaven Symphony of Psalms Pierrot lunaire Symphony, Op. 21 Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

B. polytonality E. neotonality D. Sprechstimme A. Klangfarbenmelodie C. ethnomusicology

To what aspect of Brahms's music did Schoenberg feel indebted with respect to the development of his own compositional technique?

Brahms's method of continuously developing musical motives

After World War II, a highly influential German government-sponsored center for new music emerged in

Darmstadt

film music that is heard or performed by characters in the film.

Diegetic music refers to

Le tombeau de Couperin Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Golliwog's Cake-Walk Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus Prélude à "L'Après-midi d'un faune"

E. neoclassicism C. Renaissance Revival B. ragtime D. folksong revival movement A. Symbolism

4'33'' was composed as a demonstration of total silence, which Cage regarded as the negative image of music

False

A distinctive feature of bebop is its abandonment of improvisation techniques in favor of notated arrangements

False

A striking phenomenon among foreign composers such as Bright Sheng who have studied in the West has been their resilient faithfulness to the musical styles of their native cultures and their resistance to influence by the Western art music tradition

False

Although broadly acquainted with the French and German musical traditions, Debussy did not have the opportunity to hear or study the music Wagner

False

Because of their popular orientation, American bands in the late nineteenth century excluded European masterworks and cultivated more accessible, native repertoires

False

Despite access to travel and the plethora of communication technologies available in the late twentieth century, musical cultures have largely remained isolated and distinct, without influencing each other significantly

False

During the 1920s and 1930s, the Mexican government suppressed the traditional arts of indigenous peoples and promoted instead ascendant European styles

False

Following the brutality and savagery of World War I, European composers largely abandoned their earlier allegiances to nationalist musical styles and identities

False

In his Afro-American Symphony, William Grant Still abandoned the traditional four-movement symphonic design and used a one-movement, programmatic form modeled on Liszt's symphonic poems

False

Samuel Barber was the first American composer to use and promote serial techniques to composers and audiences in the United States

False

Schoenberg's career represented a radical rejection of the ideas and procedures he found in the Austro-German tradition of classical music extending from J. S. Bach to Mahler

False

Unlike Stravinsky and Bartók, Ives disdained vernacular and folk musical genres and did not use them in his music.

False

Use of twelve-tone rows forced Schoenberg to abandon traditional musical forms and invent new ones for his works of the 1920s and 1930s

False

The metaphor of musical collage aptly describes the compositional techniques applied in

General William Booth Enters into Heaven

A leading institute for the study of electronic music, founded by Pierre Boulez, is

IRCAM

Which of the following statements most accurately describes early twentieth-century modernist music?

It sought innovation while maintaining ties to older repertoires and traditions

Fascism first emerged as a ruling political movement in

Italy in the 1920s

Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was advertised as a

Jazz Concerto

The ground-breaking minimalist works of La Monte Young and Terry Riley were closely contemporary with

John F. Kennedy's assassination

Match each composer to the figure who inspired one of his compositions Kurt Weil Sergei Prokofiev Paul Hindemith Silvestre Revueltas Aaron copland

John Gay William Shakespeare Matthias Grünewald Federico García Lorca Thorton Wilder

The following works are all by Prokofiev except

King David

Who among the following composers pursued a successful career writing Broadway musicals in the 1930s and 1940s?

Kurt Weil

In Liturgie de cristal, Messiaen uses constructive techniques based most closely on those of

Medivial Isoshtyhms

The proposition that avant-garde methods or products of composition that are incomprehensible or imperceptible to average listeners are analogous to specialist theories and methods of modern scientific research is associated with

Milton Babbitt

Hector Villa-Lobos's Bachianas brasileiras embrace

Neo-Classism

The last movement of Crawford Seeger's 1931 String Quartet is notable for its

Palindrone Form

Who wrote the music for the opera Einstein on the Beach?

Philip Glass

Francis Poulenc took inspiration from

Popular french song

Which of the following is one of Stravinsky's neoclassical works?

Pulcinella

Nature and environmental issues have been prominent themes in the works of

R. Murray Schafer

serialism Tone Clusters Polytonality harmonic fluctuation Spatial music

Ruth Seeger Henry Cowell Darius Milhaud Paul Hindemeth Edgard varese

Which of the following twentieth-century composers remained most committed to traditional tonality?

Samuel Barber

The earliest atonal compositions included

Schoenberg's The Book of the Hanging Gardens and Ives's The Unanswered Question

The first successful electronic instrument was the

Theremin

Which of the following statements is true of Krenek, Gershwin, Copland, and Milhaud?

They all incorporated blues or jazz idioms in their music

During the Depression and New Deal eras, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Aaron Copland both

Took interest in indigenous American musical traditions

Treating aspects of musical other than pitch according to the principles of Schoenberg's twelve-tone composition has been called

Total Serialism

Early modernist composers around 1900 had to contend with the domination of concert programs by well-established classics by Mozart and Beethoven

True

Harry Partch's music employs not only unusual scales and tunings inspired by non-Western musical systems, but also instruments of his own invention

True

John Cage's Concert for piano and orchestra is closely connected to his ideas about the role of indeterminacy in composition

True

The Symphony of Psalms, like many of Stravinsky's earlier works, uses an octatonic scale as the source of some of its melodic and harmonic material

True

The songs of African slaves proliferated and were absorbed into the American musical vernacular in part because slaveholders considered this music harmless or even useful True or False

True

Varèse's ideas about spatial music had an important influence on the next generation of European and American composers

True

Louis Armstrong's primary instrument was the

Trumpet

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta illustrates Béla Bartók's use of all the following elements except

Twelve Tone Rows

In the film scores written by European musicians like Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner during the 1930s, one typically finds

Wagnerian leitmotives and modernist dissonance

Of the following composers, who was the only one to reside in Europe during World War II?

Webern

The Path to the New Music is

Webern's essay arguing that twelve-tone music was an inevitable result of the evolution of music

Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes is about

a nineteenth-century story of a fisherman ostracized by his fellow villagers

The technique of "tintinnabuli" is based on a rule-based relationship between

a principal melody and a tonic triad

Act III of Berg's Wozzeck is organized as

a series of inventions, each focused on a different musical element.

In the United States, avant-garde composers of the decades after World War I were widely and most often supported by the patronage of

academic institutions

The plot of Wozzeck is drawn from

an early nineteenth-century German drama

When we claim that works such as Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody: To the Victims of Hiroshima or Iannis Xenakis's Metastaseis are organized by "processes," we mean that these works

are a succession of gradual changes in instrumental timbres, textures, and registers

The blues typically uses

certain scale degrees in natural as well as flattened form

Bartók learned about folk music by

collecting and publishing it himself

Expressionist Painters

depicted darkly distorted objects or people in an attempt to convey the anxieties of urban life

Phonograph disc technology advanced in 1948 when

discs were designed that could contain almost six times as much music as earlier ones

Olivier Messaien's compositions were strongly influenced by his

fervent Catholic faith

In the 1960s, Ornette Coleman and his ensemble developed a style of jazz known as

free jazz

Schafer's environmental music

is to be performed outside of the concert hall

Band transcriptions were primarily intended to

make popular orchestral works performable by wind bands

In his works from the 1970s and later, Arvo Pärt used a compositional style heavily influenced by

medieval chant and early chant polyphony

Since the 1980s the musical style that has proved most adaptable and widely integrated into both art and popular music has arguably been

minimalism

What is Hindemith's concept of Gebrauchsmusik?

music that could be played by younger or amateur performers

John Cage's mature ideas about music include the proposition that

musical compositions need not be permanent or fixed things ??

Music created electronically from prerecorded sounds was known as

musique concrète

Schoenberg's argument for atonality was based in part on his observation that

nineteenth-century chromaticism and wide-ranging modulations had weakened the pull of tonic pitches

Broadly speaking, one of the most important functions of film musicals in the 1930s was to

offer respite from the deprivations of the Great Depression

In twelve-tone music, the original form of the row is called the

prime

Luigi Russolo was an important figure in the

promotion of a musical aesthetic that reflected the influence of modern industrial society

Although different in many ways, Benjamin Britten and George Crumb both

responded to contemporary political and social issues in their compositions

Avant-garde techniques of electronic music composition were first enabled by the invention of

tape recorders

Klangfarbenmelodie is

the coordination of changes in pitch with changes of tone color.

The description of much early twentieth-century music as "post-tonal" refers to

the diverse new ways in which composers organized pitch.

A decline of amateur participation in music performance in the United States after the 1920s can be most directly attributed to

the invention and use of electric sound recording

predominant motivation for many developments in musical style in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries has been

to make music more sensuously appealing and comprehensible for listeners

Treating aspects of musical other than pitch according to the principles of Schoenberg's twelve-tone composition has been called

total serialsim

Steve Reich's musical style in the 1970s was decisively influenced by

traditional African drumming

Despite their general aesthetic agreements, the composers of Les Six composed in widely divergent styles.

true

How does Higdon depict the cathedral in her blue cathedral?

with melodic lines that spiral upward and then down

The Nazis disapproved of all the following except

works by Enlightenment-period composers like Mozart and Beethoven