MUS 189 Module 8
accented rhythmic drive
Debussy's Prelude to "the Afternoon of a Faun" does NOT feature ____.
True
Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music
False
Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.
True
Impressionist composers used various non-Western scale patterns in their works.
troubled clown
In schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a ____.
False
Programmatic music was discontinued in the Impressionist period.
True
Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.
True
Schoenberg employed Sprechstimme, or speechlike melody in his Pierrot lunaire.
Expressionism
Schoenberg;s Pierrot lunaire is associated with the twentieth-century arts movement known as _____.
False
Stravinsky included authentic French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring
rhythm
Stravinsky is largely recognized for his revitalizing of which musical element?
true
Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic.
speechlike melody
The German word Sprechstimme means ____.
True
The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around teh world.
False
The character Pierrot from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire derives from an early Japanese theatrical comedy genre.
Primitivism
The ideals of which movement best describes the music of The Rite of Spring?
False
The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small.
ternary (A-B-A')
The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as ____.
False
The premiere of The Rite of Spring was uneventful in Paris.
True
The premiere success of the Ballets Russes was largely due to the leadership of Serge Diaghilev.
mythological creature in a dreamlike state
The program of Debussy's Prelude to "the Afternoon of a Faun" concerns a _____.
False
The twenty-one poems used Pierrot lunaire are all in virelai form.
True
The whole-tone scale was a favored device of Impressionist composers
Scenes of pagan Russia
What is the basis of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?
Chromatic and with a free rhythm
Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
Bassoon
Which instrument begins with the melody in the introduction to the The Rite of Spring, playing in its upper-most range?
Leonard Bernstein
Which of the following composers was NOT a student of Arnold Schoenberg?
Large-scale forms
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?
Impressionism
Which of the following is NOT associated with Arnold Schoenberg?
Dostoyevsky
Which of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?
