music test 5

Who of the following were prominent composers of Romantic-era Lieder

Clara Schumann Franz Schubert

Which of the following describe Copland's Appalachian Spring?

It was originally a ballet. It contains an early American song associated with the Shakers.

Which of the following composers were part of the development of process music in the 1960s?

La Monte Young Terry Riley Steve Reich

Which of the following describe process music?

Musical ideas repeat many times with gradual changes. It deals with stable harmonies.

In Wagner's The Ring Cycle, the treasure of gold that lies in a particular river is guarded by the three

Rhine Maidens

Which of these operas marked the high point of the singing style known as bel canto?

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia Rossini's Guillaume Tell

The operas of ___________ marked the high point of the bel canto singing style, which is characterized by florid ________ lines

Rossini, melodic

What is the basis for the story of The Ring of the Nibelung?

a medieval german epic poem

What is the literary basis for Verdi's Rigoletto?

a play by victor hugo

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

chromatic and with free rhythm

The musical West Side Story is the result of collaboration between ___________ Leonard Bernstein, ___________Stephen Sondheim, and ____________ Jerome Robbins

composer, lyricist, choreographer

T/F: Scott Joplin is considered the "March King."

false

T/F: Stravinsky quoted the melodies of French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring

false

T/F: The form of the Dance of the Youths and Maidens from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is a simple minuet form.

false

T/F: The premiere of The Rite of Spring was uneventful in Paris.

false

T/F: The text setting of the melody in Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God is highly melismatic.

false

Minimalist musical works rely on consonant musical elements that are repeated and ___________ changed over ___________ time frames

gradually, extended

William Grant Still was an important voice for which?

harlem renaissance

In Berg's opera Wozzeck, the main character's final breakdown is the result of which?

having killed his lover

Joplin recorded his own piano rags through the use of a _________________.

piano roll

The final scene of Wozzeck revolves around which?

the children's discovery of the murder

T/F: The idea of a tragedy being set as a musical was unheard of until Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story.

true

T/F: The nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists

true

T/F: Virtuoso piano performances featured flashy, technically difficult compositions.

true

T/F: Wagner had a theater built at Bayreuth specifically for the performance of his music dramas

true

T/F: William Grant Still found inspiration in the writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance

true

T/F:The third movement, Son, from Homage to Federico García Lorca, is based on a traditional dance form.

true

Which two instruments have featured solos in Billie's Blues:

trumpet clarinet

Performer of extraordinary technical ability

virtuoso

In Caballito negro, Crumb instructs the soprano to sing without vibrato, with a _________ tone

white

Music that has no literary, dramatic, or pictorial program. Also pure music

absolute music

Berg's Wozzeck was inspired by which?

an expressionist play by buchner

Summertime, from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, is best described as which?

aria

Which of the following describe George Crumb's Caballito negro?

atonal harmony disjunct melody sung in Spanish

A dance form featuring a staged presentation of group or solo dancing with music, costumes, and scenery

ballet

Which instrument begins with the melody in the introduction to The Rite of Spring, playing in its uppermost range?

bassoon

In nineteenth-century Italy, audiences favored both the opera seria and opera buffa styles and the use of ___________ singing

bel canto

In the West Side Story collaboration, _____________ Jerome Robbins was eager to depict the setting's "gritty realism," and encouraged the composer, Bernstein, to incorporate jazz, rock-and-roll, and _____________ music like the mambo.

choreographer, latino

In the last section of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" antique _________ are introduced

cymbals

Which of the following describes Corigliano's Prelude from Mr. Tambourine Man?

disjunct melodic lines asymmetrical phrasing

Which instruments did Puccini use in Madame Butterfly to evoke the Japanese gagaku orchestra?

flute, bells, piccolo, harp

In Crumb's Caballito negro, the piccolo player uses a technique similar to "rolling an R," called __________

flutter tonguing

which is NOT true of billies blues

it was written by duke ellington

The opera Madame Butterfly is set in

japan

A musical style created mainly by African Americans in the early twentieth century that blended elements drawn from African musics with the popular and art traditions of the West`

jazz

_________ is considered to be amongst the most vibrant and original North American musics

jazz

Which of the following is a characteristic of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

large orchestra polytonality dissonance

What specific musical technique did Puccini borrow from Wagner in his Madame Butterfly?

leitmotifs

German for "song"; most commonly associated with the solo art song of the nineteenth century, usually accompanied by piano

lied

How many choruses does Billie's Blues have?

six

T/F: Ballet has been a part of theatrical entertainments since the Renaissance

true

T/F: Berg uses Sprechstimme vocal style in his opera Wozzeck.

true

T/F: Copland collaborated with choreographer Martha Graham in his work Appalachian Spring.

true

T/F: Debussy wrote orchestral program music.

true

T/F: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was a prominent composer of Lieder.

true

T/F: Franz Liszt was inspired by the virtuoso violinist Niccolò Paganini to memorize the music he played.

true

T/F: In Wozzeck, the title character has hallucinations and is the subject of experimentation by his superiors.

true

T/F: Instrumental music that does not have a program is called absolute music.

true

T/F: Ives's work Country Band March draws on a variety of traditional American tunes.

true

T/F: Jazz developed from a blending of West African music with Euro-American vernacular traditions

true

T/F: Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral was inspired by the grief over her brother's death.

true

T/F: Minimalism is a style that is influenced by process music.

true

Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God is in ________ form

ABA

Match the artist and work to the movement it inspired in William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano First--> Second--> Third-->

Barthé's African Dancer Johnson's Mother and Child Savage's Gamin

A Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in _________.

German

Which are true of Billie's Blues?

It features clarinet improvisations. It features trumpet playing.

Which types of tunes did Charles Ives incorporate in his Country Band March?

Sousa marches children's songs patriotic tunes hymns

In jazz, ___________ was an invented word that mimicked the two-note trademark phrase of this new style that was characterized by fast ___________ and _________ harmonies

bebop, tempo, complex

"Beautiful singing"; elegant Italian vocal style characterized by florid melodic lines delivered by voices of great agility, smoothness, and purity of tone

bel canto style

Which of the following percussion instruments are heard in Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral?

bell tree tuned glasses crotales

Duke Ellington is associated with which jazz style?

big band

which types of tunes did charles ives NOT incorporate in his country band march?

big band jazz

which of the following is not a characteristic of stravinksi's rite of spring

chamber orchestra

In blue cathedral, Higdon incorporates __________, effectively evoking an Asian soundscape

chinese reflex bals

The performing forces of Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God are twelve voices in two ____________.

chooirs

Ives's work Country Band March is in _______- meter

duple

Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg was highly influential in the movement called __________.

expressionism

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.

expressionism

Berg's opera Wozzeck is considered to be a(n) _________ work.

expressionist

T/F: Alban Berg's use of harmony in Wozzeck is completely atonal.

false

T/F: Copland did not use an early American song in his ballet Appalachian Spring.

false

T/F: Hector Berlioz invented the symphonic poem

false

T/F: In his music dramas Wagner created short arias that lent themselves to being separated from the larger work for performance at home

false

T/F: Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral is written for a small orchestra.

false

T/F: Process music embraces the intellectual style of Schoenberg and Webern.

false

T/F: Puccini found his inspiration for Madame Butterfly after visiting Tokyo and viewing a traditional play there.

false

T/F: The twenty-one poems used in Pierrot lunaire are all in virelai form

false

T/F: Which instrument begins with the melody in the introduction to The Rite of Spring, playing in its uppermost range?

false

T/F: ohn Corigliano sought to reproduce the melody of Bob Dylan's Mr. Tambourine Man in his work Prelude from Mr. Tambourine Man.

false

Which of the following characteristics are found in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire?

fast, free-flowing rhythm disjunct melody

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

flute

In The Rite of Spring some of Stravinsky's melodies quote Russian _________ songs.

folk

How many music dramas make up Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung?

four

In order to marry her American love, Cio-Cio-San, in Puccini's Madame Butterfly, renounces her role as a ________________

geisha

In what language is Berg's Wozzeck sung?

german

a lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in

german

Which of the following describes the style of ragtime?

highly syncopated melodies clear-cut sections balanced phrasing

Which of the following are characteristics of George Gershwin's Summertime from Porgy and Bess and which are not?

homophonic minor key

"Fixed idea"; term coined by Berlioz for a recurring musical idea that links different movements of a work.

idee fixe

The character development in Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique is realized musically through the thematic development of the ________ ___________

idee fixe

The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, is called the _____________

idee fixe

__________ music is a type of program music and a predecessor of film soundtracks.

incidental

Music written to accompany dramatic works

incidental music

Which category of program music best describes Grieg's Peer Gynt?

incidental music

music written to accompany plays (Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream)

incidental music

which term describes music written to accompany plays?

incidental music

The chordal harmony in Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral is largely __________

major

The fast-paced Afro-Cuban dance with a syncopated beat heard in The Dance at the Gym in Bernstein's West Side Story is called ___________

mambo

The work that is considered to be Scott Joplin's most famous was which?

maple leaf rag

rosins operas included bel canto singing, characterized by florid ___________ liens

melodic

The orchestration in Revueltas's Son emulates the sound of __________

mexican mariachi ensembles

Which best describe the musical characteristics of the opening theme of John Williams's Imperial March from Star Wars?

minor tonality repeated rhythmic ostinati disjunct melody

Wagner's term for his operas

music drama

What did Wagner call his complete integration of theater and music?

music drama

The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns which?

mythical faun in a dream like state

____________ is where the fusion of ragtime, blues, and other musics resulted in the development of jazz.

new orleans

What instruments accompany the voice in Crumb's Caballito negro?

piccolo metallic percussion

Before recorded music was widespread, music like Scott Joplin's rags could be mechanically performed by which?

player pianos

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" draws its program from a Symbolist ___________

poem

The ideals of which movement best describe the music of The Rite of Spring?

primitivism

Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations, especially popular in the nineteenth century

program music

Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called___________ _____________

program music

instrumental music hat has some literary or pectoral association is called _______________

program music

Tchaikovsky's music for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a famous example of which?

program overture

one-movement work for orchestra, independent of opera (Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet)

program overture

___________ music evokes images and ideas and is distinguished from _________ music, which consists of music without literary or pictorial meanings

program, absolute

Late-nineteenth-century piano style created by African Americans, characterized by highly syncopated melodies; also played in ensemble arrangements. Contributed to early jazz styles

ragtime

Which was originally an African American piano style that featured highly syncopated melodies?

ragtime

_________ was an African American __________ style characterized by ___________ rhythms and sectional forms.

ragtime, piano, syncopated

What is the literary basis for West Side Story?

romeo and juliet

Which of the following describe Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral?

rondo-like form 5/4 meter homophonic

In The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky evokes the rites of ancient __________.

russia

In which countries was nineteenth-century ballet favored as an independent dramatic form?

russia, france

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" was later choreographed by the great ________ dancer Vaslav Nijinksy

russian

What is the basis of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

scenes of pagan russia

Which characterizes the rhythm of Revueltas's Son, which is the third movement of Homage to Federico García Lorca?

shifting meeters

which of the following is not a characteristic of the nineteenth century symphony

smaller orchestras than classical era orchestras

Ragtime was originally composed for what instrumentation?

solo piano

Corigliano first wrote his song cycle Mr. Tambourine Man for which?

solo voice and piano

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

song cycle

Where is George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess set?

south carolina

who wrote lyrics for west side story

stephen sondheim

Although it was quite popular, West Side Story was also criticized for its ___________ portrayal of Latino characters.

stereotypical

which william grant still work was inspired by the sculpture african dancer by richmond barthe

suite for violin and piano

Which song opens Gershwin's Porgy and Bess?

summertime

The text setting of Tavener's A Hymn to the Mother of God is __________

syllabic

Common types of Romantic program music include the concert overture, incidental music, and the ___________

symphonic poem

One-movement orchestral form that develops a poetic idea, suggests a scene, or creates a mood, generally associated with the Romantic era. Also tone poem

symphonic poem

Which genre best describes the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

symphonic poem

large-scale one-movement work for orchestra, also called tone poem (Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of the Faun")

symphonic poem

The ___________ has a much freer structure than the ___________, the latter of which usually has a traditional Classical form.

symphonic prom, concert overture

Which of the following describe Revueltas's Homage to Federico García Lorca?

syncopated rhythm polyphonic dissonant harmony

The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as which?

ternary (ABA)

The form of George Crumb's Caballito negro is __________________

ternary (three-part)

Which best describes the form of a typical blues text, as heard in the first verse (chorus 2) of Billie's Blues?

three line strophe

Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral opens with bell-like timbres, a style known as what?

tintinnabulation

Jennifer Higdon's blue cathedral is which?

tone poem

Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for which?

treemonisha

The aria "La donna è mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto is in a lilting __________ meter

triple

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

troubled clown

T/F: Nationalistic program music might evoke a country's landscape

true

T/F: Nineteenth-century parlor music in the United States was written to be accessible to amateurs

true

T/F: Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly focuses on the heroine, a former geisha

true

T/F: Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly is considered exotic due to its setting and plot

true

T/F: Romantic Lied texts are written in German

true

T/F: Schoenberg employed Sprechstimme, or speech-like melody, in his Pierrot lunaire

true

T/F: Scott Joplin is one of the first African American composers to receive wide recognition

true

T/F: Simple Gifts, which is used by Aaron Copland in his ballet Appalachian Spring, is an early American song.

true

T/F: Stephen Foster is known for his minstrel show tunes and parlor songs.

true

T/F: Tchaikovsky's ballets are central to the repertory today.

true

T/F: The bel canto style of singing is characterized by florid melodic lines.

true

T/F: The idea of a tragedy being set as a musical was unheard of until Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story

true

Which two scale types did Puccini use in Madame Butterfly to evoke Japanese culture?

whole tone, pentatonic

Country Band March is arranged for which ensemble?

wind band

Which of Berg's compositions premiered at the Berlin State opera in 1925?

wosseck

Puccini makes reference to the music of which nations in Madame Butterfly?

United States, Japanese

The nine daughters of Wotan, in Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, are known as the _________

Valkyries