Chapter 34
Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.
False
Ravel focused solely on music and art from France.
False
Ravel's music rarely looks to influences form other cultures.
False
The whole-tone scale, a favored device of Impressionist composers, is built entirely of semitones.
False
Impressionist composers used the church modes of the Middle Ages and various non-Western scale patterns in their works.
True
Many composers in the early twentieth century continued to be influenced by non-Western music.
True
Maurice Ravel is considered a Post-Impressionist composer.
True
Programmatic music continued in the Impressionist period.
True
The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around the world.
True
Which family of instruments is featured in the opening melody of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
Woodwinds
The program for Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns:
a mythological creature in a wine-induced sleep
Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
chromatic and freely flowing
Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" features:
homophonic texture
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?
large-scale forms
Which genre best describes the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
symphonic poem
The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as:
ternary (A-B-A)