Chapter 52. Anything Goes: Schoenberg and Musical Expressionism

What is Pierrot attempting to do in The Moonfleck?

rub a spot of moonligtht in his jacket

Which of the following composers were students of Arnold Schoenberg?

Anton Webern Alban Berg

Which of the following is associated with Arnold Schoenberg?

Expressionism atonality Sprechstimme

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

Expressionist

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

Klangfarbenmelodie

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

University of California at Los Angeles University of Southern California

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

atonal

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

expressionism

The character Pierrot from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire derives from an early Japanese theatrical comedy genre.

false

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

false

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

polyphonic texture dissonant harmony disjunct melody

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

song cycle

The German word Sprechstimme means:

speech like melody

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

troubled down

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

true

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

true