MUSI 100 - Postmodernism: The Twentieth Century and Beyond

Which instruments have the main melody in the second and third parts of the A section? A section 0:25

Flute, then clarinet

Corigliano's Prelude from Mr. Tambourine Man is a song cycle set to the texts of:

Bob Dylan

Who is the inventor of the "prepared piano"?

John Cage

Which of the following statements describe the opening of the Tonight Quintet from West Side Story? Which do not?

Unison singing by two choruses of male characters. The choruses sing in alternation.

Drag the instrumental groups in the order in which they play the melodic material in this excerpt of Mambo. (Reminder that you might not end up using all of the given labels.)

brass, strings, brass

Which describes the music in this excerpt from the beginning of "At the sight of this," a scene from Doctor Atomic? Which describes the performing forces of "At the sight of this," a scene from Doctor Atomic? Adams, At the sight of this 4:04

chorus and orchestra

Which instruments play in the beginning of blue cathedral?

correct; bells, muted lower strings incorrect; muted brass, woodwinds

What instruments join the strings in the instrumental introduction of Corigliano's Prelude?

correct; harp, winds, incorrect, percussion, piano, brass

Which statements below correctly describe the untraditional ways in which the soprano performs the end of the song? (Crumb, Caballito negro)

correct; imitating the neighing of a horse, whispering the words incorrect; singing more than one pitch simultaneously, rolling her tongue for a long time while singing

Which of the following characterize Neo-Romanticism?

correct; mostly tonal, innovative timbres, lush harmonic language incorrect; mostly atonal

Which describe the rhythm of A Hymn to the Mother of God? Which do not?

correct; moving freely, no strong sense of meter incorrect; quick rhythms, strong pulse, strong accents on weak beats

Film music can be used to:

correct; set the mood, create a sense of time and place, help establish characters incorrect; determine ticket sales

Which correctly describe the melody of A Hymn to the Mother of God?

correct; small distance between lowest and highest pitches, stepwise motion incorrect; leaping motion, wide distance between lowest and highest pitches

Which of the following statements correctly describe this passage from the Tonight Quintet from West Side Story?

correct; unison singing by two men's choruses, the choruses sing in more than one language, melody moves in stepwise motion incorrect; melody moves in a leaping motion, some men sing one melody while the others sing another melody at the same time, some men sing the melody and others harmonize

The melody sung at the opening of Caballito negro (Little Black Horse) has a - shape and is -

disjunct accompanied by piccolo and percussion

The melody sung at the opening of Caballito negro (Little Black Horse) is _____ and accompanied by _____.

disjunct, piccolo and percussion

Fill in the blank to describe the harmony in this excerpt from Doctor Atomic's "At the sight of this." The harmony of this excerpt is best described as _____.

dissonant

The harmony in the Refrain is -

dissonant and harsh

Fill in the blanks to describe this excerpt from blue cathedral. (fourth section): This excerpt features a _____ of ______.

duet, flute and clarinet

Which instrument has the main melody in this excerpt from blue cathedral? (second section)

flute

Which describes the rhythm of the accompaniment in this excerpt from Dr. Atomic?

heavily syncopated

Which describes the sound of the woodwinds in this short excerpt? (Mambo from West Side Story)

high and dissonant

Which describes the introduction to Imperial March, heard in this excerpt?

repeated rhythmic pattern

Which describes the introduction to Imperial March, heard in this excerpt? Williams, Imperial March - 0:08

repeated rhythmic pattern

When the mood of the music contradicts what is being shown on the screen, it is called:

running counter to the action

The most important function of music in film is to:

set the mood

Which describes the vocal melody phrases in this excerpt?

short and choppy

Which describes the melodic material of "At the sight of this"? 0:28

short and choppy phrases

Which describes the soprano melody at the very beginning of this excerpt? (Crumb, Caballito negro)

sliding between a very high pitch and a very low pitch

Bob Dylan had an important role in the ______________ movement of the 1960s.

social protest

Bob Dylan first made a name for himself as a __ and singer of __ songs.

songwriter, protest

Prelude, from Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan is for solo _____ with ______. The vocalist sings _____ melodies with wide leaps and slides. The music alternates between slow, free, and quick rhythmic sections. It has chromatic and _____ harmonies and a modified _____ structure.

soprano, orchestra, disjunct, dissonant, verse-course

Which instrument family provides the majority of the harmony in this excerpt, from the second section of blue cathedral?

strings

Which instrument family provides the majority of the harmony that underpins the melody in this excerpt, from the A section, which begins about 47 seconds into the piece?

strings

Which describes the text setting in this excerpt from section A′ of A Hymn to the Mother of God?

syllabic

Which describes the rhythms in the opening of Mambo?

syncopated

Which describes the rhythms in this excerpt? (Mambo from West Side Story)

syncopated

Which percussion instrument is played most prominently in the second main section of the Prelude, heard in this excerpt?

tambourine

Minimalism often considers the role of - and its impact on the -

texture process

Which describes the music in this excerpt from the beginning of the Tonight Quintet from Bernstein's West Side Story?

two men's choruses and orchestra

_____ games have long employed source music both to help give more satisfying feedback to a player's _____ and as underscoring to add intensity and meaning to a flow of action in a _____ playing game.

video, actions, role

Which solo instrument is featured in this excerpt from blue cathedral? (fifth section)

violin

From which European stage genre did American musical theater develop?

operetta

In this short excerpt, what groups of instruments exchange musical ideas? (Mambo from West Side Story)

correct; brass, woodwinds incorrect; strings, choir

Neo-Romantic composers like Jennifer __ seek to incorporate nineteenth-century characteristics including __ music while at the same time aiming to "modernize" the nineteenth-century __ tradition.

Higdon, program, orchestral

Which instrument is playing this work? Cage, Sonata V - 0:20

Prepared Piano

Listen to the three choral works to hear how choral styles and genres have changed from the early twentieth century until the present. Match each rhythmic trait to the piece that it describes.

Tavener: nonmetric Adams: rhythmic, with bombastic textures for accompaniment Orff: rhythmic, with lush accompaniment

Listen to the three choral works to hear how choral styles and genres have changed from the early twentieth century until the present. Match each melodic trait to the piece that it describes.

Tavener: wavy, chantlike lines Adams: short, speech like ideas Orff: dramatic, lyrical lines

How would you describe the sound that the piccolo makes after the soprano sings the line "Caballito negro"?

a strange sound

A trend away from objective representation in painting led to _________________ expressionism.

abstract

Music in which the composer leaves musical decisions to the performer is known as chance, or ____________________ music.

aleatoric

_____ musical styles call for instrumentalists and vocalists who can perform with _____ and challenging techniques and satisfy the _____ demands.

avant-garde, unusual, composer's

Intervals smaller than half steps are called _____________.

microtones

__ musical works rely on consonant musical elements that are repeated and __ changed over __ time frames.

minimalist, gradually, extended

Underscoring in film music refers to:

music coming from an unseen source

Which instruments play in the first 46 seconds of blue cathedral and which do not? A section, first part 0:46 Which instruments play in the beginning of blue cathedral?

muted lower strings bells

Neo-Romantic composers embraced aspects of:

nineteenth-century orchestral sound