Music 200 Exam 5

Two important American composers who contributed to film music are

Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein.

Who composed Wozzeck?

Alban Berg

Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G is a tribute to

American jazz.

In Nazi Germany, the musical works of __________ and __________ were promoted.

Beethoven; Wagner

In the Soviet Union, the most famous composer to suffer state oppression was

Dmitri Shostakovich.

Which statement about Richard Strauss is FALSE?

He evolved from Neoclassical to modernist in his style.

What is one way in which Stravinsky departed from the Romantic style?

He used mechanistic rhythms as opposed to rubato.

Which statement about Charles Ives's compositional style is FALSE?

He used mostly consonant harmonies.

Which statement about Aaron Copland is FALSE?

He was a great avant-garde innovator and was not interested in writing music for the people.

Which statement about Schoenberg is FALSE?

He was the first impressionist composer.

Which statement about William Grant Still is FALSE?

His family discouraged his musical interests.

This excerpt from Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta is an example of the way that Bartók integrated the sound of __________ into his classical compositions.

Hungarian folk music

Listen to the octatonic scale by itself and then in Debussy's Clouds. What other early Modernist composer liked to use this scale?

Igor Stravinsky

Which statement about Pierrot lunaire is true?

It features Sprechstimme.

Which is true of the fourth of Webern's Five Orchestral Pieces?

It is concise and atonal.

This excerpt from Copland's Appalachian Spring evokes a(n)

North American square dance.

Each movement of Afro-American Symphony is associated with verses by which poet?

Paul Laurence Dunbar

What composer died within an hour on the same day that Stalin died?

Prokofiev

The innovative vocal technique heard in Act III, scene iv, of Wozzeck is

Sprechstimme.

This excerpt from Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta was likely inspired by

Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

In these selections from Ives's The Unanswered Question, the first excerpt represents __________ and the second excerpt represents __________.

The Silences of the Druids; The Unanswered Question of Existence

Which is true of "The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People's Outdoor Meeting"?

The themes are generally fragmentary, like sound bites.

The premiere of The Rite of Spring was famous for

a riot by the audience.

The first performance of Poème électronique included

a tape player, 425 loudspeakers, and the projection of colored lights andimages in a pavilion.

This excerpt from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire lacks

a tonal center.

John Cage's 4′ 33′′ consists of

any sounds occurring inside or outside the performance hall.

In the period between World War I and World War II, most radical, avant-garde music was

appreciated by only a small, esoteric audience.

Music in which no tonal center can be found is

atonal.

Highly intellectual, constructive tendencies led some composers of the postwar avant-garde to

attempt to "serialize" rhythm, dynamics, and tone color.

This excerpt from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is an example of __________music.

avant-garde

The Rite of Spring is a(n)

ballet.

In the early twentieth century, harmony

became more dissonant.

The second and third themes heard in the first movement of the Piano Concerto in G are reminiscent of

blues and jazz.

The main A theme in the fourth movement of Afro-American Symphony is a(n)

blues-derived hymn theme.

Webern's music is __________, whereas Berg's music is __________.

brief and concentrated; slightly Romantic yet atonal

This excerpt from Ravel's Piano Concerto in G gives an example of his

brilliant orchestration.

The texture of Crawford's Prelude for Piano No. 6 is

contrapuntal, in three layers.

In this excerpt from Wozzeck, Berg evokes a sordid tavern by using the sound of

distorted ragtime piano.

This excerpt is from a(n)

expressionist opera.

This excerpt from León's Indígena includes a musical quote from a(n)

famous Caribbean Carnival song.

This piece was originally written to accompany a

film.

What characterizes Debussy's treatment of melody?

fragmented themes and motives based on exotic scales

About six minutes into Indígena, the trumpet emerges to play

fragments of a famous Carnival melody.

In this excerpt from Ives's "The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People's Outdoor Meeting," you can hear

fragments of tunes that keep interrupting each other.

Composers reacting to the complexities of the avant-garde experiments of the 1950s and 1960s sought

greater accessibility and more direct emotional expression in their music.

Which qualities make Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring an expressionist work of art?

its grotesque and shocking depiction of human sacrifice

Which American musical style caught Stravinsky's ear?

jazz

The most prevalent style of film music is

late Romantic.

Many of Ravel's works exhibit

musical exoticism.

In Debussy's music criticism, his __________ views concerning __________music are clear

negative; German

The haunting, recurring English horn motive in Clouds is based on a(n)

octatonic scale.

The five-note scale playable on the black keys of the piano is called the__________ scale.

pentatonic

Which family of the orchestra underwent the most growth and innovation in the post-World War II era?

percussion

Which of these sound techniques existed before World War II?

plucking stringed instruments instead of bowing them

Pianists' or organists' improvisations for silent films of the 1910s and 1920s were often based on

published catalogues of Romantic musical repertoire.

In contrast to constructivist composers, chance composers wanted to

relinquish control over some elements of musical construction.

Which can you hear in this excerpt from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

repeating motives based on Russian folk song

Schoenberg's reference to "the emancipation of dissonance" meant emancipation from the need to

resolve to consonant chords.

Perhaps the most striking and individual feature of Tania León's music is her treatment of __________, which merges African and Latin styles with modernist styles.

rhythm

Varèse was known as an innovative composer in the area(s) of

rhythm and electronic music.

The fourth movement of Afro-American Symphony comes closest to __________form.

rondo

This excerpt from Ligeti's Lux aeterna is characterized by

slowly shifting tone colors.

The second movement of Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta is in__________ form.

sonata

To what genre does Pierrot lunaire belong?

song cycle

Section 2 of Appalachian Spring evokes the sound of a

square dance.

The performing forces in Clouds consist of

strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion

The performing forces in The Rite of Spring consist of

strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

What characterizes Debussy's use of tone color?

subtle, blended, mysterious shades of tone colors

Which artistic movement took its inspiration from Wagner's leitmotivs?

symbolism

The two nonmusical influences on Debussy's style were

symbolist poetry and impressionist painting.

Around 1900, some conservative composers referred to melody, harmony, and tonality as

the "holy trinity" of music.

The main contribution of expressionist composers was

the breakdown of tonality.

This excerpt from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is an example of what Schoenberg called

the emancipation of dissonance.

The sound of Music for 18 Musicians is reminiscent of

the gamelans of Indonesia.

This excerpt from Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is an example of

the radical experimentation of some early Modernist composers.

Which sounds in Poème électronique are evidence of the use of musique concrète?

the short vocal hum and snare drum

Schoenberg's way of imposing order on "emancipated" elements of music resulted in

the twelve-tone system (serialism).

This excerpt from Debussy's Clouds can be compared to an impressionist painting because Debussy

used fragmentary motives and little flashes of tone color.

The performing forces in "Night" consist of

voice, cello, bass clarinet, and piano.

The scale in which the octave is divided into six equal intervals is the __________scale.

whole-tone