Music Appreciation:MUSC1100 - Chapter 3 Quiz Study set

Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934) was _______.

a British composer who wrote The Planets

The Rite of Spring was:

a ballet

The 'Sacrificial Dance" is in rondo form, best represented by:

A B A' C A" CA"

The composer of the music for Star Wars was a session musician, so he:

already had a deep understanding of how music can shape the viewer's experience of drama.

Some critics of Wagner's operas argue that we should no longer produce or listen to his operas because the composer's ideology is so repugnant that his art should be erased. (True or False)

True

The Rite of Spring depicted pagan rituals and caused consternation among members of its Parisian audience at the premier. (True or False)

True

The Rite of Spring does not tell a coherent story. (True or False)

True

Wagner used leitmotifs to communicate information to an audience that is not included in the libretto or onstage action. (True or False)

True

Some of the musical characteristics of the "Main Theme" that tell us Luke Skywalker is a hero are:

the use of brass instruments, duple meter, steady tempo, major mode, and leaps to the upper tonic

Holst's "Mars" march was extremely unusual because it was in:

quintuple meter

Ragtime was a style of music popularized by pianists and featuring steady rhythm with the left hand and ______ with the right.

syncopated rhythms

Holst's work is an example of program music (instrumental music that tells a story or paints a picture), but he reversed the order of Mars and Mercury because:

the music he composed for Mars made a better opener for the work

Wagner shrunk the size of the orchestra for The Ring of the Nibelungs in order to highlight characters with single instruments. (True or False)

False

The composer who wrote the scores for the original Star Wars trilogy (among the best-known musical works created for the big screen) is _______.

John Williams

In a musical technique called underscoring

None of the above (The characters can hear the music, The music is played by musicians in the scene, The characters understand that the music is meant to warn them, The music is there to change the scene)

Stravinsky's introduction to The Rite of Spring made heavy use of:

None of the above (major tonality, duple meter, conjunct melody lines, predictable dynamic changes)

Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs derives from ______ mythology.

Norse

In Star Wars, the musical theme are effective because they:

Represent specific characters or ideas

The theme that represents "Loge as fire" uses the following to represent fire:

Rising dynamic levels and pitches to represent the unpredictable nature of fire spreading across the ground

Even Adolph Hitler believed that Wagner's operas should not be produced. (True or False)

False

Holst became wealthy as a trombone performer in the middle part of his career. (True or False)

False

Holst had a sincere interest in passion for astrology, and this led to the creation of The Solar System Cycle. (True and False)

False

In polyphonic jazz all of the musicians play the same time. (True and False)

False

John Williams was only influenced by specific historical compositions, rather than by style more generally. (True or False)

False

Like the composer of the musical scores for Star Wars, Wagner randomly paired themes with objects and ideas. (True or False)

False

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) was a world-famous performer by the time he was 17 years old. (True or False)

False

The Rite of Spring debuted as the sole ballet on the program and audience members at the premier loved the dancing and costumes. (True or False)

False

The barroom music in Star Wars relies heavily upon the unstable and irregular rhythms characteristic of ragtime music. (True or False)

False

Similarly to Star Wars, Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs makes heavy use of themes that represent specific characters or ideas. (True or False)

True

The technique of assigning a unique theme to each character, object, place, and idea in a drama is the use of ______.

leitmotif

12-bar blues provides the structure for most blues compositions.

True

A session musician is a musician who:

participates in recording sessions for television and film.

In Star Wars: A New Hope, when the droids R2D2 and C3PO land on Tatooine, Williams utilized the following elements popularized by Igor Stravinsky:

All of the above (High sustained notes in the strings and chromatic interjections from the bassoon and clarinet, oscillating melodies in the winds, no conclusive musical gestures (cadences), music that is neither the major nor the minor)

In the European tradition, opera is a staged work of music theater that features:

All of the above (costumes, sets, dramatic plots, and props)

The final scene (Act III, Scene 3) of the Valkyrie contains _______.

All of the above (the appearance of Logo demigod of fire, Wonton's spear, a ring of fire, Brunhilda's sleep)

The theme that represents Darth Vader (the "Imperial March") shares many of the same characteristics as the main theme, but it is in the major mode and uses simple harmonies. (True or False)

False

Just as ragtime was becoming passé, a new style called _____ burst onto the scene.

Dixieland jazz

"Wotan Farewell" features one of the most significant powers of the leitmotif:

The ability to foreshadow events yet to come

Holst manipulation which characteristic of sound by utilizing woman's voices in "Neptune":

Timbre

"Mars" served as a model for John William's "Imperial March" theme in the Star Wars soundtrack. (True or False)

True

Black and White Rag was a work that manipulated repetition and contrast by giving listeners familiar music each time the A section returned but preventing them from being bored by including contrasting material. (True or False)

True

In Dixieland style, it is difficult to tell which instrument has the "main" melody, because all seem of equal importance. (True or False)

True

In film, music that the characters can hear is called source music because the source of the sound is usually visible on screen. (True or False)

True

It is possible that Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883) has had a greater impact on the development of Western art music than any other composer. (True or False)

True

Luke Skywalker's Theme (the "Main Theme") has more emotional depth than Darth Vader's theme because it is in a three-part form and features a string section. (True or False)

True