Music final study guide

In Wagner's ideal music drama the Romantic doctrine of intermingling the arts was fully realized. the words and the music were of equal importance. the music served to enhance the drama. all of the above.

all of the above.

Patter songs features tuneful settings. multisyllabic texts. incredible rapidity. all of the above.

all of the above.

Although Beethoven mastered the forms of the Classical style, he also altered them by disguising the dividing points between large sections. extending the length of the development section in sonata-allegro movements. expanding the length and role of the coda to that of a second development. all of these.

all of these.

Which Classical composer accepted the social and artistic restrictions of court employment? Haydn Mozart Beethoven Billings

Haydn

The two outstanding Classical composers of the late eighteenth century were Mozart and Beethoven. Haydn and Mozart. Haydn and Beethoven. Mozart and Martinez.

Haydn and Mozart.

__________ conducted far-reaching experiments that extended the range of timbres that may be produced by a grand piano. Edgard Varèse Alban Berg Charles Ives Henry Cowell

Henry Cowell

__________, born in California and reared in an atmosphere that precluded allegiance to musical orthodoxy, loved Chinese music and modal church music, country fiddle tunes, early American hymns, and Irish folk tunes. John Cage Alban Berg Charles Ives Henry Cowell

Henry Cowell

The father of twentieth-century Neoclassicism is Carl Orff. Henry Cowell. Aaron Copland. Igor Stravinsky.

Igor Stravinsky.

During the 1860s, a movement began in France that became known as Symbolism in the field of literature and as __________ in painting and music. Expressionism Impressionism Primitivism Neoclassicism

Impressionism

During the twentieth century, the most influential development was __________ twelve-tone technique, which many composers have adapted to their own personal styles of composition. Alban Berg's Anton Webern's Edgard Varèse's Arnold Schoenberg's

Arnold Schoenberg's

In the 1920s, white musicians first imitated the New Orleans style in what became known as __________ jazz. blues bebop swing Dixieland

Dixieland

For Bela Bartók, the folk music of __________ provided the most refreshing and provocative stimulus for the composition of art music. Western Europe Eastern Europe North America South America

Eastern Europe

It was the French who articulated and defended the ideas that led to the Age of Reason, but they freely acknowledged their debt to the English for pointing the way toward the intellectual movement called the Age of Reason. . French Revolution. American Revolution.

Enlightenment

A late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century musical style that resulted from explorations of the subconscious mind was called Impressionism. Expressionism. Primitivism. Neoclassicism.

Expressionism.

Who was employed as a court composer by the same noble family for nearly thirty years? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Joseph Haydn Giovanni Pergolesi

Franz Joseph Haydn

__________, the "poet of the piano," was born in Poland, but lived most of his life in Paris, France. Franz Schubert Hector Berlioz Robert Schumann Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin

The leader of the Romantic movement to write verismo opera was Georges Bizet. Giuseppe Verdi. Richard Wagner. Giacomo Puccini.

Giacomo Puccini.

The finest Italian composer of the nineteenth century was Georges Bizet Giuseppe Verdi Giacomo Puccini Gaetano Donizetti

Giuseppe Verdi

__________ approached the composition of music more as a craft than as an art; he played many orchestral instruments well and therefore knew how to write effectively for them. Carl Orff Samuel Barber Paul Hindemith Igor Stravinsky

Paul Hindemith

__________ was an influential and gifted Romantic composer whose life was marred by depression and mental instability. Franz Schubert Hector Berlioz Robert Schumann Johannes Brahms

Robert Schumann

__________, who was a singer before he became a composer, wrote songlike melody lines for his instrumental and vocal compositions, sensitive text settings, and expressive orchestration, making him one of the most appreciated contemporary composers. Lukas Foss Aaron Copland Samuel Barber Paul Hindemith

Samuel Barber

At the height of the Harlem Renaissance, __________ became the first black American to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra. Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington William Grant Still Jacob Lawrence

William Grant Still

One of history's most tragic figures, __________, began his performing career as a child prodigy. Franz Joseph Haydn Jean-Jacques Rousseau Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Christoph Willibald Gluck

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Instrumental music based upon abstract principles of music rather than upon a text or program is called __________ music. program absolute abstract incidental

absolute

In the 1950s, __________ jazz offered a more subdued style with lyrical melodies, using instruments not commonly associated with jazz. cool free blues sweet

cool

The Experimentalist composers are united by their commitment to electronic music. use of indeterminate form. curiosity about and creativity toward sound and music. none of the above.

curiosity about and creativity toward sound and music.

Robert Schumann wrote several beautiful sets of songs called chants. masses. cycles. Lieder.

cycles

Bartók's serious and scientific study of __________ music led him to become one of the first and finest ethnomusicologists. poor rock jazz folk

folk

The overall design of a work is called its tonality. form. timbre. texture.

form

The classic form of the blues is through-composed and improvised. based on an AABC verse structure. is strophic. is based on just two chords: the tonic and the subdominant.

is strophic.

Compared to grand opera, the opéra comique was shorter and more modest. more humorous and light-hearted. much less popular. all of the above.

shorter and more modest.

In 1912, Schoenberg wrote a __________ called Pierrot Lunaire (The Moonstruck Pierrot). song cycle symphony quartet musical

song cycle

Some of Schubert's most effective songs are organized in song sets with texts by the same poet called arias. Lieder. song cycles. groups of songs.

song cycles.

The most popular Classical small ensemble was the piano trio. brass quintet. string quartet. voice and piano.

string quartet.

Nineteenth-century writers, painters, and musicians were highly __________ in their approach to the arts, vividly expressing their most intimate and personal thoughts and experiences in the effort to assert their individual personalities. objective subjective subjunctive structured

subjective

Highly improvisatory, __________ has a fast tempo and a danceable beat, a "big band" version of what the early jazz musicians had been playing all along. blues bebop swing dixieland

swing

A __________ is a multimovement work played by an orchestra and originally based on the Italian overture consisting of three movements (fast-slow-fast). fugue sonata toccata symphony

symphony

An instrument that allows a composer to produce imitative, altered, or original sounds is called a(n) theremin. organizer. synthesizer. rhythmicon.

synthesizer.

It is customary to divide Beethoven's work into _____ periods. two three four five

three

Some Italian composers of the late Romantic period portrayed realistic, everyday characters in their operas caalled venturo. venusto. verboso. verismo.

verismo

__________ was an outstanding jazz pianist, big band leader, and arranger who also wrote a number of impressive concert works. Benny Goodman Charlie Parker Louis Armstrong "Duke" Ellington

"Duke" Ellington

One form of a Classical rondo is A B A A B A B A C A A B C D E

A B A C A

From about __________, democratic, republican, and revolutionary causes affected every phase of European life and art. 1740-1815 1750-1825 1760-1835 1770-1845

1750-1825

In the early 1920s, __________ led the first generation of American composers determined to devote their professional lives to writing music. Carl Orff Henry Cowell Aaron Copland Benjamin Britten

Aaron Copland

An inventive nature, plus an unconventional upbringing, destined __________ to become an Experimentalist who made his living selling insurance. John Cage Alban Berg Charles Ives Henry Cowell

Charles Ives

The most important composer of piano music in the Romantic period and style was Liszt. Schumann. Mendelssohn. Chopin.

Chopin

The first and greatest Impressionistic composer was Maurice Ravel Claude Debussy Charles Griffes Igor Stravinsky

Claude Debussy

__________ is often referred to as America's only truly original music, representative of its personality and soul. Jazz The musicals The minstrel show Rock 'n' roll

Jazz

__________ studied composition with three important revolutionaries: Schoenberg, Varèse, and Cowell. John Cage Alban Berg Charles Ives Henry Cowell

John Cage

The term universally applied to German art songs is Leiter. Lieder. Gesänge. Kunstwerke.

Lieder

All of the following composers continued to compose in the Classical symphonic form except Brahms. Mendelssohn. Liszt. Schumann.

Liszt

__________, who had the reputation of being the best pianist in Vienna, was afflicted in his late twenties with an ear disease that eventually led to total deafness. Franz Schubert Frederic Chopin Robert Schumann Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

__________, who had the reputation of being the best pianist in Vienna, was afflicted in his late twenties with an ear disease that eventually led to total deafness. Franz Schubert Frederic Chopin Robert Schumann Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Some composers combined the technological resources of the synthesizer and tape recorder with the mathematical logic of total serialism. The leader of this style of composition is the American composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Henry Cowell. Milton Babbitt. Charles Ives.

Milton Babbitt.

Philip Glass has evolved a style of music which is sometimes referred to as Symbolism. Serialism. Minimalism. Primitivism.

Minimalism

The two outstanding composers of the Classical period were Handel and Haydn. Mozart and Handel. Bach and Beethoven. Mozart and Haydn.

Mozart and Haydn.

The first important center of jazz was in Miami. Cincinnati. Chicago. New Orleans.

New Orleans.

Gershwin composed the best known opera by an American composer, An American in Paris. Fascinatin' Rhythm. Porgy and Bess. none of the above.

Porgy and Bess.

__________ consists of syncopated melody that was related to a favorite dance called the cakewalk. Jazz Ragtime The blues Gospel music

Ragtime

Just before he died, Mozart composed a __________. Passion Sanctus Requiem Prelude

Requiem

The most important composer of German music theater in the late nineteenth century was Friedrich Nietzsche. Johannes Brahms. Richard Wagner. none of the above.

Richard Wagner.

__________ evolved in the American South sometime after the Civil War, as newly emancipated blacks, struggling in a hostile environment, lamented their hard lot in a new form of solo song. Rock music Jazz The blues Gospel music

The blues

The musical center of the Classical style, and the city where Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven all lived and worked was Paris. Vienna. London. Florence.

Vienna.

A one-movement orchestral work conceived as a kind of "poem without words" was called a symphonic poem. incidental music. a song without words. occidental music.

a symphonic poem.

Music in which there is no dominance of or momentum toward a tonic pitch, like that written by Schoenberg, is called tonal. modal. atonal. bitonal.

atonal.

Although it is closely related to its vocal model, the piano blues, also known as __________, is happy in mood and brisk in tempo. jazz rock ragtime boogie-woogie

boogie-woogie

A Classical concerto usually had at least one passage, called a __________, which was improvised by the soloist alone. cadenza credenza coscienza confidenza

cadenza

An extended closing section in the Classical sonata-allegro form is called the coda. bridge. finale. cadenza.

coda

Light in mood and concerned with everyday characters and events, __________ operas developed in several countries during the eighteenth century. serious reform comic Baroque

comic

All of the following were characteristics of Classical music except composers embraced Baroque intensity of religious feeling. classicists found beauty in order and symmetry of design. crescendos were used, and were longer and more expressive. instrumental music clearly dominated the Classical period.

composers embraced Baroque intensity of religious feeling.

A new symphonic form that mated literary and musical concepts was called the cyclic sonata. concert overture. symphonic poem. lyrical verse.

concert overture.

It is the __________ of much twentieth-century music that many listeners find particularly challenging. disjunct form conjunct motion consonant melodies dissonance

dissonance

The opera buffa introduced the __________ to bring an act or an opera to a musically and dramatically exciting close. coda ensemble finale postlude intermezzo

ensemble finale

All of the following were true regarding the Romantic period around the turn of the nineteenth even as music performance moved from the private chamber to the public concert hall, the quality and quantity of music remained unchanged. the range of volume increased significantly as composers called for the very softest and very loudest effects. "monster," grandiose performances were greatly appreciated. oratorios were sometimes given festival performances with over five hundred people participating.

even as music performance moved from the private chamber to the public concert hall, the quality and quantity of music remained unchanged.

The three main sections of the Classical sonata-allegro form are the introduction, development, and recapitulation. introduction, recapitulation, and transition. exposition, development, and recapitulation. thematic material, transition, and coda.

exposition, development, and recapitulation.

Although Mozart had a short life that was marked by financial difficulties he was helped by the support and understanding that he received from both his father and his wife. he delighted his audiences and was highly paid for his services. he enjoyed the respect of his fellow composer Haydn. none of the above.

he delighted his audiences and was highly paid for his services.

The following were all true of Mahler's music except he used huge orchestras. he sometimes included choral sections in his symphonies. he used an extensive range of orchestral colors. his music expressed widely changing moods. he rejected chromaticism and returned to traditional tonality.

he rejected chromaticism and returned to traditional tonality.

The following were all characteristic of French composer Debussy except he employed whole-tone and pentatonic scales. his harmony was imaginative and often provocative. he scrupulously maintained the distinction between major and minor modes. he gave most of his compositions programmatic titles.

he scrupulously maintained the distinction between major and minor modes.

The following are all true of Ive's music except his melodies are combined in dense layers. his music produces mostly consonant sounds. he exploited the irregularities of old American tunes. he used unconventional harmonies.

his music produces mostly consonant sounds.

All of the following are true of Beethoven's music except his music reflects the conflicts of his personality and experience. his music shows a consistency in mood. his robust humor is apparent in his music. his intense suffering is expressed in his music.

his music shows a consistency in mood.

During the Classical period, the predominant texture was monophony. polyphony. homophony. heterophony.

homophony.

A definition of musique concrète is music in which all sounds are considered valid. for cement-factory workers in France. that surpasses the definite and stable. that is also known as "hard rock."

in which all sounds are considered valid.

In the mid-1930s, Aaron Copland went through a change of style that included all of the following except using American folk culture as a basis for his works. trying to appeal to a wider audience. incorporating jazz elements into his music. basing some works on Mexican and Latin American themes.

incorporating jazz elements into his music.

During the Romantic period, art was largely supported by the __________ class, who were willing and generally able to pay for what they appreciated. lower middle upper collegiate

middle

All of the following are true of twentieth-century music except many composers created their own distinctive styles, blending Western materials with sounds from other cultures. other composers have abandoned traditional techniques. long-established concepts of melody, harmony, form, and timbre have been challenged or denied by certain composers. most twentieth-century music lacks creativity and the diversity of new styles and techniques.

most twentieth-century music lacks creativity and the diversity of new styles and techniques.

The field of __________ is the scientific study of music. musicology ophthalmology Neoclassism ethnomusicology

musicology

Classical composers changed the orchestra in all of the following ways except narrowing the Baroque conception of the orchestra. standardizing the number of instruments used. determining certain proportions of wind instruments to strings. eventually dropping the harpsichord from the ensemble.

narrowing the Baroque conception of the orchestra.

Charles Darwin wrote the controversial book _____________ which was praised by those who loved nature but criticized by those who strongly believed in individualism. Frankenstein Legend of Sleepy Hollow History of England none of the above

none of the above

In addition to his talents as a composer and scholar, Bartók was also an accomplished violinist. pianist. music critic. composition teacher.

pianist.

The ideal solo Romantic instrument was the orchestra. clarinet. piano.

piano

Bartók wrote the Mikrokosmos, a set of six __________ of graded difficulty. piano books symphonies operas musicology books

piano books

When two or more meters are combined at one time, the technique is called polychoral. polyrhythm. polymeter. polyphony.

polymeter.

The orchestral compositions built upon literary or other extra-musical ideas used by Romantics were called fancies. programs. requiems. cycles.

programs

One of the features of comic operas in all countries was that the Italian language was used for all spoken sections the characters were named after contemporary political figures the operas were written in the language of the country short humorous skits similar to today's stand-up comics were interspersed

the operas were written in the language of the country

All of the following were characteristic of Romantic harmony except the concept of tonal harmony was greatly expanded during the nineteenth century. chromaticism was used more freely, and increasingly dissonant chords provided colorful and dramatic effects. the orchestra decreased in size. for the first time, orchestration became an art in itself.

the orchestra decreased in size.

Most Classical chamber ensembles consisted of several instruments belonging to different families. the same family. the woodwind family. the percussion family.

the same family.

The goals of the Enlightenment included all of the following except to use reason to improve the quality of life. to encourage mystic, supernatural, and religious beliefs. to promote religious tolerance. to replace political abuse with social justice.

to encourage mystic, supernatural, and religious beliefs.

All of the following were common forms in the Classical period except sonata-allegro form. rondo form. minuet and trio. toccata-allegro form.

toccata-allegro form.

Where does the cadenza usually occur in a concerto? toward the beginning of a movement toward the middle of a movement toward the end of a movement between movements

toward the end of a movement