music quiz 4

serialism

Another term to describe Schoenberg's twelve-tone compositional method is

an Expressionist play by Buchner

Berg's Wozzeck was inspired by...

jazz

Billie Holiday's Billie's Blues exemplifies the intersection between __ and blues

Benny Goodman

Billie Holiday's first break into the music industry occurred when she recorded with which white clarinetist?

process music

Compositional style in which a composer selects a simple musical idea and repeats it over and over, as it is gradually changed or elaborated on.

Simple Gifts

Copland's Appalachian Spring quotes the American tune:

modernist

Copland's compositional style led him to be considered an "American___

wind band

Country Band March is arranged for which ensemble?

true

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

big-band

Duke Ellington is associated with which jazz style?

big-band jazz

During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?

polyrhythm

Each musician plays a unique rhythm pattern continuously.

polyrhythm

Ewe drummers in the region of Togo, Benin, and Ghana are noted for their performance method, called

On the Transmigration of Souls

For what piece did John Adams receive a Pulitzer Prize in 2003?

vaudeville/ variety show; operetta

From which stage genres did American musical theater develop?

incorporate AA blues and jazz styles into his compositions

George Gershwin is recognized as being one of the first American composers to...

patriotic

George M. Cohen was the composer of ___ songs

Harlem Renaissance

Gershwin was inspired by the goals of the ___

alternation between recognizable themes and unpredictable virtuosity; dialogue between solo piano and larger ensemble

How is Rhapsody in Blue similar to a piano concerto?

troubled clown

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

true

In his third style period, Schoenberg exploited a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.

leitmotifs

In order to associate the music with a character, John Williams utilizes ___

prestigious

In the 1940s and 1950s, the twelve-tone music of Schoenberg and his students was perceived as scientific, and was considered ___ in European and American institutions.

Ghana

In the 1970s, Steve Reich spent a month playing with and listening to drummers in

vaudeville

In the early twentieth century, throughout the United States, minstrel shows expanded into the tradition of

stride

In the last movement of his Suite for Violin and Piano William Grant Still incorporates a jazz piano style known as

vernacular

Ives is now considered visionary for having embraced___ art

J Robert Oppenheimer

John Adam's opera, Doctor Atomic, is based on the life of...

minimalist; opera

John Adams's eclectic approach combines elements of the ___ style with traits of neo-Romanticism, forging a post-minimalist style in his ___ Doctor Atomic.

phase music

Looping several copies of a recording simultaneously, slowly changing the tape speeds; Live musicians play the same music and gradually speed up or slow down to go in and out of sync.

yes

Minimalist musical works rely on consonant musical elements that are repeated and gradually changed over extended time frames.

aleatoric

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

true

Schoenberg employed sprechstimme, or speech-like melody, in his Pierrot lunaire.

expressionism

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

song cycle

Schoenberg's composition Pierrot lunaire is a(n

West Africa

Steve Reich was influenced by the polyrhythms of...

rhythm

Stravinsky is largely recognized for his revitalizing of which musical element?

true

T/F: A "blue note" is created by melodic pitch-bending.

false

T/F: African American composer William Grant Still did not study classical music.

false

T/F: Alban Berg wrote only one opera, Wozzeck.

false

T/F: Alban Berg's use of harmony in Wozzeck is completely atonal.

true

T/F: America's vernacular traditions also included music for brass bands.

true

T/F: As a white musician, George Gershwin's social status allowed him opportunities that black musicians could not enjoy in the 1920s

true

T/F: Avant-garde musical styles called for a new arsenal of unusual performance techniques to cope with the composer's wishes.

true

T/F: Berg uses Sprechstimme vocal style in his opera Wozzeck.

true

T/F: Bernstein explored his Jewish background in his music.

true

T/F: Composer John Adams was influenced by rock albums such as Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon.

true

T/F: Copland collaborated with choreographer Martha Graham in his work Appalachian Spring.

false

T/F: Film music always matches the mood of the action on the screen.

true

T/F: George Gershwin demonstrated and sold sheet music on Tin Pan Alley

false

T/F: George Gershwin studied with renowned teacher Nadia Boulanger.

true

T/F: George Gershwin wrote film scores.

true

T/F: Harry Partch was a serious proponent of microtonal music.

true

T/F: Henry Cowell is known for combining Asian instruments with traditional Western ensembles.

true

T/F: Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.

false

T/F: In phase music, loops are played unaltered.

true

T/F: Jazz developed from a blending of West African music with Euro-American vernacular traditions.

true

T/F: John Adams is considered a post-minimalist composer.

true

T/F: John Adams's Doctor Atomic is the result of collaboration with a playwright/director.

true

T/F: John Cage provided detailed instructions at the beginning of Sonatas and Interludes to indicate that forty-five of the piano's eighty-eight keys should be prepared by inserting nails, bolts, nuts, screws, rubber, and wood at carefully specified distances.

true

T/F: Leonard Bernstein achieved fame with the New York Philharmonic when he filled in for a guest conductor who was taken ill.

true

T/F: Leonard Bernstein was the 1st american born musician to be appointed conductor of the NY Philharmonic

true

T/F: Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of scat-singing.

true

T/F: Minimalism is a style that is influenced by process music.

false

T/F: Process music embraces the intellectual style of Schoenberg and Webern.

true

T/F: Salvador Dalí was a part of the surrealist movement.

true

T/F: Some postmodernist architecture can be described as neo-eclectic.

true

T/F: Source music refers to music that functions as part of the drama itself, such as a character turning on a radio.

true

T/F: Stravinsky quoted the melodies of Russian folk songs in is ballet, The Rite of Spring

true

T/F: Stravinsky's early works are considered to be very nationalistic

true

T/F: Take the A Train is characterized by frequent call-and-response between instruments.

false

T/F: The big band phenomenon ended prior to World War II.

true

T/F: The element of melody in early 20th century music is characterized by wide leaps and dissonant intervals

true

T/F: The idea of a tragedy being set as a musical was unheard of until Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story.

true

T/F: The polyrhythm of the Ewe drummers affected Steve Reich's compositions in the 1970s.

false

T/F: The string section remained the heart of the orchestra in the early twentieth century.

true

T/F: The term "modernisms" describes a group of stylistic movements in the early twentieth century.

true

T/F: The works of both John Cage and George Crumb rely on the creativity of others for their works to be successful.

true

T/F: William Grant Still composed the 1st symphony by an African American to be performed by a major American orchestra

true

T/F: William Grant Still found inspiration in the writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance.

true

T/F: William Grant Still wrote film and TV music as well as operas and symphonies

true

T/F: William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano employs melodies and harmonies that are typical of the blues.

true

T/F: most modernists shared a wish to reject 19th century models

three

The Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint has ___ movements

mambo

The fast-paced Afro-Cuban dance with a syncopated beat heard in The Dance at the Gym in Bernstein's West Side Story is called

binary with each section repeated

The form of John Cage's Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes is___

diatonic

The harmony of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint is ___

primitivism

The ideals of which movement describe the music of The Rite of Spring?

instrumentally conceived

The melodic element of twentieth-century music can be described as which?

Alban Berg

The most commercially successful Expressionist composer in the first half of the twentieth century was

Javanese gamelan

The prepared piano required for Sonatas and Interludes simulates a(n)

atonality

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

simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns, changing meter

Twentieth-century music featured what types of rhythmic innovation?

music coming from an unseen source

Underscoring in film music refers to which?

speech-like melody

What does the German word sprechstimme mean in English?

composition of patriotic songs, marches, and love ballads; ragtime and early jazz were introduced to France

What effects did World War I have on American music?

opera

What genre is Berg's Wozzeck?

scenes of Pagan Russia

What is the basis of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

shakespeare's romeo and juliet

What is the literary basis for West Side Story?

4'33"

What piece by John Cage first performed by the pianist David Tudor in 1952 raised questions regarding definitions of music, noise, and silence?

running counter to the action

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

Little Rock, Arkansas

Where did William Grant Still grow up?

the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico

Where does the action take place in Doctor Atomic?

Harry Partch

Which composer adapted instruments to be capable of microtonality?

Schoenberg

Which composer is credited with abandoning music that has a tonal center and establishing a new system?

three line strophe

Which describes the form of a typical blues text, as heard in the first verse (chorus 2) of Billie's Blues?

Porgy and Bess

Which of George Gershwin's works is considered a "folk opera"?

the Concord sonata

Which of Ives's works finally gained him attention from American audiences in 1939?

artists uninterested in high culture and mass market tastes; French to describe part of an army charged first into battle; a radical break from social and artistic conventions

Which of the following are associated with the term avant-garde?

underscoring; source music

Which of the following are the two main types of film music

new timbres required new acts of performance; interpretive and technical instructions became increasingly common

Which of the following characterize modernist performance practice?

extreme instrumental registers; wide leaps in melody

Which of the following characterize the musical language of Expressionism and which do not?

the concert was billed as "an experiment in modern music"; organized by Paul Whiteman

Which of the following characterize the premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in 1924?

polyharmony, shifting meter, atonality

Which of the following characterize twentieth-century modernisms in music?

exotic scales of impressionism; high energy rhythms of minimalism; lush harmonies and orchestration of neo-romanticism

Which of the following combine to create a post-minimalist stye?

creator of Take the A Train; collaborated with Duke Ellington; classically trained pianist

Which of the following describe Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967)?

it was originally a ballet; it contains an early American song associated with the Shakers

Which of the following describe Copland's Appalachian Spring

piano produces percussive effects; irregular phrases

Which of the following describe John Cage's Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes

musical ideas repeat many times with gradual changes; it deals with stable harmonies

Which of the following describe process music

organum

Which of the following genres was NOT popular during the Great Depression in the United States?

jazz, Anglo=American folk melodies; Stravinsky's approach to rhythm

Which of the following informed Aaron Copland's early musical style?

Swanee

Which of the following is considered George Gershwin's first "big hit"?

Indian raga

Which of the following styles did NOT commonly serve as inspiration for American modernist composers of the early twentieth-century?

musique concrete; elektroniche musik

Which two trends in the 1940s and 1950s focused on electronically-produced sounds

Paul Whiteman

Who enlisted George Gershwin to write Rhapsody in Blue to serve as a demonstration of the cultivated status of jazz?

Stephan Sondheim

Who wrote the lyrics for the musical West Side Story?

physicist Robert Oppenheimer

Whose conscience serves as the focus of John Adams's Doctor Atomic?

Harlem Renaissance

William Grant Still was an important voice for which?

visual artists

William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano draws inspiration from three black

Edgar Varése

With which composer did William Grant Still study?

Expressionist

Wozzeck is considered to be...

Austrian, expressionism

___composer Arnold Schoenberg was highly influential in the movement called___

John Williams; neo-Romantic

___is often credited with reviving the grand symphonic film score through his unforgettable themes set in an accessible ___ rhythm

Expressionist

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

klangfarbenmelodie- by Schoenberg

a musical effect where each note of the melody is played by a different instrument

big band jazz

arranged and composed music

serialism

compositional method in which musical elements are ordered and fixed in a series

Klangfarbenmelodie

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

cool jazz

laid back with dense harmonies

changing

many composers explored ___ meters

atonality

movement from dissonance to another without resolution

electonische musik

music originating in Cologne, Germany using only electronically produced sounds

minimalist

music that features the repitition with little variation of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns

Igor Stravinsky

of the following, who is not a member of the so-called 2nd viennese school of composition: Schoenberg, anton webern, alban berg, igor stravinsky

Polyrhythm

simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns

New Orleans jazz

small ensemble improvising simultaneously

a near riot

the Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to...

Schoenberg

the composer most closely associated with 12 tone music

electronic music

the most important development in art music in the 1950s and 60s was the increasing importance of...

blues

three line stanzas set to a repeating harmonic pattern

bebop

two note trademark phrase

polyharmony

two or more streams of harmony played against each other

German

what language is Wozzeck sung

hymns, patriotic tunes, Sousa marches, children's songs

what types of tunes did Ives incorporate into his Country Band March

28th st in manhattan where music publishers had their business

what was Tin Pan Alley

The US

where did Stravinsky live during the last years of his life?

John Cage

which composer invented the prepared piano, chance music

John Williams

which composer wrote the scores to the first 3 Harry Potter movies

accents on the first beat of each measure

which of the following was not characteristic of impressionistic music

an insurance executive

while composing in his spare time, Charles Ives made his living as...