Music test 5

Which region of the United States was the birthplace of a unique style of blues primarily sung by males?

Mississippi Delta

Louis Armstrong's s instrument-like approach to singing is called

scat-singing.

Pierrot lunaire is based on a cycle of poems written by:

Giraud.

Gershwin's Summertime is in ____ form.

strophic

Which of the following musical elements in The Rite of Spring could be considered the most

unpredictable rhythms and meters

Section 7 of Copland's Appalachian Spring is in _____ form.

variation

Carlos Chávez's music attracted the attention of the American composer:

Aaron Copland.

Alban Berg and Anton Webern were students of:

Arnold Schoenberg.

Which Hungarian composer combined native folk music characteristics with main currents of European music?

Bartók.

Which composer was a disciple of Schoenberg and is best known for his operas Wozzeck and Lulu?

Berg

Duke Ellington's great musical collaborator in the 1940s was:

Billy Strayhorn.

During his career, Silvestre Revueltas was active in all of the following countries EXCEPT:

Brazil.

Berg's opera Wozzeck is based on a play by:

Büchner.

Which American jazz composer was also a pianist and a master of big-band orchestration?

Duke Ellington

Which of the following was NOT a member of the so-called Second Viennese School of composition?

Eric Satie

Which of the following did NOT characterize the career of George Gershwin?

He lived a long life and was a mentor to other young composers.

The model for Bartók's melodies can be found in:

Hungarian folk songs.

Which of the following is NOT true of New Orleans jazz?

It had no set forms or harmonic progressions.

Which of the following describes dissonance?

It played a large role in twentieth-century music.

Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?

New Orleans

Louis Armstrong was also known as:

Satchmo.

Which of the following early-twentieth-century composers moved to the United States and taught composition at the University of California, Los Angeles?

Schoenberg

Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as:

Sprechstimme.

For which work was Ives awarded the Pulitzer Prize?

Symphony No.3

Béla Bartók traveled around Hungary collecting peasant songs with the composer:

Zoltán Kodály.

Take the A Train is a song that refers to:

a New York City subway line.

What accompanies the voice in Pierrot lunaire?

a chamber group

Revueltas's orchestration for Son is similar to that of a.

a mariachi ensemble.

Berg's opera Wozzeck centers on:

a soldier's obsession with unhappy love

Son is a Spanish-language term that refers to

a traditional song/dance of Mexico.

What was the trademark of bebop?

a two-note phrase

Music that rejects the framework of key is described as:

atonal.

William Grant Still composed music in all of the following genres EXCEPT:

avant-garde electronic music.

When was Yankee Doodle composed?

before the Revolutionary War

What kind of jazz is Duke Ellington known for?

big band

Billie Holiday was one of the first African American singers to:

break the color barrier by recording and performing with white musicians.

Which of the following best describes the mood at the beginning of Copland's Appalachian Spring?

calm

the In her compositions, Lili Boulanger focused on:

choral and chamber music.

Revueltas's mature compositional style features:

complex rhythms, including polyrhythms and ostinatos.

The comparative study of musics of the world is called:

ethnomusicology

Which of the following does NOT characterize the musical language of Expressionism?

extended passages of consonance

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Bartók's music?

major-minor tonality

Which of the following is NOT a musical trait of African origin?

major-minor tonality

The early twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was:

neo-Classicism.

Which of the following does NOT characterize The Moonfleck from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?

smooth, lyric melody

During the "Aztec Renaissance," composers sought to:

suggest the character of native music.

Nadia Boulanger was an extraordinarily gifted:

teacher

The "interruption" section in Bartók's Interrupted Intermezzo represents:

the Nazis.

Stravinsky immigrated to - at attheo the onset setof of World War II.

the United States

With which period in Schoenberg's career is Pierrot lunaire associated?

the atonal-Expressionist phase

The final, heartbreaking scene of Berg's Wozzeck concludes with:

the son of Marie and Wozzeck, alone.

What mood opens and closes Boulanger's Psalm 24?

triumph

Billie Holiday's song Billie's Blues is in ___ form.

twelve-bar blues

How many songs are in Pierrot lunaire?

twenty-one