MU125 Chapter 52

What type of character is Pierrot from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?

a poet-rascal-clown

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

klangfarbenmelodie

What is Pierrot attempting to do in The Moonfleck?

rub a spot of moonlight off his jacket

Schoenberg's composition Pierrot lunaire is a(n)

song cycle

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

troubled clown

_______ composer Arnold Schoenberg was highly influential in the movement called ________

Austrian, Expressionism

The twenty-one poems used in Pierrot lunaire are all in virelai form.

False

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

True

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

True

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

True

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

University of Southern California, University of California at Los Angeles

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

atonaility

Which of the following characteristics are found in Schoenberg's The Moonfleck from Pierrot lunaire and which are not?

disjunct melody, fast, free-flowing rhythm

Twentieth-century composers _______ dissonance by freeing it from the obligation to resolve to _______

emancipated, consonance

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

expressionism

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

expressionist

Which of the following characterize the musical language of Expressionism?

extreme instrumental registers, wide leaps in melody

What does the German word sprechstimme mean in English?

speech-like melody

In the _______ century, composers emancipated dissonance by freeing it from the obligation that it need resolve to a ________.

twentieth, consonance