MUS 189 Module 8

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accented rhythmic drive

Debussy's Prelude to "the Afternoon of a Faun" does NOT feature ____.

True

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

False

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.

True

Impressionist composers used various non-Western scale patterns in their works.

troubled clown

In schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a ____.

False

Programmatic music was discontinued in the Impressionist period.

True

Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.

True

Schoenberg employed Sprechstimme, or speechlike melody in his Pierrot lunaire.

Expressionism

Schoenberg;s Pierrot lunaire is associated with the twentieth-century arts movement known as _____.

False

Stravinsky included authentic French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring

rhythm

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

true

Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic.

speechlike melody

The German word Sprechstimme means ____.

True

The Paris World Exposition of 1889 provided French composers the opportunity to hear various musical ensembles from around teh world.

False

The character Pierrot from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire derives from an early Japanese theatrical comedy genre.

Primitivism

The ideals of which movement best describes the music of The Rite of Spring?

False

The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small.

ternary (A-B-A')

The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as ____.

False

The premiere of The Rite of Spring was uneventful in Paris.

True

The premiere success of the Ballets Russes was largely due to the leadership of Serge Diaghilev.

mythological creature in a dreamlike state

The program of Debussy's Prelude to "the Afternoon of a Faun" concerns a _____.

False

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

True

The whole-tone scale was a favored device of Impressionist composers

Scenes of pagan Russia

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

Chromatic and with a free rhythm

Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

Bassoon

Which instrument begins with the melody in the introduction to the The Rite of Spring, playing in its upper-most range?

Leonard Bernstein

Which of the following composers was NOT a student of Arnold Schoenberg?

Large-scale forms

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?

Impressionism

Which of the following is NOT associated with Arnold Schoenberg?

Dostoyevsky

Which of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?


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