Music Test 4 (30-36)
Hovhaness's and God created the whales contains recordings of whale sounds
True
Many of the mainstream works in 20th century music are logical expansions and extensions of 19th century music
True
Artistic viewpoint of expressionism focuses on
dark side of human nature
In which style is Hovhaness's and God...
eclectic
A feature of Stravinsky's music for the ride of spring is
effective use of irregular rhythms
what is unusual about the singer's part in the aria from villa lobo's bachianas brasilieras NO. 5?
first portion is sung on "ah" and the 3rd portion is hummed
Stavinksky's rite of spring was originally
for a ballet
four forms of the row are the original row and the
inversion, retrograde, and retrograde-inversion
musique concrete is
recordings of actual sounds that have been altered and arranged
In Berg's opera Wozzeck, Wozzeck
stabs marie because she had been unfaithful to him
Sprechstimme is the term used for singing
that is a combination of singing and speaking
Electronic music was originally digital but it had now progressed to analog
False
And God created the whales
Havhaness
A composer who was strongly neoclassical was
Hindemith
Klein Kammermusik "Fur Funf Blaser"
Hindemith
An artistic viewpoint in which poets, painters, and composers tried to capture something incomplete, of the moment, a sensation
Impressionism
Symphony No. 2 5th movement
Ives
Who composed short ride in a fast machine?
John Adams
main prophet of chance (aleatory music) was
John Cage
composer of "The star and stripes forever" march was
John Philip Sousa
Mainstream refers to music that
Neither experimental nor committed to any particular approach to composing
Classical symphony Op. 25, 1st movement
Prokofiev
Rhapsody on a theme of Pagnini
Rachmanioff
Daphnis and Chloe suit No. 2 "Lever du jour"
Ravel
Composer who developed tone row music
Schoenberg
Variations for orchestra
Schoenberg
idea of minimalism is to
See how little can be done with music and yet make it satisfying to listen to
What American song did Copland include in Appalachian spring?
Simple gifts
Stars and Stripes forever
Sousa
an important composer of popular music in the middle of the 19th century was
Stephen foster
The rite of spring, excerpts form Act
Stravinsky
serialism is
applying tone row principles to rhythm, timbres, articulations and dynamic levels
retrograde version of a tone row is the row
backwards
Britten wanted his war Requiem to convey a message of
Despair over war
Primitivism is
A fascination with non-western and non-literate cultures
Ride in a fast machine
Adams
the first important America composer in the early part of the twentieth century was
Amy Cheney Beach
the melody to which we sing "star spangled banner" was originally
An English drinking song
Concerto for orchestra fourth movement
Bartok
Wozzeck, Act 3 scene 3
Berg
Dies irae from war requiem excerpt form beginning
Britten
Neoclassicism seeks to
Capture the classical outlook of ancient greece
Appalachian Spring
Copland
Clair De lune
Debussy
Poem electronique
Varse
Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6
Villa - Lobos
5 pieces for orchestra
Webern
Concerto grosso
Zwilich
which composer wrote nationalistic American music?
aaron copland
Stravinsky's rite of spring features
all
Villa - Lobo's bachianaes Bras, No, 5
all
Which compositional technique did Charles Ives employ in his music?
all
in electronic music sounds can
all
one of the changes that has taken place since 1950 in popular music is the
all
until the 20th century the arts in America were largely denied from Europe because
all
main characteristic of a tone row is
the use of all twelve pitches in the chromatic scale in the row
Neoclassical works are likely to contain
traditional forms such as sonata form
many of the melodies for American patriotic songs came from Europe
true
wind band is an especially American musical tradition
true