Test 3 Music 100

For which of her works did Lili Boulanger win the Prix de Rome?

Fauste et Helene

Who was the principal arranger for Paul Whiteman's big-band orchestra?

Ferde Grofe

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

false

In Berg's opera Wozzeck, the main character's final breakdown is the result of which?

having killed his lover

Although it was quite popular, West Side Story was also criticized for its - portrayal of Latino characters.

stereotypical

Ives is now considered visionary for having embraced - music.

vernacular

Which instruments did Lili Boulanger learn to play as a child?

violin harp piano

Country Band March is arranged for which ensemble?

wind band

Which of the following were common forms of musical expression amongst African American communities in the nineteenth century?

12-bar blues work songs spirtuals ring shouts

How many movements make up Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra?

5

Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring are ballets by

Aaron Copland

Nadia Boulanger founded a school for - at Fontainebleau, outside of Paris. One of her more famous American students at this school was Aaron - ,

Americans Copland

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

Anglo-American folk melodies jazz Stravinsky's approach to rhythm

Who of the following composers were students of Arnold Schoenberg?

Anton Webern Alban Berg

- composer Arnold Schoenberg was highly influential in the movement called - .

Austrian , expressionism

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

Benny Goodman

Which composer's music does Bartók quote in Interrupted Intermezzo from Concerto for Orchestra?

Dmitri Shostakovich

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

Alban Berg wrote only one opera, Wozzeck.

False

Arnold Schoenberg was a student of Alban Berg.

False

Bartók avoided Classical forms.

False

Copland did not use an early American song in his ballet Appalachian Spring.

False

Lili Boulanger rejected innovative harmonic language in her work.

False

Match the description to the correct period in Arnold Schoenberg's compositional career.

First period Post-Wagnerian Romantic style in which he used key signatures and tonality Second period Atonal-Expressionist style in which he emancipated dissonance and any sense of a home key Third period twelve-tone method developed and later refined in the United States

In what language is Berg's Wozzeck sung?

German

Berg's music is rooted in the - Romanticism of Brahms and Wagner and the post-- of Mahler, but is also influenced by the twelve-tone system devised by his teacher, - .

German Romanticism Schoenberg

Which of the following ensembles are classified as "West Coast jazz"?

Gerry Mulligan Quartet Dave Brubeck Quartet

How did Ives uniquely reflect American musical life?

He used polytonality in his compositions.

Which of the following describe Bartók's Interrupted Intermezzo from his Concerto for Orchestra?

He utilizes pentatonicism. The entire orchestra is treated as the virtuoso soloist. The rhythm is nonsymmetrical.

Béla Bartók is associated with which school of thought?

Hungarian School

Which of the following describe Copland's Appalachian Spring and which do not?

It contains an early American song associated with the Shakers.It was originally a ballet.

Which are true of Billie's Blues?

It features clarinet improvisations. It features trumpet playing.

Which describe the choreography for The Rite of Spring?

It was created by Vaslav Nijinsky. It involved dancers jumping up and down in place. It was groundbreaking. What modernist

- is considered to be amongst the most vibrant and original North American musics.

Jazz

Which of these orchestras did Nadia Boulanger conduct during her career?

London Philharmonic New York Philharmonic Boston Symphony Orchestra

Which of the following are tunes quoted in Charles Ives's Country Band March?

My Old Kentucky Home London Bridge Yankee Doodle

The source of inspiration for Charles Ives's music was rooted in the traditions of which region of America?

New England

- is where the fusion of ragtime, blues, and other musics resulted in the development of jazz.

New Orleans

Match each characteristic to the blues or jazz style that it describes.

New Orleans jazz - small ensemble improvising simultaneously bebop - two-note trademark phrase big-band jazz - arranged and composed music Correct label:arranged and composed music cool jazz - laid-back with dense harmonies blues - three-lines stanzas set to a repeating harmonic pattern

Copland was born in - to Jewish immigrant parents; he trained in - then returned to the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

New York , Europe

Which types of tunes did Charles Ives incorporate in his Country Band March?

Sousa marches hymns patriotic tunes children's songs

What does the German word sprechstimme mean in English?

Speed-Like melody

Who wrote the lyrics for the musical West Side Story?

Stephen Sondheim

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

Swanee

Aaron Copland's Rodeo and Billy the Kid portray which region of America?

The Far west

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

The work was conducted by Paul Whiteman.The concert was billed as "An Experiment in Modern Music."

America's vernacular traditions also included music for brass bands.

True

Bernstein explored his Jewish background in his music.

True

Bernstein's work shows a real feeling for the New York urban scene.

True

Béla Bartók collected traditional songs for Hungary.

True

Copland collaborated with choreographer Martha Graham in his work Appalachian Spring.

True

Copland's ballets Rodeo and Billy the Kid portray the American Far West.

True

In Wozzeck, the title character has hallucinations and is the subject of experimentation by his superiors.

True

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

True

Ives's work Country Band March draws on a variety of traditional American tunes.

True

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

True

Simple Gifts, which is used by Aaron Copland in his ballet Appalachian Spring, is an early American song.

True

Sondheim lifted the genre of musical theater to new levels of sophistication.

True

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

True

Take the A Train is characterized by frequent call-and-response between instruments.

True

The idea of a tragedy being set as a musical was unheard of until Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story.

True

Winners of the Prix de Rome are given the opportunity to study in Rome.

True

Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?

University of California at Los Angeles University of Southern California

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

a poet rascal-down

Neo-Classical composers preferred - music over program music, and they focused on the - virtues of craftsmanship and balance while incorporating newer ideals of - through science.

absolute Classic progress

Berg's Wozzeck was inspired by which?

an Expressionist play by Büchner

Charles Ives made a living as what?

an insurance salesman

Although Berg's Wozzeck is primarily - in harmony, it also anticipates - and looks back to the - tradition.

atonal twelve-tone serialism tonal

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

atonality

Beginning with his -, Stravinsky was a leader in the revitalization of - in European art music

ballet , rhythm

In jazz, - was an invented word that mimicked the two-note trademark phrase of this new style that was characterized by fast - and - harmonies.

bebop tempos harmonies

Duke Ellington is associated with which jazz style?

big band

A - is a single statement of a melodic-harmonic pattern, like a 12-bar - , some of which are - .

chorus blues instrumental

Match the musical characteristics of Take the A Train to their correct chorus.

chorus 1 unison saxophones state the main theme with interjections from muted trumpets and trombones chorus 2 muted trumpet accompanied by saxophones and rhythm section with bent pitches chorus 3 saxophones play a version of the main theme followed by unmuted trumpet solo

Charles Ives's father was a - War bandmaster, and Charles was well versed in the vernacular heritage of his country. His music, however, followed very - tendencies.

civil , modernist

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

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

Which of the following are Bartók and fellow composer Zoltán Kodály known for?

collecting the folk music of Hungary

Which of the following forms did Neo-Classical composers utilize and which did they not?

concerto grosso toccata suite

How has Latin American music been highly influential in the development of jazz?

dance rhythms percussion instruments

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

Which of the following are characteristics of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and which are not?

dissonance polytonality large orchestra

Ives's work Country Band March is in - meter.

duple

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

emancipated , consonance

Which of the following are characteristics of big-band jazz?

ensemble that includes brass, reeds, and rhythm instrumentslarge ensemble

The discipline in which music is studied in cultural and global contexts is known as - .

ethnomusicology

Berg's opera Wozzeck is considered to be a(n) - work.

expersionist

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

extreme instrumental registers wide leaps in melody

Alban Berg's use of harmony in Wozzeck is completely atonal.

false

George Gershwin studied with renowned teacher Nadia Boulanger.

false

Stravinsky quoted the melodies of French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring.

false

The form of the Dance of the Youths and Maidens from Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is a simple minuet form.

false

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

false

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

false

What music led Charles Ives to his compositional style, which involved dissonances formed by polytonality and polyharmony?

fiddlers at country dances two marching bands performing different tunes in a parade harmonium accompanying church hymns

In The Rite of Spring some of Stravinsky's melodies quote Russian - .

folk

Match the characteristics of Bartók's Interrupted Intermezzo to their correct musical elements.

form - rondo-like (A-B-A'-C-B'-A'') harmony - polytonal

The text of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 is written in

french

Match the characteristics of the Introduction of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring to their correct musical elements.

harmony - dissonance timbre - high-range bassoon rhythm - shifting meter

Match the characteristics of Charles Ives's Country Band March to their correct musical elements.

harmony - duple meter with syncopation form - sectional (A-B-A-B'-A') harmony - polytonal

What was Ferde Grofé's role in the creation of Rhapsody in Blue?

he arranged Gershwin's music for the Whiteman big-band orchestra

Which of the following are characteristics of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and which are not?

homophony in alternation with polyphony duple meter

In her music, Lili Boulanger combined French - ideas with an innovative harmonic language.

impressionist

The libretto for Lili Boulanger's La Princesse Maleine is by which well-known writer?

maeterlink

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 - .

mambo

Match the characteristics of Schoenberg's The Moonfleck to their correct musical elements.

melody - disjunct texture - counterpoint with imitation harmony - dissonance form - rondeau

Match the characteristics of Strayhorn's Take the A Train to their correct musical elements.

melody - disjunct, with call-and-respond exchanges harmony - chromatic rhythm - quadruple meter

Match the characteristics of Act III, scene 4 (By the pond) from Berg's Wozzeck to their correct musical elements.

melody - use of Sprechstimme rhythm - metric and free-flowing harmony - dissonance, tonal and atonal

Match the characteristics of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 to their correct musical elements.

melodysmall-ranging and conjunct texturelargely homophonic form - A-B-A

Copland's compositional style led him to be considered an "American - ".

modernist

For what purpose did Lili Boulanger write Psalm 24?

not for traditional worship services

What is the instrument heard in the opening melody in the A section of the fourth movement of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra?

oboe

Strayhorn's Take the A Train is in 32-bar - form, with four phrases of eight measures each (A-A-B-A).

song

Schoenberg's composition Pierrot lunaire is a(n)

song cycle

Which of the following are associated with the blues tradition and which are not?

steel-string guitar 12-bar harmonic progression pitch bending three-line stanza

Nadia Boulanger is best known for being an outstanding

teacher

Match the characteristics of Holiday's Billie's Blues to their correct musical elements.

texture - polyphonic performing forces - voice with trumpet, clarinet, piano, guitar, string bass, and drums harmony - repeated progressions (I-IV-I-V-I) for each chorus form - 12-bar blues

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

the Concord Sonata

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

the United States

The final scene of Wozzeck revolves around which?

the children's discovery of the murder

The coveted Prix de Rome was open to young artists and musicians under the age of - .

thirty

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

three-line strophe

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

troubled crown

A "blue note" is created by melodic pitch-bending.

true

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

true

Berg uses Sprechstimme vocal style in his opera Wozzeck.

true

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

true

George Gershwin achieved a union of the classical and popular styles with his music.

true

George Gershwin demonstrated and sold sheet music on New York's Tin Pan Alley.

true

George Gershwin wrote film scores.

true

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

true

Lili Boulanger was influenced by Impressionism.

true

Lili Boulanger was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome.

true

Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of scat-singing.

true

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

true

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

true

When Hitler came to power, the works of the - composers were banned in Germany.

tweleve tone

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

twentieth , consonance

Which describe the form of the Tonight Ensemble from Bernstein's West Side Story and which do not?

A-A'-B-A" 32-bar popular song form

George Gershwin's first big hit Swanee was recorded in 1920 by - .

Al Jolson

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

Alan Berg

Which piece did Gershwin write during his brief stay in France?

An American in Paris

In the West Side Story collaboration, - Jerome Robbins was eager to depict the setting's "gritty realism," and encouraged the composer, Bernstein, to incorporate jazz, rock-and-roll, and - music like the mambo.

Choreographer, Latino

Who of the following composers won the Prix de Rome?

Claude Debussy Hector Berlioz Georges Bizet

The musical West Side Story is the result of collaboration between - Leonard Bernstein, - Stephen Sondheim, and - Jerome Robbins.

Composer, lyricist, choreographer

Which is the contemporary rock opera inspired by Puccini's La bohème?

Jonathan Larson's Rent

Match the term related to Schoenberg's musical style to its correct definition.

Klangfarbenmelodie - each note of a melody is played by a different instrument Sprechstimme - melody is spoken at approximate pitches rather than sung on exact pitches

Who of the following were associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?

Nijinsky Karsavina Picasso

Match the approach to musical nationalism to its correct century.

Nineteenth Century -romantic evocation of musical landscapes and folk traditions twentieth century -scientific collection and preservation of folk elements

The premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring took place in - .

Paris

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

Paul Whiteman

Which of the following are ballets written by Stravinsky?

Petrushka The Firebird

At its premiere in 1924, George Gershwin's - was immediately hailed as the highlight of the concert, although there has been a debate as to whether or not it can be understood as - .

Rhapsody in Bluejazz

- and Hammerstein wrote the famous musicals Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music.

Rodgers

In The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky evokes the rites of ancient - .

Russia

Sergei Prokofiev is associated with which school of thought?

Russian school

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

Scenes of pagan Russia

The melody Simple Gifts, heard in Appalachian Spring, comes from the - religious sect.

Shaker

- was a popular Jerome Kern musical from the 1920s

Showboat

What well-known early American song—associated with the Shaker religious sect—is quoted in Copland's Appalachian Spring?

Simple Gifts

Neo-Classical composers looked to eras prior to the Romantic era for inspiration.

True

Plots for early musicals were often sentimental and contrived, but as the genre grew older, composers began looking to more sophisticated literary sources for their plots.

True

Bernstein's union of - and musical theatre resulted in West Side Story.

jazz

Billie Holiday's Billie's Blues exemplifies the intersection between - and blues.

jazz

George Gershwin's fame is largely attributed to his incorporating - styles in his concert hall music.

jazz

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

klangfarbenmelodie

What genre is Berg's Wozzeck?

opera

What modernist musical characteristics does Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring exhibit?

percussive dissonance polytonality polyrhythm

Which of the following characterize the melody in Holiday's Billie's Blues?

pitch inflections free improvisations syncopated

Which describe the texture of Mambo from Bernstein's West Side Story and which do not?

polyphonic dense

Which describe the texture of the Tonight Ensemble from Bernstein's West Side Story and which do not?

polyphonic simultaneous lines

Which of the following describe Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and which do not?

rondo-like form shifting meter

Boulanger's Psalm 24 is an example of - modernist music written not for a religious institution, but for - devotion.

sacred personal

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

serialism

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

Porgy and Bess

Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern are known as the

Second Viennese School

Match the work by Stravinsky to the style characteristic that it reflects.

post-Impressionism - The Firebird Classicism - Symphony of Psalms primitivism - The rite of spring

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

primitivism

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

rhythm

Match the characteristics of Act III, scene 5 (Children playing in front of Marie's house) from Berg's Wozzeck to their correct musical elements.

rhythm - metric and free-flowing harmony - tonal and atonal, dissonance melody - use of Sprechstimme

What is Pierrot attempting to do in The Moonfleck?

rub a spot of moonlight off his jacket

Gershwin was inspired by the goals of the - .

Harlem Renaissance