THE MUSIC TEST
Berg's Wozzeck is considered to be a(n) _____ work.
expressionist
Which describes the children's singing style?
lyrical at first, then speechlike
Which genre describes Berg's Wozzeck?
opera
Which describes the form of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?
three part, A-B-A
Schoenberg's most important students were
Alban Berg and Anton Webern.
Who established a system to give all twelve tones of the chromatic scale equal importance?
Arnold Schoenberg
For what purpose did Lili Boulanger write Psalm 24?
As an expression of personal devotion.
Serge Diaghilev was impresario for which Paris-based dance company?
Ballets Russes
Which statement does NOT describe dissonance in early-twentieth century music?
Dissonance was viewed as a temporary disturbance, resolving to consonance.
The art of _____, who is famous for his painting The Scream, influenced Arnold Schoenberg and his disciples.
Edvard Munch
Who of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All of the following composers were winners of the Prix de Rome EXCEPT
Gabriel Fauré
Which composers are from the so-called First Viennese School?
Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven
What did Stravinsky achieve through his ballet scores?
He became a leader in the revitalization of rhythm in European art music.
Why did Schoenberg leave Berlin in 1933?
He left after Adolf Hitler came to power.
Which statement does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's family?
Her mother won the Prix de Rome in 1917
Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire?
Impressionism
What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?
They were influenced by movements in painting
Who wrote the libretto to Wozzeck?
alban berg
Berg's Wozzeck was inspired by
an early Romantic play by Georg Büchner.
Twelve-tone technique
arranges twelve chromatic pitches, each carrying equal weight.
Music that rejects the framework of key is called
atonal
Which genre describes The Rite of Spring?
ballet
What is the vocal range of the person singing in this excerpt?
baritone
Which instrument, playing in its highest register, begins The Rite of Spring? Correct!
bassoon
How did Berg die?
blood poisoning from an infected insect bite
From the 1800s, composers of sacred music have
conveyed their own spiritual convictions
Who were Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina?
dancers with the Ballets Russes
What term describes the melodic movement in this excerpt?
disjunct
The emotions of the story are conveyed through the use of __________ harmonies.
dissonant
Which describes the instrumentation of Pierrot lunaire?
female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments
Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 closes
fortissimo
The Prix de Rome was a competition open to composers from which country?
france
In which language is Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 sung?
french
Verse 5: What language is heard in this work?
french
Which describes the music in this excerpt?
full chorus, brass, organ, and timpani
Winners of the Prix de Rome
gained instant fame and recognition received a monetary award were granted three years of study in Rome
Wozzeck is sung in which language?
german
Act III, scene 4: By the pond What is the genre of this work?
opera
In which discipline of the arts did Expressionism originate?
painting
In The Dance of Youths and Maidens, which musical elements do NOT contribute to the primeval sound of the orchestra?
parallel chords, floating harmonies
Which musical element is present in Wozzeck
passionate lyricism Sprechstimme use of leitmotifs
Which of the following does Stravinsky use to minimize harmonic changes?
pedal points melodic repetition ostinatos
The German word Sprechstimme means
speechlike melody
Which describes the singing style heard here?
sprechstimme
Lili Boulanger
suffered chronic illness most of her life and died at the young age of twenty-four.
Which describes the performing forces of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?
tenor solo, SATB chorus, brass, harp, organ, timpani
Which describes the meter of this excerpt?
triple
In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n)
troubled clown
Schoenberg was born in
vienna
_____ designed the experimental stage design for The Rite of Spring.
Nicholas Roerich
Which describes Pierrot's actions in The Moonfleck?
Pierrot is disturbed by a white spot on the collar of his jet-black jacket.
Some of Stravinsky's melodies quote
Russian folk tunes
What is the subtitle of The Rite of Spring?
Scenes of Pagan Russia"
Which is NOT true of the text of Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire?
Schoenberg used three poems from a collection of French Symbolist poetry.
Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern are known as the
Second Viennese School
Which describes Lili Boulanger's instrumental training? Correct!
She was a precocious child and learned to sing and play violin, cello, harp, and piano.
Which does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's compositional output?
She wrote only sacred music
Which describes the premiere of The Rite of Spring?
Shouts from the audience disrupted the dancers, which temporarily interrupted the show.
Which ballets did Diaghilev commission from the composer Igor Stravinsky?
The Rite of Spring Petrushka The Firebird
What was groundbreaking about Nijinsky's choreography for The Rite of Spring?
The dancers jumped up and down in place The dancers formed rotating geometric patterns onstage. The dancers made jerky and irregular movements with individual limbs.
Orchestral interlude in D minor The final scene opens with an orchestral interlude. Which statement is true?
The music builds to a loud climax The main theme emerges in the low strings The music features lush, chromatic harmonies.
Verses 1-3: Which describes the melody in the opening section of this work?
The pitches in the melody are fairly close together, with no big leaps.
Why would Psalm 24 have been incompatible with the rules governing the services of the Catholic Church until 1963?
The text is in French
Why were Berg's works banned in Germany during WWII?
Twelve-tone works were alien to the spirit of the Third Reich.
Where did Stravinsky live in the last years of his life?
USA
Where did Schoenberg teach in his later years?
University of California, Los Angeles
Where was Alban Berg born?
Vienna
Which does not occur in the Wozzeck story line?
Wozzeck and Marie get married.
Which of the following does NOT reflect Expressionism in Wozzeck?
children play on hobbyhorses
Which of the following does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?
clearly in a major key
Act III, scene 5: Children playing in front of Marie's house The melody of the children's song is
distorted
Which describes the mood of the opening section from Boulanger's Psalm 24?
dramatic, fanfare like
The expression of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 is
dramatic, with an ethereal middle section
Klangfarbenmelodie is a technique in which
each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.
During the early years of the twentieth century, French composers
embraced both Impressionism and innovative harmonic language.
Verse 6: Which describes the musical expression in verse 6 from Boulanger's Psalm 24?
ethereal, chant-like
Art is sometimes designed to
evoke ideal beaut create a place of inspiration shine a light on social problems
Alban Berg wrote only one opera, Wozzeck.
false
Arnold Schoenberg was a student of Alban Berg.
false
Berg's use of harmony in Wozzeck is strictly atonal
false
Lili Boulanger won the Prix de Rome for her setting of Psalm 24.
false
The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small.
false
Winners of the Prix de Rome traveled from Rome to Paris to study for three years.
false
Lili Boulanger rejected innovative harmonic language in her work
fasle
In Berg's opera Wozzeck, the main character's final breakdown is the result of
having killed his lover
From which phase of Schoenberg's compositional output does Pierrot lunaire originate?
his second period, atonal-Expressionism
Which describes the overall texture of Boulanger's Psalm 24?
homophonic
The Prix de Rome was open to women
in the early years of the twentieth century
Early in the twentieth century, musical Impressionism
influenced composers across Europe and the United States
Which of the following describes musical elements of Expressionism?
instruments in their extreme registers hyper-expressive harmonies extraordinarily wide leaps in melody
The orchestral interlude before the last scene in Wozzeck
is a passionate lament for the life and death of Wozzeck.
______ was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome.
lili Boulanger
Verse 7 and 8: The overall mood in the following verses is
martial and triumphant.
Verse 4: Which describes the musical setting of verse 4 from Boulanger's Psalm 24?
more serene men's voices only organ accompaniment
The Rite of Spring can be described as all of the following EXCEPT
neo classical
The ideals of which movement describes the music of The Rite of Spring?
primitivism
Which Baroque-era compositional technique is NOT used in The Moonfleck?
ritornello form
Which does NOT describe Berg's musical style?
rooted in French Impressionist traditions
Where was Stravinsky born?
russia
Which describes the melodic material in The Rite of Spring?
short fragments, limited ranges, extended repetition
Which describes the performing forces heard in this verse?
solo tenor voice with harp, organ, and French horn
Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is
song cycle
The final scene of Wozzeck revolves around
the children's discovery of the murder
Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music.
true
In Wozzeck, the title character has hallucinations and is the subject of experimentation by his superiors.
true
Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic.
true
The Rite of Spring can be performed as a concert work.
true
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?
use of chamber orchestra
Stravinsky revitalized rhythm by
using polyrhythms using changing meters increasing its complexity
Which musical element is NOT heard in Game of Abduction?
velvety flute solo in the lower register
Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement?
webern schoenberg berg
Wozzeck ends (the end of Act III, Scene 5)
with Marie's child on a hobbyhorse with Marie's son singing, "Hop, hop! in a pianissimo dynamic
How many Psalm texts did Lili Boulanger set to music in Psalm 24?
one
Which description does not apply to Berg's Wozzeck?
post-Impressionist
The mood in the opening of Act III, Scene 5 of Berg's Wozzeck is created through the use of which instruments?
prominent flutes and celesta, pizzicato strings
Which of the following describes Pierrot lunaire?
pushed boundaries of convention avant-garde experiments with sound
Lili Boulanger was influenced by Impressionism.
true
Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.
true
The play that inspired Berg to write Wozzeck is based on gruesome, real-life events.
true
