MU125 Chapter 49

Which French painter is credited with starting the Impressionistic movement with his painting Impression: Sunrise?

Monet

The most important French Impressionist composer was ______

claude debussy

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.

false

Programmatic forms were not used by the Impressionists.

false

Which of the following are characteristics of Impressionist music?

modal scales, unresolved dissonances, rich orchestral color

The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns which?

mythological faun in a dream-like state

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" draws its program from a Symbolist ______

poem

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

true

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

true

mpressionist composers explored the whole-tone scale.

true

Which of the following are true of Impressionism?

It was initially a term denoting scorn of the new style., It was rebuffed by the academic salons of Paris., It developed in parallel with the Symbolist movement in poetry.

Which French Symbolist poets were highly influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, a poet from the United States?

Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé

Which genre describes the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

symphonic poem

Debussy was influenced by the non-_______ scales and instruments he encountered at the ______ world exhibition of 1889.

western, paris