MUS 101 - Test 3 Answers

What is unusual about the singer's part in the "Aria" from Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5?

The first portion is sung on "ah" and the third portion is hummed.

Minimalism is sometimes inaccurately referred to as

Trance Music

A few African musicians, especially drummers, earn their living as performers

True

A symphony by Brahms sounds very similar wherever it is performed. The same is not true of a music at folk/ethnic music.

True

An Arab instrument called the rebab is the direct ancestor to the violin

True

Because every civilization in every age has - and has had - music of some type, it very likely that in the future there will always be some type of music.

True

Both Chinese music and Indian music both have no harmony.

True

Counterpoint received more attention in twentieth-century music than it had in nineteenth-century music

True

Each act of Berg's opera Wozzeck is based a musical form or compositional technique.

True

Harmonies in twentieth-century music are generally more dissonant than in nineteenth-century music

True

Impressionistic composers, artists, and poets knew each other and had a similar viewpoint toward their works

True

Impressionistic music is often also programmatic.

True

In twentieth-century music the balanced, symmetrical phrases of Mozart and other earlier composers were largely abandoned

True

It easy for someone from one culture to miss the subtleties of the music of another culture.

True

Many new timbres can be heard in twentieth-century music, both from traditional instruments and from electronic instruments

True

Many of the mainstream works in twentieth-century music are logical expansions and extensions of nineteenth-century music.

True

Most folks songs are usually not as long as concert works of music

True

Much African music is functional in that it complements activities in daily life

True

Some twentieth century music has no tonal center

True

The "Dies irae" Britten's War Requiem uses the Latin words of traditional Requiem Mass but not the Gregorian chant melody.

True

The folk music of Central and South American is mixture of Spanish, African, and native Indian influences.

True

The melodies of Middle Eastern music are often rather highly ornamented

True

There are actually hundreds of types of African music

True

To achieve different timbres in twentieth-century music, sometimes a piano was doctored with thumb tacks, tape, and the like

True

To the people of a non-Western culture, their music is as logical and enjoyable to them as ours is to us

True

The fourth movement of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra sounds like a waltz, but one that cannot be danced to because it

changes the meter rather frequently

Indian musicians consider that ragas represent

colors of the mind

Nadia Boulanger is significant in twentieth-century music because of her

commissioning many works of new music

The Mexican song that is similar in character to the English ballad is the

corrido

The tabla are

drums played with the fingers

A feature of Stravinsky's music for "The Rite of Spring" is

effective use of irregular rhthyms

The scholars who seek to classify and preserve folk/ethnic music are called

ethnomusicologists

Most of the composers of film music could not make it in the world of art music

false

Musical comedies are humorous versions of operas.

false

The timbres used in jazz are similar to those used in wind band music

false

Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra is a concerto because it

features the contrast among the various sections and groups of instruments

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring was originally

for a ballet

A teacher of Indian classical music is called a

guru

The music of Native Americans

has had only a limited influence on American music

Salsa is a

hot type of Latin American music

The first movement of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony is

in sonata form

The four forms of the row are the original row, and the

inversion, retrograde, and retrograde-inversion

The term "mainstream," when applied to twentieth-century music, means music that

is neither experimental nor committed to any particular approach to composing

Oral tradition

is retaining music by passing it from one person to another through hearing it

It is important to know something about folk/ethnic music because

it reflects the culture and attitudes of a society

Which is a feature of country music?

its harmony is simple

According to existentialist philosophy, a painting of a Campbell's soup can is

just a picture of something

The most important instrument in Japanese classical music is the

koto

Schoenberg and other composers who wrote tone row music were also very interested in

manipulation of timbre

The most important instruments in African music are

membranophones

Which is not true of European folk music

much ornamentation of melodies

Which scale is used in most Chinese music?

pentatonic

What type of music is the song "Cop Killer"?

rap

Musique concrète is

recordings of actual sounds that have been altered and arranged

The idea of minimalism is to

see how little can be done with music and yet make it satisfying to listen to

Minstrel shows featured

songs, skits, and jokes

After 1950 jazz changed. It became

sophisticated

In Berg's opera Wozzeck, Wozzeck

stabs Marie because she had been unfaithful to him

The artistic viewpoint of Expressionism focuses on

that is a combination of singing and speaking

The pattern of the pentatonic scale is the same as

the black keys in the scale

La luna está muerta, muerta" from Crumb's Night of the Four Moons concludes with

the flutist whispering words about it being reborn in the spring

"All folk music is ethnic music, but not all ethnic music is folk music." This statement is

true, because ethnic music of a culture may not be the music of the common people

A polyrhythm exists when

two or more rhythmic patterns occur at the same time

Polytonality exists when

two or more tonal centers are present at once

The tone row in a composition is the

underlying tonal structure

The inversion of a tone row is the row

upside down

Jewish religious music

varies a great deal depending on the degree of orthodoxy of the congregation

The fiddle used in country music is actually a slightly modified

violin

The parlor song

was a popular type of song sung in homes during the first half of the nineteenth century

Electronic music was originally digital, but it has now progressed to analog

False

Folk music is quite uniform within each country

False

Harmonies in twentieth-century music are more consonant than the harmonies in nineteenth-century music

False

Impressionistic artists and musicians were fond symmetry and balanced designs and forms.

False

Impressionistic composers often called for larger orchestras than those of Wagner and Brahms

False

Impressionistic music usually features vibrant rhythms.

False

Impressionistic works of art and music usually contain a deep message

False

In almost all cultures the person who first creates a song is anxious that everyone know about his or her accomplishment

False

In its 2000 years Chinese music has thrived throughout the many changes of government

False

Indian classical music sounds a lot like Japanese classical music.

False

Indian music contains very little improvisation

False

It is quite possible that music will gradually fade away in the next 100 years

False

Jazz often follow aba form.

False

Like Berlioz in his Symphonie fantastique, Bartók uses the same basic theme in each of the five movements of his Concerto for Orchestra.

False

Most of the time scholars can find out who composed a folk song

False

Music is an important part of worship in Islam

False

Native American music in North America was quite homogeneous

False

One needs to consider cultural factors more in the case of concert music than when considering folk/ethnic music.

False

Performances of African music are usually for large audiences

False

Piano ragtime pieces are rather easy to play

False

Rachmaninoff composed his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in 1934, and it marks the end of the Romantic period.

False

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Copland's Appalachian Spring are both based on essentially the same story.

False

The blues are usually sung by small choral groups

False

The form of most rock songs is the same as the traditional popular song.

False

The nation of Israel has a strong folk music tradition of its own.

False

The opera Wozzeck contains several flowing, beautiful arias

False

The reaction of the audience is important to performers of folk music

False

Throughout his life Debussy was an admirer of Wagner and his compositions reflect the influence of Wagner's music dramas

False

Twentieth-century music used many different sounds on electronic instruments, but its vocal music used only traditional singing sounds

False

Unlike many operas in the nineteenth century, Berg's opera Wozzeck has a happy ending.

False

Varèse's Poème électronique has strong metrical rhythm

False

A choral group famous for promoting African American music after the Civil War was the

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Expressionism was most fashionable during the decade

Following World War I

In which country did Impressionism develop?

France

Zwilich based her Concerto Grosso 1985 around the music of

Handel

Which statement is true about Igor Stravinsky

He composed several different musical styles

A composer who was strongly neoclassical was

Hindemith

Before emigrating to the United States, Bartók's homeland was

Hungary

The song "God Bless America" was composed by

Irving Beling

It is difficult to describe accurately the features of twentieth-century music because

It was very diverse and fragmented

Which kind of music was not traditional African American folk music?

Jazz

Who composed Short Ride in a Fast Machine?

John Adams

The main proponent of chance (aleatory) music was

John Cage

Who composed the music for Porgy and Bess

John Gershwin

The composer of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" march was

John Phillip Sousa

Which composer is especially noted for his film music?

John Williams

George Crumb was motivated to compose Night of the Four Moons by the

Landing of apollo 11 on the moon

A nineteenth American pianist and composer who achieved some recognition in Europe was

Louis Moreau Gottschaulk

The plot of Miss Saigon is an updated version of Puccini's opera

Madame Butterfly

In French "Clair de lune" means

Moonlight

Some of the most advanced American music in the eighteenth century was the product of the

Moravian communities in Pennsylvania and North Carolina

An important record company in the growth of rhythm and blues was

Motown Records

Country music is strongly associated with

Nashville, Tennessee

In the fourth movement of his Concerto for Orchestra Bartók satirizes the

Nazis who occupied Hungary

In what style is Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985

Neoclassical

The plot of the musical West Side Story is an updated version of

Romeo and Juliet

The composer who developed tone row music was

Schoenberg

The most successful composer of ragtime piano music was

Scott Joplin

After World War II, the two different directions concert music seemed to take were

Serialism and chance music

Which is not a nationalistic musical work?

Short Ride in a Fast Machine

What American song did Copland include in Appalachian Spring

Simple Gifts

An example of an American song to be sung for dancing is

Skip to my Lou

An important composer of popular music in the middle of the nineteenth century was

Stephen Foster

Which composer wrote music for minstrel shows

Stephen Foster

A landmark work in primitivism was

Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring

The first motion picture with sound was

The Jazz Singer

A mbria is

an African thumb piano

A fiddle is

another name for the ukulele

Serialism is

applying tone row principles to rhythm, timbres, articulations, and dynamic levels

In the song "Barbara Allen," Barbara and William

are buried next to each other in a churchyard

Occupational songs in American folk music usually

are in a ballad style

Melodies in Middle Eastern music

are often highly ornamented

The retrograde version of a tone row is the row

backwards

Over the years musical comedies have

become more realistic and serious

John Cage is reported to have said,

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it."

Which group of instruments is not found in Chinese orchestra

brasses

A favorite topic of country songs is

broken love

A feature of form in African music is

call and response

Neoclassicism seeks to

capture the classical outlook of ancient Rome and Greece

A pioneer composer of electronic music was

Edgard Varese

Which composer wrote nationalistic America music?

Ellen Taafe Zwilch

Country music was originally influenced very much by the folk music of

England

What philosophical outlook encouraged the development of chance music?

Existentialism

After 1950 jazz groups became larger

False

Chords built in thirds (for example, C-E-G) became standard in twentieth-century music

False

"Daybreak" from Daphnis and Chloé was originally composed by Ravel for

A ballet

A ballad is

A folk song that tells a story

What is the difference between popular music and folk music? Popular music is

A largely commercial enterprise

When a singer sings much of a song on a neutral syllable like "ah," it is called

A vocalise

Folk music has influenced

All of these choices

Gershwin's Porgy and Bess is often called a folk opera because

All of these choices

If you were to attend a performance of Indian classical music, you would

All of these choices

In Clair de lune Debussy

All of these choices

In what way does music contribute to a film?

All of these choices

Many melodies in twentieth-century music

All of these choices

Middle Eastern music has had a difficult time because

All of these choices

Stravinsky's Rite of Spring features

All of these choices

The first movement of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony

All of these choices

Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

All of these choices

What marks Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini as Post-Romantic?

All of these choices

Which is a feature of rap music?

All of these choices

Which is an important characteristic of African music?

All of these choices

Which is true of a ballad?

All of these choices

Operatic musicals like Les Misérables are different from operas in that they

All of those choices

Ragtime music features

All of those choices

The bands during the Swing era featured

All of those choices

Why was twentieth-century music more pancultural and panhistorical than the music of earlier centuries?

All of those choices

Rhythm and blues is the music of

America's black population

The first important America women composer was

Amy Cheney Beach

Impressionism is

An artistic viewpoint

The melody to which we sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" was originally

An english drinking song

Which term was sometimes applied to the Neoclassical movement?

Back to Bach

Bluegrass music was largely developed by

Bill Monroe

Which type of jazz is only played on the piano

Boogie Woogie

Which section of the orchestra became more important in twentieth-century music?

Brasses

In many parts of the world, music has been preserved over the centuries

By oral tradition

Which is a Neoclassical musical work?

Concerto Grosso 1985

The two composers most associated with Impressionism are

Debussy and Ravel

Britten wanted his War Requiem to convey a message of

Despair over war

Which statement is true about folk music?

Usually the performers of folk music make up some of what they play or sing

The composer who is primarily responsible for serialism is

Webern

The most original America composer in America in the late eighteenth century was

William Billings

A gamelan is

a Balinese instrumental ensemble

The form of most European and American ballads is

a a a a (strophic)

Primitivism is

a fascination with non-Western and nonliterate cultures

A raga in classical Indian music is

a melodic formula that has philosophical implications

A tala is

a rhythm pattern in Indian classical music

Eclectic music is

a synthesis of different styles

A "blue note" in jazz is

a third, fifth, or seventh note of a scale that is lowered one half step while the accompanying major chord is unchanged

What is the form of blues song?

aab

What is the form of a typical march

aabbcc

Concert music in America advanced a great deal after 1920 partly because

all of these choices

In electronic music sounds can

all of these choices

Mexican music often contains

all of these choices

One of the changes that has taken place since 1950 in popular music is the

all of these choices

The fifth movement of Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik contains

all of these choices

The popularity of ragtime faded because of

all of these choices

Until the twentieth century, the arts in America were largely derived from Europe because

all of these choices

Which compositional technique did Charles Ives employ in his music?

all of these choices

Some twentieth-century music

all of those choices

Which of these is characteristic of traditional jazz?

all of those choices

Which is a feature of the rhythm in rock music?

the strong backbeat

The main characteristic of a tone row is

the use of all twelve pitches in the chromatic scale in the row

Tone row music has no

tonal center

Neoclassical works are likely to contain

traditional forms such as sonata form

Although vaudeville shows were very popular for many years, they left no discernable body of music literature

true

Boogie-woogie is sometimes referred to as "eight to the bar" because of its ostinato bass line contains eight notes in each measure

true

Country music uses the same three chords that traditional jazz uses

true

Many of the popular songs in the first half of the nineteenth century were quite sentimental

true

Originally rock music was largely a combination of blues and country music

true

The music in Porgy and Bess contains several elements found in jazz

true

There is little time for the development of themes in film music

true