Music Final

What is the length of this blues progression?

12 bars

A blues text typically consists of a _____ stanza whose first two lines are identical.

3 line

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

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

What did Stravinsky achieve through his ballet scores?

He became a leader in the revitalization of rhythm in European art music.

single statement of a melodic-harmonic pattern

He is credited with the invention of scat-singing

Why did Schoenberg leave Berlin in 1933?

He left after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Which is NOT true of James Reese Europe?

He was the most successful and profitable Tin Pan Alley composer.

Which of the following is NOT associated with Pierrot lunaire?

Impressionism

Why is this chorus typical of the genre?

It is built upon a repeated harmonic progression The first line of text is repeated The text is about everyday struggles in life

_____ 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.

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.

What do the Impressionist and Expressionist composers have in common?

They were influenced by movements in painting

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

Which of the following does NOT pertain to modernism of the early twentieth century?

an embracing and continuation of nineteenth-century models

Music that rejects the framework of key is called

atonal

_____ music gives equal importance to the twelve tones of the chromatic scale.

atonal

Which genre describes The Rite of Spring?

ballet

Which instrument, playing in its highest register, begins The Rite of Spring? Correct!

bassoon

Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk were figureheads of what jazz style?

bebop

Duke Ellington is associated with

big-band jazz

During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?

big-band jazz

Which singer is also known as "Lady Day"?

billie holiday

the classically trained pianist who served as an arranger and composer for the Ellington band was:

billy strayhorn

Melodic "pitch bending" is also known as

blue notes

Eighteenth-century slaves from Africa's west coast brought the _______ style to America.

call-and-response singing

Many early twentieth-century composers exploited _____ meters.

changing

What is the solo instrument heard in this selection?

clarinet

Which wind instrument provides countermelodies to the vocal part in this chorus?

clarinet

All of the following reflect Dadaism EXCEPT:

complexities of Western art embraced

Who were Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina?

dancers with the Ballets Russes

Klangfarbenmelodie is a technique in which

each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.

Features of early musical modernism included lyrical, conjunct melodic lines.

false

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

false

Which describes the instrumentation of Pierrot lunaire?

female vocalist and chamber ensemble of five players on eight instruments

Which two influential arts movements arose surrounding World War I?

futurism and Dadaism

From which phase of Schoenberg's compositional output does Pierrot lunaire originate?

his second period, atonal-Expressionism

Which best describes the trumpet performance in this example?

improvised

The melodic element of twentieth-century music can be described as

instrumentally conceived

Which of the following describes musical elements of Expressionism?

instruments in their extreme registers hyper-expressive harmonies extraordinarily wide leaps in melody

Which of the following is true of the chorus heard in this selection?

it is syncopated

When did the first wave of modernist attitudes take hold?

just before World War I

Which best describes the tempo of this excerpt?

laidback

Which best describes Billie Holiday's singing style?

laidback with rhythmic flexibility

Big-band jazz is a

large-ensemble style with sections of brass, reeds, and rhythm instruments.

The Rite of Spring can be described as all of the following EXCEPT

neo classical

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

new orleans

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 of the following does Stravinsky use to minimize harmonic changes?

pedal points melodic repetition ostinatos

Stacked chords of six or seven notes eventually led to

polyharmony

Two or more streams of harmony against each other creates

polyharmony

Simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns is referred to as

polyrhythm

What is NOT an example of an early twentieth-century modernism?

post-Romanticism

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

primitivism

What powerful cultural phenomenon did modern musicians often grapple with?

prominence of sound recordings of vernacular traditions

Which of the following describes Pierrot lunaire?

pushed boundaries of convention avant-garde experiments with sound

Which best describes the meter of this excerpt?

quadruple

Which does NOT apply to Irving Berlin's legacy?

received the Congressional Medal of Honor

Which Baroque-era compositional technique is NOT used in The Moonfleck?

ritornello form

Where was Stravinsky born?

russia

Which describes the melodic material in The Rite of Spring?

short fragments, limited ranges, extended repetition

Which of the following does NOT describe modernist composers' use of rhythm?

single meter prevailing for an entire movement

A jazz chorus is

single statement of a melodic-harmonic pattern

Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is

song cycle

Avant-garde composers

sought to break from social and artistic conventions. distinguished themselves from mass-market taste distinguished themselves from high culture

The German word Sprechstimme means

speechlike melody

MUSICAL MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES Tin Pan Alley was a

street in Manhattan where music publishers had their businesses.

Which does not apply to early-twentieth century orchestration?

strings continue to be the heart of the orchestra

In the 1930s and 40s, early jazz gave way to

swing, or big-band

Ellington's first group was called

the Washingtonians

Which best describes the role of the drums and string bass?

they keep a steady rhythm

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

troubled clown

Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe provided fresh ideas of rhythm for some Western composers in the twentieth century.

true

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

true

Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.

true

Latin American percussion instruments and dance rhythms had an influence on jazz.

true

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

true

Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.

true

Songwriter George M. Cohan received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his inspirational song Over There.

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 describes Arnold Schoenberg's approach to harmonic organization?

twelve-tone technique atonality serialism

Which does NOT describe the goal of early twentieth-century modernists?

unity of expression, one modernism

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

Schoenberg was born in

vienna

Which composer is associated with the Expressionist movement?

webern schoenberg berg