Music Final Complete

Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?

Harlem Renaissance

Which is NOT something that Harry T. Burleigh accomplished?

He directed the Fisk Jubilee Singers for the last ten years of his life.

Which is NOT true of James Reese Europe?

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

Which statement does NOT apply to Impressionist composers?

Impressionist composers often made use of a strongly accented meter.

Which is true of Debussy's career and compositional output?

Debussy helped establish the French song (mélodie) as a national art form., Debussy won the Prix de Rome at age 22.,Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande brought him public recognition.

Which American poet strongly influenced the poems of the French poets Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine?

Edgar Allan Poe

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a favorite tune of which college-level performing group?

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Which is not true of the 1969 Woodstock Festival?

It relied on corporate sponsorship.

The Impressionist movement began in which city?

Paris

Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" does NOT feature

accented rhythmic drive

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects which of the following traditions?

african american , native american, european american

International exchanges have caused composers to

create an overlapping of styles

The hazy, dreamy quality of Impressionism is captured in the opening of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" through the use of which instruments?

flute and harp

Where did musique concrète develop?

france

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's wrapping of large architectural landmarks in fabric is an example of

installation art

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

instrumentally conceived

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

single meter prevailing for an entire movement

Avant-garde composers

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

Which genre describes Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

spiritual

MUSICAL MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES Tin Pan Alley was a

street in Manhattan where music publishers had their businesses.

Which of the following does NOT characterize postmodernism?

strict adherence to serial techniques

Which does not apply to early-twentieth century orchestration?

strings continue to be the heart of the orchestra

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

symphonic poem

The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is

ternary (A-B-A').

Postmodernists broke away from the modernist stance

that mass media was incompatible with art.

Which of the following relates to Debussy's use of the orchestra in comparison with Romantic composers?

veiled sounds, flutes in the lower register, use of harp cleats glockenspiel, muted horns

Postmodern art is often anti-feminist and racist.

false

Postmodernism is not found in film.

false

Spirituals fell out of circulation after the Civil War in the United States.

false

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was originally composed in the first decade of the twentieth century.

false

The style and structure of African American spirituals were in strict imitation of European models.

false

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

true

The singing of spirituals offered the slave community a sense of solidarity.

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

What is the Second Great Awakening?

A Christian movement of the early 1800s

Two trends in electronic music, musique concrète and elektronische Musik, emerged in the

1940s and early 50s

Abstract expressionism in the arts took place in the

1950s and 60s.

_____ music left decisions determining the overall shape of a piece to the performer or to chance, rather than being strictly determined by the composer.

Aleatoric

The term "Impressionism" was taken from a work by the painter

Claude Monet

______ techniques enabled artists to take something familiar and make it unique.

Collage or quotatio

What is the protocol that allows computers and synthesizers to interface?

MIDI

The Fisk Jubilee Singers were introduced to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by

Reverend Alexander Reid

Which describes camp meetings?

Special gatherings popular in nineteenth-century America where songs of worship were sung.

A pastoral poem by the Symbolist writer _______ inspired Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun."

Stéphane Mallarmé

Which statement describes the activities of the Fisk Jubilee Singers?

They formed as a group to raise funds for the Fisk University. They toured the U.S. and Europe in the 1870s They raised the staggering sum of $150,000 in the late nineteenth century.

Symbolism was the literary equivalent of Impressionism.

True

The Fisk arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is strophic

True

The term "Impressionism" was originally one of derision in academic circles.

True

Which Russian dancer choreographed the ballet version of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

Vaslav Nijinksy

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

a mythological creature in a dreamlike state

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

an embracing and continuation of nineteenth-century models

How was dissonance viewed by Impressionist composers?

as a goal in itself, freed from the need to resolve

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

atonal

During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?

big-band jazz

Many early twentieth-century composers exploited _____ meters.

changing

Which describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

chromatic and languorous

What did spirituals include that made them politically subversive?

coded messages promises of heavenly deliverance messages of earthly escape

All of the following reflect Dadaism EXCEPT:

complexities of Western art embraced

Symbolist poets sought to

evoke images through suggestion.

Which describes the ring shout?

extended call and response singing style that took place in camp meetings singing style developed from African traditions

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

false

Frank Gehry's design for the Walt Disney Concert Hall is a statement against postmodernism.

false

Which two influential arts movements arose surrounding World War I?

futurism and Dadaism

The "Red scare" of communism in the 1950s and early 60s saw the blacklisting of all of the following except

george gershwin

Where did elektronische Musik develop?

germany

Impressionism in music took place

in the late 1800s

When did the first wave of modernist attitudes take hold?

just before World War I

Which of the following is NOT a stylistic element of Impressionist music?

large-scale forms

The modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe believed that "less is more." Robert Venture, a leader in the postmodern movement in architecture, countered with

less is a bore

Postmodernist art

mixes popular and serious idioms is represented in environmental works, collage, and ethnic expressions. embraced neo-Classical, minimalist, and feminist ideals

The texture of African American spirituals is best described as

monophonic with some heterophonic elaboration.

Twentieth and twenty-first century technologies have affected musicians in which of the following ways?

new bar of performing perfection more performing options opportunity to study and emulate specialists

What is one example of daring new tone combinations explored by Impressionist composers?

ninth chord

Impressionism began as a movement in

painting

Which scale is used in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

pentatonic

Greater subtlety and expressive ambiguity in Impressionist music were achieved through all of the following EXCEPT:

percussive dissonance

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

Which artistic trend drew upon commercial photography and urban life for inspiration?

pop art

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

post-Romanticism

What powerful cultural phenomenon did modern musicians often grapple with?

prominence of sound recordings of vernacular traditions

Which does NOT apply to Irving Berlin's legacy?

received the Congressional Medal of Honor

When was the Harlem Renaissance?

the early part of the twentieth century

Impressionist painters were NOT interested in

the grandiosity of Romantic art.

The text of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on a story from what source?

the holy bible

The lyrics to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot concern

the prophet Elijah taken up to heaven by a chariot of fire.

Impressionist painters

tried to capture the freshness of their first impressions on canvas

. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books are considered postmodern.

true

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

true

Artists in the mid-twentieth century strove to move beyond the principles of modernism.

true

At the turn of the 1800s camp meetings in the United States were not segregated by cultural background.

true

Burleigh's arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot calls upon jazz and blues traditions.

true

Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, was established as a college for freed slaves.

true

Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.

true

Postmodern art embraces a pluralistic attitude toward gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.

true

Postmodern thought welcomes both highbrow and lowbrow artistic influences.

true

Some postmodernist architecture can be described as neo-eclectic.

true

Spirituals (devotional songs)

were sung by African Americans at camp meetings for freed slaves.