music quiz 4
serialism
Another term to describe Schoenberg's twelve-tone compositional method is
an Expressionist play by Buchner
Berg's Wozzeck was inspired by...
jazz
Billie Holiday's Billie's Blues exemplifies the intersection between __ and blues
Benny Goodman
Billie Holiday's first break into the music industry occurred when she recorded with which white clarinetist?
process music
Compositional style in which a composer selects a simple musical idea and repeats it over and over, as it is gradually changed or elaborated on.
Simple Gifts
Copland's Appalachian Spring quotes the American tune:
modernist
Copland's compositional style led him to be considered an "American___
wind band
Country Band March is arranged for which ensemble?
true
Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music.
big-band
Duke Ellington is associated with which jazz style?
big-band jazz
During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?
polyrhythm
Each musician plays a unique rhythm pattern continuously.
polyrhythm
Ewe drummers in the region of Togo, Benin, and Ghana are noted for their performance method, called
On the Transmigration of Souls
For what piece did John Adams receive a Pulitzer Prize in 2003?
vaudeville/ variety show; operetta
From which stage genres did American musical theater develop?
incorporate AA blues and jazz styles into his compositions
George Gershwin is recognized as being one of the first American composers to...
patriotic
George M. Cohen was the composer of ___ songs
Harlem Renaissance
Gershwin was inspired by the goals of the ___
alternation between recognizable themes and unpredictable virtuosity; dialogue between solo piano and larger ensemble
How is Rhapsody in Blue similar to a piano concerto?
troubled clown
In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n)
true
In his third style period, Schoenberg exploited a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.
leitmotifs
In order to associate the music with a character, John Williams utilizes ___
prestigious
In the 1940s and 1950s, the twelve-tone music of Schoenberg and his students was perceived as scientific, and was considered ___ in European and American institutions.
Ghana
In the 1970s, Steve Reich spent a month playing with and listening to drummers in
vaudeville
In the early twentieth century, throughout the United States, minstrel shows expanded into the tradition of
stride
In the last movement of his Suite for Violin and Piano William Grant Still incorporates a jazz piano style known as
vernacular
Ives is now considered visionary for having embraced___ art
J Robert Oppenheimer
John Adam's opera, Doctor Atomic, is based on the life of...
minimalist; opera
John Adams's eclectic approach combines elements of the ___ style with traits of neo-Romanticism, forging a post-minimalist style in his ___ Doctor Atomic.
phase music
Looping several copies of a recording simultaneously, slowly changing the tape speeds; Live musicians play the same music and gradually speed up or slow down to go in and out of sync.
yes
Minimalist musical works rely on consonant musical elements that are repeated and gradually changed over extended time frames.
aleatoric
Music in which the composer leaves musical decisions to the performer is known as chance, or___ music
true
Schoenberg employed sprechstimme, or speech-like melody, in his Pierrot lunaire.
expressionism
Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is associated with the twentieth-century arts movement known as
song cycle
Schoenberg's composition Pierrot lunaire is a(n
West Africa
Steve Reich was influenced by the polyrhythms of...
rhythm
Stravinsky is largely recognized for his revitalizing of which musical element?
true
T/F: A "blue note" is created by melodic pitch-bending.
false
T/F: African American composer William Grant Still did not study classical music.
false
T/F: Alban Berg wrote only one opera, Wozzeck.
false
T/F: Alban Berg's use of harmony in Wozzeck is completely atonal.
true
T/F: America's vernacular traditions also included music for brass bands.
true
T/F: As a white musician, George Gershwin's social status allowed him opportunities that black musicians could not enjoy in the 1920s
true
T/F: Avant-garde musical styles called for a new arsenal of unusual performance techniques to cope with the composer's wishes.
true
T/F: Berg uses Sprechstimme vocal style in his opera Wozzeck.
true
T/F: Bernstein explored his Jewish background in his music.
true
T/F: Composer John Adams was influenced by rock albums such as Abbey Road and Dark Side of the Moon.
true
T/F: Copland collaborated with choreographer Martha Graham in his work Appalachian Spring.
false
T/F: Film music always matches the mood of the action on the screen.
true
T/F: George Gershwin demonstrated and sold sheet music on Tin Pan Alley
false
T/F: George Gershwin studied with renowned teacher Nadia Boulanger.
true
T/F: George Gershwin wrote film scores.
true
T/F: Harry Partch was a serious proponent of microtonal music.
true
T/F: Henry Cowell is known for combining Asian instruments with traditional Western ensembles.
true
T/F: Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.
false
T/F: In phase music, loops are played unaltered.
true
T/F: Jazz developed from a blending of West African music with Euro-American vernacular traditions.
true
T/F: John Adams is considered a post-minimalist composer.
true
T/F: John Adams's Doctor Atomic is the result of collaboration with a playwright/director.
true
T/F: John Cage provided detailed instructions at the beginning of Sonatas and Interludes to indicate that forty-five of the piano's eighty-eight keys should be prepared by inserting nails, bolts, nuts, screws, rubber, and wood at carefully specified distances.
true
T/F: Leonard Bernstein achieved fame with the New York Philharmonic when he filled in for a guest conductor who was taken ill.
true
T/F: Leonard Bernstein was the 1st american born musician to be appointed conductor of the NY Philharmonic
true
T/F: Louis Armstrong is credited with the invention of scat-singing.
true
T/F: Minimalism is a style that is influenced by process music.
false
T/F: Process music embraces the intellectual style of Schoenberg and Webern.
true
T/F: Salvador Dalí was a part of the surrealist movement.
true
T/F: Some postmodernist architecture can be described as neo-eclectic.
true
T/F: Source music refers to music that functions as part of the drama itself, such as a character turning on a radio.
true
T/F: Stravinsky quoted the melodies of Russian folk songs in is ballet, The Rite of Spring
true
T/F: Stravinsky's early works are considered to be very nationalistic
true
T/F: Take the A Train is characterized by frequent call-and-response between instruments.
false
T/F: The big band phenomenon ended prior to World War II.
true
T/F: The element of melody in early 20th century music is characterized by wide leaps and dissonant intervals
true
T/F: The idea of a tragedy being set as a musical was unheard of until Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's West Side Story.
true
T/F: The polyrhythm of the Ewe drummers affected Steve Reich's compositions in the 1970s.
false
T/F: The string section remained the heart of the orchestra in the early twentieth century.
true
T/F: The term "modernisms" describes a group of stylistic movements in the early twentieth century.
true
T/F: The works of both John Cage and George Crumb rely on the creativity of others for their works to be successful.
true
T/F: William Grant Still composed the 1st symphony by an African American to be performed by a major American orchestra
true
T/F: William Grant Still found inspiration in the writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance.
true
T/F: William Grant Still wrote film and TV music as well as operas and symphonies
true
T/F: William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano employs melodies and harmonies that are typical of the blues.
true
T/F: most modernists shared a wish to reject 19th century models
three
The Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint has ___ movements
mambo
The fast-paced Afro-Cuban dance with a syncopated beat heard in The Dance at the Gym in Bernstein's West Side Story is called
binary with each section repeated
The form of John Cage's Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes is___
diatonic
The harmony of Steve Reich's Electric Counterpoint is ___
primitivism
The ideals of which movement describe the music of The Rite of Spring?
instrumentally conceived
The melodic element of twentieth-century music can be described as which?
Alban Berg
The most commercially successful Expressionist composer in the first half of the twentieth century was
Javanese gamelan
The prepared piano required for Sonatas and Interludes simulates a(n)
atonality
The system in music composition in which all twelve tones of the chromatic scale are equally important is known as
simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns, changing meter
Twentieth-century music featured what types of rhythmic innovation?
music coming from an unseen source
Underscoring in film music refers to which?
speech-like melody
What does the German word sprechstimme mean in English?
composition of patriotic songs, marches, and love ballads; ragtime and early jazz were introduced to France
What effects did World War I have on American music?
opera
What genre is Berg's Wozzeck?
scenes of Pagan Russia
What is the basis of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?
shakespeare's romeo and juliet
What is the literary basis for West Side Story?
4'33"
What piece by John Cage first performed by the pianist David Tudor in 1952 raised questions regarding definitions of music, noise, and silence?
running counter to the action
When the mood of the music contradicts what is being shown on the screen, what is it called?
Little Rock, Arkansas
Where did William Grant Still grow up?
the Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico
Where does the action take place in Doctor Atomic?
Harry Partch
Which composer adapted instruments to be capable of microtonality?
Schoenberg
Which composer is credited with abandoning music that has a tonal center and establishing a new system?
three line strophe
Which describes the form of a typical blues text, as heard in the first verse (chorus 2) of Billie's Blues?
Porgy and Bess
Which of George Gershwin's works is considered a "folk opera"?
the Concord sonata
Which of Ives's works finally gained him attention from American audiences in 1939?
artists uninterested in high culture and mass market tastes; French to describe part of an army charged first into battle; a radical break from social and artistic conventions
Which of the following are associated with the term avant-garde?
underscoring; source music
Which of the following are the two main types of film music
new timbres required new acts of performance; interpretive and technical instructions became increasingly common
Which of the following characterize modernist performance practice?
extreme instrumental registers; wide leaps in melody
Which of the following characterize the musical language of Expressionism and which do not?
the concert was billed as "an experiment in modern music"; organized by Paul Whiteman
Which of the following characterize the premiere of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in 1924?
polyharmony, shifting meter, atonality
Which of the following characterize twentieth-century modernisms in music?
exotic scales of impressionism; high energy rhythms of minimalism; lush harmonies and orchestration of neo-romanticism
Which of the following combine to create a post-minimalist stye?
creator of Take the A Train; collaborated with Duke Ellington; classically trained pianist
Which of the following describe Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967)?
it was originally a ballet; it contains an early American song associated with the Shakers
Which of the following describe Copland's Appalachian Spring
piano produces percussive effects; irregular phrases
Which of the following describe John Cage's Sonata V from Sonatas and Interludes
musical ideas repeat many times with gradual changes; it deals with stable harmonies
Which of the following describe process music
organum
Which of the following genres was NOT popular during the Great Depression in the United States?
jazz, Anglo=American folk melodies; Stravinsky's approach to rhythm
Which of the following informed Aaron Copland's early musical style?
Swanee
Which of the following is considered George Gershwin's first "big hit"?
Indian raga
Which of the following styles did NOT commonly serve as inspiration for American modernist composers of the early twentieth-century?
musique concrete; elektroniche musik
Which two trends in the 1940s and 1950s focused on electronically-produced sounds
Paul Whiteman
Who enlisted George Gershwin to write Rhapsody in Blue to serve as a demonstration of the cultivated status of jazz?
Stephan Sondheim
Who wrote the lyrics for the musical West Side Story?
physicist Robert Oppenheimer
Whose conscience serves as the focus of John Adams's Doctor Atomic?
Harlem Renaissance
William Grant Still was an important voice for which?
visual artists
William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano draws inspiration from three black
Edgar Varése
With which composer did William Grant Still study?
Expressionist
Wozzeck is considered to be...
Austrian, expressionism
___composer Arnold Schoenberg was highly influential in the movement called___
John Williams; neo-Romantic
___is often credited with reviving the grand symphonic film score through his unforgettable themes set in an accessible ___ rhythm
Expressionist
___painting, such as the works of Edvard Munch, influenced composers and writers.
klangfarbenmelodie- by Schoenberg
a musical effect where each note of the melody is played by a different instrument
big band jazz
arranged and composed music
serialism
compositional method in which musical elements are ordered and fixed in a series
Klangfarbenmelodie
is a technique in which each note of a melodic line is played by a different instrument.
cool jazz
laid back with dense harmonies
changing
many composers explored ___ meters
atonality
movement from dissonance to another without resolution
electonische musik
music originating in Cologne, Germany using only electronically produced sounds
minimalist
music that features the repitition with little variation of melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic patterns
Igor Stravinsky
of the following, who is not a member of the so-called 2nd viennese school of composition: Schoenberg, anton webern, alban berg, igor stravinsky
Polyrhythm
simultaneous use of several rhythmic patterns
New Orleans jazz
small ensemble improvising simultaneously
a near riot
the Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to...
Schoenberg
the composer most closely associated with 12 tone music
electronic music
the most important development in art music in the 1950s and 60s was the increasing importance of...
blues
three line stanzas set to a repeating harmonic pattern
bebop
two note trademark phrase
polyharmony
two or more streams of harmony played against each other
German
what language is Wozzeck sung
hymns, patriotic tunes, Sousa marches, children's songs
what types of tunes did Ives incorporate into his Country Band March
28th st in manhattan where music publishers had their business
what was Tin Pan Alley
The US
where did Stravinsky live during the last years of his life?
John Cage
which composer invented the prepared piano, chance music
John Williams
which composer wrote the scores to the first 3 Harry Potter movies
accents on the first beat of each measure
which of the following was not characteristic of impressionistic music
an insurance executive
while composing in his spare time, Charles Ives made his living as...
