Quiz 4
Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues What is the POETIC form of the verse?
AAB
Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail What is the form of this excerpt?
AABA
Which of the following is the standard form of the refrain or chorus in popular song?
AABA
Gershwin: I Got Rhythm What is the overarching form of this section?
AABA'
Scriabin: Vers la flamme In the variation of A, all of the following are varied except
All of the answers are correct
In addition to French impressionism, Ravel was greatly influenced by
Classical style
How does Dubussy's music resemble symbolist approaches to poetry?
Common-practice harmonic resolution is avoided, and individual musical ideas are instead the focus.
How is Le Tombeau de Couperin linked to World War I?
Each movement is dedicated to a friend of Ravel's who had died in the war
In the nineteenth century, programs of band concerts generally included
European classics, light dance music, and marches
Who developed the distinctive style of the American musical?
George M. Cohan
Ellington's Cotton Tail is a contrafact on
Gershwin's I Got Rhythm
How did Ralph Vaughn Williams assist English composers in asserting their national identities in art music?
He collected and published folk songs
In his piano music, how did Eric Satie critique concert music?
He printed commentary on the score, rather than the program, so that only performers could read it.
Who of the following was particularly known for writing patriotic American tunes?
Irving Berlin
The most successful band leader was
John Philip Sousa
Debussys's Prelude a "L'Apres-midi d'un faune" is based on a symbolist poem by
Mallarme
Which composer used Spanish folk songs to assert his nationality?
Manuel de Falla
Debussy's only completed opera is
Pelleas et Melisande
Rachmaninoff's compositions reflect
Romantic tradition
The leading ragtime composer was
Scott Joplin
Which off the following works by Debussy's inhabit the tradition of French Baroque keyboard music?
Suite bergamasque
How did the LP increase the possibilities of recorded music?
They allowed for much more to be included on each record
Who invented the phonograph?
Thomas Edison
Beginning in the 1880s, the American popular sheet music industry was centralized in
Tin Pan Alley
Gershwin: I Got Rhythm Which term best describes the style exemplified here?
Tin Pan Alley
In Scriabin's Vers la flamme, tritones of the referential sonority resolve to
a fifth
What is an integrated musical?
a show in which the musical numbers relate to the story
Debussy's L'Isle joyeuse features
a succession of distinct motives
Why was the American Civil War dubbed the most musical war in history?
almost every regiment had a band
Throughout his career, Vaughn Williams worked as
an opera conductor
Spirituals were
an oral tradition of sacred songs
A lowered note, particularly on the third, fifth, or seventh step of the scale, is sometimes known as a
blue note
Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues In this opening vocal phrase, the words "five" and "dark" are sung as ___________, which are a characteristic trait of this song's musical style.
blue notes
What was one of the main training grounds for African-American musicians?
brass bands
Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues The low, skipping bass line motive interjected by the piano between the vocal line phrases exemplifies a commonly used African American musical trait known as
call and response
Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail The interaction between the reeds and the brass here is termed
call and response
Which of the following is one trait of African-American music?
call and response
King Oliver: West End Blues This solo section is termed as the ______ in jazz music.
chorus
Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges Melodic motion in the excerpt is chiefly
chromatic
Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail What is the best term to describe this passage?
chromatic
King Oliver: West End Blues The two performing forces featured here are a __________ and a _________.
clarinet; scat singer
Debussy's approach to modernism involved
decoration, pleasure, non-German models, and lack of harmonic resolution
The avant-grade differed from modernists in the they
directly challenged the canon and tradition
Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges The opening motive consists of alternating
fifths and thirds
New Orleans jazz centers on
groups variations of a tune
In The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto, Luigi Russolo opined
instrumental sounds had become irrelevant and the music based on noise would emerge
Gershwin: I Got Rhythm Much like Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag, the melodic line here
is syncopated
Ragtime draws on the form of
marches
One component of Sibelius's musical style was
motivic repetition
In the typical twelve-bar blues the second line
moves from subdominant to tonic
Gershwin: I Got Rhythm In this excerpt the performer, Ethel Merman, sings with her signature
nasal, chest, voice.
Le Tombeau de Couperin is an example of
neoclassicism
Many classical Hollywood film scores adopted the techniques of
nineteenth-century opera
Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges The English horn motive consists of notes from which scale?
octatonic
Scriabin: Vers la flamme Harmony in the excerpt is
octatonic
Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges Phrases unfold in the excerpt through
oscillation and repetition
Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges The descending chords in the strings are
parallel ninths
What is one way in which Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin reflects
parallel triads
Debussy: Nocturnes Nauges The melody in the flute and harp is drawn from the
pentatonic scale
Diagetic music is
performed or heard by the characters
Serge Rachmaninoff made most of his money as a
pianist
Janaeek's style involves
repeated and juxtaposed sonorities, harmonies, motives, and tone colors that contrast.
King Oliver: West End Blues The instruments supporting the melody here are referred to as the
rhythm section
New Orleans jazz ensembles consist of a front line and a
rhythm section
Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail The tenor saxophone begins this chorus with a(n)
sequence
Scriabin: Vers la flamme The theme heard in the first four measures is then treated in
sequence
Each of Scriabin's compositions is organized around a
source chord
The Frisk Jubilee Singers popularized
spirituals
Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues The piano's introductory measures exemplify what style(s)?
stride
Swing music combined jazz rhythms, improvisation, and
stylish, careful arrangements
Debussy's music is often connected to
symbolism
Scriabin: Vers la flamme The final chord is
tertian in the left hand, quartal in the right
Scriabin: Vers la flamme The variant derives from
the B theme
Ellington began to garner national attention while working at
the Cotton Club
Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail What is similar between these two excerpts?
the harmonic progression
In Nuages, Debussy suggests clouds by employing motives, scales, and
timbre
King Oliver: West End Blues This section exemplifies the _______ form.
twelve bar-blues
Bessie Smith: Back Water Blues What is the HARMONIC form of this verse?
twelve-bar blues
Gershwin: I Got Rhythm The performer enters here with the song's
verse
King Oliver: West End Blues Like most jazz tunes, these measures feature the performer's
virtuosity
Scriabin viewed music as a
way to transcend daily experience and access divine ecstasy
