Twentieth-Century Modernism: Era Quiz; Listening Identification Quiz
What was Tin Pan Alley?
"28th Street in Manhattan where music publishers had their businesses"
From which region of Mexico does the mariachi ensemble originate?
"Guadalajara"
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"Noche de Jaranas" from La noche de los Mayas Silvestre Revueltas suite from film score
For what purpose did Lili Boulanger write Psalm 24?
"not for traditional worship services"
Stravinsky is largely recognized for his revitalizing of which musical element?
"rhythm"
Which characterizes the rhythm of Revueltas's "Noche de Jaranas" from La noche de los Mayas?
"shifting meters"
William Grant Still was an important voice for which?
"the Harlem Renaissance"
Nadia Boulanger founded a school for - at Fontainebleau, outside of Paris. One of her more famous American students at this school was Aaron -
Americans Copland
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Appalachian Spring (Section 1) Aaron Copland ballet suite
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Appalachian Spring (Section 7) Aaron Copland ballet suite
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Billie's Blues 12-bar blues Billie Holiday
Many early twentieth-century composers explored - meters.
Changing
Match the definition to the correct jazz style.
Cool Jazz: Laid-back style of jazz featuring mixed timbres, one instrument for each color, often without piano, and contrapuntal improvisations. Big-Band jazz Large jazz ensemble popular in the 1930s and 1940s, featuring sections of trumpets, trombones, saxophones (and other woodwinds) and rhythm instruments. Bebop: Jazz style developed in the 1940s with fast tempos and complex harmonies. New Orleans: Early jazz style characterized by multiple improvisations in an ensemble of cornet, clarinet, trombone, piano, double bass, banjo (or guitar), and drums.
Twentieth-century music featured what types of rhythmic innovation?
Correct: Changing meter simultaneous use Incorrect: Use of only duple and triple
Which types of tunes did Charles Ives incorporate in his Country Band March?
Correct: Children Patriotic Sousa Hymns Incorrect: New Orleans Big-band
Which types of tunes did Charles Ives incorporate in his Country Band March? Which did he not?
Correct: Children's songs Patriotic tunes Sousa marches Hymns Incorrect: New Orleans jazz Big-band jazz
Which of the following correctly describe the chords heard throughout this section of The Rite of Spring and which do not?
Correct: Dissonant Irregularly Incorrect: Regularly accented Consonant
Which of the following are characteristics of big-band jazz? Which are not?
Correct: Duke Ellington The music Incorrect: It wasn't very popular in the 1930s and 40s. The performances are entirely improvised.
Which of the following are characteristics of big-band jazz?
Correct: Duke Ellington The music Incorrect: Wasn't popular Performances are
Which of the following are characteristics of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and which are not?
Correct: Homophony Duple Incorrect: Solo Dissonant
In what ways may the form of a twelve-tone tone row be altered?
Correct: Inversion Transposed Retrograde Incorrect: Deleting half of the pitches
Which of the following describe Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra and which do not?
Correct: Shifting Meter Rondo-like form Incorrect: Consistently Consonant Strictly Major Tonality
Which of the following statements correctly describe the opening section of the third movement from Still's Suite for Violin and Piano, and which do not? Which of the following statements describe the opening section of this movement? Which do not?Still, Suite for Violin and Piano0:25
Correct: The piano The melody is bluesy Incorrect: The melody is marchlike The melody is quiet
Which of the following statements describe the opening section of the third movement from Still's Suite for Violin and Piano, and which do not?
Correct: The piano plays a steady ascending and descending bass line with chords on every other beat. The melody is bluesy Incorrect: The melody is marchlike The melody is quiet The piano style is basso continuo
Which of the following are characteristics of mariachi music and which are not?
Correct: Trumpets Syncopated Incorrect: Quarter Tones Flute
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Country Band March Charles Ives march
Let's compare two orchestral works composed just two decades apart and see how drastically musical style changed in those transitional years. Drag the traits below to the work that reflects them.
Debussy: free-flowing rhythm; little sense of meter focus on instrumental color; one instrument featured at a time lyrical, chromatic melodic line Stravinsky: strong, aggressive, unsettling accents dissonant blocks of chords; polyharmony huge orchestral forces
Which describes the meter at the beginning of Section 7 of Appalachian Spring?
Duple Meter
Berg's music is rooted in the - Romanticism of Brahms and Wagner and the post-- of Mahler, but is also influenced by the twelve-tone system devised by his teacher, -
German Romanticism Schoenberg
Which describes the ensemble heard at the beginning of Billie's Blues?
Guitar and bass first; piano and drums added
Gershwin was inspired by the goals of the -
Harlem Renaissance
Which of the following does NOT appear in "Noche de Jaranas" from La noche de los Mayas?
Harpsichord
Béla Bartók reconciled the traditional songs of his native -with the main currents of -Press music, thus creating an entirely personal language.
Hungary European
Lili Boulanger developed an innovative harmonic language while embracing what French movement in the arts?
Impressionism
The melodic element of twentieth-century music can be described as which?
Instrumentally conceived
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Interrupted Intermezzo, from Concerto for Orchestra Béla Bartók orchestral concerto
-is considered to be amongst the most vibrant and original North American musics.
Jazz
Billie Holiday's Billie's Blues exemplifies the intersection between -and blues.
Jazz
Both - Boulanger and her sister Nadia, competed in the famous Prix de - competition for - , which their - had won in 1835.
Lili Rome composition father
Silvestre Revueltas represented a movement that drew on the popular culture of contemporary -
Mexico
- Orleans is where the fusion of ragtime, blues, and other musics resulted in the development of jazz.
New Orleans
Copland was born in - to Jewish immigrant parents; he trained in - then returned to the United States during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
New York Europe
Which describes the performing ensemble in this excerpt from Part I of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring? Which describes the performing ensemble in Dance of the Youths and Maidens from Part I of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Dance0:24
Orchestra
Which of the following genres was NOT popular during the Great Depression in the United States?
Organum
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Pierrot Lunaire (No. 18: The Moonfleck) song cycle Arnold Schoenberg
Match the musical element to its correct description of twentieth-century music.
Polyharmony: Harmony Disjunct: Melody Atonality: Harmony Dissonance: Harmony Wide Leaps: Melody
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Psalm 24 Lili Boulanger choral psalm setting
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Rhapsody in Blue rhapsody George Gershwin
Which composer is credited with abandoning music that has a tonal center and establishing a new system?
Schoenberg
By listening to different genres, we can hear the profound changes in musical style between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Listen to the two examples below and then match the musical trait to the work it describes.
Schumann: Homophonic texture focused on voice Solo Song with piano accompaniment (Lied) Chromaticism; vague sense of final cadence on tonic Schoenberg: Disjunct, unlyrical singing style Solo song accompanied by chamber ensemble Atonal; abandonment of tonality
By listening to different genres, we can hear the profound changes in musical style between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Listen to the two examples below and then match the musical trait to the work it describes.
Schumann: In the Lovely Month of May homophonic texture; focused on voice solo song with piano accompaniment (Lied) chromaticism; vague sense of final cadence on tonic Schoenberg: The Moonfleck, from Pierrot Lunaire solo song accompanied by chamber ensemble atonal; abandonment of tonality disjunct, unlyrical singing style
Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern are known as the -
Second Viennese School
Match the descriptions to the correct American musical works.
Still's: chamber work inspired by artists of the Harlem Renaissance that incorporates a blues idiom Gershwin: "Jazz concerto" Copland: ballet and suite that features Simple Gifts to provide a quintessential American sound Ives: polytonal and polyrhythmic piece created by a collision of children's songs, patriotic tunes, hymns and marches
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Suite for Violin and Piano, III William Grant Still suite
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Take the A Train big-band jazz Billy Strayhorn
Match the characteristics of Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24 to their correct musical elements.
Texture: Largely Homophonic Melody: Small-ranging Form: A-B-A
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The Rite of Spring (Game of Abduction) Igor Stravinsky ballet
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The Rite of Spring (Introduction/Dance of the Youths and Maidens) Igor Stravinsky ballet
Which of the following does NOT characterize Alban Berg's Wozzeck?
Triple Meter
The term "modernisms" describes a group of stylistic movements in the early twentieth century.
True
William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano draws inspiration from three black -
Visual artists
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Wozzack Alban Berg Opera
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Wozzeck (Act III, orchestral interlude) Alban Berg opera
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Wozzeck (Act III, scene 5) Alban Berg opera
Which of the following were common forms of musical expression amongst African American communities in the nineteenth century?
all of these answers
Beginning with his - Stravinsky was a leader in the revitalization of - in European art music.
ballets rhythm
Which of the following is not one of the four traditional ways to alter a tone row?
deleting half of the pitches
Which describes the harmony in this excerpt from Section 1 of Copland's Appalachian Spring?
polychordal.
Boulanger's Psalm 24 is an example of - modernist music written not for a religious institution, but for -l devotion.
sacred personal
