Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from all except: |
D) American marching band music |
The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as…. |
D) a polychord |
Among the unusual playing techniques that are widely used during the twentieth century is the ____________, a rapid slide up or down a scale. |
B) glissando |
Which of the following composers was not stimulated by the folklore of his native land? |
B) Anton Webern |
A chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is known as |
D) a tone cluster |
The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as |
D) atonality |
One of the most striking elements of twentieth-century music that is used to generate power and excitement is |
B) rhythm |
The use of two or more keys at one time is known as |
A) polytonality |
A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section is called |
C) ostinato |
In twentieth-century music, melodies are often difficult to sing because |
A) of the wide leaps and rhythmic irregularity |
Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the |
B) 1920s |
The first opera created for television was Gian-Carlo Menotti’s |
B) Amahl and the Night Visitors |
Recordings of much lesser-known music multiplied in 1948 through |
A) the appearance of long-playing disks |
The most influential organization sponsoring new music after World War I was |
C) the International Society for Contemporary Music |
The best-known American ensemble created in the 1930s by a radio network to broadcast live music was the |
A) NBC Symphony Orchestra |
One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was |
B) Nadia Boulanger |
Impressionism as a movement originated in |
A) France |
Which of the following is not considered a symbolist poet? |
C) Victor Hugo |
When viewed closely, impressionist paintings are made up of |
D) tiny colored patches |
The impressionist painters were particularly obsessed with portraying |
A) water |
Debussy’s most famous orchestral work was inspired by a poem by |
A) Stéphane Mallarmé |
Debussy’s music tends to |
A) sound free and almost improvisational |
The faun evoked in Debussy’s famous composition is a |
B) creature who is half man, half goat |
As a result of his summer sojourns away from France during his teens, Debussy developed a lifelong interest in the music of |
D) Russia |
Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande is an almost word-for-word setting of the symbolist play by |
C) Maurice Maeterlinck |
At the Paris International Exhibition of 1889 Debussy was strongly influenced by the |
D) performances of Asian music |
At the Paris International Exhibition of 1889 Debussy was strongly influenced by the |
A) symphoniesach |
The poem which inspired the Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun was written by |
D) Stéphane Mallarmé |
In order to drown the sense of tonality, Debussy |
D) all of the above |
A more appropriate term for "neo-classicism" might be |
neo-Baroque |
Neoclassical compositions are characterized by |
A) forms and stylistic features of earlier periods |
Neoclassicism was a reaction against |
A) romanticism and impressionism |
Which of the following is not characteristic of neoclassicism? |
C) misty atmosphere |
Neoclassical composers favored |
A) tonality |
A painter who went through a neoclassical phase, and who designed sets for Stravinsky’s first neoclassical work, was |
B) Pablo Picasso |
During the period from about 1920 to 1951, Stravinsky drew inspiration largely from |
A) eighteenth-century music |
Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of |
B) primitivism |
Sergei Diaghilev was the director of the |
C) Russian Ballet |
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring is scored for |
C) an enormous orchestra |
Which of the following ballets is not from Stravinsky’s Russian period? |
C) Pulcinella |
Stravinsky’s composition teacher was |
C) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
Stravinsky’s second phase is generally known as |
A) neoclassical |
In the 1950s Stravinsky dramatically changed his style, this time drawing inspiration from |
C) Anton Webern |
The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky’s ballet |
D) The Rite of Spring |
Expressionism is an art concerned with |
C) social protest |
The expressionist movement flourished in the years |
B) 1905-1925 |
The expressionist movement was largely centered in |
C) Germany and Austria |
Twentieth-century musical expressionism grew out of the emotional turbulence in the works of late romantics such as |
D) all of the above |
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Expressionist music? |
D classical tonality |
Edvard Munch was an expressionist |
B) painter |
The expressionists rejected |
A) conventional prettiness |
Expressionism stressed |
B) intense, subjective emotion |
Expressionist painters, writers, and composers used _________ to assault and shock their audience. |
B) deliberate distortions |
Expressionist composers |
B) avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions |
Schoenberg’s teacher was |
D) Schoenberg himself |
When Schoenberg arrived in the United States after the Nazis seized power in Germany, he obtained a teaching position at |
C) UCLA |
Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Schoenberg’s |
B) students |
In addition to being a composer, Schoenberg showed skill as a |
B) painter |
A Survivor from Warsaw used three languages: English, German, and |
C) Hebrew |
Schoenberg’s third person, in which he developed the twelve-tone system, began around |
C) 1921 |
Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called |
B) Sprechstimme |
Which of the following statements is not true of Schoenberg’s twelve-tone method of composition? |
B) Each tone of a row must be placed in the same register. |
Which of the following terms is not used to describe the special ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in twelve-tone composition? |
A) polychord |
Georg Büchner’s play Wozzeck was written in the |
A) 1830s |
The vocal lines in Wozzeck include |
C) Sprechstimme |
Which musical form provides the basis for the last act of Wozzeck? |
A) variations |
Which of the following statements regarding Berg is untrue? |
A) He composed a great quantity of music in all forms. |
Webern’s melodic lines are |
A) atomized into two- or three-note fragments |
Webern’s twelve-tone works contain many examples of |
C) strict polyphonic imitation |
The least important element in Webern’s music is |
D) tonality |
Webern’s Five Pieces for Orchestra are scored for |
A) a chamber orchestra of eighteen soloists |
Webern |
C) earned a doctorate in music history from the University of Vienna |
Bartók’s principal performing medium was |
B) piano |
Bartók evolved a completely individual style that fused folk elements with |
D) all of the above |
The melodies Bartók used in most of his works are |
B) original themes that have a folk flavor |
Bartók’s six string quartets are widely thought to be the finest since those of |
B) Ludwig van Beethoven |
While remaining within the framework of a tonal center, Bartók often used harsh dissonances and ________ in his music. |
B) polychords |
Bartók’s string quartets are often compared to those of |
C) Beethoven |
Putnam’s Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a child’s impression of |
B) a Fourth of July picnic |
Charles Ives’s father was a(n) |
D) bandmaster |
After graduating from Yale, Ives |
A) went into the insurance business |
During most of his lifetime, Ives’s musical compositions |
C) accumulated in the barn of his Connecticut farm |
Ives’s music contains elements of |
D) all of the above |
Putnam’s Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a movement from Ive’s |
A) Three Places in New England |
Ives’s large and varied output includes works in many genres, but not |
B) operas |
Gershwin left high school at the age of fifteen to |
A) become a pianist demonstrating new songs in a publisher’s salesroom |
The Gershwin song that became a tremendous hit in 1920 was |
C) Swanee |
Porgy and Bess is a(n) |
B) opera |
George Gershwin usually collaborated with the lyricist |
D) Ira Gershwin |
Which of the following works is not by George Gershwin? |
C) The Desert Song |
Rhapsody in Blue opens with |
D) a solo clarinet |
"Harlem Renaissance" was the name |
A) sometimes given to a flowering of African American culture during the years 1917-1935 |
William Grant Still’s opera dealing with the Haitian slave rebellion is |
B) Troubled Island |
As a result of his studies in composition with composers from two opposing musical camps, the conservative George Whitefield Chadwick and the modernist Edgard Varèse, Still |
D) turned away from avant-garde styles and wrote compositions with a uniquely African American flavor. |
Each movement of William Grant Still’s Afro-American Symphony is prefaced by lines from a poem by |
A) Paul Laurence Dunbar |
William Grant Still’s works in African American style, such as his Afro-American Symphony, were |
D) performed to critical acclaim in New York |
Copland’s name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of |
D) all of the above |
Copland’s turn toward simplicity in the 1930s can be traced in part to |
A) the great depression |
In 1921 Copland began a three-year period of study in |
D) France |
Which of the following works was not composed by Copland? |
A) Concord Sonata |
In addition to his compositions, Copland made valuable contributions to music in America by |
D) all of the above |
In 1925, and for a few years afterward, Copland’s music showed the influence of |
B) jazz |
An example of Copland’s use of serialist technique is |
B) Connotations |
Appalachian Spring originated as a |
C) ballet score |
Copland depicted Scenes of daily activity for the Bride and her Farmer-husband in Appalachian Spring through |
A) five variations on the Shaker melody Simple Gifts |
Ginastera’s early interest in percussive sounds was fully realized in his work entitled |
C) Estancia Suite |
The Latin American Center for Advanced Musical Studies, which Ginastera directed, promoted |
C) advante-garde musical techniques |
Which of the following is not a characteristic of Ginatera’s music? |
B) simple harmonies |
In Final Dance: Malambo, the character of the gaucho is shown through |
A) energetic melodies and perpetual motion |
Minimalist music is characterized by |
C) a steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns |
Many composers since the mid-1960s have made extensive use of quotations from earlier music as an attempt to |
B) improve communication between the composer and the listener |
A major composer associated with the serialist movement is |
B) Milton Babbitt |
All of the following are major developments in music since 1950 except the |
C) continued composition of symphonies in the classical style |
Intervals smaller than the half step are called |
D) microtones |
Twelve-tone compositional techniques used to organize rhythm, dynamics, tone color, and other dimensions of music to produce totally controlled and organized music are called |
C) serialism |
In chance or aleatoric music, the composer |
C) chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods |
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her composition |
C) Symphony No. 1 |
One of the most widely performed orchestral works by a living American composer is |
B) Adam’s Short Ride in a Fast Machine |
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s Concerto Grosso 1985 is an example of |
B) quotation music |
"Liberation of Sound" refers to |
C) the use of non-musical sounds, often produced by an electronic instrument |
Which composer was known for creating dramatic effects through changes in tempo? |
C) Elliot Carter |
In jazz, each statement of the basic harmonic pattern or melody is called a |
C) chorus |
When a voice is answered by an instrument, or when one instrument is answered by a chorus, the pattern is referred to as |
B) call and response |
Creating music at the same time as it is being performed is known as |
A) improvisation |
Syncopation and _____ swing are two of the most distinctive features of jazz |
B) rhythmic |
Ragtime flourished in the United States |
C) from the 1980s to about 1915 |
Which of the following is not a characteristic of the blues? |
… |
The most famous blues singer of the 1920’s, known as the "empress of the blues" was |
A) Bessie Smith |
Blues music is usually written in ____ time. |
A) 4/4 |
Scat singing, which Louis Armstrong introduced into jazz, is |
vocalization of a melodic line with nonsense syllables |
Short repeated melodic phrases frequently used during the swing era are called |
A) riffs |
The following can be said about free jazz: |
All answers are correct |
Cool Jazz |
A) was related to bop but was calmer and more relaxed in character |
A variety show without a plot but with a unifying idea is called |
revue |
Leonard Bernstein was a well-known conductor as well as |
A) a composter and author-lecturer |
West Side Story |
A) is loosely based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. |
West Side Story contains |
A) an unprecedented fusion of song and drama with electrifying violent choreography. |
Which of the following is not a function of film music? |
provide songs for the actors to sing |
Movie soundtracks can contain |
A) original music and previously existing compositions. |
Which of the following characters has a distinctive leitmotif? |
Darth Vader |
During the last few years, moviegoers have |
B) taken a greater interest in film music. |
A typical rock group consists of |
two electric guitars, electric bass, percussion and electric keyboard |
The harmonic progressions of rock are usually |
A) quite simple |
A method of singing used by males to reach notes higher than their normal range is called |
falsetto |
Rock is based on a powerful beat in quadruple meter with strong accents on _____ of each bar. |
A) the second and fourth beats |
Music Appreciation 6
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