Music Appreciation Final

In music, the early twentieth century was a time of

revolt and change.

In twentieth-century music (select all that apply)

-string players are sometimes called on to use the wood instead of the hair on their bows.

-percussion instruments have become very prominent and numerous

-dissonance has been emancipated.

In modern music (select all that apply)

-uncommon playing techniques have become normal.

-instruments are played at the very top or bottom of their ranges.

-noise-like and percussive sounds are often used.

The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as

atonality.

The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by

Arnold Schoenberg.

The most important impressionist composer was

Claude Debussy.

which of the following characteristics are NOT usually associated with impressionism.

Clearly delineated forms

Debussy's music tends to

sound free and almost improvisational.

A scale made up of six different notes each a whole step away from the next is called a ________ scale.

whole-tone

Who is the composer of this work? Prelude a l'Ares-midi d'un faune

Claude Debussy

Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune is an example of

impressionism.

Which statement about this music is true? Prelude a l'Ares-midi d'un faune (33 sec)

It employs vague pulse and tonality.

Neoclassical compositions are characterized by

forms and stylistic features of earlier periods.

Neoclassicism was a reaction against

romanticism and impressionism.

The immense success of Stravinsky's 1910 ballet ________ established him as a leading young composer.

The Firebird

The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet

The Rite of Spring.

The deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds is known as

primitivism.

Who is the composer? Le Sacre du Printemps

Igor Stravinsky

This music is best characterized as (34 sec dramatic)

primitivism.

The twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion was called

expressionism.

Expressionist composers

avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions.

Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Arnold Schoenberg's

students.

When Schoenberg arrived in the United States after the Nazis seized power in Germany, he obtained a teaching position at

UCLA

An eerily expressive kind of declamation midway between song and speech, introduced during the expressionist period, is

Sprechstimme.

Who is the composer of this piece? Pierrot Lunaire

Arnold Schoenberg

Pierrot Lunaire employs a style of singing called

Sprechstimme.

The text of A Survivor from Warsaw (select all that apply)

-is partly based on a direct report of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto.

-was written by Schoenberg.

-is set to a kind of speech-singing.

A Survivor from Warsaw used three languages: English, German, and

Hebrew

This is an example of Schoenberg: A Survivor from Warsaw (36 sec brassy)

serialism.

Who is the composer? Wozzeck (52 sec)

Alban Berg

Wozzeck is best described as a

tragic opera.

The vocal lines in Wozzeck include (select all that apply)

-Sprechstimme

-speaking

-distorted folk songs.

Who is the composer? Third Piece from Five Pieces For Orchestra (1:29 eerie)

Anton Webern

The dynamics of the music in this selection are best described as (1:29)

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Béla Bartók was a leading authority on

peasant music.

Who is the composer of this work? Concerto For Orchestra - II. Game of Pairs (28 sec)

Béla Bartók

At the beginning of this selection, the melody is carried by two

bassoons.

In 1640, the very first book printed in the English-speaking colony in early America was

the Bay Psalm Book

Chester was a song by William Billings that became famous during what time of American history?

The American Revolution

Chester is written in what type of Song Form?

Strophic

Up until the early twentieth century, ______ were the favorite instrumental organizations in America.

bands

Who was the leading American composer and conductor of band music?

John Philip Sousa

After graduating from Yale, Charles Ives

went into the insurance business.

Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, illustrates Charles Ives's technique of quoting snatches of familiar tunes by presenting fragments of

Yankee Doodle.

Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a movement from Charles Ives's

Three Places in New England.

How would you describe the rhythmic component of this movement? Three Places In New England - Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut (5:56)

Rhythmic patterns are highly complex and independent of one another.

George Gershwin grew up in

New York, New York.

Which musical is NOT by George Gershwin

Funny Girl

George Gershwin usually collaborated with the lyricist

Ira Gershwin.

Porgy and Bess is a(n)

opera.

Who is the composer? Rhapsody in Blue (1:30)

George Gershwin

In this selection, the melody is carried by the (1:33)

solo piano.

As a composer, William Grant Still

wrote film scores, concert works, operas, and band arrangements.

William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony

uses a blues theme in the first movement which reappears as a unifying thread in various transformations in the three later movements.

Who is the composer? Afro-American Symphony - 3rd Movement (3:18)

William Grant Still

What non-traditional instrument appears in the orchestra in this excerpt? (0:46)

banjo

Aaron Copland's name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of (select all that apply)

-jazz, blues, and ragtime elements.

-subjects from American folklore.

-revival hymns, cowboy songs, and other folk tunes.

Copland depicted "Scenes of daily activity for the Bride and her Farmer-husband" in Appalachian Spring through

five variations on the Shaker melody Simple Gifts.

Who is the composer? Appalachian Spring - Section 7 (3:04)

Aaron Copland

What is the form of this music? (3:04)

Theme and variations

Who is the composer? Estancia Suite: Malambo (3:20)

Alberto Ginastera

Estancia Suite: Malambo features

vibrant rhythms and frequent syncopation.

In chance, or aleatory music, the composer

chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods.

Around 1940, John Cage invented the prepared piano, a(n)

grand piano whose sound is altered by objects such as bolts, screws, rubber bands, pieces of felt, paper, and plastic inserted between the strings of some of the keys.

Who is the composer? Sonata II From Sonatas And Interludes (49 sec)

John Cage

This music is performed (1:23)

on a solo prepared piano

Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique (select all that apply)

-was one of the earliest masterpieces of electronic music created in a tape studio

-was designed for the 1958 Brussels World Fair.

-was composed in collaboration with the famous architect Le Corbusier.

Who is the composer? Poème Électronique (2:34)

Edgar Varèse

This music features (1:05)

electronic sounds.

Many composers since the mid-1960s have made extensive use of quotations from earlier music as an attempt to

improve communication between the composer and the listener.

Who is the composer? Concerto Grosso 1985 (2:44)

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Which statement is true of this excerpt? (27 sec)

The music abruptly alternates between baroque and twentieth-century sounds.

which of the following characteristics are NOT true of minimalist music

a fast rate of change

Who is the composer? Short Ride in a Fast Machine (4:24)

John Adams

The central rhythmic component of this excerpt is performed by which instrument? (1:01)

Wood Block

The backbone of a jazz ensemble is its

rhythm section.

Who is the composer? Maple Leaf Rag (2:40)

Scott Joplin

To which genre does this music belong? (18 sec)

Ragtime

Which of the following does NOT describe the blues

Mostly sung or played in tripple meter.

The most famous blues singer of the 1920s, known as the "empress of the blues", was

Bessie Smith.

Which statement best describes the vocal style of this song? Lost Your Head Blues

The singer slides between pitches and often places the notes just ahead of the beat.

To which genre does this music belong? (1:03)

Blues

The major center of jazz from about 1900 to 1917 was

New Orleans.

The most distinctive feature of New Orleans style jazz was

collective improvisation by the front line.

One of the most important solo instruments of the swing era was the

saxophone.

What great trumpet legend is heard performing this tune? Hotter Than That

Louis Armstrong

What jazz vocal technique is used in this selection? (35 sec)

Scat

Bebop differed from earlier jazz forms in that it

was meant for attentive listening, not dancing.

One of the greatest of all jazz improvisers and a towering figure among bebop musicians was the saxophonist

Charlie Parker.

Which statement is NOT true about Bebop? Ko Ko

This music is intended for dancing.

The bebop musician who spearheaded developments in cool jazz and then jazz rock is

Miles Davis.

Leonard Bernstein was NOT a well-known

violinist

The musical loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is

West Side Story.

In West Side Story, the two star-crossed lovers are

Tony and Maria.

Who is the composer of this piece? America - West Side Story

Leonard Bernstein

West Side Story is a(n)

Musical

Which statement is true about the music in this scene? (3:19 vid)

This music depicts several emotions at once.

One of the most important American composers of film scores who often collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock was

Bernard Hermann.

In the "Tower Scene" from Vertigo, composer Bernard Hermann raises the tension of the evolving dramatic situation through his use of such orchestral effects as

All answers are correct.

Rock has been defined as

vocal music with a hard, driving beat, often featuring electric guitar accompaniment and heavily amplified sound.