Exam 6 Multiple Choice

Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis was scored for ___________.

A. Chamber orchestra and four vocal soloists

B. Orchestra and chorus

C. String quartet and double string orchestra

D. String quartet and chorus

E. Solo piano and orchestra

C. String quartet and double string orchestra

Which of the following best describes Charles Ives's musical education?

A. Self-taught

B. Traveled to Germany and apprenticed under composers there

C. Formally educated in a university setting

D. Was a piano virtuoso and learned by performing and reading music reviews

E. Traveled to Italy and apprenticed under composers there

C. Formally educated in a university setting

Which composer became associated with his early Romanian-influenced pieces, to the extent that they overshadowed his later compositions?

A. Bartók

B. Enescu

C. Liszt

D. Szymanowski

E. Kodály

B. Enescu

Of the following composers, who collected Hungarian peasant music and used peasant idioms in his compositions?

A. Bartók

B. Enescu

C. Brahms

D. Szymanowski

E. Liszt

A. Bartók

___________ is the Czech composer of Jenůfa.

A. Szymanowski

B. Dvoøák

C. Enescu

D. Bartók

E. Janáèek

E. Janáèek

The academic discipline that typically studies music outside of the Western tradition using fieldwork methods is ___________.

A. Musicology

B. Ethnomusicology

C. Historical musicology

D. Non-Western musicology

E. Anthropology

B. Ethnomusicology

The English composer who secured the first international reputation since Henry Purcell was ___________.

A. Thomas Tallis

B. Hubert Parry

C. Ralph Vaughan Williams

D. Edward Elgar

E. Charles Ives

D. Edward Elgar

Karol Szymanowski used the music of his native ___________ in his music.

A. Poland

B. Bulgaria

C. Czech lands

D. Hungary

E. Russia

A. Poland

Which two composers are known for collecting and transcribing Hungarian peasant songs?

A. Elgar and Vaughan Williams

B. Stravinsky and Diaghilev

C. Bartók and Kodály

D. Ives and Beach

E. Szymanowski and Enescu

C. Bartók and Kodály

Which of the following is NOT true of Charles Ives?

A. His compositions gained accolades early in his life for their Modernism

B. Was a businessman in the insurance industry

C. Regarded by many as the first great American composer

D. His compositions frequently refer to music from his childhood

E. Grew up in a musical family

A. His compositions gained accolades early in his life for their Modernism

Charles Ives's Concord Sonata uses a musical motto from ___________.

A. Brahms's First Symphony

B. Franck's Symphony in D Minor

C. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

D. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

E. Berlioz's Symphony fantastique

D. Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Janáèek believed that ___________ underlay all folklore and cultivated art.

A. The sounds of nature

B. The rhythms of human speech

C. The principles of the middle class

D. The transcendent values of the composer

E. The taste of the aristocracy

B. The rhythms of human speech

The authoritative conductor who championed Edward Elgar's music and led many Elgar premieres was ___________.

A. Hubert Parry

B. Leonard Bernstein

C. Sergey Diaghilev

D. Hans Richter

E. Herbert von Karajan

D. Hans Richter

The term magyar nóta refers to ___________.

A. Romanian folk music that was sung

B. Hungarian instrumental folk music

C. Hungarian folk music that was sung

D. Czech folk dances

E. Polish folk dances

C. Hungarian folk music that was sung

___________ wrote that through applied study, a composer could master the idiom of peasant music, consequently employing it in his compositions.

A. Stravinsky

B. Bartók

C. Kodály

D. Enescu

E. Vaughan Williams

B. Bartók

Which of the following composers only gained widespread recognition later in life?

A. Leoš Janáèek

B. Charles Ives

C. Béla Bartók

D. Only a and b

E. Only b and c

D. Only a and b

Sibelius's compositions helped to bolster the fight for the national independence of ___________.

A. Sweden

B. Russia

C. Iceland

D. Norway

E. Finland

E. Finland

The first writer to articulate the values of New England Transcendentalism was ___________.

A. William Wordsworth

B. Walt Whitman

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

D. Mark Twain

E. Edgar Allen Poe

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

To which country did Oscar Adolf Hermann Schmitz refer to as "the Country without Music"?

A. Spain

B. Finland

C. Russia

D. England

E. United States of America

D. England

Of the following, which two composers studied the rhythms and pitch content of everyday human speech and incorporated it into their operas?

A. Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky

B. Musorgsky and Janáèek

C. Szymanowsky and Enescu

D. Beethoven and Schumann

E. Bartók and Kodály

B. Musorgsky and Janáèek

A zarzuela is best defined as ___________.

A. Afro-Cuban song style

B. A Spanish country dance

C. French ballroom dance popular in Spain

D. A light opera, in Spanish

E. A sacred Spanish play

D. A light opera, in Spanish

Charles Ives's ___________ features a section with two groups of instruments playing simultaneously in contrasting keys and meters.

A. Universe Symphony

B. Bagatelles

C. Concord Sonata

D. Mysterium

E. "Putnam's Camp"

E. "Putnam's Camp"

A harmony that uses all twelve tones in the chromatic scale is called ___________.

A. Aggregate harmony

B. Totalizing harmony

C. Tristan chord

D. Rite chord

E. Mystic chord

A. Aggregate harmony

New England Transcendentalism considered ___________ the greatest wellspring of truth.

A. Intuition

B. Higher education

C. Primitive cultures

D. Technology

E. Politics

A. Intuition

Vers la flamme is best describe as ___________.

A. A piano piece creating a single, long crescendo

B. A tone poem on the death of a Russian tsar

C. A symphony based on the founding myth of Russia

D. An opera drawing on the mystical world of good and evil

E. A single-movement violin concerto that consists of dramatic pauses in the melody, to represent openness

A. A piano piece creating a single, long crescendo

In his music, Manuel de Falla merged elements of ___________.

A. Spanish and Russian folk music

B. Spanish aristocratic genres with Italian Futurism

C. Octatonicism and Spanish exoticism

D. Spanish folk music and French Modernism

E. Ballet and opera

D. Spanish folk music and French Modernism

Harmonically, Alexander Scriabin's music ___________.

A. Evokes a domestic realm through the use of folk songs

B. Evokes a domestic realm through the use of stylized aristocratic dances

C. Evokes infinity through absolute music

D. Evokes a mystical realm using nondiatonic pitch sets, such as octatonicism

E. Evokes a mystical realm out of new combinations of the diatonic scale

E. Evokes a mystical realm out of new combinations of the diatonic scale

The Kalevala is best described as ___________.

A. A collection of poems by Leoš Janáèek

B. The national literary epic of Finland, influencing the music of Jean Sibelius

C. A symphony by Alexander Scriabin

D. An anthology of folk songs collected by Béla Bartók

E. An opera by Edvard Grieg

B. The national literary epic of Finland, influencing the music of Jean Sibelius

Ralph Vaughan Williams felt it was the responsibility of a composer to ___________.

A. Critique national governments to defend oppressed peoples

B. Create national musical monuments as an expression of citizenship

C. Create art that transcended nationality and politics, thus making nationalism irrelevant to music

B. Create national musical monuments as an expression of citizenship

Of the following philosophical/religious movements, which influenced Charles Ives's music the most?

A. Historicism

B. American Pragmatism

C. New England Transcendentalism

D. Hinduism

E. Theosophy

C. New England Transcendentalism

Scriabin's harmony that was intended to represent the divine is commonly called ___________.

A. The sublime chord

B. The Tristan chord

C. The Petrushka chord

D. The divine chord

E. The mystic chord

E. The mystic chord

Over the course of his career, Sibelius's major compositions became ___________.

A. Ever longer and more expansive

B. Ever more compact and terse

B. Ever more compact and terse

The term verbunkos refers to ___________.

A. Polish folk dances

B. Czech folk dances

C. Romanian folk music that was sung

D. Hungarian folk music that was sung

E. Hungarian instrumental folk music

E. Hungarian instrumental folk music

What was rare about the trajectory of Janaèek's compositional career?

A. His early and late successes bookend a twenty-year hiatus on composing in the middle of his life.

B. He was a child prodigy on three instruments: piano, violin, and cello.

C. He did not gain international recognition until sixty years after his death.

D. His compositions did not gain international recognition until he was in his sixties.

E. While a leader in early Modernist composition, in the last half of his life his development stagnated.

D. His compositions did not gain international recognition until he was in his sixties.

___________ is the common term for Janáèek's transcription of tunes that mimicked the rhythm and pitch content of human speech.

A. Zarzuela

B. Folk tunelets

C. Speech melodies

D. Little speeches

E. Magyar nóta

C. Speech melodies

The style hungrois was a style of music associated with ___________.

A. The Hungarian aristocracy

B. Hungarian peasants

A. The Hungarian aristocracy

Alexander Scriabin's Mysterium was planned as ___________.

A. A mystical, sublime composition that was never to be performed but only contemplated

B. An all-night vigil for those lost in the First World War

C. A multicontinent, synchronized chorus

D. A mystical ritual designed to give humans access to a higher transcendent plane

E. An all-night vigil for theosophists and Symbolists to share their art

D. A mystical ritual designed to give humans access to a higher transcendent plane

The Swan of Tuonela is best described as ___________.

A. A song cycle

B. An opera

C. A tone poem

D. A symphony

E. A string quartet

C. A tone poem

Of the following composers, who was most concerned with using "authentic" (that is, based on fieldwork and research) peasant melodies and idioms in his music?

A. Wagner

B. Brahms

C. Chopin

D. Bartók

E. Liszt

D. Bartók

The composer most associated with theosophy and divine mysticism is ___________.

A. César Franck

B. Alexander Scriabin

C. Igor Stravinsky

D. Charles Ives

E. Béla Bartók

B. Alexander Scriabin

Which composition by Berg included the music of J. S. Bach's chorale, Es ist genug?

A. Violin Concerto

B. Lyric Suite

C. Lulu

D. Symphony, Op. 21

E. Wozzeck

A. Violin Concerto

Which composer did Schoenberg consider the touchstone of German art?

A. Brahms

B. Schumann

C. J. S. Bach

D. Wagner

E. Beethoven

C. J. S. Bach

In his Symphony, Op. 21, Webern sought to ___________ the number of possible tone-row permutations in his composition.

A. Expand

B. Contract

B. Contract

Which of the following is not used in twelve-tone composition?

A. Retrograde

B. Inversion

C. Retrograde inversion

D. Prime

E. Octatonic

E. Octatonic

The Society for Private Musical Performances was created by ___________.

A. Bartók

B. Stravinsky

C. Debussy

D. Berg

E. Schoenberg

E. Schoenberg

In twelve-tone music, a row whose hexachords each contain all of the intervals from half steps to perfect fourths is called ___________.

A. An interval-rich row

B. A stepwise row

C. An aggregate row

D. A universal row

E. An all-interval row

E. An all-interval row

A tone row that is ordered upside down is ___________.

A. A retrograde

B. An inversion

C. A prime

D. A retrograde inversion

B. An inversion

Which of the following describes Stravinsky's Octet?

A. Three movements

B. Used eighteenth-century mannerisms

C. Used Modernist mannerisms

D. Refers to twentieth-century American dance styles

E. All of the above

E. All of the above

The "long nineteenth century" is commonly considered to stretch from the ___________ to the ___________.

A. Polish Revolution; Spanish-American War

B. French Revolution; Great Depression

C. French Revolution; Spanish-American War

D. American Revolution; First World War

E. French Revolution; First World War

E. French Revolution; First World War

___________ was a composition by Stravinsky that helped usher in the stylistic period of Neoclassicism.

A. The Rite of Spring

B. Chamber Concerto

C. Octet

D. The Firebird

E. The Rake's Progress

C. Octet

Which composer of the Second Viennese School wrote atonal music that was popular with a broad audience?

A. Schoenberg

B. Webern

C. Bartók

D. Stravinsky

E. Berg

E. Berg

The original ordering of a tone row is called its ___________.

A. Inversion

B. Retrograde

C. Prime

D. Retrograde inversion

C. Prime

The twelve-tone method was devised by ___________.

A. Stravinsky

B. Debussy

C. Webern

D. Schoenberg

E. Berg

D. Schoenberg

Stravinsky's Octet helped usher in a new creative period, commonly called ___________.

A. Symbolism

B. Impressionism

C. Expressionism

D. Neoprimitivism

E. Neoclassicism

E. Neoclassicism

The Rake's Progress is best described as ___________.

A. An opera by Berg

B. A symphonic poem by Bartók

C. A symphonic poem by Stravinsky

D. An opera by Schoenberg

E. An opera by Stravinsky

E. An opera by Stravinsky

Which of the following is a twelve-tone composition?

A. Octet

B. Pierrot lunaire

C. Petrushka

D. Suite for Piano, Op. 25

E. Erwartung

D. Suite for Piano, Op. 25

Which composer of the Second Viennese School was most predisposed to include hidden messages and secret dedications in his music?

A. Schoenberg

B. Webern

C. Stravinsky

D. Berg

E. Bartók

D. Berg

A tone row that is backward and upside down is ___________.

A. A prime

B. A retrograde inversion

C. An inversion

D. A retrograde

B. A retrograde inversion

A tone row that is ordered backward is ___________.

A. An inversion

B. A retrograde inversion

C. A retrograde

D. A prime

C. A retrograde

Schoenberg honored J. S. Bach in his music by ___________.

A. Setting "Bach" as a musical cipher

B. Writing a set of short piano pieces in all major and minor keys

C. Writing a year-long cycle of Lutheran cantatas

D. Dedicating his first twelve-tone composition to Bach

E. Naming a piece in Bach's honor

A. Setting "Bach" as a musical cipher

Which of the following does not describe Webern's Symphony, Op. 21?

A. Emphasized disunity of motivic content

B. Twelve-tone composition

C. Sparse textures

D. Features extensive musical symmetry

E. In two movements

A. Emphasized disunity of motivic content

Stravinsky's Pulcinella is best described as ___________.

A. A chamber piece that ushered in Stravinsky's neoprimitivist phase

B. A ballet using music by Johann Sebastian Bach

C. A chamber piece that caused a riot at its premiere

D. A symphony written to encompass the entirety of Stravinsky's worldview

E. A ballet using music by Giovanni Pergolesi

E. A ballet using music by Giovanni Pergolesi

The Stravinsky ballet that was purportedly based on the music of eighteenth-century composer Giovanni Pergolesi was ___________.

A. The Firebird

B. Petrushka

C. Histoire du soldat

D. Pulcinella

E. The Rite of Spring

D. Pulcinella

In twelve-tone composition, a piece's tone row determines the ___________.

A. Motivic content of a piece

B. Harmonic content of a piece

C. Rhythmic content of a piece

D. Both a and b

E. Both b and c

D. Both a and b

The concerts organized by the Society for Private Musical Performances ___________ the divide between atonal music and the public.

A. Decreased

B. Increased

B. Increased

Which composer combined twelve-tone techniques with more traditional gestures of melody, gesture, and form?

A. Schoenberg

B. Stravinsky

C. Webern

D. Berg

E. Bartók

D. Berg

___________ was Berg's composition that was secretly dedicated to the woman he loved.

A. Lulu

B. Suite for Piano, Op. 25

C. Violin Concerto

D. Wozzeck

E. Lyric Suite

E. Lyric Suite

The event that effectively destroyed the Romantic optimism and faith in progress was ___________.

A. The First World War

B. The French Revolution

C. The Great Depression

D. The premiere of The Rite of Spring

E. The Second World War

A. The First World War

Of the following, which composer had an extended period in the middle of his career in which he did not finish any compositions?

A. Schoenberg

B. Scriabin

C. Stravinsky

D. Debussy

A. Schoenberg

Schoenberg's two most successful pupils were ___________.

A. Webern and Bartók

B. Bartók and Berg

C. Berg and Webern

D. Berg and Stravinsky

E. Stravinsky and Diaghilev

C. Berg and Webern

___________ marks the beginning of twentieth-century musical style, as distinct from the "long nineteenth century."

A. Neoprimitivism

B. Symbolism

C. Impressionism

D. Maximalism

E. Neoclassicism

E. Neoclassicism

The method of composition that used ordered rows of all twelve notes in the chromatic scale is called ___________.

A. Twelve-tone technique

B. Fixed-order technique

C. Chromatic-row technique

D. Neoclassicism

E. Expressionism

A. Twelve-tone technique

One of the principle artistic responses to the devastation of the First World War was ___________.

A. Romanticism

B. Revival of spiritual mysticism

C. Irony and black humor

D. Neo-madrigalism

E. Minimalism

C. Irony and black humor

___________ is the composer and theorist who influenced Schoenberg's creation of the twelve-tone technique.

A. Chester Kallman

B. Josef Mattias Hauer

C. Boris Asafyev

D. Jacques Rivière

E. W. H. Auden

B. Josef Mattias Hauer

Who proclaimed, "If it is art it is not for everybody; if it is for everybody it is not art"?

A. Webern

B. Schoenberg

C. Bartók

D. Stravinsky

E. Diaghilev

B. Schoenberg

Which of the following is not a twelve-tone composition?

A. Lyric Suite

B. Symphony, Op. 21

C. Wozzeck

D. Suite for Piano, Op. 25

C. Wozzeck

In his Neoclassical compositions, Stravinsky ultimately sought to ban all ___________.

A. Dynamics

B. Emotive content

C. Objective content

D. Tempos

E. Rhythmic distinctions

B. Emotive content

The form of the first movement of Stravinsky's Octet is ___________.

A. Gavotte

B. Sonata form

C. Variations

D. Minuet and trio

E. Ritornello form

B. Sonata form

Which piece by Berg was composed in memory of Manon Gropius, the daughter of Alma Mahler?

A. Wozzeck

B. Lulu

C. Symphony, Op. 21

D. Violin Concerto

E. Lyric Suite

D. Violin Concerto

The early twentieth-century style period that incorporated eighteenth-century musical mannerisms was ___________.

A. Neoclassicism

B. Neoprimitivism

C. Impressionism

D. Symbolism

E. Expressionism

A. Neoclassicism

The technique of superimposing diatonic from separate keys is called ___________.

A. Surrealism

B. Polytonality

C. Defamiliarization

D. Syncopation

E. Hemiola

B. Polytonality

Of the following, which of Maurice Ravel's compositions shows the most influence from jazz?

A. "St. Louis Blues"

B. Maple Leaf Rag

C. String Quartet

D. Violin Sonata

E. Bolero

D. Violin Sonata

Of the following, which composer got his first compositional success writing songs for Tin Pan Alley?

A. George Gershwin

B. Duke Ellington

C. Erik Satie

D. Darius Milhaud

E. Aaron Copland

A. George Gershwin

Parade, by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau, is best described as ___________.

A. A neoprimitivist opera

B. A neoprimitivist ballet

C. An Impressionistic ballet

D. A Surrealistic opera

E. A Surrealistic ballet

E. A Surrealistic ballet

Darius Milhaud's Le Création du monde (The Creation of the World) is best described as ___________.

A. A ballet influenced by zeitoper

B. A ballet influenced by American jazz

C. An opera influenced by American jazz

D. A symphonic poem influenced by American blues

E. A symphonic poem influenced by ragtime

B. A ballet influenced by American jazz

The style of syncopated piano music that was most associated with Scott Joplin was ___________.

A. Jazz

B. Call and response

C. Ragtime

D. Blues

E. March

C. Ragtime

In the early twentieth century, the genre of music produced on Broadway was ___________.

A. Operetta

B. Symphonies

C. Musicals

D. Opera

E. Film music

C. Musicals

The early compositions of Les Six were influenced by ___________.

A. American dance band music

B. Erik Satie

C. Surrealism

D. All of the above

E. Only b and c

D. All of the above

Which of the following describes the basic plot of Wozzeck?

A. A young, rich scoundrel abandons love for revelry, leading to his material and moral decline

B. A marriage party takes a picture at the base of the Eiffel Tower

C. A dim-witted soldier's psychological degeneration in response to the unfaithfulness of his common-law wife

D. A married couple decides to divorce, then comes to crave the press attention that their altercations attract

E. In poverty-stricken London, a gang leader and his scoundrel father-in-law engage in a fight over Polly Peachum

C. A dim-witted soldier's psychological degeneration in response to the unfaithfulness of his common-law wife

The only American composer whose symphonic jazz has entered the repertory is ___________.

A. Paul Whiteman

B. George Gershwin

C. W. C. Handy

D. Aaron Copland

E. Duke Ellington

B. George Gershwin

The interwar German musical style that promoted objectivity and concreteness over a Romantic perspective was ___________.

A. Gesamtkunstwerk

B. Neue Sachlichkeit

C. Zeitoper

D. Gebrauchsmusik

E. Klangfarbenmelodie

B. Neue Sachlichkeit

American jazz singer Josephine Baker spent most of her career living and performing in ___________.

A. Vienna

B. London

C. Paris

D. Berlin

E. Prague

C. Paris

George Gershwin gained his early compositional success writing for ___________.

A. Tin Pan Alley

B. Parisian night clubs

C. Hollywood

D. Carnegie Hall

E. The Metropolitan Opera

A. Tin Pan Alley

"That Mysterious Rag" is an example of ___________.

A. A jazz instrumental

B. Influence of jazz on European art music composers

C. A blues song

D. A musical

E. A Tin Pan Alley song

E. A Tin Pan Alley song

Sergey Koussevitzky was a Russian ___________ who actively supported twentieth-century contemporary music.

A. Composer

B. Music critic

C. Pianist

D. Jazz performer

E. Conductor

E. Conductor

Wozzeck is best described as ___________.

A. An opera by Schoenberg

B. A zeitoper by Krenek

C. A ballet by Satie

D. An opera by Berg

E. A zeitoper by Hindemith

D. An opera by Berg

Which of the following does not describe Die Dreigroschenoper?

A. An idealistic opera transcending social commentary

B. Incorporated elements of popular music

C. Premiered by an orchestra of cabaret musicians

D. Modeled on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera

E. Was successful at the box office

A. An idealistic opera transcending social commentary

Which of the following works can be described as Surrealistic?

A. The Rite of Spring

B. The Rake's Progress

C. Parade

D. Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

E. Suite for Piano, Op. 25

C. Parade

Which of the following describes the basic plot of Die Dreigroschenoper?

A. A dim-witted soldier's psychological degeneration in response to the unfaithfulness of his common-law wife

B. A married couple decides to divorce, then comes to crave the press attention that their altercations attract

C. A marriage party takes a picture at the base of the Eiffel Tower

D. A young, rich scoundrel abandons love for revelry, leading to his material and moral decline

E. In poverty-stricken London, a gang leader and his scoundrel father-in-law engage in a fight over Polly Peachum

E. In poverty-stricken London, a gang leader and his scoundrel father-in-law engage in a fight over Polly Peachum

___________ was the composer who used polytonality in his Saudades do Brasil.

A. Auric

B. Milhaud

C. Honegger

D. Poulenc

E. Satie

B. Milhaud