MUL Module 6 Exam

Which is NOT true about Maurice Ravel?

A. Teacher and composer

B. Spent most of his life in Paris

C. Wrote Spanish Rhapsody (orchestra, 1907; The Spanish Hour (opera 1911); Bolero (modern-style ballet, 1928)

D. Originally born in Spain

E. Successfully toured United States (1928)

D

Which of these do NOT represent exoticism in music?

A. Folk rhythm

B. Non-western musical instruments

C. Free sections where the subject is not heard in its entirety (often uses sequences to modulate)

D. Foreign subject, such as music of Spain, for a program

E. The Far East was particularly intriguing

C

Which of these is NOT an attribute in Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun?

A. No repeating rhythms or clear-cut meters

B. Written to precede a stage reading of the poem The Afternoon of a Faun by Stephane Mallarme

C. Illustrates dream-like mood, vague and elusive

D. Exploits distinctive orchestral colors, especially woodwinds, more than melody

E. Repetitive, hypnotic music, moving inexorably towards a frenzied climax

E

Which of the following is NOT true about Claude Debussy?

A. Works include Bolero and Gymnopedies

B. Majority of his career spent in Paris

C. Studied piano, composition, and music theory at the Paris Conservatory

D. Travelled to Italy, Russia, and Vienna thanks to his patron Nadezhda von Meck

E. Won the Prix de Rome in 1884

A

Which of the following is NOT representative of Impressionism in Music?

A. Rhythm: Free, flexible rhythms with irregular accents

B. Melody: Motives rather than long themes; use of whole-time, pentatonic, and chromatic scales to obscure tonic

C. Color: Soloistic writing; emphasis on woodwinds and brass

D. Form: Incorporated forms from the Renaissance and the Baroque

E. Texture: Varies from thin and airy to heavy and dense; primarily homophonic

F. Harmony: Static harmony instead of strong cadences; use of 7th and 9th chords; parallel motion

D

Which of these is NOT an attribute in Debussy’s Preludes?

A. Ostinato: A motif that recurs, typically in the same voice

B. Whole-Tone Scale: A scale in which each note is separated by a whole tone interval

C. Chromaticism: representative of feathers or leaves lightly falling

D. Glissando: Gliding between two pitches

E. Parallel Motion: Motion in the same direction, maintaining the same intervals

C

Which of these attributes are NOT found in “Sails” from Debussy’s Preludes?

A. Use of the whole-tone scale and the pentatonic scale

B. Hazy, languid atmosphere

C. Use of ostinato

D. Depiction of flying in the sky

E. Fluid descent in mostly parallel motion

D

Which of these are NOT representative of Impressionism in Visual Art?

A. Centered around art created in Brussels

B. Importance of light

C. Against representational art; experience of a moment rather than exact representation

D. Result of anti-German sentiments

E. Spots of color and short brush strokes create movement and fluidity

A

What movement has the stylistic quality of Long, expressive melodies?

romanticism

What movement has the stylistic quality of Color “for its own sake"?

Impressionism

What movement has the stylistic quality of “Anti-climactic” cadences?

Impressionism

What movement has the stylistic quality of Clear rhythms/meters?

Romanticism

What movement has the stylistic quality of Strong climaxes/cadences?

Romanticism

What movement has the stylistic quality of Static, undulating harmony?

Impressionism

What movement has the stylistic quality of Color reinforces themes?

Romanticism

What movement has the stylistic quality of Obcure beat/meter?

Impressionism

What movement has the stylistic quality of Purposeful chord progressions?

Romanticism

What movement has the stylistic quality of Short motives?

Impressionism

Which of these aesthetics is NOT true for modernism?

A. Complete lack of organization

B. Reaction to values of Romanticism

C. Disjunction, anxiety, hysteria

D. Discard the idea that art should be beautiful

E. Radical experimentation, shock value

A

Which of the following is NOT true about Modernism?

A. Partially because of the upheaval of the Franco-Prussian War and WW I

B. Shock began to replace beauty as the defining component of musical art

C. Turning away from the predominantly idealistic, sentimental aesthetics of Romanticism

D. The movement expanded the popularity of music for the concert hall than ever before

E. Developments in the arts mirrored the unsettled times

D

Which of these is NOT true about Le Sacre du printemps?

A. Russian folk elements

B. The greatest masterpieces of modern music

C. Continuation of the sonata form with modern elements

D. Primitivism (attempts to capture the unadorned lines, raw energy, and elemental truth of non-Western art and apply it in a Modernist context)

E. A riot broke out because of the shocking music and choreography

C

Which of these is NOT representative of harmony in modernism?

A. Polytonality

B. Polychords

C. Tone clusters

D. Importance of triads

E. Atonality

D

Which of these is NOT true about Igor Stravinsky?

A. Personified the cultural pluralism and stylistic diversity of cutting-edge art music

B. Composed in many genres and styles

C. Preference for percussive sounds and winds

D. Simple, mininalist harmonies

E. Driving rhythms

F. A citizen of Russia, France, and later the United States

D

Which of these attributes is NOT true for the 12-tone compositional approach?

A. No note repetition until the entire row is played, which is consistent throughout the entire composition

B. It was a way to give structure to atonal music

C. The compositional method was crated by Schoenberg

D. A type of serial music (music in which elements, such as pitch, timbre, or dynamics, come in a fixed series)

E. Audiences embraced the innovative new sound

E

Which of these compositional devices were NOT featured in Le Sacre du printemps?

A. Explosive syncopations

B. Dissonant polychords

C. Strong sense of metrical regularity

D. Irregular accents

E. Percussive orchestra

F. Ostinatos with fast tempos give the music an incessant, driving quality

C

Which of these is NOT true about Arnold Schoenberg?

A. Composer and theorist of the Second Viennese School, and teacher of both Berg and Webern

B. Expanded the impressionist approach started by Debussy

C. His melodies were highly angular, disjunct

D. His harmonies were exceedingly dissonant

E. Created atonal music (without a tonal center)

B

Which of these is NOT representative of melody in modernism?

A. More chromaticism

B. Avoids simple intervals for more dissonant ones

C. Fragmented and angular

D. Conjunct movement

E. Octave displacement

D

Which of these aesthetics is NOT true for modernism?

A. Complete lack of organization

B. Reaction to values of Romanticism

C. Disjunction, anxiety, hysteria

D. Discard the idea that art should be beautiful

E. Radical experimentation, shock value

A

Which of the following is NOT true about Modernism?

A. Partially because of the upheaval of the Franco-Prussian War and WWI

B. Shock began to replace beauty as the defining component of musical art

C. Turning away from the predominantly idealistic, sentimental aesthetics of Romanticism

D. The movement expanded the popularity of music for the concert hall than ever before

E. Developments in the arts mirrored the unsettled times

D

Which of these is NOT true about Le Sacre du printemps?

A. Russian folk elements

B. The greatest masterpieces of modern music

C. Continuation of the sonata form with modern elements

D. Primitivism (attempts to capture the unadorned lines, raw energy, and elemental truth of non-Western art and apply it in a Modernist context

E. A riot broke out because of the shocking music and choreography

C

Which of these is NOT representative of harmony in modernism?

A. Polytonality

B. Polychords

C. Tone clusters

D. Importance of triads

E. Atonality

D

Which of these is NOT true about Igor Stravinsky?

A. Personified the cultural pluralism and stylistic diversity of cutting-edge art music

B. Composed in many genres and styles

C. Preference for percussive sounds and winds

D. Simple, minimalist harmonies

E. Driving rhythms

F. A citizen of Russia, France, and later the United States

D

Which of these attributes is NOT true for the 12-tone compositional approach?

A. No note repetition until the entire row is played, which is consistent throughout the entire composition

B. It was a way to give structure to atonal music

C. The compositional method was crated by Schoenberg

D. A type of serial music (music in which elements, such as pitch, timbre, or dynamics, come in a fixed series)

E. Audiences embraced the innovative new sound

E

Which of these compositional devices were NOT featured in Le Sacre du printemps?

A. Explosive syncopations

B. Dissonant polychords

C. Strong sense of metrical regularity

D. Irregular accents

E. Percussive orchestra

F. Ostinatos with fast tempos give the music an incessant, driving quality

C

Which of these is NOT true about Arnold Schoenberg?

A. Composer and theorist of the Second Viennese School, and teacher of both Berg and Webern

B. Expanded the impressionist approach started by Debussy

C. His melodies were highly angular, disjunct

D. His harmonies were exceedingly dissonant

E. Created atonal music (without a tonal center)

B

Which of these is NOT representative of melody in modernism?

A. More chromaticism

B. Avoids simple intervals for more dissonant ones

C. Fragmented and angular

D. Conjunct movement

E. Octave displacement

D

Which of the following is NOT representative of Minimalism?

A. Incessant repetition of small motives

B. A style of postmodern music that takes a very small amount of music material and repeats it over and over to form a composition

C. Reaction against complexity, expressive intensity

D. Extensive development

E. Steady tempo creates a hypnotic effect

F. Style embraced by Philip Glass, John Adams, Steve Reich

DW

Which of the following is NOT representative of postmodernism?

A. An all-inclusive, “anything goes” trend in music

B. Blurring of “high” and “low” art—just art culture

C. Globalization is largely ignored

D. Abandon the idea that history is progress

E. Not necessary to separate classical from popular music

C

Which of these are NOT true about Edgard Varese?

A. Born in France but immigrated to the US in 1915 in search of a less traditional artistic environment

B. He wrote Ionization, written for percussion ensemble, had elements of melody and harmony have been removed

C. Consciously avoided electronic music after the age of 19

D. An extreme Modernist reaching forward to the Postmodernist age

E. Ameriques required a battery of new percussion instruments, including sirens and sleigh bells

C

Which of these is NOT true about John Adams?

A. He wrote the minimalist opera Nixon in China and Doctor Atomic

B. Adams is the leading proponent of chance music

C. He writes with the pressure of classical versus popular mediums

D. Adams is best termed a post-Minimalist

E. Adams received the Pulitzer Prize for On the Transmigration of Souls in 2003

B

Which of these is NOT true about John Cage?

A. Cage created the prepared piano, were objects are inserted into and on the strings

B. ‘33” consists of three movements of silence

C. Cage’s music relies on a predictable sequence of musical events, or sounds

D. Cage is the leading proponent of chance music

E. 4’33” heightens awareness of environmental sounds

C

Which of these items in the development of electronic music is NOT true?

A. A DJ with one or more turntables manipulates the phonograph needles, scratching of the vinyl of the record while other prerecorded sounds loop continually when “Scratching”

B. Thomas Edison patented the phonograph in 1877

C. Sampling is the extraction of a small portion of prerecorded music and then mechanically repeated it over and over

D. Synthesizers were first used in the 1940s and 1950s

E. The magnetic tape recorder was invented in 1921

E

What is NOT true about John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine?

A. Adams was inspired by this idea: “You know how it is when someone asks you to ride in a terrific sports car, and then you wish you hadn’t?”

B. Composed of short motives that overlap

C. The main “instrument” is a taped recording of a jet engine “launching”

D. Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony

E. Scored for full orchestra and 2 electronic keyboard synthesizers

C

Which of these is NOT is true about Varese’s Poeme electronique?

A. Uses synthesized sounds
B. Created to provide music for a multimedia exhibit inside the Philips Radio Corporation Premiered for the pavilion of the World’s Fair

C. Uses DJ techniques such as sampling and scratching

D. All the elements are altered or distorted in some imaginative way

E. Uses musique concrete (sounds recorded on magnetic tape), including taped sounds of a siren, a train, an organ, church bells, and a human voice

C

Which of these is NOT true about Caroline Shaw?

A. A Passacaglia is a dance of the early Baroque era, and the focus of the fourth movement in Partita for 8 Voices

B. Shaw is the singer/composer for “Roomful of Teeth,” which was Grammy-winning a cappella ensemble

C. In addition to being a freelane vocalist, she also plays the cello

D. Partita for 8 Voices is an exploration of new sounds, that could be a metaphor on modern urban life

E. A partita suite is a collection of dances used by Shaw

C

What is NOT true about Leonard Bernstein?

A. Conductor of the New York Philharmonic for nearly half a century

B. Virtuoso pianist

C. Best known for his choral works

D. Wrote symphonies, ballets, a film score, four musicals

E. Educator and advocate for the arts

C

What is NOT true about Bebop?

A. Improvisation instead of composition

B. Relied on musical notation

C. Complex, hard-driving jazz

D. “Jammed” in small, elite groups (“chamber music” of jazz)

E. Bebop ensemble typically consists of a quintet of trumpet, saxophone, piano, double bass, and drums

B

What is NOT true about Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story?

A. The style included the mix of old and new; Standard Broadway numbers infused with Modernist music

B. It was a musical sensation on Broadway and as a movie

C. The story is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet

D. The main characters, Tony and Maria, who met and fell in love at a dance earlier in the evening, sing a duet on the fire escape outside her apartment

E. Was the first musical to embrace the twelve-tone compositional style

E

What is NOT true about John Coltrane?

A. One of the most accomplished trumpter/vocalists of the 1950s

B. Coltrane improvised on Rodgers’s “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music, the

C. Used Theme and variations form like classical composers

D. He was a heroin addict, and died way to young

E. He was “High priest” of modal jazz

A

What is NOT true about The Broadway Musical?

A. The “Volume” is a libretto containing the lyrics

B. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein wrote in the Golden Era for American musical theatre, with Oklahoma (1943), Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), The Sound of Music (1959)

C. It emerged shortly after 1900

D. The Broadway musical was also known as the “musical comedy”

E. Jerome Kern composed Showboat featured “Ol’ Man River,” which had elements of blues, jazz, and the Negro spiritual

A

Which of these is NOT true about Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd?

A. The musical featured technically demanded vocal music

B. The musical is a four-hour long comedy with extensive spoken dialogue

C. It featured dissonant, modern music

D. Features a monumental, operatic score

E. Sweeney Todd was the murderous barber of London’s Fleet Street

B

Which of these is NOT true about Charlie “Bird” Parker?

A. Played “My Melancholy Baby,” a cover song of the era

B. He was a tragic figure: a drug addicted, alcoholic, antisocial man whose skills as an improviser and performer were at the highest level

C. Widely considered the most gifted bebop artist

D. Played “standards” (a tune that inspires others to record their own interpretations of it)

E. As he kicked his addictions, he became one of the most respected members of the jazz community

E

Which of the following was NOT written by Andrew Lloyd Webber?

A. Jesus Christ Superstar

B. Phantom of the Opera

C. Sweeny Todd

D. Cats

E. Evita

C

Which of the following is NOT true about Stephen Soundheim?

A. He combined serious, complex musical techniques with witty, poetic lyrics

B. He gained fame as the composer for Phantom of the Opera

C. He wrote in a variety of styles: Gershwin-inspired jazz harmonies, Stravinsky-like dissonance, Viennese waltzes, standard Broadway fare

D. He raised the quality of American musical theatre

E. Private student of both Broadway lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II and twelve-tone composer Milton Babbitt

B

What jazz style matches the element of Reaction to bebop, a high-pitched, hard driving style?

Cool jazz

What jazz style matches the element of Saxophonist Kenny G?

Smooth jazz

What jazz style matches the element of More lyrical, more mellow, slower, quieter?

Cool jazz

What jazz style matches the element of Miles Davis released two albums that incorporated rock elements?

Jazz fusion

What jazz style matches the element of Jazz combo plus orchestral instruments, such as Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool

Cool jazz

What jazz style matches the element of Electric bass and strong drumming with a backbeat?

Jazz fusion

What jazz style matches the element of Response to commercial success of rock music?

Jazz fusion

Director Stanley Kubrik—2001: A Space Odyssy (1968) included music from all of these composers EXCEPT
A. Johann Strauss

B. Aram Khatchaturian

C. Richard Strauss

D. Gyorgi Ligeti

E. Max Steiner

E

What term describes a "small bit of material repeated extensively, but constantly varied and expanded timbrally and rhythmically?"

A. Modern Exoticism

B. Classical Minimalism

C. Romantic Classicism

D. Baroque Impressionism

E. Romantic Minimalism

E

What is characteristic of what is NOT called "classical" film music?

A. A Thematic cue is similar to a leitmotif

B. The composers active from 1920-1940 were careful to avoid any type of brass or woodwind use to avoid distracting the audiences

C. Cues are music written for sections in films when people were not speaking

D. The Classic Hollywood score was orchestral

E. Both sight and sound encoded together in filmstrip

B

Which of these is NOT a characteristic of film music?

A. Music has been a part of the film expeience since the first moving pictures in 1897

B. Early 1910s—storefront “nickelodeon” theaters sprung up across America

C. Music’s power can greatly affect our emotions more than images do

D. Early film music was most often accompaniment improvised by a pianist, often with a percussionist for sound effects

E. s as key to a film as cinematography, acting, or editing

E

What is the compositional style of the movie The Big Combo (1955)?

Bebop jazz

What is the compositional style of the movie The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)?

Bebop jazz

What is the compositional style of the movie Sweet Smell of Success (1957)?

Bebop jazz

What is the compositional style of the movie Touch of Evil (1958)?

Bebop jazz

What is the compositional style of the movie Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)?

Lightened and Latinized jazz

What is the compositional style of the movie The Pink Panther (1963)?

Lightened and Latinized jazz

What is the compositional style of the movie Day the Earth Stood Still (1955)?

Electronic instruments, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins

What is the compositional style of the movie Forbidden Planet (1956)?

Electronic instruments, oscillators, and eerie-sounding theremins

What is the compositional style of the movie Spaghetti westerns?

Electric guitar riffs, bells, ocarinas, human cries, and wordless choirs

What is the compositional style of the movie The Good, the Band and the Ugly (1966)?

Electric guitar

What is the compositional style of the movie American Graffiti (1973)?

Rock and Roll

What is the compositional style of the movie The Graduate (1967)?

Rock and Roll

What is the compositional style of the movie Easy Rider (1969)?

Rock and Roll

What is the compositional style of the movie Blue Hawaii (1961)?

Rock and Roll

What is the compositional style of the movie G.I. Blues (1960)?

Rock and Roll

What is the compositional style of the movie Jailhouse Rock (1957)?

Rock and Roll

What is the compositional style of the movie Blackboard Jungle (1955)?

Rock and Roll

What is the compositional style of the movie Rock Around the Clock (1956)?

Rock and Roll

What is the compositional style of the movie Vertigo (1958)?

Atonal music

What is the compositional style of the video game Final Fantasy series (1987-2010)?

Full orchestral thematic scores

What is the compositional style of the video game Super Mario Brothers?

Looped underscoring

What is the compositional style of the video game Moonwalker, 1990?

Incorporation of popular music

What is the compositional style of the video game The Legend of Zelda (1989)?

Full orchestral thematic scores

What is the compositional style of the video game Tetris?

Looped underscoring

What is the compositional style of the video game Grand Theft Auto, 1990?

Looped underscoring

What is the time period of the sound technology development of Edison patented the phonograph?

1877

What is the time period of the sound technology development of Emile Berliner patented a disc-playing gramophone?

1920s and 1930s

What is the time period of the sound technology development of Inexpensive radios democratized music?

1950s

What is the time period of the sound technology development of Digital technology (CDs, MP3s and M4As)?

1980s and 1990s

What is the time period of the sound technology development of Digital audio workstation (DAW)?

1990s and 2000s

What is the compositional style of the TV show Peter Gunn (1958-1961)?

Jazz-influenced

What is the compositional style of the TV show The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)?

Electronic instrumentation

What is the compositional style of the TV show My Favorite Martian (1963-1966)?

Jazz-influenced

What is the compositional style of the TV show Lost in Space (1965-1968)?

Electronic instrumentation

What is the compositional style of the TV show Star Trek (1966-1969)?

Electronic instrumentation