music appreciation final

  1. 1. The most important impressionist composer was ______.
    Answer: Claude Debussy

    2. Leonard Bernstein was a well-known _______.
    Answer: All answers are correct

    3. Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique ______.
    Answer: All answers are correct

    4. Who composed the score for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone?
    Answer: John Williams

    5. Today's movie scores may be regarded as examples of ______.
    Answer: Incidental music

    6. City Scape is a work for orchestra composed by ______.
    Answer: Jennifer Higdon

    7. Expressionist composers _______.
    Answer: Avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions

    8. The word ___________ is commonly used for a romantic art song with a German text.
    Answer: Lied

    9. Some of Puccini's operas feature exoticism, as in his use of melodic and rhythmic elements derived from Japanese and Chinese music in his operas ______.
    Answer: Madame Butterfly and Turandot

    10. What is the typical instrumentation of a rock group?
    Answer: Two electric guitars, electric bass, percussion, and keyboard instruments

    11. The Erlking, in Schubert's song of that name, is a romantic personification of _______.
    Answer: Death

    12. Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene, popular during the romantic period, is called ______.
    Answer: Program music

    13. Chopin expressed his love of Poland by composing polonaises and ______.
    Answer: Mazurkas

    14. Clara Wieck was _______.
    Answer: All answers are correct

    15. An art song is a musical composition for ______.
    Answer: All answers are correct

    16. What does the acronym EDM stand for?
    Answer: Electronic Dance Music

    17. Charles Ives's music contains elements of _______.
    Answer: All answers are correct

    18. Which rap artist was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in music in 2018?
    Answer: Kendrick Lamar

    19. Which musical is loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
    Answer: West Side Story

    20. Neoclassicism was a reaction against _______.
    Answer: Romanticism and impressionism

    21. Appalachian Spring originated as a _______.
    Answer: Ballet score

    22. Composer John Adams believes that today's composers can draw from ______.
    Answer: A wide variety of styles and periods

    23. Alan Freed is best remembered as the person who did what?
    Answer: Popularized the term rock and roll

    24. What city was the epicenter of jazz from about 1900 to 1917?
    Answer: New Orleans

    25. In chance, or aleatory music, what does the composer do?
    Answer: Chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods

    26. A ____________ is an instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
    Answer: Program symphony

    27. The fourth movement of Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony depicts a ______.
    Answer: March to the scaffold

    28. Minimalist music is characterized by ______.
    Answer: A steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns

    29. A short musical idea associated with a person, object, or thought, used by Richard Wagner in his operas, is called ______.
    Answer: Leitmotif

    30. Liszt created the ______________, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
    Answer: Symphonic poem

    31. How has rock been defined?
    Answer: A vocal music with a hard, driving beat, often featuring electric guitar accompaniment and heavily amplified sound

    32. Debussy's music tends to ______.
    Answer: Sound free and almost improvisational

    33. The Habañera and the Toreador Song are two famous arias from which opera?
    Answer: Carmen

    34. To what does ostinato refer?
    Answer: A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section

    35. In music, the early twentieth century was a time of ______.
    Answer: Revolt and change

    36. A study piece, designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties, is known as ______.
    Answer: An étude

    37. The Fantastic Symphony reflects Berlioz's ______.
    Answer: Love for the actress Harriet Smithson

    38. By the age of thirteen, Mendelssohn had written ____________ of astounding quality.
    Answer: All answers are correct

    39. The composer who had an overwhelming influence on the young Wagner was ______.
    Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    40. Who was the most famous blues singer of the 1920s, known as the "empress of the blues?"
    Answer: Bessie Smith

    41. The composer whose career was a model for many romantic composers was ______.
    Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven

    42. A slow, lyrical, intimate composition for piano, associated with evening and nighttime, is the ______.
    Answer: Nocturne

    43. ________ began as a kind of rhythmically accented poetic recitation accompanied by a disk jockey who manipulated recordings on two turntables to create a collage of rhythmic effects.
    Answer: Rap

    44. The piano's relentless rhythm in Erlkönig (The Erlking) unifies the episodes of the song and suggests the ______.
    Answer: Galloping horse

    45. Georges Bizet composed _________, one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the world.
    Answer: Carmen

    46. The citizen's sense of national identity and patriotic feelings were intensified by ______.
    Answer: All answers are correct

    47. A ________________ is a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
    Answer: Symphonic poem

    48. In electronic music, there is no need for ______.
    Answer: Performers

    49. What is program music?
    Answer: Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene

    50. What was the first big rock and roll hit song?
    Answer: Rock Around the Clock