music appreciation final

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