20th Century

Question 1

What is a poly chord?

Answer 1

Two or more chords put together

Question 2

What are tone clusters?

Answer 2

Tones a half step apart

Question 3

What is atonality?

Answer 3

There is no tone related to the key

Question 4

What are some advancements in this time period?

Answer 4

Aristocrats and citizens are equal, physiology is real, moving pictures, audio recording devices, no more theory, metaphorical poets, and no grammar or syntax

Question 5

What is vernacular music?

Answer 5

Everyday popular music

Question 6

What was Sophie Tucker?

Answer 6

That was her “naughty name”, she was a performer

Question 7

What was W.C Handy?

Answer 7

Who knows

Question 8

What is Tin Pan Alley?

Answer 8

Multiple publishing companies closer together filled with pianos.

Question 9

What is a plugger?

Answer 9

The people who work in Tin Pan Alley who transcribed things into piano music

Question 10

What was Vaulderville?

Answer 10

A British variety show

Question 11

What was Keith Albee Circuit?

Answer 11

A Circuit that ripped off performers and had them travel around on the East Coast

Question 12

What is an Orpheeum?

Answer 12

The same as Keith Albee circuit, just west of the Mississippi

Question 13

What is Theatre Owners?

Answer 13

The same as the Keith Albee Circuit and Orpheum, just for black people

Question 14

What is symbolism?

Answer 14

The use of words to create emotion and pictures.

Question 15

What is French Symbolism?

Answer 15

Sound and color, happier feelings, synesthetic.

Question 16

What is Decadent Symbolism?

Answer 16

German, much more macabre, death horror, sexuality, cults, etc.

Question 17

What sprechstimme?

Answer 17

Half speech half sung

Question 18

Who was Cesar Frank?

Answer 18

An avant guard music conservatory guy.

Question 19

What are some characteristics of the 20th century?

Answer 19

Tone color, poly chords, harmonies, atonality, vernacular music, tone clusters, and polyrhythms

Question 20

What was the musical war going on?

Answer 20

Avant guard vs. traditionalists

Question 21

What does klangfadbenmelodie mean?

Answer 21

Sound color melody

Question 22

Name the isms

Answer 22

Minimalism, futurism, expressionism, neoclassicism, historicism, post modernism, and primitivism.

Question 23

What is the twelve tone system?

Answer 23

A clock face that uses chance. Each tone is assigned a number and each tone is only used once, designed by Arnold Shoenburg

Question 24

What is theosophy?

Answer 24

A religion based on the teachings of Helena Perovina Blacatsky, all religions have truth and can lead towards perfection and consciousness. Believes in both karma and reincarnation, and thinks all matter is alive and evolving.

Question 25

What did George Antheil do?

Answer 25

He wrote a piece for 16 played pianos, then rewrote it for percussion.

Question 26

How many songs were in Arnold Shoenburgs song cycle?

Answer 26

3 sets of 7 songs

Question 27

What ballet caused riots at the Paris premier?

Answer 27

Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring

Question 28

Who had major synesthesia?

Answer 28

Alexander Scriabbin

Question 29

Who was a musicologist?

Answer 29

Webern

Question 30

Who was associated with Impressionism but identified as a symbolist?

Answer 30

Debussy