EXAM 3 Flashcards
EXAM 3
Alban Berg and Anton Weber were students of
Arnold Schoenberg
The Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to
a near riot
Which of the following does NOT characterize the musical language of expression?
extended passages of consonance
Music that rejects the framework of key is described as
atonal
Which Viennese composer invented the twelve-tone method after writing in both post-Romantic and atonal styles?
Schoenberg
Which early twentieth-century style wealth with the realm of the psyche?
Expressionism
Which painter associated with Expressionism influence Schoenberg?
Munch
Which of the following Stravinsky works is from his primitivist period?
The Rite of Spring
Which of the following is NOT a Stravinsky ballet?
Daphnis and Chloé
Which of the following was the Russian-born composer who wrote post-Impressionist, primitivist, Neoclassical and twelve-tone styles?
Stravinsky
Copland’s Appalachian Spring quotes the early American tune:
Simple Gifts
Copland’s Billy the Kids is a
ballet
During the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk developed
bebop
George Gershwin’s folk opera ______ was far ahead of its time
Porgy and Bess
In his early years, William Grand Still was associated with which artistic movement
the Harlem Renaissance
In which musical style did Copland compose
twelve-tone, jazz, neoclassical
John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes is a work for
prepared piano
John Williams was the music director and principal conductor of the
Boston Pops
Leonard Bernstein was the first American-born conductor to be appointed director of the
New York Philharmonics
Prokofiev and Shostakovich were prominent composers from
the Soviet Union
Nadia Boulanger was an extraordinarily gifted
teacher
One composer in Paris who explored post-Impressionist trends was
Ravel
The introduction to Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring begins with a melody played on the
bassoon
The comparative study of musics of the world is called
ethnomusicology
The early twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was
neo-Classicism
The first great American composer of the twentieth century was
Charles Ives
The principal exponent of cool jazz was the trumpeter
Miles Davis
West Side Story is a modern-day musical retelling of Shakespeare’s
Romeo and Juliet
What kind of jazz is Duke Ellington known for?
big band
What was the trademark of bebop?
a two-note phrase
Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?
New Orleans
Which Hungarian composer combined native folk music characteristics with main currents of European music?
Bartók
Which Russian figure played a crucial role in the development of the twentieth-century ballet?
Serge Diaghilev
Which mass-media forum was launched in 1981?
MTV
Which of the following composers invented the prepared piano?
John Cage
Which of the following composers would NOT have been emulated during the neoclassical era
Wagner
Which of the following did NOT characterize the career of George Gershwin?
He lived a long life and was a mentor to other young composers
Which of the following does NOT characterize Ive’s Country Band March?
standard march form
Which of the following does not characterize John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes?
lyrical melodies
Which of the following is NOT a balled by Copland?
Our Town
Which of the following music genres developed around the turn of the twentieth century and incorporates elements of African music and Western popular and art music?
jazz
Which of the following musical was NOT a collaboration by Rodgers and Hammerstein
The Phantom of the Opera
Which of the following was NOT composed by Leonard Bernstein
An American in Paris
Which of the following works by John Cage has no musical content and can be performed by anyone any instrument
4’33
Which of the following wrote the lyrics for West Side Story?
Stephen Sondheim
Which work did Gershwin compose in France?
An American in Paris
With which contemporary movement is the composer John Cage linked?
chance music
Bartok’s use of rhythm was
particularly innovative
Berg’s opera Wozzeck centers on
a soldiers obsession with unhappy love
Berg’s opera Wozzeck is best described as an example
Expressionism
Bernstein rose to prominence as
a conductor
a pianist
a composer
Bernstein’s West Side Story updates the feud of the Capulets and the Montagues to a feud between
The Jets and the Sharks
In the twelve-tone method, the arrangement of the twelve tones is called a
tone row
Irving Berlin’s first hit song was
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Louis Armstrong was also known as
Satchmo
Louis Armstrong’s instrument-like approach to singing is called
scat-singing
Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as
Sprechstimme
The third movement of William Grand Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano can best be described as
bluesy
The twelve-tone method is also known as
serialism
Which composer was a disciple of Schoenberg and is best known as his operas Wozzeck and Lulu?
Berg
Which early twentieth-century songwriter composed the wartime hit Over There
George M. Cohan
Who was a prominent student of Nadia Boulanger?
Copland
The leading composer of Italian opera in the late-Romantic era was:
Puccini
Which of the following compositions is LEAST likely to be an example of program music?
String Quartet in B-flat Major
The late-Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism, called:
verismo.
In Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, what is the idée fixe?
the basic theme of the symphony, heard in every movement
The first movement of a symphony is usually in ________ form.
sonata-allegro
Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique is an example of a:
program symphony
Which of the following composed The Barber of Seville and William Tell?
Rossini
Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born in:
New Orleans
The German term for the art song is:
Lied
