Exam 3 week 1

Question 1

who had a hands off policy when it came to music in world war 2 soviet union

Answer 1

Anatoly Lunacharsky

Question 2

who had a new atitude towards the arts and minimized jazz and modernism

Answer 2

Joseph Stalin

Question 3

year of soviet realism

Answer 3

1933

Question 4

What was the party resolution

Answer 4

nationalizing all artistic, literary and musical groups (Soviet Composer’s Union)

Question 5

What is Socialist Realism in Music?

Answer 5

Proletarian, typical, realistic, and partisan

Question 6

What was so daring about Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk 1934

Answer 6

It depicted officials and police as villains, squalid expressionism, vice, rape, and decadence

Question 7

What are the two possible interpretations of shostakovich’s symphony number 5

Answer 7

1. The soviet state rescues the people from capitalist oppression
2. the joy of overthrowing Soviet oppression (sonata form) No transition in exposition

Question 8

Which composer primarily performed abroad during the beginning of the 1920s but moved back going from modern music to more simplistic styles

Answer 8

Sergei Prokofiev

Question 9

What are the two possible interpretations of music in the Soviet Union

Answer 9

genuinely celebrates the Soviet Union (pro-regime) or celebrates the Soviet Union under duress (anti-regime)

Question 10

Who was absent from Russia at the beginning of the Bolshevik Revolution

Answer 10

Stravinsky and Sergei

Question 11

ASM verses RAPM

Answer 11

Association for Contemporary Musicians (progressive, modernist, internationalist) Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (political propagandistic)

Question 12

Score with much writing, begins moderato instrumentation, tempo instructions, arrows, tied eighth notes, many rests

Answer 12

Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Op. 47 1937. This piece was written with two possible interpretation, anti-regime or pro regime. It has no transition in the exposition and uses sonata form.

Question 13

Begins alleghetto, more fortes

Answer 13

movement 2

Question 14

Densely scored, more woodwinds, many quarter notes and rests, begins with unison between first five voices, 8 solists, huge orchestra

Answer 14

Carl Orff “Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi” from Carmina Burana (1935-36) This piece was neo-medieval, stravinsky model,

Question 15

Ser langsam, begins in four four, three middle voices in unison

Answer 15

Paul Hindemith Symphony Mathis der Maler movement 2 (1933-34) withdraw into art, clear form, coninuous flow

Question 16

Why did music in the Weimar Culture thrive

Answer 16

Culture and free expression thrived because there was no point in saving money for tomorrow

Question 17

First president of the Reichsmusikkammer

Answer 17

Richard Strauss

Question 18

What was the Reichmusikammer tasks…

Answer 18

Lionize composers as a part of German culture, hijack extant music, create musico-political propaganda, suppress “degenerate” music

Question 19

Frequently Performed composers in the thrid Reich

Answer 19

Joseph Haydn, W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Anton Bruckner, Richard Wagner

Question 20

What kind of music and artists were banned in Nazi Germany

Answer 20

Gershwin, anything jazz, many jewish composers such as Stravinsky

Question 21

Composers who immigrated

Answer 21

Schoenberg, Weill

Question 22

stayed

Answer 22

Strauss, Schwarzkopf

Question 23

Who wrote music about the peasant’s rebellion of Matthias Grunewald

Answer 23

Paul Hindemith

Question 24

Why was Mathias written?

Answer 24

Hindemith wanted to withdraw into contemplative art and the need for all art to withdraw from political manipulation

Question 25

Which composer was partially jewish and this was ignored

Answer 25

Carl Orff

Question 26

What was the original writing of Carmina burana

Answer 26

13th century German Manuscript with secular poems by students

Question 27

Two views of Hindemith and Orff

Answer 27

Hindemith could be a hero or Nazi wannabe turned exile, Orff could be a complicit sympathizer or an opportunist

Question 28

Who’s music was eventually banned in Nazi Germany

Answer 28

Paul Hindemith