exam review #5

Question 1

start of 20th century

Answer 1

1900

Question 2

expressionism

Answer 2

fascination with the unconscious and inner feelings

Question 3

atonality

Answer 3

no key center could be heard (12 tone system)

Question 4

primitivism

Answer 4

a movement in painting at the beginning of the 20th century

Question 5

minimalistic/minimalism

Answer 5

emphasizes repetition, shifting rhythmic patterns, and compositio

Question 6

sprechstimme

Answer 6

speech song

Question 7

prepared piano

Answer 7

putting different objects into string of piano to alter sound

Question 8

glissando

Answer 8

rapid slide up or down a scale

Question 9

cluster chord

Answer 9

a chord made up of tones only half a step or a whole step apart

Question 10

twelve tone

Answer 10

organizing all 12 notes into a system

Question 11

modernism

Answer 11

movement of self conscious innovation

Question 12

neoclassicism

Answer 12

style that based new compositions upon devices and forms of the classical and baroque

Question 13

avant garde

Answer 13

music at the forefront of experimentation and innovation

Question 14

antiphony

Answer 14

placing members of an ensemble around the room rather than on state

Question 15

cages sonatas and interludes how many?

Answer 15

20

Question 16

what was stills symphony inspired from

Answer 16

created blues and from orchestras

Question 17

was the 20th century peaceful or war ridden

Answer 17

war ridden

Question 18

What composer used symbolism? Primitivism? Neo-classicism? Expressionism

Answer 18

Debussy

Question 19

characteristics of Neo classicism

Answer 19

balance clarity and objectivity

Question 20

characteristics of expressionism

Answer 20

shock the audience, communicate tension and anguish

Question 21

american composers

Answer 21

jazz was nationalist music

Question 22

number of parts for rite of spring

Answer 22

2 parts

Question 23

Composers who studied with Schoenberg

Answer 23

John cage

Question 24

Appalachian Spring
* Recognizable theme
* What genre

Answer 24

he lives of a young pioneer husband and his bride beginning a life together on the American frontier
genre musical composition

Question 25

Jazz music
* Nationalism or Exoticism

Answer 25

For American composers, jazz was nationalist music
For European composers, jazz was exoticism

Question 26

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
* What genre?

Answer 26

musical impressionism

Question 27

what genre is stravinsky known for

Answer 27

Neo classical

Question 28

John Cage
* Type of music?
* 4’33

Answer 28

chance music

sitting for 4 mins 33 sec without playing a note

Question 29

new inventions of the time period

Answer 29

computers, internet, artificial textiles, chemicals