Final Vocab

Question 1

Carmen

Answer 1

Bizet’s opera whose gypsy protagonist seduces and is killed by Don Jose

Question 2

Selective Orchestration

Answer 2

Not using a full orchestra, but selecting a few instruments for a particular piece

Question 3

Symbolist poetry

Answer 3

• strives for the impression of feelings

- uses symbols in the poetry

Question 4

“Chords with no names”

Answer 4

Debussy’s expression for his unorthodox chord structures

Question 5

Primitivism

Answer 5

European and Russian movement in the 20th century to recover/evoke primal and “authentically” national/ethnic resources in music

Question 6

Ballet Russes

Answer 6

Russian Ballet

Founded and directed by Sergei Dhiagalev

performed debut of “The Rite of Spring”

Question 7

Theatre des Champs-Elysees

Answer 7

Parisian theater that was the sit of the premier of “The Rite of Spring”

Question 8

Polychord

Answer 8

two traditional but disassociated chords

only used in “The Rite of Spring”

Question 9

Polyrhythmic Texture

Answer 9

predominate texture in the rite of spring

Many rhythms piled on top of one another and conveyed by layer of ostinati

Question 10

Tonality

Answer 10

Being in a key