Listening and score quiz

Question 1

Impressionism

Answer 1

Symphonic poem: Claude Debussy, Trois Nocturnes (“Nuages”)

Question 2

Primitivism

Answer 2

Ballet: Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring, “Dance of the Adolescents”

Question 3

Expressionism

Answer 3

Lied (song cycle): Arnold Schoenberg, pierrot lunaire, Op.21, No.8 “Nacht,” and No.13 “Enthauptung”

Question 4

Modernism

Answer 4

1. Orchestral Work: Anton Webern Symphonie, Op. 21, mvt. I (Ruhig schreitend)
2. Art song: Charles Ives, “General William Booth Enters into Heaven”

Question 5

Neo-Classicism

Answer 5

1. Orchestral Work: Bela Bartok, Music for Strings, percussion, and Celesta, mvt. III
2. Mallet: Aaron Coplad, Appalachian Spring, Variations on “Tis a Gift to Be simple”

Question 6

The Avant-garde

Answer 6

1. Piano piece: Henry Cowell, “The Banshee”

2. String quartet” Ruth Crawford Seeger, String Quartet 1931, mvt. IV (Allegro possible)