Listening to Music Quiz 6

Question 1

2 major events that influenced music in the first half of the 20th century

Answer 1

WWI

WWII

Question 2

question asked of art during this time

Answer 2

can art depict the ugly side of life?

Question 3

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Answer 3

Studied with member of mighty five
Composed for Ballet Russes for 10 years
-Firebird
-Rite of Spring-1913
-Petrushka
flees to France - abandons earlier style for neo-classical style

Question 4

Stravinsky’s style

Answer 4

“additive” - layers
double exposure
-superimpose two or more musical elements on top of each other

Question 5

expressionism

Answer 5

atonal

-composers try to invent new tonal systems

Question 6

The Scream

Answer 6

Edvard Munch

Question 7

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)

Answer 7

12-tone metod
serial composition
-placed all 12 tones in order and made that the center of tonality
sprechsimme - singing mixed with singing where the singer is given tones to move towards but not specific tones for each note

Question 8

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

Answer 8

wrote operas

Question 9

Anton Wevern (1883-1945)

Answer 9

klangfarbenmelodie

Question 10

neoclassicism

Answer 10

Stravinsky
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Dmitri Shostakovick (1906-1975)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1975)

Question 11

Stravinsky

Answer 11

"A Soldier's Tale"
uses forms (rondo) to organize his pieces

Question 12

Prokofiev

Answer 12

“Peter and the Wolf”

Classical Symphony

Question 13

Shostakovich

Answer 13

Soviets did not like it - “not subservient to the Communist State”

Question 14

Hindemith

Answer 14

music is a reaction to the widening gap between the composer and the audience
wanted to write useful music - gebrauchmusik
used his own very distinct tonal system

Question 15

Ludus Finalis

Answer 15

Hindemith’s version of The Well Tempered Clavier using his system

Question 16

experimental and technological music

Answer 16

Pierre

Question 17

two types of the experimental music

Answer 17

composer control
-musique concrete
-electronic music
performer control
-aleatoric

Question 18

musique concrete

Answer 18

record sounds and place them into and make music out of them

beginnings of electronic music

Question 19

electronic music

Answer 19

Milton Babbitt
Edgar Varese
-1958 World’s Fair in Brussels

Question 20

graphic scores

Answer 20

Penderecki

Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima

Question 21

minimalism

Answer 21

write a repeating piece of music while making slight changes until it changes into something completely different
Philip Glass