Modern Era

Question 1

Atonality

Answer 1

Total absence of any tonal centre (unresolved dissonances)

Question 2

Polyrhythm

Answer 2

Many rhythms

Question 3

Polytonality

Answer 3

Simultaneous use of 2+ tonal centres

Question 4

Modal scales

Answer 4

Scales where the pattern of whole steps and half steps is different from conventional +/- scales

Question 5

Choreography

Answer 5

Designing dance steps in ballet

Question 6

Stravinsky’s birthplace

Answer 6

Russia

Question 7

Stravinsky’s birth and death years

Answer 7

1882 - 1971

Question 8

Stravinsky’s education

Answer 8

Law

Music

Question 9

Instruments Stravinsky played

Answer 9

Piano

Question 10

Stravinsky’s employment

Answer 10

Harvard and University of Southern California

Question 11

Genres Stravinsky cultivated

Answer 11

Neo-classical

Question 12

Hallmarks of stravinsky’s style

Answer 12

Primitave style

Dissonant harmony

Twelve tone method

Sparse textures

Question 13

Robert Craft

Answer 13

Produced and wrote books, and recorded all stravinsky’s music

Question 14

Changing meter

Answer 14

Shift of metrical groupings (changed through time signature)

Question 15

Folk Song

Answer 15

Songs of unknown authorship

Passed down orally

Question 16

Petrushka chord

Answer 16

Dissonant poly chord

C major F# major arpeggio

Question 17

Primitivism

Answer 17

Created through rhythm

Strong accents

Heavy syncopation

Poly rhythm

Expanded percussion

Question 18

Louie’s birthplace

Answer 18

Canada

Question 19

Louie’s birth year

Answer 19

1949

Question 20

Louie’s education

Answer 20

Psychology

Composition

Question 21

Instruments Louie plays

Answer 21

Piano

Question 22

Louie’s employment

Answer 22

College teacher

Founding director of espirit orchestra

Question 23

Genres Louie cultivated

Answer 23

Pan-ethnic perspective

Question 24

Hallmarks of Louie’s style

Answer 24

Expression and communication

Musical humour

Harmonic language

Question 25

Espirit Orchestra

Answer 25

Louie founded this

Question 26

Arch form

Answer 26

Symmetrical

Repetition in reverse order

ABCBA

Question 27

Berceuse

Answer 27

Lullaby

Question 28

Senza misura

Answer 28

“Without measure”

Freely, no strict time

Question 29

Debussy’s birthplace

Answer 29

France

Question 30

Debussy’s birth and death years

Answer 30

1862 - 1918

Question 31

Debussy’s education

Answer 31

Paris conservatoire

Question 32

Instrument Debussy played

Answer 32

Piano

Question 33

Debussy’s employment

Answer 33

Varied career as a pianist

Piano teacher for Nadezhda Von Meck’s family

Question 34

Genres Debussy cultivated

Answer 34

Set poetry of symbolist poets

Experimented with different approaches to grammar and syntax

Question 35

Hallmarks of Debussy’s style

Answer 35

Parallel chord streams

Open fifths and octaves

Varied use of rhythms

Mythical themes

Witty and satirical

Question 36

Stéphane Mallarmé

Answer 36

Wrote a pastoral poem that was the inspiration for L’apres midi d’un faune

Question 37

Antique Cymbals

Answer 37

Finger cymbals

Gentle ringing sound

Question 38

Glissando

Answer 38

“To slide”

A quick strumming of all the strings with a broad sweeping hand movement

Question 39

Impressionism

Answer 39

Employs expanded harmonic vocabulary

Innovative orchestral colours

Question 40

Symbolism

Answer 40

French literary moment

Authors sought to suggest subject matter rather than depict it

Question 41

Stephen Sondheim

Answer 41

Worked on West Side Story with Bernstein

Question 42

Cha-Cha

Answer 42

Cuban dance

Question 43

Hemiola

Answer 43

2 groups of 3 beats are replaced by 3 groups of 2 beats

Question 44

Tritone

Answer 44

Interval of augmented fourth or finished fifth

Question 45

Verse-chord structure

Answer 45

Simon song structure

Question 46

Mambo

Answer 46

Afro-Cuban

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Rhythmic ostinatos