modernism

Question 1

has wide leaps difficult to sing and melodies are unpredictable
complex more fragmentary vague

Answer 1

melody

Question 2

more and more dissonant

Answer 2

harmony

Question 3

influence of non western music

Answer 3

new scales

Question 4

emphasis on irregularity and unpredictability. composers influenced by jazz and folk music
unconventional metes

Answer 4

rhythm

Question 5

2 or more contrasting rhythms at the same time

Answer 5

polyrhythm

Question 6

rhythmic repetition of a group of pitches (a motive or brief melody heard over and over)

Answer 6

ostinato

Question 7

based on a scale or church mode

Answer 7

tonality

Question 8

no tonal center. not based on a church mode or scale

Answer 8

atonality

Question 9

french composer
tone color
parallel chords
impressionism

Answer 9

claude debussy

Question 10

stress on tone color atmosphere and fluidity

Answer 10

impressionism

Question 11

is equal to that of melody harmony and rhythm lacks sharp articulations blurred edges

Answer 11

tone color

Question 12

an invention of debussy chords following each other that are not harmonically related

Answer 12

parallel chords

Question 13

jewish forced to leave germany because of nazi’s. came to the united states
spent the rest of his life in los angeles
taught at UCLA
german composer

Answer 13

arnold schoenberg 1874-1951

Question 14

exploiting extreme states extending all the way to hysteria, nightmare, even insanity

Answer 14

expressionism

Question 15

new musical language invented in the 1920s by arnold schoenberg. created a special set (tone row) of 12 pitches for every serial composition atonal

Answer 15

serialism

Question 16

russian composer
neoclassic
primitivism
13 ballet scores including the Rite of Spring
a riot broke out at the premier of the Rite of Spring

Answer 16

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Question 17

pounding rhythms and heavy accents

Answer 17

primitivism

Question 18

born in danbury Connecticut
first significant american composer
1947 won a pulitzer prize for his third symphony written 40 years earlier

Answer 18

charles ives (1874-1954)

Question 19

three contrasting groups
strings
solo trumpet
wind quartet
layered texture
tonal and atonal

Answer 19

the unanswered question

Question 20

each layer has its own tempo and some keys

Answer 20

layered texture

Question 21

modernistic composer who collected edited and arranged folksongs
piano study in mixed accents
monophonic
atonal
uses all the registers of the piano

Answer 21

ruth crawford (1901-1953)

Question 22

french composer
neoclassic
concertino for har and orchestra
rondo form
fugue in C section

Answer 22

germaine tailleferre (1892-1982)

Question 23

neoclassic

Answer 23

lightness and clarity

Question 24

born in Mississippi grew up in little rock AR 
afro american symphony
a black pierrot from songs of separation
art song
through composed
chromatic

Answer 24

william grant still

Question 25

hungarian composer and pianist
influenced by the nationalistic movement
spent most of his free time in tiny villages recording folk songs on a cylinder phonograph

Answer 25

bela bartok

Question 26

born in brooklyn NY
america’s dean of composers
goal was to write american music

Answer 26

aaron copland (1900-1990)

Question 27

performance medium : orchestra
rodeo was written for a ballet
uses folk melodies
form: rondo

Answer 27

Hoe Down from Rodeo