MUSIC HISTORY EXAM

Question 1

WHO WAS INNFLUENCE TO NEOCLASSICALISM AND WHAT IS IT

Answer 1

-STRAVINSKY
-REJECTION OF ROMANTICISM

Question 2

WHAT WAS SATIE’S APPROACH TO MUSIC

Answer 2

SATIRCAL, ANTI-ROMANTICISM

Question 3

HOW DOES MILHAUD CREAT DISSONANCE IN LA CREATION DU MONDE (GOOFY HADESTOWN)

Answer 3

LAYERING CONSONANT TONES

Question 4

WHEN WAS THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND WHO LED IT

Answer 4

LENIN IN 1917

Question 5

WHAT WAS THE VIEWPOINT OF MUSIC TO THE RUSSIAN ASSOCIATION OF PROLETARIET MUSIC

Answer 5

CONSERVATIVE, ANTI-MODERN

Question 6

WHAT DID THE MANIFESTO OF 1929 SAY IN REGARDS TO MUSIC, CLASS, AND STRAVINSKY

Answer 6

FOLK MUSIC WAS FOR THE PROLETARIET AS THE RULING CLASS HAD ACCESS TO INSTRUMENTS. THEY DID NOT LIKE STRAVINSKY (NEOCLASSICALISM)

Question 7

DURING THE RULE OF STALIN IN 1929, WAS WAS SOCIALIST REALISM AND FORMALISM

Answer 7

SOCIALIST REALISM: MUSIC THAT PROMOTED SOVIET VALUES
FORMALISM: EXPERIMENTAL

Question 8

WHAT IS DMITRI SHOTAKOVICH’S, “THE LADY OF MACBETH OF THE MITSENSK DISTRICT” ABOUT

Answer 8

DARK THEME AND EXPRESSIONISTIC: WOMAN- AFAIR, MUDERS, ON THE RUN

Question 9

WHAT WAS EDGARD VARESE KNOWN FOR

Answer 9

ORGANIZED SOUND AND SOUND MASSES (GROUPING OF SOUNDS)

Question 10

WHAT WERE THE 2 THINGS HENRY COWELL WAS KNOWN FOR

Answer 10

TONE CLUSTERS AND PLAYING INSTRUMENTS UNCONVENTIALLY

Question 11

WHAT TECHNIQUES OF UNCONVENTIAL PLAYING ARE USED IN COWELL’S, “THE BANSHEE”

Answer 11

-RUBBING ON PIANO STRINGS
-DAMPER PEDAL PRESSED DOWN

Question 12

WHAT SOUND DID AMERICANISTS ROOT THEIR MUSIC IN

Answer 12

FOLK MUSIC

Question 13

WHAT WAS AARON COPLAND’S IMPACT ON

Answer 13

FILM SCORES

Question 14

WHO DID AARON COPLAND STUDY WITH

Answer 14

NADIA BOULANGER

Question 15

WHAT IS BEPOP

Answer 15

-SMALL JAZZ COMBOS WITH LOTS OF IMPROV
-VIEWS JAZZ AS AN ART/CLASSICAL MUSIC

Question 16

IN ANTHROPOLOGY, WHO PLAYS SAX AND WHO PLAYS TRUMPET

Answer 16

PARKER SAX, DIZZY TRUMPET

Question 17

WHAT SONG IS ANTHROPOLOGY BASED ON

Answer 17

I GOT RHYTHM CHORD CHANGES

Question 18

WHO WAS OLIVER MESSIAEN

Answer 18

INFLUENTIAL TEACHER IN EUROPE (PARIS)

Question 19

WHAT INFLUENCED MESSIAEN’S MUSIC

Answer 19

-CATHOLICISM
-BIRD SONG
-INDIAN, ANCIENT GREEK, MEDIEVAL MUSIC

Question 20

WHAT PART OF THE BIBLE WAS MESSIAEN INSPIRED BY IN “THE END OF TIME”

Answer 20

THE BOOK OF REVELATION

Question 21

WHO WAS MESSIAEN INFLUENCEDBY

Answer 21

DEBUSSY

Question 22

WHAT OLD TECHNIQUE DID MESSIAEN USE

Answer 22

ISORHYTHM (REPEATED SEGMENTS)
COLOR= PITCH, TALEA= RHYTHM

Question 23

WHAT IS INTEGRAL SERIALISM

Answer 23

-DEVELOPMENT OF 12 TONE MUSIC
-SERIES OF MUSICAL ELEMENTS IN CONJUNCTION (DYNAMICS, ARTICULATION, TEMPO)

Question 24

WHO DID JOHN CAGE STUDY WITH

Answer 24

SCHOENBER AND COWELL

Question 25

WHAT IS CAGE’S PREPARED PIANO

Answer 25

OBJECTS PUT ON PIANO STRINGS FOR SPECIFIC/PERCUSSIVE SOUNDS

Question 26

WHAT IS CAGE’S SQUARE ROOT FORM

Answer 26

SUBDIVISIONS HAVE SAME PROPORTIONS AS LARGER ONES

Question 27

WHAT WAS CAGE INFLUENCED BY

Answer 27

ZEN BUDDHISM

Question 28

WHAT IS INDETERMINANCY AND WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF IT

Answer 28

GIVING UP CONTROL IN A PERFORMANCE; CAGE’S 4’33”

Question 29

WHAT IS CHANCE MUSIC

Answer 29

UNPREDICTABILITY/CHANCE IN COMPOSITION

Question 30

WHAT IS BABBITT’S PHILOMEL BASED ON

Answer 30

OVID’S PHILOMENA, AND OTHERS
(GRUSOME STORY)

Question 30

WHAT WAS MILTON BABBIT INTERESTED IN

Answer 30

SERIALISM AND ELECTRONIC MUSIC

Question 31

WHAT TECHNIQUE DID BABBITT USE IN PHILOMEL

Answer 31

CHORDS WITH ALL CHROMATIC SCALE NOTES, RETROGRADE

Question 32

WHAT IS TEXTURAL MUSIC

Answer 32

CONVENTIAL NOTIONS FOCUSED ON COMPLEX SOUNDS WITH INSRTUMENTS OR ELECTRONICS

Question 33

WHAT IS PHASE MUSIC AND WHO DEVELOPED IT

Answer 33

-REICH
-TEMPOS THAT START TOGETHER, GROW APART, AND COME TOGETHER AGAIN IN A PHASE