Quiz 3

Question 1

Mathis der Maler

Answer 1

Hindemith

Question 2

Bluebeard’s Castle

Answer 2

Bartok

Question 3

The Rise and Fall of Mahoganny

Answer 3

Weill

Question 4

The Rake’s Progress

Answer 4

Stravinsky

Question 5

Wozzeck

Answer 5

Berg

Question 6

Moses und Aron

Answer 6

Schoenberg

Question 7

Peter Grimes

Answer 7

Britten

Question 8

Dialogue of the Carmelites

Answer 8

Poulenc

Question 9

Love of Three Oranges

Answer 9

Prokofiev

Question 10

Lady of The Mtsenks District

Answer 10

Shostakovitch

Question 11

Miraculous Mandarin

Answer 11

Bartok

Question 12

War Requiem

Answer 12

Britten

Question 13

A Child of our Time

Answer 13

Tippett

Question 14

Carmina Burana

Answer 14

Orff

Question 15

The Three Penny Opera

Answer 15

Weill

Question 16

King David

Answer 16

Honegger

Question 17

La Creation du Monde

Answer 17

Britten

Question 18

Pierrot Lunaire

Answer 18

Schoenberg

Question 19

Symphony of Psalms

Answer 19

Stravinsky

Question 20

Peter and the Wolf

Answer 20

Prokofiev

Question 21

Atonality

Answer 21

no tonal center
lack of need to resolve to consonance
extended dissonance
Schoenberg began this period in 1908
notes are treated with equal importance

Question 22

Polytonality

Answer 22

use of two or more keys simultaneously
can be used in melody and harmony
Mozart used this technique as an ending to a piece called “A Musical Joke”

Question 23

Neoclassicism

Answer 23

Started with Stravinsky’s move away from folk influence back to western art music
Reaction to Romanticism - revival of forms, genres, and styles of the 18th century classical period
Avoiding big emotional gestures in music
emphasis on rhythm and contrapuntal texture
ex. Symphony of Psalms by Stravinsky

Question 24

Sprechtstimme

Answer 24

in between speaking and singing, similar to melodrama

voice moves up and down following a specific contour, but not necessarily singing exact notated pitches

Question 25

Expressionism

Answer 25

expression of inner emotion
fragmented rhythm and dissonance
inner torment, emotional anguish
Examples: Erwartung by Schoenberg, Wozzeck by Berg

Question 26

Gebrauchmusik

Answer 26

Associated with Hindemith
“music for use” as opposed to music for art
for amateur musicians to learn and perform
would be both useful and musically of value

Question 27

Klangfarbenmelodie

Answer 27

“Tone-colour melody” - describes a succession of tone colours which provide a musical analogy for the changing pitches in a melody

Question 28

Pandiatonicism

Answer 28

use of diatonic scale without regard to harmonic function