Six Bagatelles for a String Quartet

Question 0

What is the closest parallel in art to atonality in music?

Answer 0

Cubism

Question 1

What is the effect of a lack of a resting tone in atonal music?

Answer 1

There is no sense of home

Question 2

What art critic created deemed the paintings of George Braque geometric schemas and cubes?

Answer 2

Louis Vauxcelles

Question 3

What term did Arnold Shoenberg hate?

Answer 3

Atonality

Question 4

What term did Schoenberg prefer to atonality?

Answer 4

Apantonal

Question 5

What did Schoenberg feel it was time to abandon?

Answer 5

The obligation to craft chords that performed functional relationships

Question 6

What was one of the most revolutionary ideas of the 20th century music?

Answer 6

Emancipation of the Dissonance

Question 7

When did Schoenberg begin to articulate his views on atonality?

Answer 7

In a 1911 harmony textbook

Question 8

What was the Scandal Concert?

Answer 8

Berg’s performance of Altenberg Lieder, Op. 4 on March 31, 1913

Question 9

How many months after the Scandal Concert was the “riot” of Spring?

Answer 9

Two moths

Question 10

What principles did Schoenberg introduce in the 1920’s?

Answer 10

His principles for twelve tone serialism

Question 11

To what did theorists draw parallels between atonality and?

Answer 11

Experimental literary writers of the early twentieth century who was abandoning linear narrative

Question 12

What two authors abandoned linear narrative?

Answer 12

James Joyce (1882-1941) and T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Question 13

What musical style is similar to atonality?

Answer 13

Expressionism

Question 14

What piece in the Listening Companion is an atonal piece?

Answer 14

Nacht

Question 15

What musical style other than Expressionism can also accommodate atonality?

Answer 15

Primitivism

Question 16

What Romantic era genre does Webern return to by using the label bagatelle?

Answer 16

Character pieces

Question 17

What is a synonym for bagatelle?

Answer 17

Trifle

Question 18

Webern’s entire compositional output can be contained on how many compact disks?

Answer 18

Three

Question 19

Within the first how many measures does Webern employ all twelve notes of the chromatic scale?

Answer 19

7 measures

Question 20

What do composers working with atonality often refer to the chromatic scales as?

Answer 20

Aggregate

Question 21

What two new timbres does Webern ask his musicians to play?

Answer 21

Play on the bridge and sometimes the pluck the string instead of bowing it

Question 22

What Italian verb does Webern use to request the tone color who are plucking the string instead of bowing it or playing on the bridge?

Answer 22

Pizziacto

Question 23

What does Webern ask all the instruments to use in Six Bagatelles for String Quartet?

Answer 23

Use a mute

Question 24

What is a mute and what does it do?

Answer 24

Its a small device that limits some of the string’s ability to vibrate which softens the sound

Question 25

What does Ausserst langsam mean?

Answer 25

Extremely slow

Question 26

What does Klangfarbenmelodie mean?

Answer 26

Tone color melody and it describes a piece in which the timbre of reach sound matters more than the rise and fall of conventional tune

Question 27

What do musicians call it when notes unfold at a very unhurried pace, often with only one instrument playing?

Answer 27

Pointillism

Question 28

How many bars long is Six Bagatelles for a String Quartet?

Answer 28

13 bars long

Question 29

What is a synonym for canon?

Answer 29

Round

Question 30

What song is a canon?

Answer 30

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Question 31

What instrument starts the canon in Six Bagatelles for a String Quartet?

Answer 31

The cello

Question 32

At the end of measure 7 in Six Bagatelles for a String Quartet what does the cello launch?

Answer 32

A pizzicato canon