Test 3

Question 1

Romanticism

Answer 1

19th century, all things must die, romantic love, nature, emotional, dramatic

Question 2

Franz Schubert

Answer 2

German composer created salons, sitting areas people sat and listened to music in, created Erlkonig

Question 3

Lied

Answer 3

art song, voice and piano. Collection of these sometimes with overarching theme is called a song cycle

Question 4

Strophic

Answer 4

When music repeats over and over but the text sometimes changes

Question 5

Erlkonig

Answer 5

Young boy who was sick riding on back of horse with his father through the forest. Erlkonig comes and tries to get him, ends up getting him.

Question 6

Hector Berlioz

Answer 6

Composer who writes Symphony Fantastique creates program symphony

Question 7

Program Symphony

Answer 7

story line of a symphony

Question 8

Symphony Fantastique

Answer 8

Composer obsessed with woman, dreams he murders her and then he gets beheaded and demons dance on his grave

Question 9

Idee Fixe

Answer 9

Reveries, theme of Symphony Fantastique, fixed idea, obsession, the theme

Question 10

Mighty Five

Answer 10

Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky

Question 11

Mussorgsky

Answer 11

good friend who was a painter died so he created pictures at an exhibition. Promenade was supposed ot represent walking through the gallery at an exhibition

Question 12

Bel Canto

Answer 12

Style of opera focuses on beauty and virtuoso of voice

Question 13

Giuseppe Verdi

Answer 13

Last Bel Canto composers, mostly opera seria used psychological development/ word painting

Question 14

Gioachino Rossini

Answer 14

Opera buffa composer people get into impossible situations in his pieces, he wants the audience to have fun

Question 15

Imbroglio

Answer 15

Moment of chaos no one knows what’s going on

Question 16

Scena de Aria

Answer 16

solo singer has extended monologue, and two halves. Cavatina: arioso recicative Cabaletta: fast aria

Question 17

Richard Wagner

Answer 17

Created mature operas with music drama.

In Wagner’s music dramas, a leitmotive is a short melody that represents a person, thing, idea, or emotion in the story.

Question 18

The Ring Cycle

Answer 18

a cycle of four interconnected music dramas by Richard Wagner that collectively tell the tale of the Germanic legend Der Ring des Nibelungen

Question 19

Long 20th century

Answer 19

Late 19th century, a million things about music because of speed of communication and ability to record sound. Nobody wants to be status quoe

Question 20

Ism

Answer 20

bundle of characteristics to describe a genre

Question 21

Impressionism

Answer 21

Debussy closely associated with impressionism mix of romanticism and sounds of modernism arose in France opposition of German romantic music

Question 22

Claude Debussy

Answer 22

Created Prelude to the afternoon of a Faun, did things that ruined tone of music

Question 23

Prelude to the afternoon of a faun

Answer 23

Based on poem by Mallarme

Question 24

Igor Stravinsky

Answer 24

major 20th century composer, Russia, italy, France, leaves Russia before revolution
exoticism- fetish of another culture

Question 25

Primitivism

Answer 25

a style that attempts to capture the unadorned lines, raw energy, and elemental truth of non-Western art and apply it in a Modernist context.

Question 26

Rite of Spring

Answer 26

Ballet of primitivism, composed it for Diaghelev company. Sounded like:

1. Steady pulse but unclear meter (ametric)
2. polychords
3. Blocks of music with no transition between

Question 27

Polychords used in rite of spring

Answer 27

triads that sound consonant separately, but very dissonant when played together.

Question 28

Minimalism

Answer 28

“emperors new clothes” no one can really see it but pretends to be smart enough to see it, La Monte Young composition 1960 #7

Question 29

Indeterminancy

Answer 29

Something not defined by the composer that will cause the piece to be different each time it is performed

Question 30

Phasing

Answer 30

Steve Reich, come out…When a piece is overlapped an d played at a different pace. Take the melody then repeat it, double it

Question 31

koyaanisqatsi

Answer 31

life out of balance. Movie that has no characters or plot, just music. Music created by Philip Glass collab with Ravi Shankar