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1Music that expresses an extra-musical idea, whether of mood, narrative, or pictorial image.
- AIncidental music
- BAbsolute music
- CProgram music
- DFurniture music
2The ________ of the Romantic era are characterized by their expressive emotion and the prominent piano accompaniment. Historically, they derive from folk songs from as early as the 12th century.
- ASymphonies
- BString quartets
- CLieder
- DConcertos
3Which composer is credited for the development of program music and the Idée Fixe?
- ARichard Wagner
- BHector Berlioz
- CFranz Schubert
- DFranz Liszt
4A 19th-century Romantic piano piece of a slow and dreamy nature in which a graceful, highly embellished melody in the right hand is accompanied by a broken-chord pattern in the left; a piece that depicts the musical sounds of the night.
- ANocturne
- BPrelude
- CPolonaise
- DWaltz
5The Polish composer, an international piano virtuoso of incredible renown, is credited for elevating the étude from a merely technical exercise and establishing it as an artful genre.
- AFranz Liszt
- BFranz Schubert
- CFryderyk Chopin
- DCamille Saint-Saens
6As the foremost piano virtuoso of his time, _____ devised new playing techniques and textures for piano music. As a composer, he introduced innovations in form and harmony and invented the symphonic poem.
- AFranz Liszt
- BFranz Schubert
- CFryderyk Chopin
- DCamille Saint-Saens
7Describes the psychological quality of romanticism. A style characterized by agitation, counterpoint, chromaticism, and dramatic surprises.
- AGesamtkunstwerk
- BSturm and drang
- CSymphonic poem
8Term coined by Richard Wagner for a dramatic work in which poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music all work together toward one artistic expression. The ideal that the greatest artistic expression is that in which all forms of art work together into one art work created by one artist.
- ALeitmotif
- BIdée Fixe
- CGesamtkunstwerk
9Johannes Brahms is primarily known as a very innovative composer, writing music for vastly expanded orchestras and in vastly innovative forms during his life.
- ATrue
- BFalse
10Rather than depicting things realistically, artists and composers from this movement sought to capture atmosphere and sensuous impressions from nature, adopting a stance of detached observation rather than direct emotional engagement.
- ASerialism
- BImpressionalism
- CNationalism
- DRealism
11This late 19th-century French composer created new genres and revealed a range of timbre and color which indicated a highly original musical aesthetic. Much of the music is inspired by the visual (i.e. waves, the ocean, sirens, clouds, sails, etc.)
- AArnold Schoenberg
- BIgor Stravinsky
- CBela Bartok
- DClaude Debussy
12Which of the following are things that greatly influenced the drastic cultural shift during the early 20th century?
- AThe world wars and the great depression
- BThe work of scientists such as Darwin, Freud, and Heisenburg
- CThe rise of communism in Russia, Germany, and Italy, among other nations.
- DAll of the above
13Who is the composer and what is the title of this string sextet in one movement, inspired by a poem by Richard Dehmel, that usically reflects the story of a man and woman wandering in the forest at night and is broken up into five sections each reflecting a stanza of Dehmel's poem.
- AIgor Stravinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps
- BClaude Debussy, Prelude a'lapres midi d'un faune
- CArnold Schoenburg, Pierrot Lunaire
- DArnold Schoenberg, Verklarte Nacht
14A type of vocal enunciation intermediate between speech and song. It could well have been an attempt to prescribe a kind of articulation already being used by singers of both lieder and popular song. (HINT: used by Schoenberg in Pierrot Lunaire)
- ASprechstimme
- BVocal overtones
- CVirtuoso
- DWhite tone
15An artistic movement of the twentieth century, led in music by figures such as Stravinsky and Les Six in France, that called for an end to Romantic lushness and extravagance and a return to something like the simplicity, clarity, and objectivity that marked the music of the eighteenth-century Classical period.
- AImpressionalism
- BSerialism
- CNeoclassicism
- DAvant-Garde
16This 20th-century composer attended the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest and travelled the Hungarian countryside collecting folk songs on cylinder recordings.
- AArnold Schoenberg
- BIgor Stravinsky
- CBela Bartok
- DClaude Debussy
17Bartok used a symmetrical scale in his graded piano series entitled Mikrokosmos. This scale has a symmetrical pattern of steps from bottom to top (e.g. 1, 1/2, 1,1/2, 1, 1/2, 1, 1/2). What is the name for this scale?
- APentatonic
- BWhole tone
- COctatonic
18Which of the composers below is known for pioneering twelve-tone music?
- AArnold Schoenberg
- BIgor Stravinsky
- CBela Bartok
- DClaude Debussy
19Of the three composers in the Second Viennese School (listed below), which one was drawn towards romanticism and wrote an opera depicting the tragic tale of the fictional post-WW1 soldier Franz Wozzeck?
- AArnold Schoenberg
- BAnton Webern
- CAlban Berg
20This member of the Second Viennese School tended to write miniatures and exploited many unique patterns yielded from 12-tone rows (like symmetry and invariance).
- AArnold Schoenberg
- BAnton Webern
- CAnton Berg
21Term coined in the 1920s to describe a kind of new realism in music, in reaction to the emotional intensity of the late Romantics and the Expressionism of Schoenberg and Berg.
- ANeo-Romanticism
- BNeo-Classicism
- CNew objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)
- DGebrauchsmusik
22Which work was dedicated "to the victims of fascism and war" and was "signed" by the composer in the music with his own initials as notes on the staff: D-Eflat-C-B?
- ACharles Ives, Three Places in New England
- BSergei Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto No. 2
- CSergei Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 3
- DDmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8
23Which nationalist composer said this: "This composer must not shut himself up and think about art; he must live with his fellows and make his art an expression of the whole life of the community."
- ACharles Ives
- BRalph Vaughan-Williams
- CSergei Prokofiev
- DGabriel Faure
24Dissonant harmonies made up of entirely of pitches very close together, like a stretch of adjacent keys on piano struck with a flat hand or entire arm.
- AQuarter tones
- BTone clusters
- CPolychords
- DModes
25This composer's music represents the twilight of the late-Romantic tradition, extended well into the twentieth century: expansive, rhapsodic, tending to heart-on-sleeve melancholy, and virtuosic in the Liszt and Tchaikovksy tradition.
- AGabriel Faure
- BSergei Prokofiev
- CSergei Rachmaninov
- DAlban Berg
26Charles Ives' music can easily be pinned down to one, specific genre: Chance music.
- ATrue
- BFalse
27What late 19th-century musical style was Americanized in the third movement of Charles Ives' Three Places in New England entitled "The Housatonic at Stockbridge"?
- ARomanticism
- BImpressionism
- CNeo-Classicism
- DSerialism
28This American nationalist composer went to Paris, looking for inspiration in the city that Stravinsky, Picasso, Joyce, and other revolutionaries were making the artistic hub of the world. He studied there with Nadia Boulanger, who taught him about understanding the orchestra. He then left Paris fired with the determination to create a true American concert music.
- ASamuel Barber
- BAaron Copland
- CCharles Ives
29Early trained as a singer, this composer always had a melodic bent, whether the style is post-romantic like his early work or more modernistic like his later work.
- ASamuel Barber
- BAaron Copland
- CJohn Adams
- DTerry Riley
30Written in 1955-56 by Karlheinz Stockhausen, this piece that is based on the biblical story of three boys magically saved from the burning furnace is the first and still perhaps greatest masterpiece of electronic music, despite the primitive electronic technique of those pre-synthesizer days.
- AIonization
- BLux Aeterna
- CGesang der Junglinge
- DQuartet for the End of Time
31Based on an impressionistic evocation of childhood by James Agee, this piece shows Barber's independent mind; in its gentle, nostalgic course it explores folk-like material while maintaining a cosmopolitan spirit, suggests neoclassicism while avoiding its hard edges, and stays tonal while indulging considerable chromaticism.
- ASymphony No. 3
- BAppalachian Spring
- CKnoxville: Summer of 1915
- DAdagio for Strings
32Composed in 1941 in a Nazi prison camp during WW2 for the only available instruments- violin, clarinet, cello, and piano- with its apocalyptic biblical imagery and music by turns lyrically soulful dancing, and sulfurously diabolical, the quartet adds up to (HINT: Additive Rhythm) one of the classic works of this century.
- AIonization
- BLux Aeterna
- CGesang der Junglinge
- DQuartet for the End of Time
33One of the leading musical styles of the late twentieth century, in which materials are reduced and procedures simplified so that what is going on in the music is immediately apparent. Often characterized by a constant pulse and many repititions of simple rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic patterns.
- ARenaissance Polyphony
- BSerialism
- CNationalism
- DMinimalism
34A term denoting the effect achieved when two instrumentalists or singers perform the same musical pattern at different (slightly increasing or decreasing) intervals of time without using quarter tones.
- AElectro-acoustic
- BDuet du Temps
- CMicropolyphony
- DPhasing
35Which minimalist composer is best known for the technique mentioned in the previous question?
- ATerry Riley
- BSteve Reich
- CJohn Adams
- DPhilip Glass
36This piece, which has a chiastic structure, represents a major shift in the general aesthetic of composers A turning away from (or perhaps an outright rejection of) the ideas of Impressionism and Classicism in favor of new interpretations of ancient techniques filtered through modern mediums.
- AIn C
- BShaker Loops
- CMusic for 18 Musicians
- DEinstein on the Beach
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