ch.37 intro. to music – Flashcards
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Bartók's music?
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major-minor tonality
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Bartók's compositions show the influence of eastern European folk music in:
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Bartók's compositions show the influence of eastern European folk music in:
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Les Six is a group of composers from Spain.
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False
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The texts for Carmina Burana are from:
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the Middle Ages.
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Béla Bartók traveled around Hungary collecting peasant songs with the composer:
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Zoltán Kodály.
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Carl Orff made significant contributions to music education.
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True
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Bartók attempted to imitate the vocal styles and rhythms of certain eastern European traditional musics.
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new concepts of melody, harmony, and rhythm.
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Bartók's six string quartets rank among the finest achievements of twentieth-century chamber music.
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True
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Bartók's use of rhythm was:
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particularly innovative.
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Which of the following does NOT characterize the Interrupted Intermezzo from Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra?
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unchanging metric patterns
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Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra is set in the standard symphonic format of four movements.
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False
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Of the following, which German composer created an enduring method of teaching music to children?
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Carl Orff
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The "interruption" section in Bartok's Interrupted Intermezzo represents:
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the Nazis.
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Who composed the opera Peter Grimes?
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Britten
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The comparative study of musics of the world is called:
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ethnomusicology
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Why did Bartók name his last work Concerto for Orchestra?
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because he treated single instruments in a soloistic manner
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Although Hungarian, Bartók composed in the prevailing international style.
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False
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One of Bartók's most popular works is his Music for Strings, Percussion, and:
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Celesta
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Which of the following English composers is viewed as one of the foremost twentieth-century opera composers?
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Britten
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Which of the following composers represents the twentieth-century Hungarian school?
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Kodály
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How does twentieth-century nationalism differ from its ninteenth-century counterpart?
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It approached music more scientifically.
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Bartók composed his Concerto for Orchestra while he was terminally ill.
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True
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What Hungarian composer combined native folk music characteristics with main currents of European music?
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Bartók
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Few Hungarian folk elements are heard in Interrupted Intermezzo, from Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra.
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False
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Bartók immigrated to ____________ during World War II and remained there for the last few years of his life.
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New York City
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Of the following, which best describes Orff's O fortuna from Carmina burana?
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It has syllabic declamation.
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The model for Bartók's melodies can be found in:
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Hungarian folk songs.
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Of the following, which was a critical new technology that aided the study of folk music in the early twentieth century?
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phonograph
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Because of Orff 's association with the Nazis, Carmina burana has received few performances since its premier.
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False
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What German composer came to the United States and taught at Yale?
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Hindemith
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The cantata Carmina Burana was written by:
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Carl Orff.
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Orff 's cantata Carmina burana is based on texts written in ancient Greek.
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False
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What French composer developed polytonality and wrote a ballet entitled The Creation of the World?
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Milhaud
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Bartók found that eastern European folk music was based on:
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all of the above
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Bartók generally avoided Classical structures.
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False
