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The expressionist movement in music and art flourished in the years

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1905-1925.

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The twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion was called

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expressionism.

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Expressionism as an artistic movement was largely centered in

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Germany and Austria.

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Richard Strauss's operas Salome and Elektra were known for their

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chromatic and dissonant music.

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The operas of Richard Strauss use chromaticism and dissonance to depict

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perversion and murder.

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Expressionist artists favored pleasant subjects, delicate pastel colors, and shimmering surfaces.

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Expressionist composers

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avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions.

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Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Arnold Schoenberg's

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students

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Schoenberg's third period, in which he developed the twelve-tone system, began around

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1921

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An eerily expressive kind of declamation midway between song and speech, introduced during the expressionist period, is

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Sprechstimme

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The ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in a twelve-tone composition is called a

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The vocal lines in Wozzeck include

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Anton Webern

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earned a doctorate in music history from the University of Vienna.

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Webern's melodic lines are

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"atomized" into two- or three-note fragments.

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Anton Webern's twelve-tone works contain many examples of

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strict polyphonic imitation.

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Béla Bartók was a leading authority on

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peasant music.

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Béla Bartók evolved a completely individual style that fused folk elements with

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Béla Bartók's ______________ are widely thought to be the finest since those of Ludwig van Beethoven.

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string quartets

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While remaining within the framework of a tonal center, Béla Bartók often used _________ in his music.

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all of these

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Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra

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Charles Ives's music contains elements of

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Charles Ives's large and varied output includes works in many genres, but not

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operas.

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Which of the following works is not by George Gershwin?

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The Desert Song

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Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with

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a solo clarinet.

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"Harlem Renaissance" was the name

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sometimes given to a flowering of African American culture during the years 1917-1935.

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William Grant Still's works in African American style, such as his Afro-American Symphony of 1931, were

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performed to critical acclaim in New York.

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As a composer, William Grant Still

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wrote film scores, concert works, operas, and band arrangements.

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The flowering of African American culture called the "Harlem Renaissance" spanned the years

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1917-35.

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Expressionism grew out of the same intellectual climate as Freud's studies of

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hysteria and the unconscious.

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One of the immediate predecessors of expressionism was the composer

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Richard Strauss.

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Expressionist painters, writers, and composers used ______________ to assault and shock their audience.

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deliberate distortions

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The expressionists rejected

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conventional prettiness.

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The text of A Survivor from Warsaw

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When he was nineteen, Alban Berg began to study music privately with

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Arnold Schoenberg.

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Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra are scored for

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a chamber orchestra of eighteen soloists.

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The melodies Béla Bartók used in most of his works are

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original themes that have a folk flavor.

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George Gershwin usually collaborated with the lyricist

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Ira Gershwin.

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Distortion is a technique used primarily in the __________ period.

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expressionist

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Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called

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Sprechstimme

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Which of the following statements is not true?

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Typical of expressionist composers, Berg scored his opera Wozzeck for a small chamber orchestra.

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