Question 1

Who composed Clouds?

Accepted Answer

Claude Debussy

Question 2

What instrument introduces a \"haunting\" motive that occurs many times throughout Clouds?

Accepted Answer

English horn

Question 3

The performing forces in Clouds consist of:

Accepted Answer

strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

Question 4

What mood is created by the clarinets\' and bassoons\' descending chords of Clouds?

Accepted Answer

dreamy and vague

Question 5

The cloud theme in Clouds is represented in the beginning by:

Accepted Answer

a quiet series of chords by woodwinds

Question 6

Which texture(s) do you hear in Clouds?

Accepted Answer

monophony and homophony

Question 7

Which musical element is the clearest in Clouds?

Accepted Answer

tone color of solos

Question 8

Who composed The Rite of Spring?

Accepted Answer

Igor Stravinsky

Question 9

The Rite of Spring is a(n):

Accepted Answer

ballet.

Question 10

The opening theme of The Rite of Spring is played by the:

Accepted Answer

bassoon, in the highest part of its range.

Question 11

The performing forces in The Rite of Spring consist of:

Accepted Answer

strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

Question 12

What instruments seem to dominate the first minute of The Rite of Spring?

Accepted Answer

woodwinds

Question 13

The rhythms and tempo of \"The Game of Abduction\" in The Rite of Spring seem to create a mood that is:

Accepted Answer

violent, surging, and frantic.

Question 14

What do you hear at various times in the \"Round Dances of Spring\" of The Rite of Spring?

Accepted Answer

fragmented folk songs

Question 15

What is heard at the end of the \"Round Dances of Spring\" of The Rite of Spring?

Accepted Answer

a short return of the slow introduction theme in the bassoon

Question 16

Who composed Pierrot lunaire?

Accepted Answer

Arnold Schoenberg

Question 17

The performing forces in \"Night\" in Pierrot lunaire consist of:

Accepted Answer

voice, cello, bass clarinet, and piano

Question 18

\"Night\" in Pierrot lunaire is:

Accepted Answer

atonal.

Question 19

In \"Night\" in Pierrot lunaire, the image of \"giant black butterflies\" from the poem is evoked by the:

Accepted Answer

lowest instruments of the ensemble.

Question 20

The vocal technique heard in \"The Moonfleck\" in Pierrot lunaire is:

Accepted Answer

Sprechstimme

Question 21

The performing forces in \"The Moonfleck\" in Pierrot lunaire consist of:

Accepted Answer

voice, piano, woodwinds, and strings

Question 22

The texture of \"The Moonfleck\" in Pierrot lunaire is:

Accepted Answer

polyphony.

Question 23

The first phase of avant-garde music emerged in:

Accepted Answer

Paris and Vienna

Question 24

The first phase of avant-garde music lasted from:

Accepted Answer

1890 to 1914.

Question 25

Three of the leading first-phase modernist composers were:

Accepted Answer

Stravinsky, Debussy, and Schoenberg.

Question 26

Which statement about Debussy is false?

Accepted Answer

His orchestral sound was very similar to Mahler\'s.

Question 27

What characterizes Debussy\'s use of tone color?

Accepted Answer

subtle, blended, mysterious shades of tone colors

Question 28

What characterizes Debussy\'s treatment of melody?

Accepted Answer

fragmented themes and motives based on exotic scales

Question 29

The nationality of the composer of three Nocturnes is:

Accepted Answer

French.

Question 30

Debussy\'s three Nocturnes are titled:

Accepted Answer

Clouds, Festivals, and Sirens

Question 31

The haunting, recurring English horn motive in Clouds is based on a(n):

Accepted Answer

octatonic scale.

Question 32

Debussy\'s approach to musical form in Clouds is:

Accepted Answer

to shrink from clear formal outlines.

Question 33

The first ballet by Stravinsky was:

Accepted Answer

The Firebird.

Question 34

Two nonmusical influences on Debussy\'s style were:

Accepted Answer

symbolist poetry and impressionist painting.

Question 35

Debussy\'s enduring contributions to twentieth-century music were in the areas of:

Accepted Answer

piano music and orchestration.

Question 36

Debussy wrote music criticism. In it, his ________ views concerning ________music were clear.

Accepted Answer

negative; German

Question 37

The premier of The Rite of Spring was famous for:

Accepted Answer

the riot by the audience.

Question 38

The events in The Rite of Spring involve:

Accepted Answer

primitive fertility rites.

Question 39

One of the devices used by the composer in The Rite of Spring is:

Accepted Answer

ostinato.

Question 40

A repeating figure that serves to unify works by composers such as Stravinsky and Debussy is called a(n):

Accepted Answer

ostinato.

Question 41

Which statement about The Rite of Spring is false?

Accepted Answer

It was based on a symbolist poem.

Question 42

The Rite of Spring does not include:

Accepted Answer

a tone row

Question 43

Stravinsky was influenced early in his career by:

Accepted Answer

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Question 44

The major works of Stravinsky\'s early period were:

Accepted Answer

ballets.

Question 45

Which American musical style caught Stravinsky\'s ear?

Accepted Answer

jazz

Question 46

The artistic movement that came about after World War I and that signified a rejection of Romantic emotionality and a return to the styles of earlier composers was:

Accepted Answer

Neoclassicism.

Question 47

For a time Stravinsky composed in the ________ style.

Accepted Answer

Neoclassical

Question 48

Toward the end of his career, Stravinsky wrote music in the ________ style.

Accepted Answer

serialist

Question 49

The expressionist musical style took root mainly in:

Accepted Answer

Germany and Austria.

Question 50

The leading expressionist composer was:

Accepted Answer

Arnold Schoenberg.

Question 51

The main contribution of expressionist composers was:

Accepted Answer

the breakdown of tonality.

Question 52

Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg are often referred to as:

Accepted Answer

the Second Viennese School.

Question 53

Which statement about Pierrot lunaire is true?

Accepted Answer

It features Sprechstimme

Question 54

A combination of song and speech is called:

Accepted Answer

Sprechstimme.

Question 55

In what genre is Pierrot lunaire?

Accepted Answer

song cycle

Question 56

Arnold Schoenberg was a very creative composer who also expressed himself through:

Accepted Answer

painting.

Question 57

Which statement about Schoenberg is false?

Accepted Answer

He was the first impressionist composer.

Question 58

The two famous pupils of Schoenberg were:

Accepted Answer

Anton Webern and Alban Berg.

Question 59

Arnold Schoenberg invented a method that guarantees that no one pitch in the chromatic scale is more important than the others. This method is called:

Accepted Answer

the twelve-tone system (serialism).

Question 60

Schoenberg\'s way of imposing order on \"emancipated\" elements of music resulted in________.

Accepted Answer

the twelve-tone system (serialism)

Question 61

The composers of the Second Viennese School believed that the chromaticism of Wagner had led them to:

Accepted Answer

the breakdown of tonality.

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