MUS 120 quiz 4 – Flashcards
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Antonin Dvoraks music was first promoted by
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Johannes Brahms
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In the first movement of the New World Symphony, Dvorak
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composed a theme that resembles Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
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Antonin Dvoraks Symphony No. 9 is his what?
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most famous work, subtitled From the New World, glorifies both the Czech and the American folk spirit
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Dvorak "found a secure basis for a new national American musical school in"
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African American spirituals
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In 1892, Dvorak went to ___, where he spend almost three years as director of the National Conservatory of Music
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New York
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The father of Russian music is
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mikhail glinka
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How many of Richard Wagner's operas were successful?
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13
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A characteristic of twentieth-century music is
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the use of many types of percussive sounds
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True or false: During the century the united states was instrumental in shaping intellectual life and the arts worldwide
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True
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Who of the following were composers who rose to prominence during the early twentieth century?
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Arnold Schoenberg Anton Webern Alban Berg
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The French twentieth century composer who became fascinated by the percussion music from Indonesia was
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Debussy
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The French composer________ used elements derived from jazz in his ballet Le Creation du monde
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Milhaud
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A very important element of twentieth century music is
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tone color
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Famous jazz musicians associated with bebop include
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Thelonius Monk Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker
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Debussy was found using the _______ scale and the whole-tone scale in his compositions.
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pentatonic
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The systemic method developed by Arnold Schoenberg in order to organize atonal music is knows as the ______ technique
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twelve-tone
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Sonatas and Interludes is Cage's best known work for _________
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prepared piano
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The sale of jazz known as _______ developed in the 1920s and remained popular until around 1945
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swing
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In 1951 Stravinsky wrote an opera, modeled on Mozart's stage works, titled
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The Rakes Progress
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Electronic music is based on
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prerecorded noises, pitches of the major scale, previously recorded live sounds
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Which of the following are characteristics of 12-bar blues music?
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The first line of each stanza is repeated. The lyrics consist of several 3-line stanzas. The 12-bar blues pattern is related over and over while new melodies are improvised about it by performers.
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Adams Short Ride in a _____ ______, commissions for the inaugural concert of the Great Woods Festival in Massachusetts, is a 4 minute fanfare
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fast machine
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A style of jazz that developed in the 1940s and because of its complexity, was more appropriate for listening than dancing is known as
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bebop
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How many acts of musicals usually have?
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Two
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A jazz style that became very popular in early 1950s was ____ jazz
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cool
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Which of the following is a term often used to describe the jazz rock style?
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Fusion
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In 1947 Charles Ives was given the Pulitzer Prize for his
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Third Symphony
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What is true about Stravinsky?
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Stravinsky became a successful composer in the United states Stravinsky adopted the twelve-tone system late in his career
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What country was Bela Bartok born in?
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Hungray
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Composers during the twentieth century commonly incorporated which of the following into their works
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the fourth chord modified church modes chords that were widely used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
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How many ballets did Tchaikovsky compose?
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three
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What was Tchaikovsky's making influence?
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Western folk music
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What types of music did Tchikovksy's compose?
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symphonies, ballets, concertos, and other instrumental work
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How was Tchaikovsky's style?
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Passionate, with beautiful melodies and brilliant orchestration
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What troubled Tchaikovsky?
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depression and un happy marriage
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who was Tchaikovsky's patron?
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Madame Von Meck
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How did Tchaikovsky die?
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cholera, after drinking contaminated water
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What were three of Tchaikovsky's most famous ballets?
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Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker
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Where was Tchaikovsky's first performance
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Carnegie Hall
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How many pieces of music did Tchaikovsky write?
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25
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What were the two opposing traits at the turn of the 20th century?
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Post-Romanticism: in germany Impressionism: in france
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What is impressionism?
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a french movement developed by visual artists who favored vague, blurry images intended to capture an "impression" go the subject
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what musical traits does impressionism possess?
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Rejection of major/minor tonal systems and traditional forms other scales and pitch collections new rhythms, scales, and timbres inspired by exoticism
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"New world Symphony"
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Antonin Dvorak
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Calude Debussy
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born near Paris stopped writing at outbreak of WWI rejected traditional forms wrote "mood pieces" Perlude to "The afternoon of Faun"
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What is polytonality?
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The simultaneous use of two or more keys
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What is retrograde?
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An arrangement of the pitches in reverse order, so that the row comes out backward
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Where did early jazz originate from?
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New Orleans
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What element is crucially important in jazz?
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improvisation
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12-tone system
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method of composing in which all pitches of a composition are derived from a special ordering of the 12 chromatic tones (tone row or set), developed by Schoenberg in the early 1920s
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swing
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Jazz style that was developed in 1920s and flourished 1935-1945, played mainly by "big bands".
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John Cage
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(1912-1992) american composer; highly influential creator of chance music. invented the prepared piano. wrote sonatas & interludes; best known and most widely performed and recorded work
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Arnold Schoenberg
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famous austrian composer self taught; "addict of Wagner" taught theory/ composition at vienna conservatory -1908 abandoned traditional tonality system wrote pierrot lunaire
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when was ragtime?
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1890s -1917
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what are characteristics of ragtime music?
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solo piano wide leaps syncopation vamp chords cirtuotic functional harmony added notes improvisation duple time
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What was trad jazz also called?
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Dixieland and New Orleans jazz
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main characteristics of trad jazz
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three melody instruments clarinet, trombone, cornet rhythm section-piano, banjo, string bass, drums generally black music played by white improvisation resulting in herterophonic/polyphonic texture
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the main characteristics of swing jazz
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12 players horn sectin, usually 3 trumpets and 3 trombones reed section, usually 4 saxophones 4 piece rhythm piano guitar string bass and drums smoother tone
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Bebop composers
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Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald. They continually tried to develop music, harmonically and rhythmically.
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Sergei Prokofiev
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Style: modern Born: Russia compositions: Romeo and Juliet ballet opera, ballet
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Sergei Prokofiev
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lady mac beth of mtsensk district fifth symphony (irony sarcasm) the seventh symphony signature- DSCH (10th symphony)
