MUSC 215 Part 6 – Flashcards

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During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?
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Big-Band Jazz
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Tin Pan Alley was a_________.
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Street in Manhattan where music publishers had their businesses
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Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville. T/F?
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True
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Expressionism was inspired by French painters. T/F?
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False
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Klangfarbenmelodie refers to:
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a style that gives each note of a melody to a different instrument.
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Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as:
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Sprechstimme
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Which of the following early-twentieth-century composers moved to the United States and taught composition at the University of California, Los Angeles?
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Schoenberg
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Stravinksy tried his hand at many compositional styles throughout his career. T/F?
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True
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The Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to:
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a near riot
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Which of the following musical elements in the Rite of Spring could be considered the most innovative?
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unpredictable rhythms and meters
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Who was the choreographer for The Rite of Spring
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Nijinksy
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Lili Boulanger was a talented composer but died at an early age. T/F?
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True
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What moot opens and closes Boulanger's Psalm 24?
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Triumph
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Berg's opera Wozzeck is best described as an example of:
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Expressionism
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The final, heartbreaking scene of Berg's Wozzeck concludes with:
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the son of Marie and Wozzeck, alone
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Bebop was a complex new style that developed after World War II and was performed by small groups in which each player has an equal voice in the improvisation. T/F?
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True
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Billi Holliday's Billie's Blues retains the standard twelve-bar blues structure. T/F?
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True
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Louis Armstrong's instrument-like approach to singing is called:
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scat-singing
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What is a bent, or "blue," note?
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a note whose pitch drops slightly.
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Which region of the United States was the birthplace of a unique style of blues primarily sung by males?
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Mississippi Delta
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The Harlem Renaissance highlighted African American intellectual life in the 1920s and 1930s. T/F?
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True
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William Grant Still composed the first symphony by an African American to be performed by a major American orchestra. T/F?
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True
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In his early years, William Grant Still was associated with which artistic movement?
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the Harlem Renaissance
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Which of the following was referred to as "the greatest Negro city in the world" during the 1920s?
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Harlem
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Gershwin's orchestral work an American in Paris became the impetus for a Hollywood film. T/F?
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True
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George Gershwin's folk opera ___________ was far ahead of its time.
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Porgy and Bess
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The premiere of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was conducted by:
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Paul Whiteman
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Which types of works did George Gershwin compose?
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-Fill Scores -Songs -Musicals
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Copland composed music for the theater, but not for film. T/F?
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False
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The music of Charles Ives was very popular and was performed frequently during his lifetime. T/F?
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False
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Aaron Copland studied composition with:
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Nadia Boulanger
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Ives's compositional style was:
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very innovative for its time.
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Which of the following best describes the mood at the beginning of Copland's Appalachian Spring?
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calm
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While composing in his spare time, Charles Ives made a living as a(n):
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insurance executive
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Federico Garcia Lorca was a well known:
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writer
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Silvestre Revueltas's compositional style is considered representative of:
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mestizo realism
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Which of the following instruments would you NOT find in a standard mariachi band?
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clarinet
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Bartok composed his Concerto for Orchestra while he was terminally ill. T/F?
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True
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Sergei Prokofiev composed the popular Peter and the Wolf. T/F?
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True
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Bartok's use of rhythm was:
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particularly innovative
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The early twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was:
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neo-Classicism
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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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