Music Appreciation ch. 47-51 – Flashcards
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What name is given to the expansion and intensification of late Romantic trends?
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post-Romantic
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Which of the following is NOT a major figure in post-Romanticism?
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Brahms
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Which of the following operas is an example of exoticism?
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Madame Butterfly
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The late-Romantic Italian opera tradition was characterized by a movement toward realism, called:
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verismo
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With which operatic movement is realism associated?
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impressionism
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Which of the following composers did NOT compose in the verismo style?
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Verdi
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Verismo was a late-Romantic movement in opera that sought to:
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choose subjects from everyday life and treat them realistically
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The leading composer of Italian opera in the late-Romantic era was:
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Puccini
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Which of the following operas is NOT by Puccini?
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Pagliacci
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Puccini's Madame Butterfly is:
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a tragic tale of a Japanese geisha and a U.S. naval officer
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Puccini's Madame Butterfly ends:
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tragically
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A Japanese geisha is best compared in Western culture with:
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a courtesan
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At the close of the opera Madame Butterfly, the title character:
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kills herself
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Which of the following exotic elements can be heard in the opera Madame Butterfly?
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Japanese melodies, pentatonic and whole-tone scales, instrument combinations that evoke the Japanese gagaku (all of the above)
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In her aria "Un bel dì," from Madame Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San sings of:
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her wish for her husband to return
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The Japanese shamisen is:
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a plucked string instrument
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Which of the following was NOT a major musical stream in French romantic music?
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Wagner's music dramas
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French composers developed a type of art song called the:
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mélodie
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Which of the following was NOT a French symbolist poet?
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Victor Hugo
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Which of the following was NOT one of Fauré's major musical activities?
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conducting
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________ was one of Fauré's students.
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Nadia Boulanger
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Of which genre is Fauré is considered to be a master?
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song
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Fauré's Requiem was originally scored for:
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a chamber orchestra
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The Libera me from Fauré's Requiem features which vocal soloist?
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baritone
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The form of the Libera me from Fauré's Requiem is:
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A-B-A'
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The mood at the end of Libera me from Fauré's Requiem is:
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serene
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The earliest practitioners of modernism were artists and writers from:
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France
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Impressionism: Sun Rising, the painting that sparked the Impressionist art movement, was created by:
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Claude Monet
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Impressionism was a style of painting that was cultivated principally in:
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Paris
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Which of the following painters was NOT associated with the Impressionist school?
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Goya
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Which of the following best describes the work of the Impressionist painters?
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they attempted to capture the freshness of first impressions
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Which of the following best describes the effect achieved by Impressionist painting?
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luminous, shimmering colors
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The French movement in poetry that rebelled against traditional modes of expression is called:
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Symbolism
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Mallarmé and Verlaine were:
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Symbolist poets
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The Symbolist poets were strongly influenced by the works of:
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Edgar Allen Poe
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The whole-tone scale used by Impressionist composers derives from:
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non-western music
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Impressionism in music is best exemplified by the works of:
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Claude Debussy
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Which of the following was NOT characteristic of Impressionist music?
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strong accents on the first beat of each measure
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The Impressionist painters' interest in color is paralleled by Impressionist composers' interest in:
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timbre
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Debussy was highly influenced by the sounds of a gamelan from:
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Java
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The Spanish dance style performed at the World Exhibition of 1889 was:
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flamenco
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What nationality was Claude Debussy?
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French
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Debussy's opera Pelléas and Mélisande is based on a Symbolist drama by:
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Maeterlinck
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Which of the following was NOT composed by Debussy?
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Boléro
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The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" evokes:
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a landscape with a mythological creature
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The overall form of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" is best described as:
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A-B-A'
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What is unusual about the opening of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
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it opens with a flute solo in the velvety lower register
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Which of the following does NOT characterize the choreography for the Ballets Russes production of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?
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it continued the traditions of classical ballet
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What was the Second Great Awakening?
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a Christian movement at the turn of the 1800s
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Which of the following does NOT describe camp meetings?
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African Americans did not participate in any such gatherings
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The tradition of the ring shout was brought to America from:
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Africa
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African slaves in the nineteenth century created a genre of religious song called:
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the spiritual
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Which of the following describes spirituals?
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the contained coded messages about earthly escape
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The Fisk Jubilee Singers took their name from:
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their college
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Which European composer felt that an American school of music should be built around "Negro melodies"?
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Dvo ák
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Which of the following describes the activities of Harry T. Burleigh?
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He studied with Dvo ák, He arranged spirituals for voice and piano, He became a music publisher (all of the above)
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The spiritual Swing Low, Sweet Chariot reflects qualities of which tradition(s)?
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Native American, European American, African American (all of the above)
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The melody of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot is based on the ________ scale.
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pentatonic
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Which of the following is the source of the text of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?
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the Bible
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Which of the following distinguishes the Fisk Jubilee Singers' arrangement of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot from that of Harry T. Burleigh?
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the Fisk Jubilee Singers perform a cappella
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An important American instrumental ensemble of the nineteenth century was the:
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brass band
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The most famous eighteenth-century American band was the:
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U.S. Marine Band
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Players of brass and woodwind instruments were able to march in the late nineteenth century thanks to instrument designers such as:
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Adolphe Sax
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Which of the following does NOT describe the career of Patrick S. Gilmore?
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earned title as "March King"
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America's most famous bandmaster was
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John Phillip Sousa
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John Philip Sousa conducted the:
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The Washington Post, The Stars and Stripes Forever, Semper Fidelis (all of the above)
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Which American composer became known as the "King of Ragtime"?
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Joplin
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Scott Joplin became famous when:
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his Maple Leaf Rag sold a million copies
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Scott Joplin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his opera
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Treemonisha
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What is the principal musical characteristic of ragtime?
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syncopation
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In Joplin's rags, what is a strain?
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a section usually having 16 measures
