music appreciation exam 3 - Flashcards

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A Lied is an art song for solo voice and piano sung in

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german

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A song form in which the same melody is repeated for each stanza, often heard in popular music, is known as

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strophic form

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A song form that is composed from beginning to end without repetitions of whole sections is in which form?

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thorough composed form

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According to legend, a child touched by the Elfking must die.

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false

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Most Lied composers wrote their own words for the song.

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false

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Romantic Lieder texts often speak of love and/or nature

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false

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The piano was declining in popularity at the time of the Romantic Lied.

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false

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Two prominent German Romantic poets whose texts were often set to music were Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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true

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What is unusual about the ending of the song In the Lovely Month of May?

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it does not cadence on the tonic

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Robert Schumann's In the Lovely Month of May?

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it is thorough composed form

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Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair was the most famous of Foster's songs during his lifetime

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false

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Foster's Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is primarily composed in what texture?

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homophonic

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Foster's My Old Kentucky Home was inspired by _____.

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his extensive visits to the American south

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Music in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century America was wildly divergent from European traditions.

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false

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Nineteenth-century parlor music in the United States was written to be accessible to amateurs.

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true

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Nineteenth-century songwriters in the United States combined elements of all of the following EXCEPT _____

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film music

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Stephen Foster is known for his ballads, minstrel show tunes, and plantation songs.

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true

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The music that accompanies the lyrics of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair reflects Foster's Anglo-Irish cultural heritage.

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true

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Which of the following songs was NOT written by Stephen Foster?

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coal black rose

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Which of the following was a type of racially charged theatrical variety show in the United States in the nineteenth century?

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minstrel show

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After his conservatory studies, Chopin spent most of his productive career in _____.

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france

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Chopin was romantically involved with George Sand, the renowned French _____.

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novelist

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Romantic-era piano works often had fanciful titles.

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true

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The nineteenth century was an age of great virtuoso pianists

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true

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The piano changed little technically during the nineteenth century.

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false

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The piano was the most central instrument in nineteenth-century musical culture.

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true

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The short, lyric piano work might be considered the instrumental equivalent to the nineteenth-century Lied.

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true

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What best describes the character of Chopin's Mazurka?

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dancelike

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Which genre is NOT a part of Chopin's compositional output?

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string quartets

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Which is the best definition of "tempo rubato"?

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"robbed time"

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Berlioz was a devoted fan of Beethoven.

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true

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Hector Berlioz looked to the writings of Shakespeare as the basis for both operas and symphonic works.

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true

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In the nineteenth century Theobald Boehm improved the flute, making it metal rather than wood.

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true

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In which movement is the Dies irae (Day of Wrath) theme from the Mass for the Dead heard?

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5th

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Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is absolute music.

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false

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Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called _____.

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program music

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Once Adophe Sax developed the saxophone, it became a permanent and popular part of orchestral music.

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false

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The inspiration for Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was

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the actress harriett smithson

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The main theme, heard transformed in each movement of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, is called the _____.

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idee fixe

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Which of the following did NOT make improved instruments possible in the nineteenth century?

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household electrification

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Censors did not concern themselves with political representation in nineteenth-century operas.

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false

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Edvard Grieg represents the _____ nationalist school.

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scandanvian

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Hector Berlioz invented the symphonic poem.

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false

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In the twenty-first century, composers do not write nationalistic works.

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false

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In writing Peer Gynt, with which playwright did Grieg collaborate?

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henrick ibsen

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Instrumental music that has some literary or pictorial association is called program music.

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true

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Nationalistic program music might evoke a landscape.

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true

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Tchaikovsky's music for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a famous example of _____.

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program overture

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Which category of program music best describes Grieg's Peer Gynt?

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incidental music

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Which of the following was NOT a way that programmatic composers portrayed nationalistic sentiments in nineteenth-century music?

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utilizing ritornello form

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Brahms wrote his Requiem mass in memory of _____

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his mother

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How many symphonies did Brahms write?

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4

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The Romantic symphony featured an orchestra larger than that of the Classical masters.

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true

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The Romantic symphony follows the exact forms and proportions of the Classical genre of Beethoven

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false

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The first movement of a Romantic symphony is usually the most dramatic and features the use of sonata-allegro form.

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true

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The scherzo movement in nineteenth-century symphonies generally is characterized by a slow march tempo.

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false

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The third movement of a nineteenth-century symphony is most likely in _____ form

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dance or scherzo

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Unlike the symphonic poem the genre of symphony is often absolute music, without a program.

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true

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Which composer nurtured Brahms's talents, going as far as taking him into his home?

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robert shumman

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the nineteenth-century symphony?

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small orchestra with limited winds

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Rigoletto is an opera based on Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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False

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After her husband's composing career began to flourish, Giuseppina Strepponi enjoyed continued success as an opera singer into her last years.

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False

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Giuseppe Verdi viewed himself as an Italian nationalist composer.

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True

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In the nineteenth century, opera excerpts were NOT marketed to domestic consumers via _____.

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Radio Broadcasts

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Jenny Lind was a famous nineteenth-century composer of opera

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False

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Nineteenth-century Italian opera is characterized by the use of the bel canto style of singing.

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True

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The American debut tour of international singing sensation Jenny Lind was managed by _____.

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P.T. Barnum

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The literary basis for Verdi's Rigoletto is _____.

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A play by Victor Hugo

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Which is NOT a Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare play?

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Aida

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Which of these operas exhibited the high point of the singing style known as bel canto?

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Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

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After considerable success in Dresden with Rienzi, Wagner began to choose subjects derived from Germanic tales.

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True

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Germany is noted for its long-established opera traditions.

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False

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Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called _____.

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singspiel

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The role of the Valkyries was to carry fallen heroes from the battlefield to Valhalla on their winged horses.

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True

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Wagner employed recurring themes called idées fixes in his operas.

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False

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Wagner had a theater built at Bayreuth specifically for the performance of his music dramas.

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True

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What did Wagner call his large-scale sung theatrical works?

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music drama

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What is the basis for the story of Die Walküre?

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a medieval German epic poem

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Which leitmotif did Wagner NOT use in the closing scene of Act III in Die Walküre?

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Zoroaster

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Which term refers to Wagner's concept of a total artwork, encompassing all the arts?

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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The Nutcracker was based on a story originally written by the Romantic writer Victor Hugo and expanded by E. T. A. Hoffman.

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false

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Ballet has been a part of theatrical entertainments since the Renaissance.

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true

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Ballet was first featured in Russian opera in the Romantic era.

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false

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Nadezhda von Meck's relationship with Tchaikovsky was that of his _____.

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patron

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Tchaikovsky was the first Russian _____.

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whose music appealed to Western tastes

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Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker was choreographed by Marius Petipa.

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true

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The pas de deux, or dance for two, was developed by the choreographer Marius Petipa.

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true

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The overall structure of both the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Trepak from Tchaikovksy's Nutcracker is best outlined as _____.

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A-B-A

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Which new instrument did Tchaikovsky introduce to ballet?

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celesta

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Which of the following was NOT a famous ballet written by Tchaikovsky?

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Romeo and Juliet

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Dissonances do not always resolve to consonances in twentieth-century music.

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true

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In Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire, Pierrot is a(n) _____.

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troubled clown

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Schoenberg devised a new way to organize sound called the "twelve-tone" method.

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true

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Schoenberg employed Sprechstimme, or speechlike melody in his Pierrot lunaire.

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true

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Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire is associated with the twentieth-century arts movement known as _____.

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Expressionism

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The German word Sprechstimme means _____.

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speechlike melody

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The character Pierrot from Schoenberg's Pierrot lunaire derives from an early Japanese theatrical comedy genre.

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false

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The twenty-one poems used in Pierrot lunaire are all in virelai form.

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false

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Which of the following composers was NOT a student of Arnold Schoenberg?

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Leonard Bernstein

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Which of the following is NOT associated with Arnold Schoenberg?

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Impressionism

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Stravinsky included authentic French folk songs in his ballet The Rite of Spring.

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false

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Stravinsky is largely recognized for his revitalizing of which musical element?

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rhythm

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Stravinsky's early works are considered to be strongly nationalistic.

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true

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The ideals of which movement best describes the music of The Rite of Spring?

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Primitivism

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The orchestra that Stravinsky used in The Rite of Spring was remarkably small.

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False

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The premiere of The Rite of Spring was uneventful in Paris.

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false

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The premiere success of the Ballets Russes was largely due to the leadership of Serge Diaghilev.

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true

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What is the basis of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring?

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scenes of Pagan Russia

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Which instrument begins with the melody in the introduction to The Rite of Spring, playing in its upper-most range?

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Bassoon

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Which of the following was NOT associated with the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev?

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Dostoyevsky

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For what purpose did Lili Boulanger write Psalm 24?

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not for traditional worship services

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Lili Boulanger rejected innovative harmonic language in her work.

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false

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Lili Boulanger was influenced by Impressionism.

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true

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Lili Boulanger was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome.

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true

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Lili was the only composer/musician in her family.

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false

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The libretto for Lili Boulanger's La Princesse Maleine is by which well-known writer?

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Maeterlinck

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Which instrument did Lili Boulanger NOT learn to play as a child?

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Marimba

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Which of the following does NOT describe Lili Boulanger's Psalm 24?

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clearly in a major key

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Winners of the Prix de Rome are given the opportunity to study in Rome.

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true

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With which of her works did Lili Boulanger win the Prix de Rome?

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Faust et Hélène

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Alban Berg wrote only one opera, Wozzeck.

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false

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Arnold Schoenberg was a student of Alban Berg.

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false

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Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern are known as the _____.

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Second Viennese School

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Berg uses Sprechstimme vocal style in his opera Wozzeck.

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true

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Berg's Wozzeck was inspired by _____.

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an Expressionist play by Büchner

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Berg's opera Wozzeck is considered to be a(n) _____ work.

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Expressionist

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Berg's use of harmony in Wozzeck is strictly atonal.

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false

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In Wozzeck, the title character has hallucinations and is the subject of experimentation by his superiors.

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true

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In Berg's opera Wozzeck, the main character's final breakdown is the result of _____.

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having killed his lover

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The final scene of Wozzeck revolves around _____.

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the children's discovery of the murder

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Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring are ballets by _____.

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Aaron Copland

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Country Band March is arranged for _____.

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wind band

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Aaron Copland used early American songs in his works.

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true

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America's vernacular traditions also included music for brass bands.

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true

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Charles Ives made a living as a(n) _____.

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insurance salesman

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Copland collaborated with Martha Graham in his work Appalachian Spring.

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true

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Copland did not cite an American traditional hymn in his ballet Appalachian Spring.

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false

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Copland's ballet Billy the Kid was composed to be a portrayal of Pennsylvanian life.

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false

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One of Ives's best-known works for piano is _____.

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Concord Sonata

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The source of inspiration for Charles Ives's music was rooted in the traditions of which region of America?

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New England

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A guitarrón is a _____.

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large brass guitar

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Revueltas incorporated folkloric rhythms in his music.

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true

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Revueltas's Homenaje is for a chamber ensemble with piano, winds, strings, and percussion.

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true

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Strong feelings of patriotism arose in Mexico after the revolution in 1910.

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true

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The man that Revueltas is honoring in Homenaje was a _____.

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Spanish poet killed by the Fascists

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The mariachi ensemble originated in Spain.

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false

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The orchestration in Revueltas's Son emulates the sound of _____.

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Mexican mariachi bands

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The rhythm of Revueltas's Homage to Federico García Lorca is characteristic of _____.

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Mexican mestizo dance music

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The third movement, Son, from Homenaje a Federico García Lorca, is based on a traditional dance form.

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true

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Which of the following was NOT considered a Mexican nationalist?

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Federico García Lorca

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Musicians and composers achieved a higher social status during the Romantic era than they had in the Classical era.

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true

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Nationalistic feelings inspired composers to incorporate folk songs and dances from their native lands into their works.

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true

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Niccolò Paganini was a _____.

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virtuoso violinist

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Romantic composers rarely used dynamic markings and other expressive comments in their scores to communicate their intentions to musicians.

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false

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The Bohemian artist adhered to the social norms of the establishment.

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false

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The French Revolution fostered the rise of a middle-class society.

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true

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The French Revolution signaled the transfer of power from the hereditary landholding aristocracy to the _____.

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middle class

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The large size of the Romantic orchestra resulted in the need for a _____.

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conductor

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Which of the following is NOT typical of Romantic music?

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smaller orchestras

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Which of the following was NOT a new instrument added to the Romantic orchestra?

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French horn

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Dadaists rejected the thought that art was something to be revered.

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true

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During the Great Depression, which style dominated popular music?

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big-band jazz

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Immigrant composers were important in the history of vaudeville.

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true

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Many early twentieth-century composers exploited _____ meters.

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changing

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Salvador Dali was a part of the Surrealism movement.

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true

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The big band phenomenon ended prior to World War II.

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false

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The melodic element of twentieth-century music can be described as _____.

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instrumentally conceived

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The orchestra grew even larger in the early twentieth century.

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false

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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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Which of the following was an artist in the Dada group?

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Marchel Duchamp

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