Music Appreciation Exam 3: French Romantic-era Song - Flashcards

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

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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 what form?

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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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Through-composed form

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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 in through-composed form.

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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 what?

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his extensive visits to the American South

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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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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 what country?

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France

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

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novelist

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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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A lost manuscript of music by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, in her own handwriting, that contained September: At the River was discovered in what year?

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1989

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After her marriage, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel was responsible for doing what?

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organizing the family Sunday salon concerts

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In the recently discovered manuscript of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's September: At the River, poetry of which nineteenth-century poet was included _____.

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Goethe

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The concept of "river" in September: At the River by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is expressed by _____.

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quick moving notes that accompany the melody

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Which role was NOT generally acceptable for women in Romantic society?

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Conductor

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In his piece The Banjo, how does Gottschalk evoke, musically, the idea of the title?

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He simulates banjo strumming and picking on the piano

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In which American city did Louis Gottschalk grow up?

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New Orleans

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In which country was Franz Liszt born?

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Hungary

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Which of the following does NOT characterize Louis Gottschalk's piano music?

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Distinctly European in style

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Which of the following is considered the first internationally acclaimed American composer of classical music?

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk

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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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The fifth

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

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program music

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Who was the inspiration for Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique?

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the actress Harriet 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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idée 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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Edvard Grieg represents the _____ nationalist school.

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Scandinavian

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

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Henrik Ibsen

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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 who?

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his mother

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How many symphonies did Brahms write?

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Four

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

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Robert Schumann

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

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radio broadcasts

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The American debut tour of international singing sensation Jenny Lind was managed by who?

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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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Light German opera featuring spoken dialogue is called _____.

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Singspiel

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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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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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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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The nineteenth-century trend toward realism in opera was known as _____.

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Verismo

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The opera Madame Butterfly is set in what country?

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Japan

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What specific musical technique did Puccini borrow from Wagner in his Madame Butterfly?

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Use of leitmotifs

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Which of the following is NOT a Germanic post-Romantic composer?

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Gustav Holst

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Which of the following operas is NOT considered part of the verismo tradition?

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Verdi's Aida

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Fauré's original ensemble plan for his Requiem was a(n) _____.

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small chamber orchestra

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French Romantic-era song composers were drawn to the poets of which movement?

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Symbolist

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The French song genre that paralleled the German Lied in the nineteenth century was the _____.

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Mélodie

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What language did Fauré choose for the text of his Requiem?

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Latin

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Which of the following is NOT considered a Symbolist poet?

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Thoreau

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Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" does NOT feature _____.

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accented rhythmic drive

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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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ternary (A-B-A)

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The program of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" concerns a _____.

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mythological creature in a dreamlike state

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Which best describes the character of the opening theme of Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"?

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Chromatic and with a free rhythm

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Impressionist music?

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Large-scale forms

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Swing Low, Sweet Chariot became a favorite tune of which college-level performing group?

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Fisk Jubilee Singers

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Art-song arrangements of African American spirituals were an important part of which cultural movement?

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Harlem Renaissance

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The texture of African American spirituals is best described as _____.

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monophonic with some heterophonic elaboration

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What scale is utilized in Swing Low, Sweet Chariot?

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Pentatonic

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Which European composer was an early supporter of African American musical styles like the spiritual?

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Dvorák

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Before recorded music was widespread, music like the rags of Scott Joplin could be mechanically performed by _____.

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player pianos

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Rags, like marches, are structured in regular, duple-meter sections known as _____, each of which is usually repeated.

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strains

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Scott Joplin won the Pulitzer Prize posthumously for _____.

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Treemonisha

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The work that is considered to be Scott Joplin's most famous is his _____.

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Maple Leaf Rag

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Which of the following does NOT describe the style of ragtime?

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No repetition in each rag

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

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troubled clown

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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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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 is largely recognized for his revitalizing of which musical element?

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Rhythm

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

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Faust et Hélène

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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'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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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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Billie Holiday sang with which of the following jazz "greats"?

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Benny Goodman

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Which best describes the form of a typical blues text?

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Three-line stanza, with the first two lines the same

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Which instrument has a featured solo in Billie's Blues?

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Trumpet

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Which is NOT true of a typical blues progression?

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The number of bars in each section varies

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_____ is where the fusion of ragtime, blues, and other musics resulted in the development of jazz

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New Orleans

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The insistent bass in the last movement of William Grant Still's Suite for Violin and Piano resembles which jazz piano style?

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Stride

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Where did William Grant Still grow up?

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Little Rock, Arkansas

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Which of the following artists is NOT associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s?

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Alice Walker

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Which of these William Grant Still works was in part inspired by the sculpture African Dancer, by Richmond Barthé?

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Suite for Violin and Piano

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William Grant Still was an important voice for _____.

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the Harlem Renaissance

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During his brief stay in France, Gershwin wrote _____.

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An American in Paris

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Where is George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess set?

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South Carolina

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Which of George Gershwin's works is considered a "folk opera"?

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Porgy and Bess

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Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement that describes an aspect of George Gershwin's career?

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His music was not popular at the time he composed it.

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Which of the following is considered George Gershwin's first "big hit"?

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Swanee

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Billy the Kid, Rodeo, and Appalachian Spring are ballets by who?

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

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insurance salesman

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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 bass guitar

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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 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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Which of the following was NOT considered a Mexican nationalist?

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Federico García Lorca

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Who composed Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair?

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Foster

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Who composed Elfking?

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Schubert

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Who composed Symphonie fantastique, IV?

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Berlioz

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Who composed In the Hall of the Mountain King?

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Greig

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Who composed Die Walkure (Ride of the Valkyries)?

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Wagner

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Who composed Pierrot Lunaire?

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Schoenberg

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Who composed The Rite of Spring?

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Stravinsky

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Who composed Rigoletto, Act III?

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Verdi

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