Twentieth Century And Beyond - MUSC 1010

Anton Webern: -Taught himself piano and cello. -Earned a doctorate in music history from the University of Vienna. -Had little formal musical training. -Enjoyed frequent performances of his own music.

Expressionism as an artistic movement was largely centered in: -The United States. -Norway. -Germany and Austria. -Spain.

Blues music is usually written in ________ time. -3/4 -6/8 -2/4 -4/4

While remaining within the framework of a tonal center, Béla Bartók often used _________ in his music. -All of these -Tone clusters -Harsh dissonances -Polychords

Igor Stravinsky studied composition with: -Arnold Schoenberg. -Claude Debussy. -Maurice Ravel. -Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

Which of the following works was not composed by Aaron Copland? -An American in Paris -Appalachian Spring -A Lincoln Portrait -Connotations for Orchestra

Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique: -Was composed in collaboration with the famous architect Le Corbusier. -All answers are correct. -Was one of the earliest masterpieces of electronic music created in a tape studio. -Was designed for the 1958 Brussels World Fair.

A dramatic turning point in Debussy's career came in 1902 when: -His opera Pelléas et Mélisande was premiered. -He went to Bayreuth to hear Wagner's music. -He went to Italy to study. -He undertook a series of concert tours.

Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, illustrates Charles Ives's technique of quoting snatches of familiar tunes by presenting fragments of: -God Save the Queen. -Battle Hymn of the Republic. -Yankee Doodle. -Home on the Range.

In modern music: -All answers are correct. -Instruments are played at the very top or bottom of their ranges. -Noiselike and percussive sounds are often used. -Uncommon playing techniques have become normal.

Schoenberg's third period, in which he developed the twelve-tone system, began around: -1874. -1908. -1933. -1921.

The Gershwin song that became a tremendous hit in 1920 was: -Embraceable You. -La, La, Lucille. -Swanee. -I Got Rhythm.

One of the greatest of all jazz improvisers and a towering figure among bebop musicians was the saxophonist -Charlie Parker. -Dizzy Gillespie. -Buddy Rich. -Thelonious Monk.

As a composer, William Grant Still: -Restricted his works to symphonies and orchestral compositions. -Was best known as a composer of hit songs. -Was best known for his rags. -Wrote film scores, concert works, operas, and band arrangements.

A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land was: -Claude Debussy. -Samuel Barber. -Igor Stravinsky. -Béla Bartók.

Among the unusual playing techniques that are widely used during the twentieth century is the _______, a rapid slide up or down a scale. -Slip -Buzz -Glissando -Ostinato

The lyrics for West Side Story were written by: -Jerome Robbins. -Oscar Hammerstein II. -Stephen Sondheim. -Leonard Bernstein.

Since the 1960's most film music is composed by: -Freelance composers. -Studio staff composers. -Dead white European males. -Directors and actors.

Antonin Dvořák predicted in the late nineteenth century that the foundation for American music would come from: -African American and Native Indian melodies. -Protestant hymns. -Irish jigs. -The European classical tradition.

Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called: -Serialism. -Klangfarbenmelodie. -Sprechstimme. -Atonality.

The immediate sources of jazz include: -Ragtime. -All answers are correct. -The American band tradition. -The blues.

The last movement of Ginastera's Estancia Suite, titled "Final Dance: Malambo", makes use of an ________ form. -AABA -ABA -ABC -AA'B

Impressionism in music is characterized by: -All answers are correct. -A stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity. -An adherence to traditional harmonic chord progressions. -The recurrence of strong accents on the downbeat.

Impressionist painters were primarily concerned with the effect of light, color, and: -Rhythm. -Clarity. -Detail. -Atmosphere.

The ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in a twelve-tone composition is called a -Set. -Tone row. -Series. -All answers are correct.

One of the most important American composers of film scores who often collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock was: -John Williams. -Bernard Hermann. -Leonard Bernstein. -Richard Rodgers.

Twentieth-century composers incorporated elements of folk and popular music within their personal styles because: -It simplified technical problems of musical composition. -They were attracted to the unconventional rhythms, sounds, and melodic patterns. -All answers are correct. -It made their music more commercially viable.

Neoclassical composers modeled many of their works after the compositions of: -Guillaume de Machaut. -Richard Wagner. -Franz Liszt. -Johann Sebastian Bach.

Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut, is a movement from Charles Ives's: -Three Places in New England. -The Unanswered Question. -Essays before a Sonata. -Concord Sonata.

Ragtime flourished in the United States: -From the 1890s to about 1915. -From the 1860s to about 1890. -Between the two world wars. -Just before the Civil War.

Which of the following categories of black folk music is not considered one of the sources for the blues? -Work songs -Gospel -The field hollers of slaves -Spirituals

The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of: -Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring." -Igor Stravinsky's "Les Noces." -Richard Wagner's "Siegfried." -Arnold Schoenberg's "Gurrelieder."

All of the following painters may be considered part of the expressionist movement except: -Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. -Edvard Munch. -Claude Monet. -Oskar Kokoschka.

In addition to his compositions, Copland made valuable contributions to music in America by: -Directing composer's groups. -All answers are correct. -Organizing concerts of American music. -Writing books and magazine articles.

A major composer associated with the serialist movement is: -George Crumb. -Philip Glass. -Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. -Milton Babbitt.