MUSC 2200 Test 2 Review

In 1929, Stalin sought to control the arts by:

Florence Price left her home in Little Rock, AR due to the burden of "Jim Crow" laws placed on the Black community.

Use of the "Dies irae" in the "Dream of a Witches' Sabbath" from Symphonie fantastique is an example of:

In music composition, mimesis is the process of:

Mussorgsky and his colleagues were known as "The Mighty Five."

What are the parts of sonata form in order?

Because it takes so much training to sing, Roomful of Teeth is one of just a few groups to have performed Partita.

The Rite of Spring depicted pagan rituals and caused consternation among Parisian audience members.

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 served as his public apology and formal rehabilitation.

What is the genre of The Rite of Spring?

The letter Beethoven wrote to his brothers (but never sent) is called the:

Mussorgsky wrote Pictures at an Exhibition as a piano suite because he was not a skilled orchestrator.

Caroline Shaw took the title and form of Partita from:

Appalachian Spring was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1967.

Instrumental music that claims to tell a specific story or communicate extramusical information is called:

The text of an opera or sung drama is called a:

Mussorgsky belonged to a progressive school of 19th C. composers of which nationality?

Roomful of Teeth employed which type(s) of singing?

Appalachian Spring is still significant today because it has come to be accepted as the sound of:

Wagner's Ring Cycle derives from which type of mythology?

The oldest opera still regularly performed and enjoyed is:

Although The Magic Flute is rich with comedy, it also has a serious Enlightenment message.

While in Chicago in the 1920s, Florence Price published what kind(s) of music?

A unique musical theme for a character, object, place, or idea is called:

Caroline Shaw was the youngest composer to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Music can be co-opted for political purposes the original artist did not intend.

Music condemned as "formalist" by Stalin's regime had the following trait:

Copland's Appalachian Spring was originally concieved as a ballet, but it's most frequently performed in a version for:

In which opera genre(s) did Mozart write?

The incorporation of a passage of existing music into a new piece is called: