Graduate Quiz Section Three

One of the earliest modernist compositions commonly regarded as neoclassical is

In the example below, the orchestral passage in mm.3-6 functions as all the following except

Contrast btwn composers Vincent d'Indy + Francis Poulenc vividly shows the aesthetic dichotomy 

Composers marginalized/subjugated regions Europe + new world...their unique cultural identities

Indie rock achieved commercial prominence in the 1990s due to success of grunge bands from

All of the following operas were based on poems and stories by Alexander Pushkin except

The earliest atonal compositions included

What is one reason for the development of a repertoire of standing classics by past composers?

The modernist techniques of atonality/dissonance/layering/juxtaposition have influenced

In which of the following works did Stravinsky adopt technique from Schoenberg's 12 tone method

Which of the following works best exemplifies the aesthetics of Gebrauchsmusik?

The late 19th century French taste for exoticism is reflected in the following operas except

The metaphor of musical collage aptly describes the compositional techniques applied in

The composer most responsible for establishing the conventions of grand opera was

In the 1960s, Ornette Coleman and his ensemble developed a style of jazz known as

The concept of nonretrogradable rhythm describes how a rhythmic pattern

That Gounod's Faust  was first performed as an opera comique indicates that it

Which of the following works best illustrates expressionist musical style?

Which of the following most accurately describes early 20th century modernist music?

Contrasting diatonic and chromatic musical idiom in Wagner...contrast of reality and fantasy in

The form of the standard mid-nineteenth century American march was

Rossini spent his last four decades in Paris mainly

Schumann's Symphony No. 4 uses as a model

When we claim Penderecki's Threnody or Xenakis's Metastaseis... by processes, we mean that 

A prominent precedent for late nineteenth century techniques of thematic transformation in

Which acronym designate a format used to compress audio files by removing inaudible frequencies

In the example below, what evidence would most strongly indicate that the composer is Ravel?

The texts of La bonne chanson are poems by

The proponents of the New German School and those of absolute music both believed that

Band transcriptions were primarily intended to

Edvard Grieg's style was strongly influenced by

In compositions such as his 1964 String Quartet and Third Symphony, Witold Lutoslawski uses

Antonin Dvorak's first impression of African American Music were gained from

Varese's concept of sound mass challenged traditional ideas of musical rhetoric by deemphasizin

Crucial difference btwn. repertoires of the Paris Opera and that city's Opera-Comique was that

After World War II, the American folk music movement

Beethoven's late style is characterized by all of the following except

In the example below

The graphic notation used by Earle Brown in his composition December 1952 indicates

Signs of change in the classical orchestral world 2008/2010 and number of performances dropped 

In the 1950s Frederick Fennell/students from Eastman organized an important ensemble performing

Beethoven turned away from the extroverted, heroic style of his middle-period works because

Opening diplomatic relations btwn. USA and Japan in the mid-19th century provided the plot of

The description of much early 20th century music as post-tonal refers to

The American composers organizations (International Composers Guild/League of Composers) goal

Brahm's First Symphony shows the influence of 

Amy Beach's musical career was marked by all of the following except

Bluegrass and bebop both

Heroic narrative implicit in Beethoven's 5th Symphony is conveyed partly through

The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet is

Composers engaged with contemporary society most directly in their cultivation of

Which of the following statements is true of Krenek, Gershwin, Copland and Milhaud?

Amy Beach's musical career was marked by all of the following except

German Romantic Opera is distinguished most sharply from contemporary French and Italian opera

In the example below, the procedure evident in the harmonies of mm1-6 is most accurately 

A typical Rossini overture comprises

Important examples of grand opera include all the following except

The main function of the tempo di mezzo in a typical Rossinian opera scene is to

The form of the standard mid-19th century march was

Although different in many ways, Bejamin Britten and George Crumb had in common their

Settings of lyrical poetry in the early nineteenth century tend to

Important examples of grand opera include all of the following except

The fifth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique depicts

The gates in John Adam's piano work Phrygian Gates refers to

The composition below contains all of the following traits of Beethoven's late style ^except

Literary sources for popular operas 1820/30 included works by all the following authors except

In the years 1792-1794, Beethoven studied counterpoint and composition with

Settings of lyric poetry in the early nineteenth century tend to

Music for Prague 1968 is

The fourth movement of Brahm's fourth symphony testifies to the composer's interest in 

Ballet was an important compositional genre for all of the following except

In the USA, avant-garde composers of postwar decades were widely and most often supported by

Opera was largely neglected by British composers in the 19th century due to

Beethoven's Third Symphony demonstrates how the composer

Between the 1700s and 1850s the production of piano and publication of composition increased

Conservatories were established in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the

Both Orphee aux enfers and The Pirates of Penzance

Which of the following composers spent a significant part of his career working in the USA?

The four pitch musical motive D-E flat - C-B is a musical cipher of 

Bedrich Smetana's Tabor is based on

Neotonality and polytonality are predominant compositional idioms in

Klangfarbenmelodie is

The American composers' organizations-International Composers Guild + League of Composers goal

John Cage shows the strongest affinity to the aesthetics/procedures of art in which works?

The mission of the Art Ensemble of Chicago was to

Indie rock achieved commercial prominence in the 1990s due the success of grunge bands from

Tan Dun and Paul McCartney share an interest in and have appropriated techniques and ideas from

Auto-tune is a type of

Which composer's legacy was the most lasting and influential in the 19th century?

Piano emerged as an important and widely used instrument in the 19th century largely because

Each of the following musicians was associated with the musical style known as soul except

The Grey Album is historically significant because it was 

Which of the following is an example of how modernist composers stretch the meaning of symphony

Sixteenth century music served as a model for

Eugene Scribe was

Of the following composers, who was the only one to reside in Europe during World War II?

Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem is a setting of texts from

Splintering of pop music audiences in first decades of the 21st century can be attributed to 

In Catholic music- 2nd quarter of the 19th century, what composer's style of music was revived?

Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of

1964 marked

What important trait does Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande share with Wagner's mature operas?

Parker's Anthropology is linked to the Tin Pan Alley tradition on account of borrowing from

Glinka's and Rimsky-Korsakov's influence on Stravinsky is seen most clearly in

What is the one way in which English choral societies impacted music in Anglican churches?

Music for strings, percussion, and celesta illustrates Bartok's use of all elements except

Schoenberg's argument for atonality was based in part on his observation that

Virtuosity was a self-consciously cultivated stylistic element in which of the following genres

Metric modulation is a technique associated with

The first major electronic composition to exploit multiple sound tracks was

In his Op. 131 string quartet, Beethoven reorders the traditional symphonic movements as follow

In Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, Schumann renders the poems meaning especially through his use of

Eusebius and Florestan are

In the excerpt below

Steve Reich's musical style and technique underwent a shift in the 1980s from

Nationalist compositions like Musorgsky's Pictures and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances were with

The aesthetic difference between the New German School and the adherents of absolute music lay 

In this example, the orchestral passage in mm. 3-6 functions as all of the following except

Men's choruses were comprised of 

Louis Gottschalk's career resembles Franz Liszt's in all following respects except

Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of

The division of Beethoven's life into three periods was

Which of the following claims is true of Janacek's music?

The song Hound Dog is a good example of

Beethoven's music most closely mirrored post-French revolutionary social changes in

The description of early 20th century music as "post-tonal" refers to 

In reform Judaism

Over the course of his career, Mahler

When composing atonal music, Schoenberg found an unsurmountable problem that the atonal idiom

Literary sources for popular operas in 1820/1850 included these authors except

The most popularized divisive conflicts among musicians and composers was that between

The plot of La Traviata is a good example of mid-nineteenth century