Exam 3/Final Review 201

52.Pictures at an Exhibition is considered

20. “Night piece” is the definition of a

74.The major works of Stravinsky’s early period were

34.What are the two most important elements of Wagner’s operatic style?

28.Who composed Rigoletto?

65.In the early twentieth century, harmony

19.Which statement about character pieces is FALSE?

6.    Who composed Nocturne in F-sharp?

41.The Nibelung’s Ring is based on

61.Which composer is sometimes called an impressionist and sometimes a symbolist?

75.A combination of song and speech is called

9.    The Fantastic Symphony is a(n)

12.Who was NOT a Romantic composer?

79.Highly intellectual, constructive tendencies led some composers of the postwar avant-garde to

21.Frédéric Chopin did NOT compose

17.Which statement is FALSE?

Music with certain elements left unspecified, allowing them to be determined by the performers or other circumstances

38.Who wrote the texts for Richard Wagner’s operas?

36.Which term refers to a synthesis of many of the arts into one unified work, or “total work of art”?

57.Brahms composed in many genres but did NOT write any

7.    Nocturne in F-sharp is a

14.The nineteenth-century German genre consisting of a musical setting of a short poem for voice and piano is the

4.    Which best describes the mood of “Eusebius”?

77.Who composed Appalachian Spring?

71.Who composed Pierrot lunaire?

50.What is characteristic of all nationalistic music?

90.Concert music composition since the 1970s has been marked by

56.What great Romantic-era composer was a musical friend of Johannes Brahms?

45.Who composed Pictures at an Exhibition?

67.The Rite of Spring is a(n)

43.Light operas from the nineteenth century containing spoken dialogue, light tunes, and dancing are called

8.    Who composed the Fantastic Symphony?

37.What did Wagner call his new style of opera in the 1850s?

73.The premiere of The Rite of Spring was famous for

84.An example of chance music is

80.Post–World War II composers were intent on

76.Arnold Schoenberg's method that guarantees that no one pitch in the chromatic scale is more important than the others

11.The special effect of col legno in the violins that is heard toward the end of mvt. 5 of Fantastic Symphony is the

2.    “Im wunderschönen Monat Mai” is part of a(n)

29. “La donna è mobile” is a(n)

42.What became of Wagner’s leitmotiv technique?

12.Who was NOT a Romantic composer?

53.Modest Musorgsky’s music reflects

31.What important role does the orchestra play in the first scene of The Valkyrie?

89.With which musical style is Steve Reich associated?

26.The Fantastic Symphony includes a(n)

5.    “Eusebius” is a

69.Which statement about The Rite of Spring is FALSE?

86.The father of chance music is

23.The composer __________ is generally regarded as the most flamboyant pianist of the Romantic era.

13.The English translation of the German word Lied is

87.John Cage’s 4′ 33″ consists of

Which late Romantic composer responded to the unbridled emotionalism of Romanticism w/ a return to Viennese Classicism?

30.Who composed The Valkyrie?

16.A song cycle is a(n)

60.What is one way in which Stravinsky departed from the Romantic style?

40.Which statement about The Nibelung’s Ring is FALSE?

70. The Rite of Spring does NOT include

47.What characterizes the focus of the arts from the 1850s on?

85.The first performance of Poème électronique included

The chief composers associated with the early phase of modernism—Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg—were members of the

39.Which allows a composer to show what a character is thinking even though something else is being said in the text?

66.Who composed The Rite of Spring?

The style of music in which simple melodies, motives, & harmonies are repeated many times and change gradually is called

15.Schubert wrote nearly seven hundred

11.The special effect of col legno in the violins that is heard toward the end of mvt. 5 of Fantastic Symphony is the

1.    Who composed “Im wunderschönen Monat Mai”?

10.Because of much of the orchestration, the mood of the fifth movement of the Fantastic Symphony can be described as

72.The vocal technique heard in Pierrot lunaire is

82.The use of recorded sounds from life is called

3.    Which was true of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes?

35.Wagner was as well known for his __________ as he was for his operas.

49.In which category is a symphonic poem different from a concert overture?

59.Which musical elements were questioned in the modernist movement?

68.The opening theme of The Rite of Spring is played by the

What element in the first piece of Pictures helps depict the composer walking aimlessly through an art gallery?

63.Schoenberg’s reference to “the emancipation of dissonance” meant emancipation from the need to

33.Many of Verdi’s early operas are associated with

10.Because of much of the orchestration, the mood of the fifth movement of the Fantastic Symphony can be described as

In the 19th C, what instrument was the most likely to be used for the great profusion of Romantic miniatures?

55.The lifelong model for Brahms was

81.Which family of the orchestra underwent the most growth and innovation in the post–World War II era?

62.The composer who originated serialism is

22.Which statement about Franz Liszt is FALSE?

78.Appalachian Spring is a(n)

27.Which composer had an extraordinary imagination for orchestral tone color?

48.An orchestral work that is composed in one movement and has a free form and a program is called a

51.The term kuchka refers to

24.Which is true of program music?

44.Who composed Romeo and Juliet?