Neoclassicism. Which sentence is the most accurate?

The model can be any kind of music

Belgian group of eclectic composers

Cowell-Partch-Varèse. What is the most accurate?

bridge between first and second half of the 20th century

Charles Ives. What is NOT correct?

What schools teach you is more important than own experience.

Definition ‘postmodernism’. What is NOT correct?

Postmodernism comes áfter modernism

Hindemith: style changes

from dadaism to neoclassicism to integration of romantic

Karel Goeyvaerts. What is NOT correct?

Immediate appreciated in the years ‘50

The composer can use different styles within one work

mostly tonal interpretation of a tonal original

The Schönberg concert organisation was called:

Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen

Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire

Claude Debussy. What is NOT correct?

from impressionism towards expressionism

Doctrinair neoclassicism. What is NOT correct?

The state dictates, but is not repressive.

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1
“everything we do is music”
Oneliner by Morton Feldman
Futurist Manifesto
Oneliner by John Cage
Dadaist Manifesto
2
Neoclassicism. Which sentence is the most accurate?
The model is classical music
The model is music from the classical period
The model can be any kind of music
There is no model
3
New Simplicity
Brian Ferneyhough
Gavin Bryars
Leading to postmodernism in Engeland
Brian Eno
4
equidistribution / precomposition
Serialism
Dodecaphony
Aleatory
Postmodernism
5
Philip Glass. What is NOT correct?
Two Pages
Additive rhythm
Clapping Music
Einstein on the Beach
6
Synthetists
Belgian group of eclectic composers
Dutch group of eclectic composers
name of an ensemble for Contemporary Music
French group of eclectic composers
7
Schaeffer / Henry. What is NOT correct?
Expressionism
Tape editing
Musique Concrète
Samples
8
Arvo Pärt. What is NOT correct?
Clear representant of postmodernism
Tintinnabuli-style
Einstein on the Beach
Tabula Rasa
9
Krzysztof Penderecki
Threnos (Hiroshima)
Stimmung
Change towards content: Lukaspassion
Avantgarde from the early years ‘60
10
instrumental theater
Alban Berg
Philip Glass
Erik Satie
Maurizio Kagel
11
Entartete Kunst. What is NOT correct?
Jazz
Schönberg
Mahler
Wagner
12
Pierre Boulez. What is NOT correct?
He likes chance operations
Main character of serialism
IRCAM
‘Structures’
13
Cowell-Partch-Varèse. What is the most accurate?
Traditionalists
Second half 20th century (sound expansion)
First half 20th century (neoclassicism, expressionism)
bridge between first and second half of the 20th century
14
Charles Ives. What is NOT correct?
The Unanswered Question
Transcendentalism
What schools teach you is more important than own experience.
Concord Sonate
15
Definition ‘postmodernism’. What is NOT correct?
Postmodernism stands next to modernism
Narrow: only the composers who are not dealing with originality
Wide: everything since ca. 1980 is postmodern
Postmodernism comes áfter modernism
16
Unterweisung im Tonsatz
Hineininterpretierung
Hindeburg
Schönberg
Hindemith
17
Chaos (muddle) instead of music
Sjostakovitsj
Indeterminacy
Cage
Aleatory
18
Hindemith: style changes
from dadaism to neoclassicism to integration of romantic
from romantic to neoclassicism to dadaism
from romantic to dadaism to neoclassicism
there are no style changes in his works
19
Terry Riley. What is NOT correct?
Phase shifting
repetitive - minimal - improvisation
in C (1964)
Loop and delay
20
Neue Einfachheit. What is NOT correct?
Term rejected by the composers
Strikingly simple music
Wolfgang Rihm
Leading to postmodernism
21
Ircam. What is NOT correct?
Paris
Pärt
Boulez
Computer
22
The artistic inventor of loop/delay
Lamonte Young
Terry Riley
Steve Reich
Philip Glass
23
tintinnabuli. What is NOT correct?
Arvo Pärt
Consonance
Triad
Tintin
24
Conlon Nancarrow. What is NOT correct?
Appreciated since the years ‘60
He influences Ligeti
Player Piano
Simple writing
25
prepared piano. What is NOT correct?
irreversible
John Cage
percussion sound
reversible
26
Frederic Rzewski. What is NOT correct?
Pianist
Continuining modernism
The People United Will Never Be Defeated
“I have no style”
27
Karel Goeyvaerts. What is NOT correct?
Immediate appreciated in the years ‘50
Nr.1. for two piano’s
Pioneer of serialism
Pioneer of electronic music in Belgium
28
Chance. What is NOT correct?
Aleatory
Serialism
Improvisation
Indeterminacy
29
Pierrot Lunaire. What is NOT correct?
French composer
Schönberg
Sprechstimme
clown
30
About Futurism and Dadaism. What is correct?
Futurisme ≠ modernism
Futurism = anti-Art
Futurism = Dadaïsm
Dadaïsm = anti-Art
31
Theremin. What is NOT correct?
Electronic
Lev Thermen
Russia
Keyboard
32
György Ligeti. What is NOT correct?
Ionisation (ensemble)
Poème symphonique (100 metronoms)
Continuum (harpsichord)
Atmosphères (orchestra)
33
Bad boy in music
Cage
Antheil
Cowell
Varèse
34
phase shifting
LaMonte Young
Steve Reich
Philip Glass
Terry Riley
35
Eclecticism
The composer is not concerned about styles
The composer can use different styles within one work
The composer has one style within one composition
The composer has one style throughout all his works
36
Sequenza’s. What is NOT correct?
Luciano Berio
Based on gregorian chant
Solo compositions
Expansion of sound
37
Few compositions, quite short (e.g. Bagatellen)
Schönberg
Weber
Webern
Berg
38
Pulcinella
fully atonal interpretation of a tonal original
fully tonal interpretation of a tonal original
fully tonal new interpretation of an atonal original
mostly tonal interpretation of a tonal original
39
Tom Johnson. What is NOT correct?
Music for 88
Counting numbers
Four Note Opera
Loop & delay
40
Ionisation. What is NOT correct?
Varèse
Part of an opera
Sirenes
Percussion
41
The Schönberg concert organisation was called:
Verein für künstliche Privataufführungen
Wiener Verein für Privataufführungen
Verein für musikalische Privatkonzerten
Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen
42
Dodecaphony. What is NOT correct?
composition goal in itself
Developed in 1923
tool to organise a composition
Schönberg
43
Sprechstimme.
Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire
Cathy Berberian: Stripsody
Kurt Weill
Kurt Schwitters: Ursonate
44
Claude Debussy. What is NOT correct?
from impressionism towards expressionism
from impressionism towards neoclassicism
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Pelléas et Mélisande
45
Schönberg: Second Stringquartet. What is NOT correct?
Ich fühle Luft von anderen Planeten
start of free atonality
1923
combination with voice
46
Second Vienese School. What is NOT correct?
Berg
Mahler
Schönberg
Webern
47
Fluxus. What is NOT correct?
Boulez
the unique experience
LaMonte Young
years ‘60
48
Dadaïsm. What is NOT correct?
Schwitters: Sonate mit Urlauten
Russolo
Merz-product
Satie
49
Doctrinair neoclassicism. What is NOT correct?
The state dictates, but is not repressive.
Stalin - Hitler
The state dictates, what is ‘Western formalism’.
The state dictates, what is ‘Entartete Kunst’.
50
Le Sacre du Printemps. What is NOT correct?
Scandal
Vivaldi
Ballet
Stravinsky
51
musique d’ameublement
Darius Milhaud
Claude Debussy
percussion composition for furniture
Erik Satie
52
Political engagement and expressionism. What is NOT correct?
Dreigroschenoper
Socialist ideology
Art music for the elite
Kurt Weill
53
Wozzeck. What is NOT correct?
Opera
Anton von Webern
Free atonality
‘B’ as symbol of death
54
‘modes à transpositions limitées’. What is NOT correct?
Tonal centrum is possible
Olivier Messiaen
Technique de mon langage musical
is the same as Schönberg’s dodecaphony
55
‘Klangfarbenmelodie’
Schönberg
Debussy
Hindemith
Messiaen
56
Transcendentalism. What is NOT correct?
transparancy
Ives
Concord Sonate
Thoreau
57
Cage Circle. What is NOT correct?
David Tudor
Christian Wolff
Morton Feldman
Stockhausen
58
paradox of postmodernism
There is no paradox
Postmodernism does not come after modernism
The intention to be innovative results in some not-innovative
The intention to be not-innovative results in some innovative
59
Structures by Boulez. What is NOT correct?
Aleatory
Precomposition
Equidistribution
Serialism
60
“Art does not express anything”
Anton von Webern
Arnold Schönberg
Igor Stravinsky
Alban Berg
61
One could consider Fauré & Duparc to be...
pre-indeterminists
pre-expressionists
pre-serialists
pre-impressionists
62
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. What is NOT correct?
sonority prevails on harmonic function
impressionism
written for piano
Debussy
63
Erik Satie. What is NOT correct?
Influenced by Debussy
Dadaïsm
Addition technique
Simultaneity of several artforms
64
Illiac Suite. What is NOT correct?
Lejaren Hiller
Computer
USA
Stockhausen
65
Karlheinz Stockhausen. What is NOT correct?
Le marteau sans maître
One of the pioneers of electronic music
Stimmung: towards ‘meaning’
Kreuzspiel
66
Les Six. What is NOT correct?
Tailleferre - Honegger - Durey
Focus on ‘high’ art
Poulenc - Milhaud - Auric
Satie as a ‘godfather’
67
Traditionalism. What is NOT correct?
Sibelius
Schwitters
Rachmaninov
Langgaard
68
Darmstadt. What is NOT correct?
Summer course Avant-Garde
Germany
Connection medicines and music
Second half 20th century
69
Kreuzspiel
Arnold Schönberg
Karel Goeyvaerts
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Jesus Christ
70
Dmitrij Sjostakovitsj. What is NOT correct?
Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk
Doctrinair neoclassicism
Supports faithfully the socialistic realism
Chaos (muddle) instead of music
71
Maurice Ravel as composer is a ...
expressionist
traditionalist
impressionist
neoclassicist
72
additive rhythm. What is NOT correct?
Ionisation
Philip Glass
Olivier Messiaen
Link with Indian râga’s
73
Poème Symphonique. What is NOT correct?
100 metronoms
micropolyphony
György Ligeti
programm music
74
Steve Reich. What is NOT correct?
Phase shifting
Drumming
The Well-Tuned Piano
Piano Phase
75
Morton Feldman. What is NOT correct?
Cage Circle
Minimalist
Palais de Mari
point of departure: ‘sound’
76
TEST: Obama. What is NOT correct?
White
President
Yes we can
Obama care
77
John Cage. What is NOT correct?
4’33”
Ego focused art
Indeterminacy
Prepared piano
78
Scratch Orchestra
Carrington Corr
Coriolanus Cross
Cornelius Cardew
Cardelius Cornew
79
Musique concrète. What is NOT correct?
Pierre Schaeffer - Pierre Henry
Sample
Sjostakovitsj
Tape recorder
80
TEST: At the Belgian coast you will find
Eastern Sea
Southern Sea
Northern Sea
Western Sea
81
George Antheil. What is NOT correct?
Ballet méchanique
Composing in second half of the 20th century
Bad boy in music
jazz-elements integrated
82
Music of Changes. What is NOT correct?
Prepared piano
John Cage
Chance actions
I Ching
83
Lovely Music
Robert Ashton
Easy listening
Robert Ashley
Muzak
84
Igor Stravinsky. What is NOT correct?
Pierrot Lunaire
Pulcinella
neoclassicist
Sacre du Printemps
85
Ondes Martenot. What is NOT correct?
Olivier Messiaen
Martellato technique
Jacques Brel
Electronic
86
Belá Bartók. What is NOT correct?
sonata for violon solo with quarter tones
Totally neoclassical
Typical pizzicato
Castle of Duke Bluebeard
87
Alfred Schnittke
Serialism
Minimal music
Polystylistic
Phase shifting
88
4’33” . What is NOT correct?
Cage
three parts
indeterminacy
symbolism connected to numbers
89
Sergei Prokofiev. What is NOT correct?
Luitenant Kiev
Classical Symphony
Romantic Symphony
Chess
90
Composer with 31 opusnumbers, about 5 hours music.
Berg
Weill
Schönberg
von Webern
91
Aphoristic writing by Webern.
compact tessiture
compact orchestration
compact duration
compact pitch
92
‘valeur ajoutée’. What is NOT correct?
Additive rhythm
Messiaen
Inspired by Indian râga’s
Divisional rhythm
93
Jean Cocteau. What is NOT correct?
Dandy
Satie
Martenot
Les Six
94
Inclusive thinking. What is NOT correct?
Charles Ives
Henry Cowell
Pierre Boulez
John Cage
95
Lyrical Suite. What is NOT correct?
Berg
dodecaphony
Sprechstimme
romantism
96
LaMonte Young. What is NOT correct?
Well-tuned piano
Just Intonation
Minimal composer
Strictly repetitive
97
Paul Hindemith. What is NOT correct?
Sachlichheit
Unterweisung im Tonsatz
Totally expressionistic
Two style changes
98
Choir movement
Claude Debussy
Anton von Webern
Jean Sibelius
Carl Orff
99
Stochastic music. What is NOT correct?
Based on total freedom of the performer
Calculation of probability
Metastasis
Iannis Xenakis
100
Aleksandr Skrjabin. What is NOT correct?
Synesthesy
He uses micro-tons
Constructivistic approach
Mystical esthetics

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