Unit 3 Exam Prep

There are forty-eight different possible orderings of twelve pitch classes.

The 2nd Viennese School composer who used the idea of serialization most rigorously was Anton Webern.

The term “impressionism” was borrowed for music from painting.

___ extended the principle of serialization of to other elements of music besides pitch organization

Arnold Schoenberg was an expressionist artist not only as a composer.

The concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk has been applied to advanced musical genres in the late twentieth century.

In the 1950s the style of rhythm and blues combined with country-western music to produce

The term “Klangfarbenmelodie” is used to identify music with seamless structure without cadential articulations.

Stravinsky’s ballet L’Oiseau de feu's primitivism shocked the Parisian audience at its premiere

The ___ scale provides no feeling of tonal direction because all intervals are equal in size

Phasing is an important musical feature in third stream music.

Extended techniques are applied exclusively to acoustical instruments and do not involve electronics.

The aesthetic viewpoint of Charles Ives was most strongly influenced by the thinking of

The most important element of style in impressionist music is

Uses of unconventional methods of producing sound from the voice or orchestral instruments are generally referred to as

Ives was not only a composer but also a writer.

The first electronic music was composed before 1950.

The roots of expressionism were in late-nineteenth-century literary realism.

Luigi Russolo, George Antheil, Edgard Varèse, Henry Cowell, Harry Partch, and John Cage were known as the "six."

Music composed by the manipulation of tape-recorded “live” sounds was known as

Ferruccio Busoni’s Draft for a new esthetic of music supported the __ movement

A tone row presented upside down and backwards is in

The aesthetic basis for impressionism in music was a new acoustical theory invented by physicists

___ was classically trained but had his first successes as a popular composer, incorporated jazz styles into his works

Twelve-tone materials can be successfully combined with tonal materials in musical compositions.

The composition of aleatory music requires the use of dice.

Percussive timbres, pounding irregular rhythms, and dissonant harmonies are characteristic of ___ music

This vocal style in which the performer uses the timbre of regular speech but follows a contour of high and low pitch

The Western musical tradition was infiltrated by foreign influence in the end of the twentieth century.

Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire follows in the tradition of the song cycle.

The city of Darmstadt in Germany became an important center for new music after World War II.

The leader of ___ was Arnold Schoenberg

An important group of six young neoclassical composers arose in ___ in around 1920

Cubist painters, the Bauhaus school of architecture and design, and neoclassic composers all shared a desire to achieve

John Cage was one of the leading figures in the employment of ___ in music.

Paul Himdemith espoused the idea of functional music or ___, as he called it

Because the Beatles came to the US from England, their music represents the earliest phase of rhythm and blues.

A non-retrogradable rhythm is one in which the durations are arranged to form a(n)

The nonfunctional harmonies in impressionist music resemble the use of stream-of-consciousness technique in literature

The communist philosophy in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s tended to foster a conservative musical style.

Western musical culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is not characterized by unity in musical style.

Stream of consciousness is to literary expressionism as ___ is (are) to expressionism in music

The American composer ___ composed several important ballet and film scores in the 1930s and 1940s

___ pioneered in the use of collage technique in musical composition

The composers Erik Satie and Charles Ives shared several traits.

Rock music, the tradition of Stravinsky, and the avant-garde are combined in the music of

The nationality most closely associated with the impressionist movement was

Milton Babbitt’s musical technique stems from his background as a poet.

The most commonly employed system for the organized composition of atonal music after WWI was the 12 tone method of

The ideal for Soviet music in the post-revolutionary period was

A(n) ____ helped a composer produce serial music in an electronic studio.

Charles Ives made a tremendous impression on the musical world and on the development of styles when before WWI

Total control in music developed from the principles of ___ as an approach to composition.

Ives’ Second Piano Sonata is named for the city of

John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman contributed to the development of the musical style of

The purpose of the twelve-tone method of composition was to support the new theory of equal temperament

Alban Berg’s Wozzeck adopts classic musical forms to organize its musical structure.

The music of Béla Bartók was influenced by his musicological research into the music of Heinrich Isaac.

Jazz included elements of African-American and Western traditional musics.

The music of the movement known as ___ techniques deliberately intended to create public appeal in new music