Scriabin viewed music as a

way to transcend daily experience and access divine ecstasy.

How is Le Tombeau de Couperin linked to World War I?

Each movement is dedicated to a friend of Ravel's who had died in the war.

In The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto, Luigi Russolo opined

instrumental sounds were irrelevant & music based on noise would emerge

The avant-garde differed from modernists in that they

directly challenged the canon and tradition.

Janáèek's style involves

repeated and juxtaposed sonorities, harmonies, motives, and tone colors tha

How does Debussy's music resemble a symbolists approach to poetry?

Common-practice harmonic resolution is avoided

Throughout his career, Vaughn Williams worked as

a conductor of local amateur singers and players.

Debussy's approach to modernism involved

pleasure, non-German models, & lack of harmonic resolution.

Debussy's L'Isle joyeuse features

a succession of distinct motives.

How did Ralph Vaughn Williams assist English composers in asserting their national identities in art music?

He collected and published folk songs.

In his piano music, how did Eric Satie critique concert music?

Only performers could read the commentary on the score, not in the program.

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1
Each of Scriabin's compositions is organized around a
source chord.
tone row.
non-Western scale.
Classical form.
2
Scriabin viewed music as a
means to increase academic performance in mathematics and science.
way to provide audiences with light entertainment and stress relief.
way to transcend daily experience and access divine ecstasy.
practical means of enculturation and propaganda.
3
How is Le Tombeau de Couperin linked to World War I?
Ravel wrote it while incarcerated as a POW.
Ravel depicted the process of collective grief, documenting public commemor
It served as the national rallying song.
Each movement is dedicated to a friend of Ravel's who had died in the war.
4
Which of the following works by Debussy inhabit the tradition of French Baroque keyboard music?
Suite bergamasque
Prélude à "L'Après-midi d'un faune"
L'Isle joeuse
Children's Corner
5
In The Art of Noises: Futurist Manifesto, Luigi Russolo opined
classical traditions would endure through the modernist crisis.
precomposed music was obsolete and future music would be improvised.
the rhythm was not necessary & music became static blocks of noise
instrumental sounds were irrelevant & music based on noise would emerge
6
Debussy's music is often connected to
post-Romantics.
symbolism.
dada.
expressionism.
7
In Nuages, Debussy suggests clouds by employing motives, scales, and
leitmotifs.
melodies.
timbre.
functional harmony.
8
Which composer used Spanish folk songs to assert his nationality?
Maurice Ravel
Alexander Scriabin
Manuel de Falla
Edward Elgar
9
Debussy's Prélude à "L'Après-midi d'un faune" is based on a symbolist poem by
Maeterlink.
Verlaine.
Mallarmé.
Baudelaire.
10
The avant-garde differed from modernists in that they
directly challenged the canon and tradition.
sought to imbue their works with non-Western influence.
appealed to the general public.
worked to continue older traditions.
11
In Scriabin's Vers la Flamme, tritones of the referential sonority resolve to
an octave.
a sixth.
a third.
a fifth.
12
Janáèek's style involves
incorporation of folk-song elements into music that was often highly access
a wide range of techniques that thumb their nose at Western traditions.
repeated and juxtaposed sonorities, harmonies, motives, and tone colors tha
harmonic stasis and timbral complexity, with inflections of non-Western mus
13
How does Debussy's music resemble a symbolists approach to poetry?
Common-practice harmonic resolution is avoided
Eighteenth-century harmonies & French forms, including suites emphasized
Extended Wagnerian harmonies and programmatic techniques create modernized
Harmony is vague, slow to change, and out of focus.
14
Throughout his career, Vaughn Williams worked as
organist at York Minster cathedral.
conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
pianist at a nightclub.
a conductor of local amateur singers and players.
15
Debussy's approach to modernism involved
combining a # of borrowed melodies w/ collage techniques.
drawing on elements from his Russian past.
Wagnerian harmonies & large forms that resolved dramatical
pleasure, non-German models, & lack of harmonic resolution.
16
Debussy's only completed opera is
Pelléas et Mélisande.
Manon.
Salome.
Tristan und Isolde.
17
Serge Rachmaninoff made most of his money as a
musicologist.
conductor.
pianist.
critic.
18
Le Tombeau de Couperin is an example of
neoclassicism.
expressionism.
symbolism.
dada.
19
Debussy's L'Isle joyeuse features
simplicity so stark that it pokes fun at increasing complexities of art mus
high chromaticism in an expanded sonata form.
leitmotifs whose transformations relate the narrative.
a succession of distinct motives.
20
What is one way in which Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin reflects modernism?
extended sonata form
tone rows
whole tone scales
parallel triads
21
One component of Sibelius's musical style was
harmonic stasis.
block construction.
motivic repetition.
leitmotifs.
22
Rachmaninoff's compositions reflect
impressionism.
neoclassicism.
symbolism.
Romantic tradition.
23
How did Ralph Vaughn Williams assist English composers in asserting their national identities in art music?
He collected and published folk songs.
He edited a critical edition of English Renaissance composers.
He founded a concert society that produced young English composers' work.
He wrote one of the first histories of English music.
24
In addition to French impressionism, Ravel was greatly influenced by
dada.
Wagner.
Classical style.
the Mighty Five.
25
In his piano music, how did Eric Satie critique concert music?
He incorporated toilets and trash cans into his performances.
He insisted his music never be performed in concert but played by amateurs
He wrote compositions for instruments made from vegetables.
Only performers could read the commentary on the score, not in the program.
26
Who said: "There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law."?
Maurice Ravel
Erik Satie
Claude Debussy
Alexander Scriabin

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