Unit 6 Review

Question 1

Which conductor introduced the idea of “pops” concerts which orchestras play popular music instead of only classical?

Accepted Answer

Leopold Stokowski

Question 2

Which term names an instrumental composition associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene?

Accepted Answer

program music

Question 3

Early on, the first violin player kept the beat. Why were they replaced by an official conductor?

Accepted Answer

The orchestra became too big for all musicians to see

Question 4

Which style music often incorporates native folk songs and dances from the composer's homeland?

Accepted Answer

nationalistic music

Question 5

What was one activity of the Russian Five?

Accepted Answer

They established a national style of music for their country

Question 6

With which type of music is Claude Debussy typically associated?

Accepted Answer

impressionism

Question 7

Berlioz wrote a story for Symphonie Fantastique that was printed in the program. What type of music is it?

Accepted Answer

program symphony

Question 8

What did composers during the Romantic period use music to express?

Accepted Answer

emotion and feeling

Question 9

Which type of music is music that is composed by the random selection of pitches, tone color, and rhythms?

Accepted Answer

chance music

Question 10

Art songs were written displaying a wide variety of styles. What common element do they share?

Accepted Answer

poetry

Question 11

Which piece of music caused a riot in 1913?

Accepted Answer

The Rite of Spring Ballet by Igor Stravinsky

Question 12

Which American composer was known as "The March King" for his marches that inspire patriotism?

Accepted Answer

Sousa

Question 13

Which type of music are Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini known for composing?

Accepted Answer

operas

Question 14

Which of the following does not belong?

Accepted Answer

art song

Question 15

What important twentieth-century theoretical model did Arnold Schoenberg develop?

Accepted Answer

twelve-tone system

Question 16

How are Clara Schumann and Mozart related?

Accepted Answer

They both toured as child prodigies.

Question 17

Why is Tchaikovsky not considered part of the Russian Five?

Accepted Answer

His music combined Russian traditions with Western techniques

Question 18

What kind of music is the twelve-tone system an example of?

Accepted Answer

atonal music

Question 19

Which composer is Brahms a successor to?

Accepted Answer

Beethoven

Question 20

Who is considered to be America's first nationalist composer?

Accepted Answer

Charles Ives

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