Combined: Wright, 2e, Chapter 16 + Wright, 2e- Chapter 15- Impressionism + Wright, 2e- Chapt...

Question 1

This 20th c. movement adapted the genres and ideals of the Baroque and classical periods to new pieces.

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Neoclassicism

Question 2

Bernstein's West Side Story updates the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues to a feud between

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The Jets and the Sharks

Question 3

What is the name of the composers who wanted to create music distinct from German and Italian?

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Russian Five

Question 4

Pictures at an exhibition is united by music that portrays a listener walking through the gate.

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True

Question 5

Who wrote Pictures at an Exhibition

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Musorgsky

Question 6

This composer's works most closely displayed Impressionism in music

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Debussy

Question 7

What is the purpose of 12 tone music?

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To create music with 12 equal tones

Question 8

What is a prepared piano?

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Screws, bolts, washers, etc are placed on the strings

Question 9

A performer with a high degree of skill and ability

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virtuoso

Question 10

Gottschalk was a piano virtuoso who concertized in Europe, the Caribbean, South American, and

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U. S.

Question 11

This American folk opera was written by George Gershwin.

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Porgy and Bess

Question 12

This American composer left America and then later returned with the goal of creating a distinct American style.

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Copland

Question 13

The arrangement of tones in 12 tone music is called

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a tone row

Question 14

Serialism is music that places pitch, timbre, rhythm and dynamics in a fixed order.

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True

Question 15

Modernism rejects beauty and uses strong dissonances to shake the audience out of complacency

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True

Question 16

The first part of The Great Gate of Kiev portrays

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a listener walking through the gate

Question 17

This early 20th c. movement was in Berlin and Vienna. It aims to express the strong emotions evoked in the musician

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Expressionism

Question 18

This piece only uses background sounds

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4' 33"

Question 19

This ballet is set in the early 1800's in Pennsylvania

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Appalachian Spring

Question 20

The first country to develop its own musical tradition apart from German and Italian music

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Russia

Question 21

This event marked the end of the Jazz Age

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great depression

Question 22

The Russian composer Igor Stravinsky lived in France and became a U. S. citizen

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True

Question 23

Which art form was first associated with the term Impressionism?

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painting

Question 24

Playing more than one string simultaneously on a violin.

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double stop

Question 25

This late 19th c. movement arose in France. It rejects photorealism in painting and tries to recreate a perception.

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Impressionism

Question 26

This American composer is known for his film music. He received many Academy Award nominations.

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Williams

Question 27

This music is lively with pulsing rhythms and syncopations. It is played by a small ensemble.

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jazz

Question 28

Unpredictable sequence of events that results from non-musical decisions.

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chance music

Question 29

Blues is named for its ragged, highly syncopated rhythms and melodies

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False

Question 30

This music repeats musical material over and over

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minimalism

Question 31

What movement rejected beauty and replaced it with shock?

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Modernism

Question 32

Nationalism in music uses the following

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folksong and opera librettos

Question 33

Who was the first internationally acclaimed American composer?

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Question 34

Which composer like to be called the student of Claude Monet

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Debussy

Question 35

What American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?

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New Orleans

Question 36

What early 20th c. movement in German sought to express the emotions of the composer?

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Expressionism

Question 37

Edvard Grieg is a nationalistic composer from

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Norway

Question 38

This music was originally intended for dancing

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swing

Question 39

Which composer wrote only absolute music in the Romantic period?

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Brahms

Question 40

This composer is associated with atonal music, 12 tone music and Sprechstimme

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Schoenberg

Question 41

Robert Schumann praised the coming of this new composer.

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Brahms

Question 42

How many composers were in the "The Mighty Handful"

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5

Question 43

The B section of the Great Gate of Kiev portrays

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a procession of Russian clergy or pilgrims

Question 44

This style of music was made famous by Scott Joplin

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ragtime

Question 45

National anthems, native dances, protest songs, and victory symphonies all express

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Musical nationalism

Question 46

This American Film composer wrote the music for ET, Superman, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and more

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Williams

Question 47

The Rite of Spring uses consonances, polytonality and polyrhythms

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False

Question 48

This style of music uses a wailing style of singing first used by slaves

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blues

Question 49

This jazz style emphasizes lower instrument registers and softer dynamics

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cool

Question 50

The new chord of the 20th c.- strike the piano with a fist or forearm

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tone cluster

Combined: Wright, 2e, Chapter 16 + Wright, 2e- Chapter 15- Impressionism + Wright, 2e- Chapt...

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Combined: Wright, 2e, Chapter 16 + Wright, 2e- Chapter 15- Impressionism + Wright, 2e- Chapt...

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