Exam 3/Final Review 201

59.Which musical elements were questioned in the modernist movement?

10.Because of much of the orchestration, the mood of the fifth movement of the Fantastic Symphony can be described as

50.What is characteristic of all nationalistic music?

The chief composers associated with the early phase of modernism—Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg—were members of the

3.    Which was true of Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes?

67.The Rite of Spring is a(n)

80.Post–World War II composers were intent on

2.    “Im wunderschönen Monat Mai” is part of a(n)

33.Many of Verdi’s early operas are associated with

1.    Who composed “Im wunderschönen Monat Mai”?

10.Because of much of the orchestration, the mood of the fifth movement of the Fantastic Symphony can be described as

28.Who composed Rigoletto?

What element in the first piece of Pictures helps depict the composer walking aimlessly through an art gallery?

13.The English translation of the German word Lied is

56.What great Romantic-era composer was a musical friend of Johannes Brahms?

43.Light operas from the nineteenth century containing spoken dialogue, light tunes, and dancing are called

48.An orchestral work that is composed in one movement and has a free form and a program is called a

76.Arnold Schoenberg's method that guarantees that no one pitch in the chromatic scale is more important than the others

11.The special effect of col legno in the violins that is heard toward the end of mvt. 5 of Fantastic Symphony is the

61.Which composer is sometimes called an impressionist and sometimes a symbolist?

63.Schoenberg’s reference to “the emancipation of dissonance” meant emancipation from the need to

20. “Night piece” is the definition of a

44.Who composed Romeo and Juliet?

90.Concert music composition since the 1970s has been marked by

Music with certain elements left unspecified, allowing them to be determined by the performers or other circumstances

29. “La donna è mobile” is a(n)

86.The father of chance music is

72.The vocal technique heard in Pierrot lunaire is

24.Which is true of program music?

7.    Nocturne in F-sharp is a

23.The composer __________ is generally regarded as the most flamboyant pianist of the Romantic era.

6.    Who composed Nocturne in F-sharp?

70. The Rite of Spring does NOT include

73.The premiere of The Rite of Spring was famous for

16.A song cycle is a(n)

69.Which statement about The Rite of Spring is FALSE?

85.The first performance of Poème électronique included

60.What is one way in which Stravinsky departed from the Romantic style?

66.Who composed The Rite of Spring?

55.The lifelong model for Brahms was

15.Schubert wrote nearly seven hundred

51.The term kuchka refers to

71.Who composed Pierrot lunaire?

17.Which statement is FALSE?

47.What characterizes the focus of the arts from the 1850s on?

38.Who wrote the texts for Richard Wagner’s operas?

40.Which statement about The Nibelung’s Ring is FALSE?

8.    Who composed the Fantastic Symphony?

9.    The Fantastic Symphony is a(n)

81.Which family of the orchestra underwent the most growth and innovation in the post–World War II era?

37.What did Wagner call his new style of opera in the 1850s?

In the 19th C, what instrument was the most likely to be used for the great profusion of Romantic miniatures?

34.What are the two most important elements of Wagner’s operatic style?

79.Highly intellectual, constructive tendencies led some composers of the postwar avant-garde to

65.In the early twentieth century, harmony

74.The major works of Stravinsky’s early period were

89.With which musical style is Steve Reich associated?

21.Frédéric Chopin did NOT compose

84.An example of chance music is

77.Who composed Appalachian Spring?

4.    Which best describes the mood of “Eusebius”?

36.Which term refers to a synthesis of many of the arts into one unified work, or “total work of art”?

78.Appalachian Spring is a(n)

35.Wagner was as well known for his __________ as he was for his operas.

52.Pictures at an Exhibition is considered

19.Which statement about character pieces is FALSE?

5.    “Eusebius” is a

The style of music in which simple melodies, motives, & harmonies are repeated many times and change gradually is called

45.Who composed Pictures at an Exhibition?

31.What important role does the orchestra play in the first scene of The Valkyrie?

Which late Romantic composer responded to the unbridled emotionalism of Romanticism w/ a return to Viennese Classicism?

12.Who was NOT a Romantic composer?

57.Brahms composed in many genres but did NOT write any

14.The nineteenth-century German genre consisting of a musical setting of a short poem for voice and piano is the

41.The Nibelung’s Ring is based on

75.A combination of song and speech is called

82.The use of recorded sounds from life is called

62.The composer who originated serialism is

49.In which category is a symphonic poem different from a concert overture?

87.John Cage’s 4′ 33″ consists of

11.The special effect of col legno in the violins that is heard toward the end of mvt. 5 of Fantastic Symphony is the

42.What became of Wagner’s leitmotiv technique?

30.Who composed The Valkyrie?

39.Which allows a composer to show what a character is thinking even though something else is being said in the text?

12.Who was NOT a Romantic composer?

68.The opening theme of The Rite of Spring is played by the

53.Modest Musorgsky’s music reflects

27.Which composer had an extraordinary imagination for orchestral tone color?

26.The Fantastic Symphony includes a(n)

22.Which statement about Franz Liszt is FALSE?