Both Orphee aux enfers and The Pirates of Penzance

satirized contemporary and historical operatic conventions

The earliest atonal compositions included

Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens/Ive's Unanswered ?

Nationalist compositions like Musorgsky's Pictures and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances were with

Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

The description of much early 20th century music as post-tonal refers to

diverse new ways in which composers organized pitch

a librettist of several grand operas

the first Beatles US World Tour

When we claim Penderecki's Threnody or Xenakis's Metastaseis... by processes, we mean that

a succession of gradual changes in timbres/textures/register

In this example, the orchestral passage in mm. 3-6 functions as all of the following except

musical emblem of the character Don Jose

Contrast btwn composers Vincent d'Indy + Francis Poulenc vividly shows the aesthetic dichotomy

"low" popular music vs "high" art music

What important trait does Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande share with Wagner's mature operas?

both feature virtuosic solo arias

Amy Beach's musical career was marked by all of the following except

studies in Paris with Vincent d'Indy

The proponents of the New German School and those of absolute music both believed that

based on the proper understanding of Beethoven's music

1st tetrachord in right and 1st in left are prime/P-6 forms

The American composers organizations (International Composers Guild/League of Composers) goal

securing performances of new American compositions

Which of the following statements is true of Krenek, Gershwin, Copland and Milhaud?

they all incorporated jazz idioms in their music

Eusebius and Florestan are

fictional personae in Robert Schumann's literary writings

When composing atonal music, Schoenberg found an unsurmountable problem that the atonal idiom

maintain a hierarchy of functions among cons/diss harmonies

Schoenberg's argument for atonality was based in part on his observation that

chromaticism/wide ranging modulations weakened pull of tonic

The mission of the Art Ensemble of Chicago was to

perform serious experimental jazz for connoisseurs

A typical Rossini overture comprises

a two part form with a slow introduction then by fast binary

the violin and clarinet parts are composed based on I-ching, rhythmic patterns recall medieval isorhythmic technique

Which of the following most accurately describes early 20th century modernist music?

combined innovation with familiar techniques of older

Beethoven's late style is characterized by all of the following except

simplified performance challenges aimed at amateur players

Bluegrass and bebop both

showcase virtuosic playing techniques

Beethoven's Third Symphony demonstrates how the composer

composed more concise development sections than predecessors

The American composers' organizations-International Composers Guild + League of Composers goal

securing performances of new American compositions

Heroic narrative implicit in Beethoven's 5th Symphony is conveyed partly through

conclusion of the symphony in parallel major mode of tonic

The song Hound Dog is a good example of

the adoption of rhythm-and-blues by white musicians

The graphic notation used by Earle Brown in his composition December 1952 indicates

no fixed musical parameters of any kind

Brahm's First Symphony shows the influence of

Schumann's use of slow introductions in his 4th Symphony

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1
Varese's concept of sound mass challenged traditional ideas of musical rhetoric by deemphasizin
dynamics
orchestration
texture
thematic development
2
Both Orphee aux enfers and The Pirates of Penzance
restored Greek classical myths as operatic subjects
helped establish a new genre of through composed light opera
emulated the leitmotif techniques of Wagner
satirized contemporary and historical operatic conventions
3
Literary sources for popular operas in 1820/1850 included these authors except
Emile Zola
William Shakespeare
Sir Walter Scott
Victor Hugo
4
The earliest atonal compositions included
Berg's Wozzeck and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens/Ive's Unanswered ?
Schoenberg's Piano Suite Op 25 and Bartok's Mikrokosmos
Berg's Lulu and Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht
5
Nationalist compositions like Musorgsky's Pictures and Dvorak's Slavonic Dances were with
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony
premiere of Wagner's Ring Cycle
Composition of Brahm's early piano sonatas
6
Parker's Anthropology is linked to the Tin Pan Alley tradition on account of borrowing from
Motown
West Side Story
I Got Rhythm
Richard Rogers
7
Ballet was an important compositional genre for all of the following except
Debussy
de Falla
Satie
Scriabin
8
The fifth movement of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique depicts
march to an execution scaffold
a witches' sabbath
a ball
a pastoral scene
9
Auto-tune is a type of
Audio processor
digital metronome
Sound synthesizer
MIDI Interface
10
The description of much early 20th century music as post-tonal refers to
incorporation of non-musical sounds such as industrial noise
diverse new ways in which composers organized pitch
the restoration of the medieval church modes
the complete rejection of functional harmony
11
In which of the following works did Stravinsky adopt technique from Schoenberg's 12 tone method
L'histoire du soldat
Dumbarton Oaks
Threni
The Firebird
12
Which of the following is an example of how modernist composers stretch the meaning of symphony
Embryons desseches
Das Lied von der Erde
Ariadne auf Naxos
Vers la flamme
13
Eugene Scribe was
Bellini's favorite librettist
a librettist of several grand operas
the composer of Robert le diable
a composer of Opera comiques
14
1964 marked
a landmark rock festival in Bethel, New York
the final year of World War II
the first Beatles US World Tour
the assassination of John F. Kennedy
15
When we claim Penderecki's Threnody or Xenakis's Metastaseis... by processes, we mean that
gradually reveal complete musical themes
are generated by chance processes
a succession of gradual changes in timbres/textures/register
are generated by mathematical algorithims
16
Contrasting diatonic and chromatic musical idiom in Wagner...contrast of reality and fantasy in
Rimsky-Korsakov and Dvorak
Verdi and Puccini
Puccini and Leoncavallo
Bizet and Gounod
17
In this example, the orchestral passage in mm. 3-6 functions as all of the following except
a reminiscence motive
musical emblem of the character Don Jose
an enharmonic resolution of the chord progression in m.2
a transposed version of a motive heard earlier in the opera
18
Contrast btwn composers Vincent d'Indy + Francis Poulenc vividly shows the aesthetic dichotomy
modernism vs. neoclassicism
formalism vs realism
"low" popular music vs "high" art music
classicism vs. romanticism
19
Virtuosity was a self-consciously cultivated stylistic element in which of the following genres
folk music
musicals
bebop
film music
20
What important trait does Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande share with Wagner's mature operas?
both use the orchestra with restraint
both derive plots from contemporary stage plays
both use orchestral music
both feature virtuosic solo arias
21
In the years 1792-1794, Beethoven studied counterpoint and composition with
Haydn and Clementi
Neefe and Albrechtsberger
Haydn and Mozart
Haydn and Albrechtsberger
22
Amy Beach's musical career was marked by all of the following except
suppression of her concert career during her marriage
studies in Germany just before the First World War
studies in Paris with Vincent d'Indy
integration of Irish folk music and Native Amer. music
23
The proponents of the New German School and those of absolute music both believed that
the four movement classical symphony
a chromatic harmonic language was always required
based on the proper understanding of Beethoven's music
medieval polyphony could provide a model for the composition
24
In the excerpt below
1st tetrachord in right and 1st in left are prime/P-7 forms
1st tetrachord in right and 1st in left are prime/P-6 forms
1st tetrachord in the left hand is the retrograde of 2nd
first 12 pitches constitute the prime form of the row
25
The American composers organizations (International Composers Guild/League of Composers) goal
protecting the American musical tradition
cultivating political links with the Union
attracting European concert artists to the United States
securing performances of new American compositions
26
Which of the following works best illustrates expressionist musical style?
Erwartung
Petrushka
The Rake's Progress
Pulcinella
27
Metric modulation is a technique associated with
Benjamin Britten
Luciano Berio
Krzysztof Penderecki
Elliot Carter
28
Which of the following statements is true of Krenek, Gershwin, Copland and Milhaud?
they all composed Broadway musicals
they all used 12 tone techniques in the 1950s
they were all self-taught as composers
they all incorporated jazz idioms in their music
29
Eusebius and Florestan are
Robert and Clara Schumann's eldest children
characters in Beethoven's Fidelio
fictional personae in Robert Schumann's literary writings
the authors of Lyrical Intermezzo
30
Literary sources for popular operas 1820/30 included works by all the following authors except
William Shakespeare
Emile Zola
Victor Hugo
Friedrich Schiller
31
When composing atonal music, Schoenberg found an unsurmountable problem that the atonal idiom
be used to set poetic texts expressively
support motivic development
maintain a hierarchy of functions among cons/diss harmonies
reproduce the formal coherence of large scale tonal composit
32
Each of the following musicians was associated with the musical style known as soul except
James Brown
Ray Charles
Miles Davis
Otis Redding
33
Which acronym designate a format used to compress audio files by removing inaudible frequencies
FLAC
MIDI
WAV
MP3
34
Men's choruses were comprised of
professional musicians
elite men
working class men
middle class men
35
Schoenberg's argument for atonality was based in part on his observation that
Austrian folk music displayed atonal characteristics
traditional pitches could be replaced by pitch class sets
chromaticism/wide ranging modulations weakened pull of tonic
principle of developing variation eliminated tonal harmony
36
The mission of the Art Ensemble of Chicago was to
perform serious experimental jazz for connoisseurs
encourage performance of non-Western musical styles
encourage hybrid genres of pop, classical and jazz
pursue the same research mission as IRCAM
37
One of the earliest modernist compositions commonly regarded as neoclassical is
Le tombeau de Couperin
Nuages
Das Lied von der Erde
Elektra
38
A typical Rossini overture comprises
three part sonata form
a multi-section orchestral suite
a two part form with a slow introduction then by fast binary
two part form with slow ceremonial section
39
In the example below
dynamics and articulations are serialized
the violin and clarinet parts are composed based on I-ching
rhythmic patterns recall medieval isorhythmic technique
the music is composed using manipulations of 12 tone row
40
Which of the following most accurately describes early 20th century modernist music?
combined innovation with familiar techniques of older
it broke entirely with past musical traditions
it dispensed with tonality
maintained historical musical styles while rejecting the new
41
Beethoven's late style is characterized by all of the following except
fugal passages or movements
frequent use of variation technique and form
frequent use of variation technique and form
simplified performance challenges aimed at amateur players
42
Bluegrass and bebop both
are associated with urban areas
function mainly as dance music
use banjos
showcase virtuosic playing techniques
43
Beethoven's Third Symphony demonstrates how the composer
treated musical themes as though they were characters in a
consistently used longer/more lyrical themes than predeccors
would first introduce significant motive within a slow intro
composed more concise development sections than predecessors
44
Neotonality and polytonality are predominant compositional idioms in
Philomel
Kreuzspiel
Composition 1960 No 2
Peter Grimes
45
Sixteenth century music served as a model for
Liszt's concertos
Bruckner's choral music
Brahm's Lieder
Hugo Wolf's chamber music
46
The American composers' organizations-International Composers Guild + League of Composers goal
protecting the American musical tradition
securing performances of new American compositions
cultivating political links with the Union of Soviet
attracting European concert artists to the United States
47
Heroic narrative implicit in Beethoven's 5th Symphony is conveyed partly through
incorporation of Russian melodies in last movement
conclusion of the symphony in parallel major mode of tonic
inclusion of a funeral march movement
conclusion of the symphony with majestic fugue
48
The song Hound Dog is a good example of
country music of the southeastern United States
early bebop
one of the earliest hit songs of the British Invasion
the adoption of rhythm-and-blues by white musicians
49
The first major electronic composition to exploit multiple sound tracks was
Philomel
Metastaseis
Gesang der Jünglinge
Turangalila-Symphonie
50
The graphic notation used by Earle Brown in his composition December 1952 indicates
only the relative durations of harmonies
only instrument combinations at any given point in time
small fragments of notated music
no fixed musical parameters of any kind
51
Brahm's First Symphony shows the influence of
Bach's use of ground bass as a repeating theme
Beethoven's setting of poetry to a hymn like melody
Schumann's use of slow introductions in his 4th Symphony
Liszt's use of a literary program as the basis of his Faust
52
The concept of nonretrogradable rhythm describes how a rhythmic pattern
must never be repeated exactly but varied
must not contain any repeated rhythmic values
may not be reversed in the course of a composition
has the same absolute durations whether forward or backward
53
The four pitch musical motive D-E flat - C-B is a musical cipher of
Dmitri Shostakovich
Darius Milhaud
Louis Durey
J.S. Bach
54
Important examples of grand opera include all of the following except
La favorite
Guillaume Tell
Les Huguenots
L'elisir d'amore
55
Piano emerged as an important and widely used instrument in the 19th century largely because
it was the most affordable instrument
it could produce an extremely wide variety of sonorities
solo piano music was the most popular genre in 19th century
it was much easier to tune than other instruments
56
The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet is
a quartet of double basses
two quartets of reed instruments
a pair of string quartets
a composition with eight movements
57
The modernist techniques of atonality/dissonance/layering/juxtaposition have influenced
electronic dance music
contemporary vocal pop music
film music
nothing - no significant impact
58
In the 1960s, Ornette Coleman and his ensemble developed a style of jazz known as
cool jazz
bebop
contrafact
free jazz
59
Tan Dun and Paul McCartney share an interest in and have appropriated techniques and ideas from
Nirvana
John Cage
Arnold Schoenberg
Arvo Part
60
Although different in many ways, Bejamin Britten and George Crumb had in common their
commitment to serial techniques
work as film composers during the 1930s
use of electronics to alter musical sounds
contemplation of political and social issues in their works
61
Music for Prague 1968 is
a live tour album by Thelonius Monk
an overture by Krzysztof Penderecki
a musical by Richard Rogers
a band composition by Karl Husa
62
Indie rock achieved commercial prominence in the 1990s due to success of grunge bands from
Seattle
Amsterdam
San Francisco
New York
63
The form of the standard mid-19th century march was
rondo
variation set
ternary
binary
64
Settings of lyric poetry in the early nineteenth century tend to
be composed as ballads
express rapid, frequent changes of emotional states
contain dialogues among characters
express personal reactions to ideas and images
65
Edvard Grieg's style was strongly influenced by
Hungarian folk music
Musorgsky's and Borodin's orchestral works
Mendelssohn's and Schumann's music
French grand opera
66
In the USA, avant-garde composers of postwar decades were widely and most often supported by
state and local governments
private patrons
academic institutions
religious institutions
67
In the example below, what evidence would most strongly indicate that the composer is Ravel?
contrasting piano and forte dynamics
extended harmonies and underlying functional harmonic
triple meter and accented upbeats
parallel root position triads
68
Opening diplomatic relations btwn. USA and Japan in the mid-19th century provided the plot of
Tosca
La forza del destino
Il trovatore
Madama Butterfly
69
The form of the standard mid-nineteenth century American march was
ternary
variation set
binary
rondo
70
The fourth movement of Brahm's fourth symphony testifies to the composer's interest in
Romantic ternary song form
Baroque variation technique
Classic Rondo form
medieval modes
71
Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem is a setting of texts from
Mignon's funeral in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
German translations of Old Testament scriptural texts
the Latin Mass for the Dead
spiritual poems by Morike and Eichendorff
72
The composer most responsible for establishing the conventions of grand opera was
Hector Berlioz
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Gioachino Rossini
Mikhail Glinka
73
In compositions such as his 1964 String Quartet and Third Symphony, Witold Lutoslawski uses
indeterminacy
total serialism
musique concrete
electronics
74
Signs of change in the classical orchestral world 2008/2010 and number of performances dropped
50%
75%
15%
30%
75
Antonin Dvorak's first impression of African American Music were gained from
the singer Harry Burleigh
slaves singing on southern plantations
German publications of African American song transcriptions
the Fisk Jubilee Singers
76
Which of the following works best exemplifies the aesthetics of Gebrauchsmusik?
George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Darius Milhaud's La creation du monde
Francis Polenc's Dialogues des carmelites
Aaron Copland's The Second Hurricane
77
In reform Judaism
oratorios were adapted for Jewish tradition
music was banned
services were performed in the vernacular instead of Hebrew
the congregation sang
78
In his Op. 131 string quartet, Beethoven reorders the traditional symphonic movements as follow
sonata rondo - lyrical slow movement - scherzo - sonata
sonata allegro-scherzo-minuet and trio-sonata rondo
prelude-fugue-fantasia-rondeau
variation set-minuet and trio-sonata rondo
79
The aesthetic difference between the New German School and the adherents of absolute music lay
ideas about whether to use or reject thematic transformation
interpretations of the implications of Beethoven mature work
understandings of the role of Renaissance and Baroque styles
ideas of how to represent poetry or narratives in music
80
Opera was largely neglected by British composers in the 19th century due to
an already established and dominant tradition
British nationalist rejection of Italian culture
prohibitions against vocal music in London theaters
lack of theaters in England's major cities
81
In the example below, the orchestral passage in mm.3-6 functions as all the following except
a transposed version of a motive heard earlier in the opera
a musical emblem of the character Don Jose
a stereotyped figure of Roma music
a reminiscence motive
82
Important examples of grand opera include all the following except
La muette de Portici
Les Huguenots
L'elisir d'amore
Guillame Tell
83
Composers marginalized/subjugated regions Europe + new world...their unique cultural identities
discarding and replacing the classical forms
replacing German and French texts of vocal works
employing native folk melodic and harmonic idioms in music
mocking conventions of classical tradition in parody
84
The Grey Album is historically significant because it was
a highly successful collaboration with Yo Yo Ma/Afghan Youth
Macy Grey's first kickstarter financed recording project
an important mashup combining sounds from rap and 1960s pop
the first of the post-punk revival albums of the new milleni
85
Bedrich Smetana's Tabor is based on
a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale
a story from Arabian Nights
a fast triple-meter dance
a hero of fifteenth century religious wars
86
Music for strings, percussion, and celesta illustrates Bartok's use of all elements except
symmetry
fugal counterpoint
cyclic recall of themes
twelve tone rows
87
Which of the following claims is true of Janacek's music?
its rhythms are often derived from the cadences of spoken Cz
it consists exclusively of orchestral and chamber compositio
rhythms are often derived from the cadences of spoken German
relies on the development of motives in the manner of Beeth
88
Klangfarbenmelodie is
an opera by Schoenberg
a song cycle by Berg
a vocal technique where a singer approx. the timbre/speech
coordination of changes in pitch with changes of tone color
89
What is the one way in which English choral societies impacted music in Anglican churches?
church choirs charged membership fees
festival music model was adopted for services
secular part song became part of services
women began to sing in church choirs
90
Which of the following composers spent a significant part of his career working in the USA?
Ravel
Mahler
Debussy
Satie
91
The gates in John Adam's piano work Phrygian Gates refers to
the Phrygian cadences that conclude each movement
the change from the scalar collection of pitches used in one
the passages of indeterminacy that separate the fully notate
nothing specific
92
Indie rock achieved commercial prominence in the 1990s due the success of grunge bands from
Los Angeles
Seattle
New York
Amsterdam
93
A prominent precedent for late nineteenth century techniques of thematic transformation in
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
J.S. Bach's cantatas
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
Bellini's operas
94
After World War II, the American folk music movement
exploited new electronic instruments to enhance
focused on preserving the purity of the traditional oral
integrated folk melodies with the rhythmic qualities of rock
adopted a simple performance style using only one or a few
95
Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of
the invention of the radio
the British invasion
invention of the Moog synthesizer
the migration of southern blues musicians to northern cities
96
In the example below, the procedure evident in the harmonies of mm1-6 is most accurately
thematic transformation
modal mixture
chromatic saturation
descending sequence of harmony
97
German Romantic Opera is distinguished most sharply from contemporary French and Italian opera
use of recurring motives identified with situations
its use of large performing forces and elaborate stagecraft
focus on natural and supernatural landscapes as important
its use of spoken dialogue
98
The division of Beethoven's life into three periods was
revisionist periodization proposed by 20th century scholars
based on the three part division of his autobiography
based on Beethoven's three successive relationships
based on a biographical schema established by his early bios
99
The metaphor of musical collage aptly describes the compositional techniques applied in
Erwartung
Symphony of Psalms
Mikrokosmos
General William Booth Enters into Heaven
100
Glinka's and Rimsky-Korsakov's influence on Stravinsky is seen most clearly in
use of unresolved dissonance
technique of developing variation
orchestration and use of octatonic scales
works of the 1950s
101
Amy Beach's musical career was marked by all of the following except
studies in Germany just before the first World War
integration of Irish folk music and Native American music
studies in Paris with Vincent D'Indy
emulation of the musical style of Brahms
102
The most popularized divisive conflicts among musicians and composers was that between
Wagner and Liszt
Bach and Mozart
Wagner and Brahms
Berlioz and Liszt
103
Composers engaged with contemporary society most directly in their cultivation of
neoclassicism
Gebrauchsmusik
folk music styles
jazz
104
Splintering of pop music audiences in first decades of the 21st century can be attributed to
copyright enforcement by large music producers and record
proliferation of listening options by communications technol
growing number of music consumers isolated by no internet
erosion of pop music market by expanding classical music
105
All of the following operas were based on poems and stories by Alexander Pushkin except
Parsifal
Rustan and Lyudmila
Boris Godunov
Eugene Onegin
106
Rossini spent his last four decades in Paris mainly
writing several important grand operas
in comfortable retirement mostly withdrawn from composing
as Director of the Paris Opera
teaching composition at the Paris Conservatoire
107
Between the 1700s and 1850s the production of piano and publication of composition increased
10,000%
50%
1,000%
25%
108
Conservatories were established in Moscow and St. Petersburg in the
1860s
1820s
1840s
1890s
109
Beethoven turned away from the extroverted, heroic style of his middle-period works because
political repression in the Austrain empire after 1815
restoration of the French monarchy in 1815
establishment of parliamentary democracy in Austria in 1815
final defeat and destruction of the Austrian empire in 1815
110
Crucial difference btwn. repertoires of the Paris Opera and that city's Opera-Comique was that
spoken dialogue was permitted at Opera-Comique-not Paris Ope
Opera-Comique performed only comic operas
Paris Opera performed only operas composed by native French
Paris Opera only produced operas based on French history
111
The plot of La Traviata is a good example of mid-nineteenth century
exoticism
classicism
realism
symbolism
112
Which composer's legacy was the most lasting and influential in the 19th century?
Haydn's
Beethoven's
Mozart's
Bach's
113
Schumann's Symphony No. 4 uses as a model
Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
Beethoven's Symphony No. 3
114
Over the course of his career, Mahler
abandon largescale/discursive symphonic movements for concis
incorporated 19th century poetry in his symphonies
provided symphonies with increasing detailed commentary
rejected mimetic use of nature sounds and musical topics
115
John Cage shows the strongest affinity to the aesthetics/procedures of art in which works?
Musicircus
cheap Imitation
4'33"
Sonatas and interludes
116
In Catholic music- 2nd quarter of the 19th century, what composer's style of music was revived?
Leoninus
Palestrina's
J.S.Bach's
Haydn and Mozart's
117
Band transcriptions were primarily intended to
accompany opera in smaller venues
make popular orchestral works performable by wind bands
rescore original band compositions
notate improvised band performances for future reproduction
118
The description of early 20th century music as "post-tonal" refers to
diverses new ways in which composers organized pitch
incorporation of non-musical sounds such as industrial noise
restoration of medieval church modes
complete rejection of functional harmony and progressions
119
That Gounod's Faust was first performed as an opera comique indicates that it
was performed with spoke dialogue
was first performed in its original German language version
was first performed in concert form without sets or costume
was given a happy ending in which Faust marries Marguerite
120
Louis Gottschalk's career resembles Franz Liszt's in all following respects except
Gottschalk spent a significant part of his career in the US
Gottschalk's compositions made demands on player
Gottschalk spent some of his career in France
Gottschalk was a published composer
121
What is one reason for the development of a repertoire of standing classics by past composers?
New works were too serious for general audiences
Extreme expressivity and virtuosity of the earlier artists
Older musicians wrote better music
Earlier music was cheaper to publish than contemporary
122
Steve Reich's musical style and technique underwent a shift in the 1980s from
serialism to minimalism
indeterminacy to total serialism
indeterminacy to spectralism
minimalism to postminimalism
123
Settings of lyrical poetry in the early nineteenth century tend to
contain dialogues among characters
express personal reactions to ideas and images
express rapid, frequent changes of emotional states
be composed as ballads
124
Of the following composers, who was the only one to reside in Europe during World War II?
Webern
Schoenberg
Berg
Stravinsky
125
In the 1950s Frederick Fennell/students from Eastman organized an important ensemble performing
rhythm and blues
wind band music
music or India and Asia
electronic music
126
In Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, Schumann renders the poems meaning especially through his use of
ubiquitous dotted rhythms
unresolved dissonant harmonies
passages in recitative style
alternation of major and minor tonic triads
127
Electric blues was a style that developed as a result of
the invention of the Moog synthesizer
the British invasion
the drug culture of the 1960s
the migration of southern blues musician to northern cities
128
The texts of La bonne chanson are poems by
Paul Verlaine
Edgar Allen Poe
Jean Racine
Stephane Mallarme
129
The composition below contains all of the following traits of Beethoven's late style ^except
fugal textures
extreme contrasts of registers
variation technique
unorthodox treatment of form
130
Beethoven's music most closely mirrored post-French revolutionary social changes in
became and simple and accessible
represented an entrepreneurial freedom from compositional
was composed for private commissions
dealt with religious subjects
131
The late 19th century French taste for exoticism is reflected in the following operas except
Lakme
Carmen
L'Africaine
Werther
132
The main function of the tempo di mezzo in a typical Rossinian opera scene is to
provide orchestral accompaniment for the soloist's exit
introduce a change in character's circumstances/plot twist
introduce a section of choral music
return to the tonic key of the scena

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