Midterm Review

Which scale piece/pitch collection did Debussy and Ravel use in their music?

True or False: Milhaud's The Creation of the World used jazz as a parody.

What word best describes something local, tied to a particular place/time, domestic?

Which composer was not a member of the Second Viennese School?

Which composer combined modernism with national American idioms?

What is a notable feature of a piano rag?

Which row form indicates that every interval in the row is turned upside down and reversed?

Which composer did the playwright Bertoit Brecht work with?

Which interval is emphasized in Schoenberg's Piano Suite, Op. 25?

Pulcinella is an example of...

Which of the following is most closely related with Impressionism?

What does Neue Sachlichkeit mean?

Which composer had music based on Mexican folk-melodies, used hemiolas, and odd meters?

What are some musical characteristics of music from the Soviet Union (Socialist Realism)?

What is the stage genre that falls in between opera and musical theater called?

How were spirituals often changed in the late 19th/early 20th century?

Which composer worked with W.C. Handy and studied with Edgard Varèse?

True or False: Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky is not patriotic.

Who is credited with establishing 12-bar blues form?

Symphony, Op. 21 is an example of...

What does Klangfarbenmelodie translate to?

Which pitches could be lowered to become a blue note?

Which composer can be associated with "spatial music" and "sound masses"?

Which of these is true about Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras?

Wozzeck is an example of...

Who was the choreographer for The Rite of Spring?

The group Les Six was from what country?

For which of these places does Socialist Realism apply to?

Which composer experimented with piano techniques (tone clusters, playing inside the piano)?

What was Stephen Sondheim's role in creating West Side Story?

True or False: Integral serialism was one of Schoenberg's compositional periods?

What is the form of Webern's Symphony, Op. 21?

Which artistic movement is connected to Freudian psychoanalysis?

What was the nickname of movies with synchronized soundtracks and dialogue?

Pierrot Lunaire is an example of...

After the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninoff emigrated to which place to work as a pianist?

Leoš Janáček, Manuel de Falla, and Ralph Vaughn Williams all...

Which of these composers from Latin America played a big role promoting music in schools?

Which composer wrote a string quartet using a 10-tone row instead of 12-tones?

Who was the first American composer to study with Nadia Boulanger?

Petrushka is an example of...

Which Russian composer got in trouble for an opera they wrote because Stalin didn't like it?

The Book of the Hanging Garden is an example of...

Which of the following genres had its origins in military institutions?

The Fisk Jubilee Singers were part of what genre?

Into what category foes Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin fit best?

True or False: Edgard Varèse is American.

True or False: Schoenberg and Stravinsky lived in Los Angeles and New York.

True or False: Tin Pan Alley was a neighborhood in NYC where many music publishers were?

Which of the following is an impact of technology on music in the 20th century?

True or false: Gebrauchsmusik means music for use, functional music.

Which of these composers worked with the periodical New Music to help promote concerts?