MUSI 346 Exam 4 Study Fall 2024

Compositions that use natural, mechanical, and electronic sounds, rather than sounds produced by acoustic instruments

Rachmaninoff composed in a lyrical style and familiar harmonic idiom partially to satisfy the tastes of audiences.

In the late 1920s, Hindemith engaged with contemporary society most directly in his cultivation of

  Milhaud’s La création du monde was

Playing the same material at slightly different tempi in diff. voices so vertical sonorities gradually form & disperse

Composer known for spatial and electronic music

Although well acquainted with the French musical tradition, Debussy was unfamiliar with the music of Wagner.

The modernist techniques of atonality, dissonance, layering, and juxtaposition have especially influenced

The style of art and music that emerged in the 1960s and that uses a few constructive elements in repetitive patterns

Composer known for quartal and quintal harmonies, as well as "music for use"

An important challenge for composers in Russia and Germany in the 1930s was how to

Schoenberg's career represented a radical and complete rejection of all ideas he found in the German tradition.

Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern's parallels to Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven caused them to be called the

Which of the following propositions was among Debussy’s aesthetic views?

Like Stravinsky, Bartók came to know folk music only secondhand through other scholars’ research and publications.

In the course of visits to Russia, Debussy came to know music written by ____, whose works influenced his own technique.

Composer known for folk song usage and string extended technique writing

Early modernist composers struggled with the domination of concert programs by 19th-C. works like Beethoven’s symphonies

To what aspect of Brahms’ music did Schoenberg feel a particular debt with respect to his own compositional technique?

Composer known for polytonality, saxophone writing, and jazz influence

Composer known for phasing, minimalism, and percussion writing

Varèse’s ideas about spatial music had an influence on the next generation of composers including Cage and Stockhausen.

Soviet artistic aesthetic created in the '30s to focus on the progress of the state and celebrate revolutionary ideology

Much of Charles Ives’s early music was modeled on the same European masterworks that influenced so many of his peers.

Of the many techniques after WWII, the only ones that remain vibrant today are the techniques of total serialism.

The idiom in which a pitch is asserted as a tonic through strategies of repetition other than traditional progressions

The development of the 12-tone row forced Schoenberg to abandon traditional forms and structural conventions.

Modernist French music that evoked a mood in a detached manner was associated with the literary movement known as

Large orchestras available to Mahler made him avoid chamber music textures in his symphonies in favor of massive sound.

The artistic movement of the early 20th C. in which extreme emotional distress is paired with distorted reality

Unlike his contemporaries Schoenberg and Berg, Webern

Klangfarbenmelodie is

Music that does not establish short- or long-range tonal centers is often described as ________.

Debussy and Mahler shared a common interest in

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

The movement to revive or imitate pre-Romantic music that took place from the 1910s through the 1950s is called

Which composer of the early 20th Century explored expressionism not only in his music but in his paintings too?

Prominent characteristics of Stravinsky’s pre–World War I works include all the following EXCEPT

Many of Debussy’s compositions, such as his Nocturnes, were especially influenced by

Unlike Stravinsky and Bartók, Ives disdained vernacular and folk musical genres and did not use them in his music.

The group of young French composers including Poulenc, Taillefaire, and Milhaud that was active in the 1920s was called

Olivier Messiaen’s compositions were strongly influenced by his

In contemporary theory, a collection of 3 or more pitches that can be transposed or arranged to generate melody/harmony

Composers like Debussy and Mahler evoked an exotic, Far-Eastern quality with a 5-note scale called the____________scale.

The description of much early twentieth-century music as “post-tonal” refers to

A precedent for the technique of chromatic saturation used in many modernist compositions is found in

Olivier Messiaen’s innovations stimulated some European composers to use total serialism in their works.