Which are NOT characteristics of the Neue Sachlichtkeit?

Expressionist, psychologically disturbing

Why is Maximalism important to modernism?

It supersized Romanticism to its limits

Which are NOT characteristics of Expressionism?

Uncontrolled, conservative, completely novel

Which of these characterize Maximalism?

A blend of Wagner and Brahms, giant ensembles, deep concepts

Are you going to study?

Yes, but in yellow, Yes, Yeah (but I don't want to)

This Schoenberg piece is likely from...

...before WWI, ...early in his life

Why did Schoenberg begin writing atonal music?

Historic necessity, personal crisis, interdisciplinary

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1
All atonal music is 12-tone.
False
True
2
What is Sprechstimme?
A speech-like vocal technique.
A 1903 musical movement aimed at better expressing deep emotions.
An piano extended technique.
Something Schoenberg invented to upset the Viennese public.
3
Mahler took inspiration from Wagner AND Brahms.
True
False
4
Which are NOT characteristics of the Neue Sachlichtkeit?
12-tone structure, matter-of-factness
Realism, New Objectivity
Sort-of neo-classical, anti-emotion
Expressionist, psychologically disturbing
5
Brahms and Wagner had common musical philosophies.
True
False
6
Why is Maximalism important to modernism?
Maximalism isn't modernist
It supersized Romanticism to its limits
It looked to composers' lives for inspiration
It used dissonance
7
Modernists welcomed WWI as a cleansing.
True
False
8
Which are NOT characteristics of Expressionism?
In dialogue with history, innovation, dissonant
Challenging, progressive, dissolution of tradition
Uncontrolled, conservative, completely novel
Interdisciplinary, in dialogue with other arts, psychologically intense
9
How did WWI influence music and the arts?
Artists reject Expressionism
Artists reject violence and psychosis
Music becomes more structured
All the above
10
Which of these characterize Maximalism?
Programmatic music, traditional forms, small ensembles
A blend of Wagner and Brahms, giant ensembles, deep concepts
Wagnerian chromaticism, late Classical ensembles, short lengths
Absolute music, innovative forms, novel rhythmic structures
11
Are you going to study?
No (why? You should always study!)
Yes, but in yellow
Yes
Yeah (but I don't want to)
12
This Schoenberg piece is likely from...
...after WWI
...late in life
...before WWI
...early in his life
13
Why did Schoenberg begin writing atonal music?
Personal crisis, to match his paintings, to expand harmonic language
Historic necessity, out of boredom, interdisciplinary
Historic necessity, personal crisis, interdisciplinary
Historic necessity, self-expression

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