Quiz 7 Modernism and Postmodern Art Music Part 2

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Question #1

Profoundly influenced by folk music, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe and parts of North Africa using Edison’s newly invented recording machine to capture peasant music. His mind became saturated with driving rhythms, odd-number meters, and unusual scales of folk music.

A Stravinsky

B Ives

C Zwilich

D Bartök

E Cage

Question #2

In the 1930s this composer began to make a deliberate appeal to ordinary citizens by working on a series of projects based on rural and western American ideas. His/her musical style is characterized by the use of folk songs and popular elements, tonal harmony, and a clear, luminous orchestration.

A Schoenberg

B Bartók

C Prokofiev

D Shostakovich

E Copland

Question #3

In the middle of this composer’s career, he/she burned all his/her works, reserving only the best. He/she has also been elected to the American Academy of Letters, one of a select group of 250 famous artists.

A Copland

B Adams

C Varése

D Thomas

E Bernstein

Question #4

Identify the incorrect statement about Variations on America.

A work is an example collage art

B includes fragments of tunes from many historical periods

C while the introduction is conventional, the interludes use polytonality

D variations include sections imitating a barbershop quartet and calliope (steam organ)

E Ives composed the work at the age of seventeen

Question #5

This composer’s ballet on the tragedy Romeo and Juliet was given a happy ending to please Soviet censors.

A Prokofiev

B Shostakovich

C Bartök

D Stravinsky

E Tchaikovsky

Question #6

Match the description with its term. The simultaneous sounding of two keys or tonalities.

A collage art

B quarter-tone music

C polytonality

Question #7

Match the description with its term. Art made up of disparate materials taken from very different places.

A quarter-tone music

B collage art

C polytonality

Question #8

Match the description with its term. Music in which the smallest interval is not the chromatic half step (as on the piano), but half of half a step.

A collage art

B quarter-tone music

C polytonality

Question #9

Which twentieth-century artistic movement emphasized the musical forms and size of ensemble that characterized eighteenth-century music?

A Minimalism

B Expressionism

C Impressionism

D Nationalism

E Neo-classicism

Question #10

Which composition is notable for its percussive orchestra, irregular accents, polymeter, polyrhythm, ostinato figures, and dissonant polychords?

A Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire

B Adams, Short Ride in a Fast Machine

C Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring

D Debussy, Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun

E Copland, Appalachian Spring

Question #11

Which composition resulted in an audience riot during its premiere performance?

A Cage, 4’33”

B Prokofiev, Classical Symphonya

C Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring

D Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire

E Debussy, Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun

Question #12

Which artistic style attempts to capture the unadorned lines, raw energy, and elemental truth of non-Western art and apply it in a Modernist context?

A Primitivism

B Symbolism

C Minimalism

D Expressionism

E Cubism

Question #13

Music without a key center is considered:

A Minimalism

B chance music

C atonal

D primitive

E musique concrète

Question #14

Compositions that place such elements as pitch, timbre, rhythm, and dynamics in a fixed order are called:

A atonal music

B twelve-tone composition

C serial music

D Expressionism

E Cubism

Question #15

A highly original composer, he created atonal music, used Sprechstimme to project inner anxiety, and was the father of twelve-tone composition.

A Varèse

B Schoenberg

C Ravel

D Ives

E Bartök

Question #16

Which trait is not a characteristic of Impressionist music?

A rhythmic ostinatos used to give feeling of stasis rather than movement

B chromatic scale, whole-tone scale, and pentatonic scale often replace usual major and minor scales

C long, singable lines with powerful climaxes and chromatic inflections for expressiveness

D more soloistic writing to show that the color of the instrument is as important as the melody line it plays

E chords, and these frequently move in parallel motion

Question #17

What is the term for a scale in which half-steps are omitted?

A whole-tone

B parallel

C blues

D diatonic

E chromatic

Question #18

Select the answer that fits the term “parallel motion.”

A all the parts move together in the same direction; the antithesis of counterpoint

B rapidly sliding up or down the scale

C the harmonious opposition of two or more independent musical lines

D a musical figure, motive, melody, harmony, or rhythm that is repeated again and again

E melodic motion that proceeds primarily by steps and without leaps

Question #19

The term “Impressionism” was first associated with which particular art form?

A painting

B dance

C music

D poetry

E architecture

Question #20

Although his career was spent almost entirely in Paris, he did embark on a brief concert tour of the United States. It was so successful that it provided financial security for the remainder of his life.

A Prokofiev

B Stravinsky

C Ravel

D Debussy

E Puccini

Question #21

After a promising start—while a student he won the prestigious Prix de Rome for composition—he devoted his early years to honing his compositional skills and seeking an original style, yet at the age of 31 he noted with characteristic irony that he still had not written a masterpiece. A year later he did just that with his Prelude to The Afternoon of a Faun.

A Debussy

B Shostakovich

C Schoenberg

D Copland

E Varèse

Question #22

Match the description with its term. A slow, sultry Spanish dance in triple meter.

A exoticism

B Impressionism

C Symbolists

D bolero

Question #23

Match the description with its term. Initially it was a pejorative term describing the paintings of Monet, Degas, and others.

A exoticism

B Impressionism

C Symbolists

D bolero

Question #24

Match the description with its term. A term describing sounds drawn from outside the traditional western European musical experience.

A bolero

B exoticism

C Impressionism

D Symbolists

Question #25

Match the description with its term. Group of poets who used words to evoke impressions rather than express literal meaning.

A exoticism

B Impressionism

C bolero

D Symbolists

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