Chapter 33

Question 1

Arnold Schoenberg

Answer 1

Austrian, Verklärte Nacht/Moses und Aron/Pierrot lunaire

Question 2

Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”)

Answer 2

Arnold Schoenberg, String sextet

Question 3

developing variation

Answer 3

A technique where variations are produced through the development of existing material at the same time, Arnold Schoenberg

Question 4

atonality

Answer 4

Music that lacks a tonal center or key, Arnold Schoenberg

Question 5

twelve-tone method

Answer 5

A technique where all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are used with equal frequency and importance while preventing the emphasis of any one note through the use of tone rows, Arnold Schoenberg

Question 6

Moses und Aron

Answer 6

Arnold Schoenberg, Opera

Question 7

Pierrot lunaire

Answer 7

Arnold Schoenberg/Giraud, Pierrot ensemble work

Question 8

expressionism

Answer 8

A style that seeks to express meaning or emotional experience rather than physical reality, often distorting the world radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas, Arnold Schoenberg

Question 9

Albert Giraud

Answer 9

Belgian poet, Pierrot lunaire

Question 10

Sprechstimme

Answer 10

A technique for voice that approximates the written pitches in the gliding tones of speech, while following the notated rhythm exactly, Arnold Schoenberg

Question 11

row/series

Answer 11

The twelve pitch-classes of the chromatic scale arranged in an order chosen by the composer and made to produce a particular sequence of intervals, Arnold Schoenberg

Question 12

retrograde

Answer 12

The reverse of a musical line, e.g. A Bb F# D -> D F# Bb A, Arnold Schoenberg

Question 13

tetrachord

Answer 13

Any group of four consecutive notes from a row/series, Arnold Schoenberg

Question 14

hexachord

Answer 14

Any group of six consecutive notes from a row/series, Arnold Schoenberg

Question 15

Alban Berg

Answer 15

Austrian, Wozzeck/Lulu

Question 16

Wozzeck

Answer 16

Alban Berg/Büchner, Opera

Question 17

Georg Büchner

Answer 17

German dramatist and writer, Wozzeck

Question 18

Lulu

Answer 18

Alban Berg, Opera

Question 19

Anton Webern

Answer 19

Austrian, Symphony, op. 21

Question 20

Symphony, op. 21

Answer 20

Anton Webern, Symphony

Question 21

Klangfarbenmelodie (“Tone-color melody”)

Answer 21

A musical technique that involves splitting a musical line or melody between several instruments thereby adding color (tone) and texture to the melodic line, Anton Webern

Question 22

Igor Stravinsky

Answer 22

Russian, The Firebird/Petrushka/The Rite of Spring/L’histoire du soldat/Symphony of Psalms/Agon/The Rake’s Progress/Epitaphium

Question 23

Sergei Diaghilev

Answer 23

Russian art critic, founded the Ballets Russes and commissioned Stravinsky to write The Firebird/Petrushka/The Rite of Spring

Question 24

Ballets Russes

Answer 24

Parisian ballet company, founded by Sergei Diaghilev and where Stravinsky wrote The Firebird/Petrushka/The Rite of Spring

Question 25

The Firebird

Answer 25

Igor Stravinsky, Ballet

Question 26

Petrushka

Answer 26

Igor Stravinsky, Ballet

Question 27

Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring")

Answer 27

Igor Stravinsky, Ballet

Question 28

L'histoire du soldat ("The Soldier's Tale")

Answer 28

Igor Stravinsky, Small ensemble work

Question 29

Symphony of Psalms

Answer 29

Igor Stravinsky, Symphony

Question 30

Agon

Answer 30

Igor Stravinsky/Balanchine, Ballet

Question 31

George Balanchine

Answer 31

American ballet choreographer, founded the New York City Ballet and collaborated closely with Stravinsky, e.g. Agon

Question 32

The Rake's Progress

Answer 32

Igor Stravinsky, Opera

Question 33

Epitaphium

Answer 33

Igor Stravinsky, Chamber work

Question 34

Poetics of Music

Answer 34

A book written by Stravinsky containing ideas about his artistic process and accounts of his experiences, Igor Stravinsky

Question 35

Béla Bartók

Answer 35

Hungarian, Bluebeard's Castle/The Miraculous Mandarin/Concerto for Orchestra/Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta/Mikrokosmos

Question 36

Zoltán Kodály

Answer 36

Hungarian, Háry János

Question 37

Háry János

Answer 37

Zoltán Kodály, Opera

Question 38

Bluebeard's Castle

Answer 38

Béla Bartók, Opera

Question 39

The Miraculous Mandarin

Answer 39

Béla Bartók, Ballet

Question 40

Concerto for Orchestra

Answer 40

Béla Bartók, Concerto

Question 41

Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

Answer 41

Béla Bartók, Orchestral work

Question 42

Mikrokosmos

Answer 42

Béla Bartók, Piano works in volumes

Question 43

"The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music"

Answer 43

A journal article written by Bartók