exam 5

Question 1

Sprechstimme

Answer 1

Singer sings a noted rhythm of united pitch

Question 2

Expressionism

Answer 2

Focuses on unconsciousness and inner feelings

Question 3

Atonality

Answer 3

Absence of key or tonal center

Question 4

Prepared Piano

Answer 4

A piano with objects such as screws, bolts, and pieces or rubber placed btwn the strings

Question 5

primitivism

Answer 5

Elevated rhythm over other elements of music

Question 6

Twelve tone

Answer 6

Method of composition in which pitches cant be repeated after all 11 other pitches have been sound

Question 7

Modernism

Answer 7

movement of self-conscious innovation

Question 8

minimalism/minimalistic

Answer 8

music that changes gradually over time

Question 9

Cluster chord

Answer 9

close position chords

Question 10

Glissando

Answer 10

Rapid slide up or down a scale

Question 11

Neoclassicism

Answer 11

A style that based new compositions upon the baroque and classical

Question 12

Antiphony

Answer 12

Placing member of an ensemble around the room rather than on stage

Question 13

Avant grade

Answer 13

Music at the forefront of experimentation

Question 14

How many pieces in Cage’s Sonatas and interludes

Answer 14

20

Question 15

What new instrument was in Still’s Symphony No1 “Afro-American”

Answer 15

Tenor banjo

Question 16

What was the inspiration for this Symphony?

Answer 16

blues

Question 17

What composer used symbolism

Answer 17

debussy

Question 18

What composer used Primitivism

Answer 18

Stravinsky

Question 19

What composer used Neoclassicism

Answer 19

percofia

Question 20

What composer used Expressionism

Answer 20

Cherbourg

Question 21

Characteristics of expressionism (3)

Answer 21

Written for smaller ensembles
Still used rondo and sonata forms
Employed lighter musical texture

Question 22

American composers (3)

Answer 22

Coplin
still
Cage

Question 23

How many parts were in the Rite of Spring?

Answer 23

2

Question 24

Composers who studied with Schonberg

Answer 24

Berg
Wevyn

Question 25

What was the recognizable theme in Appalachian spring?

Answer 25

simple gifts

Question 26

What genre was Appalachian spring?

Answer 26

ballet

Question 27

If a european uses jazz music

Answer 27

exotisism

Question 28

If an american uses jazz music

Answer 28

nationalism

Question 29

What genre was the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Answer 29

Symphonic poem

Question 30

What genre was stravinsky known for?

Answer 30

ballet

Question 31

What type of music did john cage use?

Answer 31

Chance music

Question 32

John cage’s 4’33 characteristics (3)

Answer 32

Piece in three movements Pianosit sits on stage without playing a note for 4’33 Audience get restless they notice inside and outside the hall

Question 33

New invention of the time period (3)

Answer 33

Synthesizer Tape recorder Computer