FINAL- TEST 3

Question 1

Alban Berg and Anton Webern were students of:

Answer 1

Arnold Schoenberg.

Question 2

The Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to:

Answer 2

a near riot.

Question 3

Which of the following does NOT characterize the musical language of Expressionism?

Answer 3

extended passages of consonance

Question 4

Music that rejects the framework of key is described as:

Answer 4

atonal.

Question 5

Which Viennese composer invented the twelve-tone method after writing in both post-Romantic and atonal styles?

Answer 5

Schoenberg

Question 6

Which early twentieth-century style dealt with the realm of the psyche?

Answer 6

Expressionism

Question 7

Which painter associated with Expressionism influenced Schoenberg?

Answer 7

Munch

Question 8

Which of the following Stravinsky works is from his primitivist period?

Answer 8

The Rite of Spring

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a Stravinsky ballet?

Answer 9

Daphnis and Chloé

Question 10

Which of the following was the Russian-born composer who wrote music in post-Impressionist, primitivist, Neoclassical, and twelve-tone styles?

Answer 10

Stravinsky

Question 11

Copland’s Appalachian Spring quotes the early American tune:

Answer 11

Simple Gifts.

Question 12

Copland’s Billy the Kid is a(n):

Answer 12

ballet.

Question 13

During the 1940s, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk developed:

Answer 13

bebop.

Question 14

George Gershwin’s folk opera ________ was far ahead of its time.

Answer 14

Porgy and Bess

Question 15

In which musical style did Copland compose?

Answer 15

all of the above

Question 16

John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes is a work for:

Answer 16

prepared piano.

Question 17

John Williams was the music director and principal conductor of the:

Answer 17

Boston Pops.

Question 18

Leonard Bernstein was the first American-born conductor to be appointed director of the:

Answer 18

New York Philharmonic.

Question 19

Prokofiev and Shostakovich were prominent composers from:

Answer 19

the Soviet Union.

Question 20

Nadia Boulanger was an extraordinarily gifted:

Answer 20

teacher.

Question 21

The Introduction to Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring begins with a melody played on the:

Answer 21

bassoon.

Question 22

The early twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was:

Answer 22

neo-Classicism.

Question 23

The model for Bartók’s melodies can be found in:

Answer 23

Hungarian folk songs.

Question 24

The principal exponent of cool jazz was the trumpeter:

Answer 24

Miles Davis.

Question 25

West Side Story is a modern-day musical retelling of Shakespeare’s:

Answer 25

Romeo and Juliet.

Question 26

What kind of jazz is Duke Ellington known for?

Answer 26

big band

Question 27

What was the trademark of bebop?

Answer 27

a two-note phrase

Question 28

Which American city is considered the birthplace of jazz?

Answer 28

New Orleans

Question 29

Which Hungarian composer combined native folk music characteristics with main currents of European music?

Answer 29

Bartók.

Question 30

Which instrument did Louis Armstrong play?

Answer 30

trumpet

Question 31

Which of the following composers invented the prepared piano?

Answer 31

John Cage

Question 32

Which of the following composers would NOT have been emulated during the neo-Classical era?

Answer 32

Wagner

Question 33

Which of the following does NOT characterize John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes?

Answer 33

lyrical melodies

Question 34

Which of the following is NOT a ballet by Copland?

Answer 34

Our Town

Question 35

Which of the following music genres developed around the turn of the twentieth century and incorporates elements of African music and Western popular and art music?

Answer 35

jazz

Question 36

Which of the following musicals was NOT a collaboration by Rodgers and Hammerstein?

Answer 36

The Phantom of the Opera

Question 37

Which of the following works by John Cage has no musical content and can be performed by anyone on any instrument?

Answer 37

4'33"

Question 38

Which work did Gershwin compose in France?

Answer 38

An American in Paris

Question 39

With which contemporary movement is the composer John Cage linked?

Answer 39

chance music

Question 40

Berg’s opera Wozzeck centers on:

Answer 40

a soldier’s obsession with unhappy love.

Question 41

Berg’s opera Wozzeck is best described as an example of:

Answer 41

Expressionism.

Question 42

Bernstein rose to prominence as:

Answer 42

all of the above. Composer Conductor Pianist

Question 43

Bernstein’s West Side Story updates the feud of the Capulets and the Montagues to a feud between:

Answer 43

the Jets and the Sharks.

Question 44

Louis Armstrong was also known as:

Answer 44

Satchmo

Question 45

Louis Armstrong’s instrument-like approach to singing is called:

Answer 45

scat-singing.

Question 46

Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as:

Answer 46

Sprechstimme

Question 47

The twelve-tone method is also known as:

Answer 47

serialism.