Musical Elements in the 20th Century

Question 1

The terms borrowed from the visual arts

Answer 1

Impressionism and Expressionism

Question 2

What does musical impressionism employs?

Answer 2

• Open Chords
• Whole-Tone Scales
• Free Rhythms
• Wide Intervals

Question 3

Music with impressionistic style is _________

Answer 3

programmatic

Question 4

Impressionism describes emotion based what the composers ____ and demonstrates ______

Answer 4

1. sees

2. vague-sounding scales

Question 5

A foremost impressionist composer

Answer 5

Claude Debussy

Question 6

Claude Debussy is born in France on ______

Answer 6

August 22, 1862

Question 7

Who saw Debussy’s talent and helped him?

Answer 7

One of Chopin’s students

Question 8

What did Debussy qualified for?

Answer 8

The Paris Conservatory

Question 9

Who are the Russian composers that Debussy gained knowledge from?

Answer 9

Tchaikovsky, Borodin, and Mussorgsky

Question 10

When did Debussy graduated?

Answer 10

in 1884

Question 11

What occupations that his friends had that led Debussy to create music that reflects emphasis on color, mood, and misty atmosphere?

Answer 11

Impressionist painters and Symbolist poets

Question 12

The two Orchestral works of Debussy

Answer 12

1. La Mer (The Sea)

2. Nocturnes

Question 13

The three piano compositions of Debussy

Answer 13

1. Petite Suite
2. Estampes
3. Images

Question 14

What do Expressionism emphasizes?

Answer 14

intense and subjective emotions

Question 15

Expressionism can be used in making one’s voice heard on some issues in the society. True or False?

Answer 15

True

Question 16

The 3 composers identified as Expressionists

Answer 16

1. Arnold Schoenberg
2. Alban Berg
3. Anton Webern

Question 17

The 2 works of Alban Berg

Answer 17

Wozzeck and Lulu

Question 18

A work of Anton Webern

Answer 18

Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10

Question 19

What is the expressionism’s attempt?

Answer 19

to break with traditions

Question 20

What are the 3 techniques or methods the Expressionism composers have come up?

Answer 20

1. Atonality
2. Twelve-tone System
3. Multiple Serialization

Question 21

When music is atonal, there is no tonal center or underlying key. True or False?

Answer 21

True

Question 22

What is the other name for Twelve-tone system?

Answer 22

dodecaphonic

Question 23

What does the twelve-tone system refer to?

Answer 23

it refers to music based on serial manipulation of the twelve chromatic pitches

Question 24

The twelve-tone system is one form of serialism. True or False?

Answer 24

True

Question 25

Multiple serialization only pitches of the tone row are _____ in series.

Answer 25

manipulated

Question 26

When and where was Schoenberg born?

Answer 26

in Austria in 1874

Question 27

Schoenberg was not self-taught. True or False?

Answer 27

False, he was self-taught

Question 28

The two instruments Schoenberg learned to play in an early age was the ______ and the _____

Answer 28

1. Violin | 2. Cello

Question 29

Why did Schoenberg took a job? What was his job? On what age did he started working?

Answer 29

1. He had to take the job because his father died 2. His position was a bank clerk 3. He started working being a bank clerk in his 16th

Question 30

What was Schoenberg's first masterpiece?

Answer 30

Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4 in 1899

Question 31

Who wrote a huge cantata, Gurrelieder (Songs of Gurre) from 1901 to 1910?

Answer 31

Arnold Schoenberg

Question 32

Schoenberg taught music theory and compositions in Vienna in what year?

Answer 32

in the year 1904

Question 33

Who was Schoenberg's students?

Answer 33

Alban Berg and Anton Webern

Question 34

The 4 works of Schoenberg that he used a twelve-tone method

Answer 34

Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 (Moonstruck Pierrot, 1912), A Survivor from Warsaw, Op. 46 (1974), The Violin Concerto, Op. 36 and Piano Concerto, Op. 42

Question 35

In Pierrot Lunaire, what did Schoenberg developed?

Answer 35

he developed a gliding speech-song called Sprechstimme or Sprechgesang.

Question 36

What is Sprechstimme?

Answer 36

a unique vocal style that is half-spoken and half-sung text. an other term for Sprechstimme is Sprechgesang

Question 37

Is A Survivor from Warsaw a dramatic cantata or a bright and joyful cantata?

Answer 37

a dramatic cantata

Question 38

What did Schoenberg employed in his work called the A Survivor from Warsaw?

Answer 38

he employed sprechstimme

Question 39

Is Musical expressionism is emotionally-oriented, harshly dissonant, and tonal?

Answer 39

no, it is atonal. the other answer are correct except for tonal