Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, No. 8 Nacht

Question 0

What responses do Expressionist artists seek to depict?

Answer 0

Emotional

Question 1

What does Expressionism confront?

Answer 1

Human reality

Question 2

What is a common feature of Expressionism?

Answer 2

Uneasiness

Question 3

What does Expressionism depict the destruction of?

Answer 3

The trust between humans and th world

Question 4

Expressionism is seen as a way of conveying?

Answer 4

Inner reality or truth

Question 5

What were three prominent Expressionist painters in Germany and Austria?

Answer 5

Franz Marc, Max Beckmann and Egon Schiele

Question 6

What notable Expressionist artist was born in Russia but came to Germany to hone his craft?

Answer 6

Wassily Kandinsky

Question 7

What is the most widely recognized Expressionist painting?

Answer 7

The Scream

Question 8

Who painted The Scream?

Answer 8

Norwegian Edvard Munch

Question 9

Who used himself as a model for a number of self-portraits that made him seem stressed or even anguished?

Answer 9

Arnold Schoenberg

Question 10

What musical style is the first that many think of when they hear the term avant-garde?

Answer 10

Expressionism

Question 11

In all Expressionist works what dominates over consonance?

Answer 11

Dissonance

Question 12

What city was the hub of musical Expressionism?

Answer 12

Vienna

Question 13

What was Arnold Shoenberg’s landmark achievement?

Answer 13

Erwartung 1909

Question 14

What is Erwartung about?

Answer 14

One singer accompanied by orchestra narrating her experience of searching for her lover at night, stumbling through a dark forest finding his corpse and suffering a mental breakdown

Question 15

Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Arnold Shoenberg made up what school?

Answer 15

The second Viennese School

Question 16

WHat was Webern’s best example of Expressionism?

Answer 16

Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op, 10

Question 17

What is Berg’s most celebrated Expressionist work?

Answer 17

The opera WOzzeck 1917 to 1922

Question 18

What is a common them in Expressionist music?

Answer 18

madness

Question 19

What does Pierrot luanire translate to?

Answer 19

Moonstruck Pierrot

Question 20

What has been blamed for bizarre behavior?

Answer 20

The moon

Question 21

WHat are two stock figures in commedia dell’arte?

Answer 21

Harlequin and Colombine

Question 22

Who was Pierrot in commedia dell’arte?

Answer 22

A mischief maker who would get into trouble and land on his feet, he was painted with heavy white make-up and dressed in a white costumes

Question 23

How many poems did Giraud publish in French describing the various misadventures of Pierrot?

Answer 23

50

Question 24

Who translated Albert Giraud's 50 poems from French to German?

Answer 24

Otto Erich Harleben

Question 25

What is a song cycle?

Answer 25

A set of vocal pieces connected in some way, by musical motifs or by texts

Question 26

What happens in Pierrot lunaire?

Answer 26

He gets drunk on moonbeams and sobers up as the sun rises

Question 27

Who commissioned Schoenberg to write Pierrot lunaire?

Answer 27

ALbertine Zehme

Question 28

What did Zehme expect Schoenberg to compose for Pierrot lunaire?

Answer 28

A piano accompaniment

Question 29

How may players when in the group that produced Pierrot lunaire?

Answer 29

Fiive

Question 30

How many instruments were used in PIerrot Lunaire?

Answer 30

EIght

Question 31

What are the eight instruments used in pierrot lunaire?

Answer 31

Cello, piano, flutist, piccolo, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola

Question 32

What instrument does the flutist double with?

Answer 32

The piccolo

Question 33

What instrument does the clarinetists also play in Pierrot Lunaire?

Answer 33

The bass clarinet

Question 34

What instrument is the violinist expected to play at times in Pierrot Lunaire?

Answer 34

The viola

Question 35

What is sprechstimme?

Answer 35

When notes are half spoken, half sung

Question 36

What subtle Expressionist message can we glean from the voice seldom relating to the instruments in Pierrot Lunaire?

Answer 36

That we are each alone in the world

Question 37

How does Schoenberg divide up his 21 songs?

Answer 37

into threee sets of seven each

Question 38

What pattern does Giraud use in his poem?

Answer 38

ABACA

Question 39

What are Reisenfalter?

Answer 39

Black moths or butterflies

Question 40

What is a passcaglia?

Answer 40

When new melodies appear over a repeating bass line

Question 41

How long is Schoenberg's passacaglia bass line?

Answer 41

Three notes long

Question 42

What is an ostinato?

Answer 42

A short pattern that repeats many, many times

Question 43

WHat is fermata?

Answer 43

When performesrs sustain a particular note longer than its written value

Question 44

How is the cellist asked to play in Pierrot Lunaire?

Answer 44

On the bridge

Question 45

What is the effect of the cellist playing on the bridge in Pierrot Lunaire?

Answer 45

IThe strings cannot virate very freely and the cello's timbre sounds glassy and chilly

Question 46

What is word-painting?

Answer 46

When a composer set the music so that it illustrates the literal meaning of a particular word

Question 47

What word is word-painted in Nacht?

Answer 47

Duft

Question 48

What does duft mean?

Answer 48

Fragrance

Question 49

What is the only word in Nacht performed by conventional singing rather than by Spreschstimme and what does it mean?

Answer 49

Vershwiegen which mean mutely

Question 50

Who called Pierrot lunaire the solar plexus of the 20th century?

Answer 50

Igor Stravinsky