No other single figure from his era did more the expand the possibilities of form, harmony and timbre than Debussy.
True
Minimalist music tends to unfold across long periods and relies on the passage of time to create an almost trance-like state in the mind of the listener.
True
In his art song, "Erlkonig," Schubert uses a repetitive rhythmic figure at the beginning to capture the constant forward movement of the pair on horseback and the sound of the hooves racing against time
True
Chopin advised young pianists to listen carefully and often to
great singers
The pace of musical change
increased dramatically in the 20th century
Schoenberg searched for a new system of organizing music, and came up with a brand new concept of the 12 tone system
True
the openinng for Beethoven's fifth symphony became an audible icon for the resolve of the allies to achieve victory in Europe
True
Ragtime music was
dance music, immensely popular with the young people and foundation of jazz music
the first movement in Beethoven's Symphony no. 5 is in
sonota form
In west side story, the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet is transformed into a fire escape
True
A whole-tone scale has no half steps, eliminating a sense of tonal center
True
The t4ext states that Verdi's La Traviata exemplifies the best elements of the nineteenth century italian opera, showcasing the voice and using the orchestra sparingly
true
Brahms borrowed the theme for the finale to Symphony no. 4 from
Bach's Cantata no. 150
In traditional opera, the orchestra supports the voice, In Wagner's opera the
two blend as a single unit
Clara Wieck Schumann's song "Forward" was
written as a birthday present for her husband and was political in nature
Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique depicts an artist being led to his execution and hte music even imitates the sound of
his head falling into the bucket at the base of the guillotine
At the beginnng of his career as a composer, Berlioz's music was
not understood
During the Civil War, as with soldiers today, music provided
an important emotional outlet for soldiers and families, source of comfort and inspiration and entertainment
In the early 1990s, the national Cattlemen's Beef association began using Copland's Versio of the hoe down as a backup for a series of television commercials with a tagline
Beef: It's What's for Dinner
THe predominant volume of Debussy's Voiles is very loud
False
Technological innovations during ht e19th century include
telegraph, telephone, railroads and steamships
Scott Joplin always wanted to be known as a classical composer
True
The numerous choral societies that sprang up across Europe were
as much political as artistic
Joplin spent the last years of his life working to
get a full production of his opera Tremonisha staged in NY
Bartok was one of the first ethnomusicologists, meaning that he
notated and recorded the folk music of illiterate musicians
John Cage carefully notated that each performance should be exactly 4 minutes and 33 seconds and should be performed by a pianists
False
Dvorak felt inclined to show American composers how to incorporate the characteristic sound of oflk music into their work
True
Union: Concert paraphrase on National Airs was a piano work composed by Louis Moreau Gottschalk which contained the following patriotic tunes
The star Spangled Banner" "Hail, Columbia" and "Yankee Doodle
Cage was profoundly influenced by
Zen Buddhism
Debussy was born during the US civil war and died a few months before the end of the Vietnam war
False
For the romantic
dreams were as important as the intellect
the royalties from Aaron Copland's music go to his estate which funds a program that allows individual composers to spend six weeks in residence at his last home in Cortlandt, NY
true
The piano is essentially
a percussion instrument due to the striking of keys that activate hammers inside
Big band found bebop difficult to listen to because
the music was dissonant with a very fast tempos, radical new harmonies, and irregularlyt spacent accents with sporadic piano chords
Cage once declared
Everything we do is music
Berlioz was obsessed with
a Shakespearian actress named Harriet Smithson
The blues were originally transmited
orally, without any formal notation
Fanny Mendelssohn faced two major obstacles which were
immense fame of her younger brother and being a girl
Like Mozart and Beethoven, Schubert did much of his work in
Vienna
A major movement in the Romantic era was
nationalism
Gamelan gong kebyar involves vertically hung gongs, which are struck to mark off fixed beats within the meric structure of the piece
True
Many of Berlioz's contemporaries criticized him because his music was often
too loud
Aaron Copland captures the osunds of the American Weest in his ballet "Rodeo
True
Many composers created new and entriely novel approaches to music by
writing works without a tonal center of clear meter, new electroically generated sounds, incorporating sounds of the music of non-western cultures
Sheet music was one of themost lucrative parts of music at end of 19th century
true
minimalsts like Glass were interested in hypnotic quality of repeated melodic fragments and interlocking patterns created by the gamelan
true
Charles Ives once told a scribe who tried to correct dissonant sounds "please dont try to make things nice. all the wrong notes are right:
true
Debussy's works that are now recognized as masterpieces were
initially greeted with indifference or even scorn
perhaps the single most remarkable aspect of music in the 29th century is that for the first itme
listeners could hear music when and where they wanted to hear it
Hemiola is
syncopation where atterns of two and three occur together
Dvorak creats a folk like sound by
using fewer than the standard seven diatonic scale
Bartok emigrated to the US before WWI
false
Josplin and Stark called his peices ______ in an attempt to make them sound more refined
Classic rags
All of the famous ragtime pianists read music
false
Which American composer was a successful insurance salesman who composed as a hobby
Ives
`Arnold Schoenberg developed the 12 tone series
true
Stravinsky like Schoenberg
settled in CA and began writin 12 tone music, widely regarded as one of the century's two greatest composers
Great American musical composers include
jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, and Allen Jay Lerner
John Cage studied composition with Arnold Schoenberg in LA
true
the instrumentalists who created bebop wanted jazz to
be treated as serious music for listening, rather than a frivolous entertainment for dancing
many talented composers werew able to earn fortunes writing for mass amrket audiences in the 20th century
true
the fueding families in west side sotry are represented by the
sharks and jets
Wagners operas are full of social and political ideas
true
many of the nineteenth century's leading composers were themselves pianists, and they wrote extensivelyfor that instrument
true
during schubert's lifetime, lieder were meant to be perfomred
in the home, frequently at a salon gathering
women in the nineteenth centruywer widely encouraged to sing or play, but not accepted as composers
true
composers tried to make their music more "extreme" by
bigger and louder orchestras, emphasizing extreme contrasts of texture and using program usic exploring the darker side
One singer depicts the narrator and ___ characters in Erlkonig
three, father son and erlkonig (death ghost)
Duke Ellington
wrote concerts and conert peices and hundreds of tuens that are jazz standards, major bandleader in swing era, wrote film scores for Hollywood
impressionistic artist intersted in effects of light on perception
true
gamelan music was always carefully notated
false
duke ellington was born and raise in New orleans
false
charles ives as the son of a
civil war bandmaster
which of the following is the title list for Berlioz's first movement of the symphonie fantastique?
dreams-passions, a ball, scene in the countryside, march to scaffold, dream of witches sabbath
during his lifetime, beethoven was
widely recognized as the greated living composer of instrumental music
einstein on the beach is an opera with little singing and no plot
true
Schubert's erlkonig was composed to meet growing demand form music to be played at
home
romantic music stresses
emotion, imagination, and individuality
in the end of berlioz's work, good triumphs
false
bebop was
new style of playin ghtat sued jazz combos instead of the big band ensembles and was based upon improvisation
it was rumored that robert johnson died from being poisoned by the owner of a tavern where he played
true
charlie parker's nickname was
yardbird
considering politics and music, communal singing became
important means of fostering solidarity among diverse population
ellington's compositions challenged the idea that jazz and classical music should be perceived nd treated as two differnt types of art
true
the 12 tone series rows could be played
forward or backward, inverted or retrodgrade, and transposed to start on different pitches
peices for solo voice and piano
formed a major part of the domestic repertory
the text of Schubert's Erlkonig is a poem written in the 1780s by
Geothe
Berlioz wrote his personal life into his music
true
the opening of eethoven's fifth symphony is probably the best known theme in all of music
true
in voiles, instead of clea themes, debussy presents
what sound more like fragments than actual self sufficient themes
in addition to art songs, schubert also wrote
symphonies, piano sonatas, and odzens of works for chamber ensemble
gottschalk was the first American born piano virtuoso to achieve international fame
true
Schoenberg was on faculty of U of SouthCA and UCLA
true
Beethoen original was going to dedicate symphony 3 to Napolon but became disillusioned when he crowned himself Emperer of france, symphony was titled
eroica
Debussy's voiles reflects the growing globalization of music in 20th century
true
opening melody, and the one that keeps returning in hoedown is the traditional fiddle tune called
bonaparte's retreat
Charles ives composed professionaly, but sold insurance on the side so that his famiy coud survive since nobody understood his music and the public didn't recognize his genius
true
country blues are also called whiny blues and feature a male single with a banjo
false
at the end of erlkonig
the boy is seized by death and dies in father's arms as they arrive at the doctor's house
Over the course of his career, Scott Joplin published over 80 pieces including severalf of the best known ragtime works
true
Lous Moreau Gottschal wrote Union: coners paraphrase antioanl airs as a response to the recent outbreak of world War Ii
false
Debussy was intent on exploring musical timre in the same way that
French symbolists poets explored sound for sound's sake
In Wagner's Ring of Nibelungs the libretto draws heavily on Northern European Mythology, including many of the same resources used in
lord of the rings
new spirit took ohold in all the arts and represented an abolishment of tradition and quest for novelty and was called
modernism
Aaron Copand wrote the music for the american ballet
rodeo
chopin had a passion for poland and wrotenational dances such as polonaise and mazurkas to demostrate his love for the country
true
arnold Schoenberg was
austrian by birth and moved between vienna and berli, but finallyemigrated to US when nazis came, born jewish, converted to christianity then judaism and a neighbor of shirley temple
the title of 4 33 when performed in woodstock, NY was
total length in minutes and seconds of its performance
mendelssohn's overture contains sounds imitating a braying donkey ad scurrying fairies
true
beethoven wrote how many symphonies
9
One of the traditions during this era or ragtime was acutting contest in which
two ragtime players attempted to outplay eachother by adding virtuosic embellishments
PHillip glass studied composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris, who 40 years before had taught
Aaron Copland
in 1916, Joplin recorded maple leaf rag on
a piano roll designed to be played on a player piano
Antonin Dvorak wrote his string quartet in F Major, in
US
by the middle of the 19th century, pianos were
produced in mass quantities in large factories and were more afforadable than before
phillip glass has written
ten operas, large quantites of vocal and instrumental msic and sountracks for a number of films
Charles ives once stated
beauty in music is too often confused with someothing that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair
Neoclassicism
wa an attempt to incorporate past styles into comntemporary idiom
Jazz didn't use any syncopation or improvisation
false
in his compositions, debussy sought to create soudns that had never been heard
true
Voiles provides the listener with
almost no sense of a fixed metrical pattern