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- Schoenberg's Moonstruck Pierrot uses a vocal technique of half singing-half speaking called:
- sprechstimme
- Which composer is not considered to be avant -garde?
- Prokofiev
- John Cage invented a technique to exploit unpredictability called
- aleatoric
- Béla Bartók traveled around Hungary recording
- folk music
- Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra was commissioned by what orchestra?
- Boston Symphony
- The Rite of Spring was written for what performing arts organization?
- Ballet Russe
- In Edgard Varese's Ionization, what is unique about the instruments involved?
- Only percussion
- Where did Aaron Copland go to study music?
- Paris, France
- For whom did Copland compose the ballet Appalachian Spring?
- Martha Graham
- Along with many other European composers of the mid-20th century, Stranvinsky and Schoenberg ended up living and working where?
- United States
- Why is Beethoven considered a bridge to the Romantic period?
- his compositions elevated music to new heights of eloquence and dramatic power
- Beethoven changed the title of the dance movement of the symphony (as in no. 5) from Minuet and Trio to:
- Scherzo
- The Italian word Scherzo means:
- joke
- Describe one way in which Beethoven changed the orchestration of his symphonies from what had been the Classical norm.
- adding the piccolo
- Early in his career, after moving to Vienna, Beethoven was best known for:
- performing at the piano
- Beethoven worked hard at composing. In what did he write his working drafts of music?
- sketchbooks
- For whom was Symphony No. 3, "Eroica," originally named?
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Symphony No. 9 is the first to include what in the final movement?
- a chorus
- How does Beethoven unify the large scale form of the Ninth Symphony?
- by quoting / recalling music from each of the previous movements in the last.
- What was the name of Friedrich Schiller's poetic ode which Beethoven used in the last movement of the 9th Symphony?
- An die Freude (To Joy)
- Symphony No. 5 uses what instruments new to the orchestra?
- TROMBONE,CONTRABASSOOn, PICCOLO
- What is unusual about the 3rd/4th movements of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony?
- THERE WAS A CONFLICT BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARK SOUNDS-ENDED W/OPTIMISM
- Hector Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique is an example of:
- program music
- Berlioz' Symphonie fantastique ties together the separate movements by the use of the same melody representing the beloved of the main character. What is the term for this melody?
- idèe fixe
- "Dream of a Witches Sabbath," movement five from Symphonie fantastique, uses what Gregorian chant melody from the Requiem Mass?
- dies irae
- What is the name for small piano pieces with descriptive titles?
- character pieces
- The ideal solo Romantic instrument was the...
- piano
- Who published a music journal in addition to composing his own music?
- Robert Schumann
- The pianist, Franz Liszt,did what to emphasize his profile.
- turned the piano sideways
- This "poet of the piano" was born in Poland but lived his adult life in Paris.
- Frederic Chopin
- Early Romantic composers were heavily influenced by:
- literature
- A term for a romantic rhythmic technique that means "robbed" is:
- rubato
- who composed over of lieder?
- Schubert
- In an art song, what is the relation of the accompaniment to the singer?
- THEY WORK TOGETHER AS ONE TO FORM A HARMONY
- In Schubert's The Erlking, the piano represents what?
- a galloping horse
- In what country did Richard Wagner live and work?
- Germany
- In what country did Giuseppe Verdi live and work?
- Italy
- What term did Wagner use for his idea of an overall art work, incorporating performing and fine arts?
- gesamtkunstwerk
- What is the term for a final fast, stretto section of an aria or duet leading to a character?s exit?
- cabaletta
- What term did Wagner use for musical figures representing characters, events or concepts?
- leitmotif
- Where did Wagner build his own opera house?
- Beyreuth, Germany
- Why did Wagner build the orchestra pit extending underneath the stage?
- so the large orchestra would not overpower the singers
- Giacomo Puccini wrote operas like La Boheme and Madame Butterfly. The gritty reality of such characters and their lives is known as:
- Verismo opera
- What instrument is used in La Traviata to simulate a guitar?
- harp
- Isolde's Love-Death aria is sung...
- after tristan dies
- Which playright did Verdi use for his last two operas
- Otello and Falstaff
- What bird is associated with Wagner’s Lohengrin?
- swan
- Johannes Brahms is considered conservative because he wrote no
- program music he wrote absolute music
- Antonin Dvorak was from...
- Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Dvorak's "New World" Symphony contains no...
- American tunes
- Tchaikovsky's The 1812 Overture is an example of
- musical nationalism
- Tchaikovsky had a patroness who later employed this famous composer.
- Claude Debussy
- Gustav Mahler incorporated this into much of his orchestral music.
- vocal music
- Claude Debussy was from
- Paris, France
- For what solo instrument is much of Debussy's music written?
- Piano
- In his Preludes, where did Debussy place the titles?
- at the end
- What unique scale is associated with Debussy's music (as in Voiles)?
- whole tone
- Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet is known as a
- symphonic poem
- Antonin Dvorak was from
- Bohemia
- Stravinsky was from
- St. Petersburg Russia
- neo-clacissism is?
- a movement in the twentieth-century music that seeks to return to the musical forms and aesthetics of the Baroque and Classical periods.
- Where did Aaron Copland go to study music
- Paris
- What compositions did Beethoven write? What era was he from?
- 9th symphony, 5th symphony, and Pathetique/Classical
- What compostion did Berlioz write? What era was he from?
- Symphony fantastique/ROmantic
- What did Chopin write? Era? Where was he from?
- Mazurka and Nocturne/Romantic/France
- What did Schubert write? Era?
- Traut, and Erlking/Romantic
- what does strophic mean?
- the same music in each verse
- where was Lizst from and what was he known for?
- Hungary/sideways piano
- What did Debussy write? Era? From?
- Prelude to the afternoon fawn (poem) for orchestra and Voiles/Impressionism/France
- What was the special technique of the Impressionism era?
- whole tones, pentatonic, and parallelism
- What did Copeland write? Era? From?
- Fanfare of the common Man, Hoedown, Appalachain Spring, melody shaker-simple gifts/20th cent./America
- Who was the insurance man that was american and considered avant garde? Era?
- Ives/20th cent.
- What did Cage write? Era? Considered? Known for what?
- 4:33/20th century/avant-garde-aleatoric music
- What did Stravinsky write? Era? From?
- Right of Spring/20th cent./Russia
- What was the technique used in rite of spring? Who was the chorographer from Rite of Spring?
- polytonality/Diaguelve
- What did Schoenberg write? Era? From?
- Pierrot/20th cent./Austrian
- What did Bartok write? Era? From?
- Folk Music/Hungary Buddapest
- What was Verese known for? Era?
- Using all percussion-no melody or and electronique/20th cent.
- What was Perkofiev known for? Era? From?
- Neo-classicism/20th cent./Russia
- What was John Adams known for?
- minimalism/short ride in a fast machine
- What was Brahms know for? Era? From?
- A requiem not for the dead/Romantic/Germany
- What were Schumann's other names (multipersonality disorder) Era?
- Floresten and Eusebius/Romantic
- What did Mendhelson write? Era?
- Midsummer's night dream and concert overture/Romantic
- What kind of music did Wagner write? what did he write?/Era?
- opera/Tristan and isolde and Lohengrin/Romantic
- Where was Devorak from? What did he write? What was it inspired from? Era?
- Czech/Symphony from new world/ America/ Romantic
- What kind of music did Pucinni write? What did he write? What phrase is familiar with him? Era?
- Opera/La Boheme/che gelida mamina/Romantic
- What did Verdi write? what era?
- La Triviata/Romantic
- What did Tchaikovsky write? Where was he from? what era?
- Nutcracker and 1812 overture/Russia/Romantic
- What did Maheler write? Era?
- an orchestral Lied/Romantic