Chapter 22 Quiz Guide

1. What is neo-classicism?  What ballet by Stravinsky reflects this style?

2. What is arch form?

3. What is socialist realism?

4. Which composer incorporates birdsong into his compositions?

5. What is the unusual scoring for Messiaen’s Quartet for the end of time and why is it scored that way?

6. What is non-retrogradable rhythm?  Which composer tends to use this?

7. Although your book is woefully inadequate regarding information about musical theater, which relatively recent musical is based on a famous opera?

8. Which Shostakovich opera was withdrawn by the Soviet government?

9. What role does the symphony have in the 20^th century?

10. What is ironic about the composers of American film music in the 1930s and 40s?

Midterm Exam Study Guide

1) Compare and contrast the general traits of music from the 20th century with those of music from the 19th century in terms of rhythm, melody, harmony, form, etc.

2) Give an overview of the alternatives to common practice triadic harmony that composers adopted at the beginning of the 20th century. Cite relevant musical examples to illustrate your points.

3) Discuss the primitivist aesthetic movement of the early 20th century. In what way did this movement fuel the popularity of ragtime? What is the relationship between primitivism and nationalism?

4) Explain the aesthetic principles of expressionism. How did these principles shape the music of the Second Viennese composers? Cite specific musical examples to illustrate your points.

5) In what ways were the composers of the Second Viennese School traditionalists? In what ways were they progressives? Cite specific musical examples to illustrate your points.

Chapter 21 Quiz Guide

1. How would you define atonality?

2. What is expressionism?

3. Who is Arnold Schoenberg?

4. What is Sprechstimme?

5. What is Pierrot Lunaire?  Is there a story?

6. What are some of the characteristics of Webern’s Five Pieces for String Quartet?

7. What is the plot of Wozzeck? How does Berg structure his opera Wozzeck?

8. What is set theory?

9. How does Schoenberg describe the functions of a 12-tone row?

10. What are the 4 types of rows? What is a hexachord?

11. Is there a secret program in Berg’s Lyric Suite?  How would you describe it musically?

12. What are some other terms for 12-tone music?

13. What do you know about Schoenberg’s Piano Suite, Op. 25?

14. What major compositions by Schoenberg and Berg were left unfinished?

15. How did Webern die?

Chapter 20 Quiz Guide

1. What are the musical characteristics of impressionism?

2. What non-traditional scales does Debussy like to use, especially in a piece like Voiles?

3. What is an octatonic scale?  Give a musical example that uses this type of scale.

4. What was Charles Ive’s “day job?”  What instrument in his Unanswered Question represents the question?

5. What musical element did primitivist composers manipulate the most?

6. What is polytonality?

7. What are some characteristics of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps?

8. Who was Serge Diaghilev?

9. In what musical styles did Stravinsky work?

10. In jazz music, what is a vamp?

11. What is Black, Brown and Beige?

12. Where did Bartok find inspiration for his music?

13. What is unusual about Cowell’s The Banshee?

14. Who wrote the first large scale piece entirely for percussion ensemble?

15. What are some characteristics of the blues?

16. What is a “blue” note?  Which notes of the scale are usually blue?

17. What is vocal improvisation in jazz called?

Chapter 19 Quiz Guide

1. According to a nationwide survey conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the most popular type of music with the American public?
2. What was composer Scott Joplin known for?
3. Which composer/artist was associate with the rock group The Mothers of Invention and also worked in orchestral idioms?
4. What was the television show, The Ed Sullivan Show known for?
5. Who is considered the father of the 20th-century early music movement?
6. Which composer complained that 20th-century artists spend too much time listening to music of the past?
7. What music did Bill Clinton play when he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination.
8. What was the single largest musical concert event in history?
9. How were Beethoven’s symphonies politicized in the early 20th century?
10. What is ambient music?
11. How does harmony figure into the debate over musical modernism?
12. What was the social agenda of the Little Red Song Book: Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent?
13. What was the purpose behind Brian Eno’s Music for Airports?
14. What is George Owen Squier known for?
15. Which style of music especially promoted racial integration in the 1930s?
16. How did the Soviet government feel about the formalist compositions of Dimitri Shostakovich and Serge Prokofiev?
17. How did Glenn Gould feel about live public performances?
18. How did Benny Goodman's quartet bridge the racial musical divide?
19. How did the American Federation of Musicians feel about recorded music?
20. What is the purpose of the Pavarotti Music Center?