_____ is written for an enormous orchestra including eight horns, four tubas, and a very important percussion section made up of five timpani, bass drum, Tamborine, tam-tam, triangle, antique symbols, an a guiro (a notched gourd scraped with a stick)
  • short ride in a fast machine
  • The Rite of Spring
  • folk and popular music
  • minimalist music
the logical next step after Wagner's increased use of unresolved dissonances, was to abandon tonality completely. This departure form the tonal tradition is known as _____
  • polytonality
  • ostinato
  • atonality
  • neoclassical
composers in the twentieth century does inspiration from ______ from all cultures, the music of Asia and Africa, and European art music from the ___________
  • playing instruments at the very bottom or top of their ranges, uncommon playing techniques, and using noise like and percussive tones
  • free and spontaneous, almost improvised
  • folk and popular music; middle ages through the nineteenth century
  • folk and popular music
form about ____ , the music of many composers, including Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith, reflected an artistic movement known as neoclassicism
  • Appalation Spring
  • expressionism
  • 1920 to 1950
  • neoclassical
a most unusual and tonally vague scale is the ____ scale, made up of six different notes each a whole step away from the next
  • polytonality
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • 1920s and 1930s
  • whole - tone
the years following _____ saw more fundamental changes in the language of music than any time since the beginning of the baroque era. There was entirely new approaches to the organization of pitch and rhythm and a vast expansion in the vocabulary of sounds, especially percussive sounds. Nonwestern cultures and thought, technology, wars, and sexuality all had profound influences in music
  • Impression:sunrise
  • 1900
  • new sounds
  • Bartok
radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach a large audience during the ____ and became a mass of entertainment
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • whole - tone
  • minimalist music
  • 1920s and 1930s
_____ was an almost entirely self- taught musician. He acquired his profound knowledge of music by studying scores, playing in amateur chamber groups, and going to concerts
  • short ride in a fast machine
  • minimalist music
  • neoclassical
  • Arnold Schoenberg
_____ music is not merely a revival of old forms and styles; it uses earlier techniques to organize twentieth century harmonies and rhythms
  • minimalist music
  • ostinato
  • neoclassical
  • Bela Bartok
we now know _____ as a symphonic concert piece, but it originated as a ballet score for Martha Graham, the great modern dancer and choreographer
  • The Rite of Spring
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • polytonality
  • Appalation Spring
______, one of the greeting twentieth century composers, and was also a leading scholar of the peasant music of his native Hungary and other parts of Eastern Europe. "Studies of folk music in the countryside," he wrote, "are as necessary to me as fresh air is to other people."
  • Claude Debussy
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Bela Bartok
  • George Gershwin
The most important impressionist composer was _____. Musically speaking, he linked the romantic ea with the twentieth century
  • George Gershwin
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Bela Bartok
  • Claude Debussy
______ by Schoenburg, is a dramatic cantata for narrator, male chorus, and orchestra, and deals with a single episode in the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis during World War II. Schoenberg wrote the text himself, basing it partly on a direct report by one of the few survivors of the Warsaw ghetto. The narrator's part is a kind of "Sprechstimme", the novel speech-singing developed by Schoenberg
  • short ride in a fast machine
  • A survivor from Warsaw
  • The Rite of Spring
  • folk and popular music
Bartok's _____ (his most popular piece) is a showpiece for an orchestra of virtuosos. It is a romantic in spirit because of its emotional intensity, memorable themes, and vivid contrasts of mood.
  • impressionist paintings
  • concerto for orchestra
  • folk and popular music
  • Appalation Spring
All of the following composers worked in the early yeas of the twentieth century: ______, _______, and ______
  • Whitacre's
  • Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky
  • He afternoon of a Faun
  • Arnold Schoenberg
______ extensive output includes compositions of almost every kind, for voices, instruments, and stage. His innovations in rhythm, harmony, and tone color had an enormous influence on other composers
  • Stravinsky's
  • Bela Bartok
  • Sprechstimme
  • neoclassical
The American composer _____ grew up on the lower east side of Manhattan, New York
  • Whitacre's
  • George Gershwin
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • He afternoon of a Faun
before the twentieth century, western music was based on the _____, a connection that resulted from a special gravitational pull from the dominant chord toward the tonic chord. The motion from dominant to tonic is the essential chord progression of the tonal system. Examples of alternative organizations include _____, _____, and ______
  • folk and popular music; middle ages through the nineteenth century
  • tonic-dominant relationship ; bitonality, antonality, and polytonality
  • Bartok
  • Igor Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring"
both _____ and _____ originated in France during the late 19th century
  • Sprechstimme
  • impressionist paintings
  • gissando
  • impressionist painting; symbolist painting
john cage's "sonatas and Interludes" is meant to emulate ______
  • 1920s and 1930s
  • Indian raga Music
  • Appalation Spring
  • Arnold Schoenberg
impressionist painters were concerned primarily with effects of ____, ____ and ______- with impermanence, change, and fluidity
  • light color, and atmosphere
  • short ride in a fast machine
  • concerto for orchestra
  • whole - tone
one twentieth century approach to pitch organization is the use of two or more keys at one time: ______
  • polytonality
  • Appalation Spring
  • ostinato
  • whole - tone
_____ was partly a reaction against the complexity of serialism and the randomness of chance music. It is characterized by steady pulse, clear tonality , and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • minimalist music
  • The Rite of Spring
  • Stravinsky's
In music, the early twentieth century was a time of _______
  • Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky
  • He afternoon of a Faun
  • revolt and change
  • George Gershwin
one painting by one entitled _______- a misty scene of boats in port- particularly annoyed an art critic, who wrote "Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape" Using Monet's title, the critic mockingly called the entire show "the exhibition of impressionists". The term impressionist stuck, but it eventually lost its derisive implication
  • new sounds
  • A survivor from Warsaw
  • Impression:sunrise
  • polytonality
_____ and early twentieth century artistic style, stressed intense, subjective and explored inner feelings rather than depicting outward appearances
  • Sprechstimme
  • expressionism
  • Primitivism
  • impressionist paintings
In 2009 ____'s music became known to millions of listeners through his Internet Virtual Choir Project. For this project, Whitacre invited singers to submit videos of themselves performing individual vocal parts of his choral piece "Lux Aurumque" Youtube videos sent by 185 singers from twelve countries were combined and coordinated to form a virtual Choir
  • new sounds
  • Bela Bartok
  • Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, and Igor Stravinsky
  • Whitacre's
______ ( literally speech-voice) is a vocal style that is halfway between speaking and singing
  • Sprechstimme
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Gissando
  • Atonality
as composers expanded the music vocabulary, many new techniques and sounds have become standard. These include: ________, ______, and _______
  • playing instruments at the very bottom or top of their ranges, uncommon playing techniques, and using noise like and percussive tones
  • polytonality
  • impressionist paintings
  • whole - tone
Debussy was often inspired by literary and pictorial ideas and his music sounds ______. His treatment of harmony was a revolutionary aspect of musical impressionism. He tends to use a chord more for its special color and sensuous quality than for its function in a standard harmonic progression. He sees successions of dissonant chords that do not resolve. "One must drown the sense of tonality," Debussy wrote.
  • Le Sacre du Printemps (The rite of Spring)
  • free and spontaneous, almost improvised
  • tonic-dominant relationship ; bitonality, antonality, and polytonality
  • short ride in a fast machine
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