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Music Appreciation
Final Exam
55
Music
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2007

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Which style does atonality fall under?
Definition
Expressionism
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Definiton: No specific pitch is emphasized.
Definition
Atonality
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Which two composers used Bel Canto?
Definition
Verdi, Puccini
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Did Wagner's operas center on voice or orchestra?
Definition
Orchestra
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What does Leitmotif mean?
Definition
Specific them - subconscious element of opera. Wagner. (Star Wars)
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What does Klaugfarbenmelodie mean?
Definition
"Tone Color Melody" By Webern
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What does Unendliche Melodie mean?
Definition
Unending melody. By Wagner
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What did Lunaire do?
Definition
Leeders (Artsong) Erlking
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What dramatic contada did we study?
Definition
Survivor from Warsaw by Shoenberg.
Term
Carnaval was an example of what?
Definition
Character pieces (miniatures)
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What concert overture did we study?
Definition
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet
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Who wrote etudes? (two ppl)
Definition
Chopin, Lizt
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Who considered opera to be "Music Drama"?
Definition
Wagner
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What program symphony did we study?
Definition
Symphony fantastique by Berlioz
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What piece did Scott Joplin write?
Definition
The Maple Leaf Rag
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The Maple Leaf Rag combines which two styles of music?
Definition
European march and African rythms.
Term
Who used Idee Fix?
Definition
Berlioz
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What is Ostinado?
Definition
Repetitive figure (minimalism) Used in beginning of Erl King.
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What is pantonic? Who used it?
Definition
5-note scale. Debbuci
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What is strophic?
Definition
Setting text to music - same melody for each verse.
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Who was a transcendentalist composer?
Definition
Charles Ives (New England)
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What did Albert Gerow do?
Definition
Provided text for Pierro Lunaire. (Associate with Shoernberg)
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Who was Martha Graham? Which composer was she associated with?
Definition
A dancer and choreographer. Appalachian spring was written for her. Associated with Copland.
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Who were 12-tone composers? 'Dodecaphony' (Three ppl)
Definition
Shernberg, Webern, Berg
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Who were members of the 2nd Vionese school?
Definition
Shoernberg, Webern, Berg
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Who was Melormay associated with? And which ballet?
Definition
(Symbolist) Debucci. Afternoon of a faun.
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Who was Monet associated with? And which style?
Definition
Debucci - Impressionism
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What style is Edvard Munch associated with? (Scream)
Definition
Expressionism
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What composer was Picasso Associated with and which movement?
Definition
Stravenski - Primitivism
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La Sacre du Printemps means what?
Definition
Rite of Spring by Stravenski (primitive folklore)
Term
Neoclassism is what? Which period? Who used it?
Definition
Style that uses Baroque/Classical structures like sonata, ABA. Clear texture. 20th Century. Stravenski.
Term
Which two composers used nationalism?
Definition
Smetana, Chopin (Polonaise)
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Which composer used verismo?
Definition
Puccini (In La Boheme)
Term
1797-1860 fell under which period?
Definition
Romantic
Term
What are four American composers?
Definition
Copland, Ives, Glass, Cage
Term
Who did Copland study with?
Definition
Nadia
Term
The vionese composers were from?
Definition
Austria
Term
Which composer resided in LA?
Definition
Stravinksy
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In Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, what instrument does the faun play?
Definition
Flute.
Term
Who was gay?
Definition
Tchaikowski
Term
Who went insane?
Definition
Shumann
Term
Who was a jew?
Definition
Mendhellson
Term
Opera houses opened in which period?
Definition
Baroque
Term
The sonata and rondo are from which period?
Definition
Classical
Term
Fourths and fifths were from which period?
Definition
Rennaisance/Medieval
Term
Who was influenced by Zen Buddhism?
Definition
Cage
Term
What are the Das Rheingold, Die Valkure, Siegfried, and Die Gotterclammergy from?
Definition
Der Ring (The Ring) by Wagner
Term
Wide variety of performances became available in which age?
Definition
Classical
Term
In which period did composers start focusing on themselves?
Definition
Romantic
Term
Palestrina is from which period?
Definition
Rennaisance
Term
Supernatural, Nationalism, Love of nature, Middle class composers, and program music are from which period?
Definition
Romantic
Term
Name five French composers?
Definition
Berlioz, Perotin, Leonin, Mashow, Debucci
Term
Diaghilev directed what? And where were they from?
Definition
Ballet Russes, from Russia then France.
Term
What was the Comedia Del Arte and who used it?
Definition
Origins in renaissance, Shumann used chars. Shoernberg too. (Clowns)
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Which composition is Atonal but not 12-tone?
Definition
Moon Drunk
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