Impressionism
Lists of People
Expressionism
Potluck
100
To whom was Debussy's Voiles a tribute?
Chopin
100
Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sergei Rachmaninoff
Post Romanticists
100
Which dominates in expressionism: dissonance or consonance?
dissonance
100
The first film to feature spoken dialogue was ____.
The Jazz Singer
200
Name the two translations of "voiles"
le voile = the veil la voile = the sail
200
Ravel, Boulanger, Respighi, Debussy, Delius, Griffes
Impressionist Composers
200
Where was the hub of musical Expressionism
Vienna
200
During industrialization, many composers sought to preserve musical tradition. Bartok and Kodaly are two examples of these ____.
Ethnomusicologists
300
The painting (and its artist) that is associated with the beginning of impressionism
Monet's Impression: soleil levant (Impression: Sunrise)
300
Baudelaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Giraud
Symbolist Poets
300
Berg's most celebrated Expressionist work
Wozzeck
300
The body of "Classical" works belonging to Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, and other composers popular with concert-goers has become known as the ____.
canon
400
Name an important Impressionist composition of Debussy that is based on a Symbolist poem by Mallarme
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
400
Marc, Beckmann, Schiele, Kandinsky
Expressionist Painters
400
In the 1920s, Schoenberg unveiled his new method of _____.
twelve-tone serialism
400
Name the six musical epochs in chronological order
Medieval (Middle Ages) (c. 800-1400) Renaissance (1400-1600) Baroque (1600-1750) Classical (1750-1815) Romantic (1815-1900) "Modernism" (1900-present)
500
What scales are used in Voiles and where in the piece do they appear?
A (opening of the prelude)- whole tone scale B (middle portion)- pentatonic scale A (end)- whole tone scale
500
Schoenberg, Berg, Webern
the Second Viennese School
500
What is the storyline of Schoenberg's Erwartung
A singer narrates her experience of searching for her lover at night, stumbling through a dark forest, finding his corpse, and suffering a mental breakdown, wondering if she is responsible for his death
500
Name 2 of the provisions of the Radio Act of 1912
1- all seagoing vessels need to hire enough radio operators so that distress frequencies could be monitored continuously 2- all US radio stations needed to be licensed by the fed gov't 3- president has the power to close radio stations in time of war
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