Modernism
A combination of song and speech is called?
Sprechstimme
Debussy’s Three Nocturnes are titled?
Clouds, Festivals, and Sirens.
The premier of The Rite of Spring was famous for?
the riot by the audience.
Schoenberg invented what type of compositions?
serialism, 12 tone matrix
Wozzeck is what type of composition
Opera
When did Ives music start to emerge in America?
1950s
The first phase of avant-garde music emerged in what countries?
Paris and Vienna
The Cloud theme in Clouds is represented in the beginning by what instrument?
French Horn
Which American musical style caught Stravinsky’s ear?
Ragtime
In what genre is Pierrot lunaire?
symphonic poem
In Act III, scene iii of Wozzeck, what can be heard as an influence of American music?
ragtime piano
What genres does Ives add to his compositions as a Nationalist composer?
American folk songs, popular songs by Stephen foster, gospel hymns and ragtime.
Three of the leading first-phase modernist composers were?
Stravinsky, Debussy, and Schoenberg.
Debussy’s enduring contributions to twentieth-century music were in the areas of?
piano music and orchestration.
The first ballet by Stravinsky was?
The Firebird
The vocal technique heard in “The Moonfleck” in Pierrot lunaire is:
Sprechstimme.
Because of the murder in the previous scene, the mood of scene iii of Act III of Wozzeck is?
Confused and Shocking
“The Rockstrewn Hills Join in the People’s Outdoor Meeting” represents what?
An outdoor revival meeting
Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg were apart of what "school"?
The Second Viennese School
What characterizes Debussy’s treatment of melody?
fragmented themes and motives based on exotic scales
Stravinsky was influenced early in his career by?
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
In “Night” in Pierrot lunaire, the image of “giant black butterflies” from the poem is evoked by the?
Lowest instruments in the ensemble
In scene iii of Act III of Wozzeck, what compositional device is heard?
a “master rhythm,” a kind of ostinato in many different tempos
What were Ives ideals on music?
He believed that all kinds of music and all musical experiments are equally valid.
The artistic movement that came about after World War I and that signified a rejection of Romantic emotionality and a return to the styles of earlier composers was?
Neoclassicism
The haunting, recurring English horn motive in Clouds is based on what exotic scale?
The opening theme of The Rite of Spring is played by the?
Bassoon, in the highest part of its range.
The two famous pupils of Schoenberg were?
Anton Webern and Alban Berg.
What happens in the Act 3 scene 4 of "Wozzeck"
Wozzeck’s mind has finally cracked. Obsessed with blood, he looks for the knife. He drowns while trying to hide it in the pond. Doctor & Captain happen by – but do nothing
Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question is novel because of?
its three distinct, independent levels of music – placid strings, the questioning trumpet, and the dissonant woodwinds