The inclusion of folksongs, dances, legends, and other national material in a composition to associate it with the composer's homeland.
What is nationalism?
100
Short musical composition, purely orchestral, which opens an opera and sets the overall dramatic mood.
What is an overture?
100
This composer wrote the opera Wozzeck and was part of the second Viennese School
Berg
100
This French composer was highly influenced by the paintings of Monet and would fall under the ________________ movement.
Debussy, impressionism
100
The arrangement of the pitches of a tone row in reverse order is called
Retrograde
200
Use of melodies, rhythms, or instruments that suggest foreign lands.
What is exoticism?
200
Which early-twentieth-century style dealt with the realm of the unconscious, distorted images, and the inner self?
Expressionism
200
This composer immigrated to the United States prior to WWII and is known for his intricate rhythms
Stravinsky
200
Who invented the twelve-tone system?
Schoenberg
200
What best describes the effect achieved by Impressionist painting?
use of color and water
300
Schoenberg created a new style in which vocal melodies were spoken rather than sung with exact pitches and rhythms. This was known as..
What is Sprechstimme
300
A form in which the music does not repeat and has no overall repeat structure like binary or ternary
What is through-composed form?
300
Charles Ives made his living as a ___________ and composed on his downtime.
Insurance salesman
300
Tchaikovsky worked directly with this very famous Russian choreographer who was based out of Paris?
Serge Diaghilev
300
What is verismo and name two composers associated with this term...
Opera - real life
Verdi and Puccini
400
Name three Stravinsky Ballets
Petrushka
The Firebird
The Rite of Spring
400
The Rite of Spring opened in Paris in 1913 to ______
A riot
400
Who were Schoenberg's two students?
Berg and Webern
400
What is the story of Pierrot Lunaire and who wrote it?
Clown drunk on the moonlight - Schoenberg
400
During the nineteenth century, concert life began to center in the...
Concert Hall
500
The early-twentieth-century style that sought to revive certain principles and forms of earlier music was...
Neoclassicism
500
What happened to the orchestra during the Romantic period?
grew in size
percussion becomes much more important
500
American's greatest bandmaster is?
John Philip Sousa
500
Name three Tchaikovsky ballets
The Nutcracker
Sleeping Beauty
Swan Lake
500
The equality of all twelve tones of the chromatic scale.
The absence of any sense of a home key.
The abolition of the distinction between consonance and dissonance.