Musical Components
This term names music that lacks a key signature or tonal center.
What is atonality?
This Austrian composer invented the twelve-tone method.
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
This architect founded the Prairie School and emphasized "organic architecture."
Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?
This piece by Stravinsky caused a major sensation and later led to his fame; it's referenced in the notes.
What is The Firebird?
Name the technique that uses multiple keys at the same time.
What is polytonality?
Which composer from Russia became famous after The Firebird premiered in Paris in 1910?
Who is Igor Stravinsky?
This artist co-founded Cubism and painted The Weeping Woman.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
Name the Charles Ives work mentioned in the notes that poses existential questions.
What is The Unanswered Question?
This compositional change involves using all 12 notes of the chromatic scale in a prescribed order.
What is the twelve-tone method (twelve-tone row)?
This American composer incorporated American folk tunes and wrote Appalachian Spring.
Who is Aaron Copland?
Known for magnified flower paintings and New Mexico landscapes, this artist experimented with abstraction and charcoal drawings.
Who is Georgia O'Keeffe?
This Copland fanfare honors ordinary people and is one of his three most famous pieces.
What is Fanfare for the Common Man?
Give two manipulations commonly applied to a twelve-tone row.
What are inversion and retrograde? (Accept: retrograde inversion as well.)
Name the American modernist who worked as an insurance clerk and experimented early with polytonality, polyrhythms, and tone clusters.
Who is Charles Ives?
A hallmark of Prairie School homes: single-story design, low pitched roofs, and long rows of these window types.
What are casement windows?
Identify the Schoenberg piano work cited as using his twelve-tone technique.
What is Suite for Piano, Op. 25?
List three ways modernist composers departed from classical conventions listed in the notes.
Which composer taught composition at the Stern Conservatory and wrote Suite for Piano, Op. 25?
Who is Arnold Schoenberg?
Modernist visual artists aimed for art that reflected these two broad things of modern society.
What are the realities and hopes of modern society?
Give the full chromatic sequence of twelve notes exactly as shown in the document (use sharps or equivalent flats).
What is A, A#/Bb, B, C, C#/Db, D, D#/Eb, E, F, F#/Gb, G, G#/Ab?