Russian Composers
What opera by Dmitri Shostakovich damaged his relationship with the Soviet Union?
Lady Macbeth
Who were the three composers of the Second Viennese School?
Schoenberg, Webern, Berg
Where did jazz originate?
New Orleans
What does the German term "klangfarbenmelodie" mean?
tone color melody
What were some characteristic of Igor Stravinsky's music?
Undermining meter through unpredictable accents and rests, or rapid changes in meter. Dissonance based on diatonic (and other) scales.
What is the name of Alban Berg's expressionist opera?
Wozzeck
The origins of Jazz music include -
Gospel/African American Spirituals, Blues, Ragtime,
What is the term for compositions that use 12 tone rows in atonal music?
Serialism
What ballet by Igor Stravinsky incited a riot?
The Rite of Spring
Which member of The Second Viennese School claimed he discovered "the emancipation of dissonance".
Arnold Schoenberg
True or false, the tradition of American Musicals comes from only one direct line of art style - specifically that of opera.
False
What does "neo-classical" mean?
New classical
Which composer feared for his life after a negative review from the paper "Pravda".
Dmitri Shostakovich
The orchestra piece that includes a narrator is by what USSR composer? What piece is it?
Peter and the Wolf - Sergey Prokofiev
Define diegetic music
Music that is being made by someone in the film (e.g. a person on screen playing the piano, or a radio being played)
dissonance
tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements
What composer died on the exact same day as Stalin?
Sergey Prokofiev
The Second Viennese School focused on composing ______________ music.
serialistic
What is a leitmotif?
a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
What does the German term "Sprechstimme" mean?
a style of singing that gives the sense of "talk singing"