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Music Apprec Unit 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What country was the impressionistic movement based? | France |
| What is the musical term for the arrangement of chromatic pitches that is used in building twelve-tone composition? | Twelve Tone Method |
| What is the musical style of the early 20th Century which attempts to evoke moods or atmospheres through rich and varied harmonies and timbres? | Impressionism |
| What is the compositional style that uses each of the chromatic pitches equally? | Twelve Tone Method |
| What musical style came into being in Germany as an "answer" to French Impressionism? | Sprechgasang |
| What type of music lacks a central focus around a pitch? | Atonality |
| What type of music is unspecified, whose elements may have s been determined by a spin of a wheel, rolling of a dice, drawing of a card etc. | Chance Music |
| What type of music contains two or more tonalities simultaneously? | Polytonality |
| What musical elements were questioned in the modernist movement? | Melody, Harmony, and Tonality |
| What happened to the concept of harmony in the early 20th Century? | Schoenberg"s technique of the 12 tone row became the generating force creating melody that over ruled harmony |
| What is the big band jazz of the 1930's and 1940's called? | Swing |
| What is the musical term for the combination of jazz and rock? | Jazz Fusion |
| Who was the leading composer of ragtime in the early 1900's? | Joplin |
| Whose opera was controversial due to the projection of African American women leading their people out of darkness and into enlightenment through knowledge and education? Title? | Porgy & Bess by Gershwin |
| What is the name of Joplin's lost opera? | Treemonisha |
| What is the title of Stravinsky's most original and influential score of the first half of the 20th Century? | The Rite of Spring |
| What were the major works Stravinsky composed in his early period? | Ballets |
| After Stephen Foster, who was the first important American composer of the 20th Century? | Stravinsky |
| Who was the leading French composer of the early 20th Century? | Debussy |
| Who is known as the "Dean of American Music?" | Copland |
| Which German composer was known for his atonal and twelve tone compositions? | Wagner |
| Who is the Hungarian composer best known today for his research and analysis of folk music from his native land? | Bartok |
| What wrote Fanfare for the Common Man? | Copland |
| What wrote Pierrot Lunaire? | Schoenberg |
| Who wrote Firebird? | Stravinsky |
| Who wrote Appalachian Spring? | Copland |
| Who wrote Variations on America? | Ives |
| Who wrote Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun? | Debussy |
| Who wrote Rite of Spring? | Stravinsky |
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