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Music Exam 3 (Arts and the Human Experience)

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Is Beethoven a classical, romantic, or 20th composer?
Classical composer
Is Chopin a classical, romantic, or 20th century composer?
Romantic composer
Which composer is known for the song "Erlkonig"?
Schubert
What genre is "Erlkonig" in?
Lieder
What does Lieder mean?
Romantic art songs with German text
What kind of song is Erlkonig as opposed to strophic?
Through-composed art song
Is Debussy a classical, romantic, or 20th century composer?
20th century composer
What composer is best known for symphonies?
Beethoven
Which composer is best known for "Symphonie Fantastique"?
Berlioz
What genre is "Symphonie Fantastique" in?
Program symphony
Which composer utilizes Idee fixe?
Berlioz
What is Idee fixe?
Melody in all movements that represents his beloved
Which composer is known for the style of impressionism?
Debussy
Which composer is known for bridging the classical period with the romantic?
Beethoven
Which composer is best known for "Mazurka" in Bflat, op. 7, no. 1?
Chopin
What is "Mazurka" based on?
Based on a Polish folk dance
Which composer is best known for the "Dies Irae" chant?
Berlioz
Which composer wrote primarily solo piano music?
Chopin
Which composer uses old and new scales?
Debussy
What are examples of old and new scales?
Pentatonic, church modes, whole-tone, etc.
Which composer is known for writing a book on orchestration?
Berlioz
Which composer is best known for his prelude to solo piano "Voilies" from "Preludes", book 1 (program piece)?
Debussy
Which composer is known for the witches round dance?
Berlioz
Is Still a classical, romantic, or 20th century composer?
20th century composer
Which composer was known for transposition?
Schoenberg
What is transposition?
start off at a different pitch
Which composers have the style of American Nationalism?
Still and Copland
Is Reich a classical, romantic, or 20th century composer?
20th century composer
Which composer is known for inversion?
Schoenberg
What is inversion?
Flip it upside down
Which composer utilizes polytonality?
Stravinsky
Is Stravinsky a classical, romantic, or 20th century composer?
20th century composer
Which composer was known for the Pierrot lunaire (song cycle)?
Schoenberg
Is Schoenberg a classical, romantic, or 20th century composer?
20th century composer
Which composer is known for "Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American" 3rd movement"?
Still
Which composer is known for the style of minimalism?
Reich
Which composer is known for the "Rite of Spring" ballet?
Stravinsky
Which composer is known for utilizing retrograde?
Schoenberg
What is retrograde?
When you play it backwards
Is Copland a classical, romantic, or 20th century composer?
20th century composer
Which composer is known for utilizing retrograde-inversion?
Schoenberg
What is retrograde inversion?
Play it backwards and upside down
Which composer's style is expressionism?
Schoenberg
Which composer is known for the style of primitivism?
Stravinsky
Which composer wrote in many styles including primitivism, neoclassicism, and serialism?
Stravinsky
Who composed "Electric Counterpoint"?
Reich
Which composer is known for utilizing row?
Schoenberg
Which composer is known for writing for the Ballet Russes?
Stravinsky
Which composer utilizes sprechstimme?
Schoenberg
Which composer is inspired by American Spirituals and the Blues? Features the banjo in the orchestra
Still
Which composer is part of the Second Viennese School?
Schoenberg
Which composer is known for the "Appalachian Spring" ballet?
Copland
Which composer uses a Shaker tune called "Simple Gifts"?
Copland
Rubato
speeding up and slowing down at the performers will (robbed time)
Sprechstimme
Vocal technique of blending speech and singing
Twelve-tone row
transposition, inversion, retrograde, retrograde-inversion
Polytonality
the simultaneous use of two or more keys at the same time
What is neoclassicism?
blends contemporary harmonies with the forms and stylistic features of the 18th century
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