Music 262 Fact Test 1 Questions with Verified
Correct Answers
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
ethnomusicologist, fused folk music and art music, anti-Romantic tendency
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (1936), 3rd mvt
folk techniques: melody played in octaves over a drone, 2 pentatonic scales; symmetry, arch
form; tone clusters; polytonality
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75)
worked within the Soviet system: some of his compositions have been interpreted as pro-
Soviet; however, he experienced conflicts with the regime
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934)
western modernist elements, e.g. collage-like treatment of style
5th Symphony (1937), 2nd mvt
Socialist-Realist symphony; subtle Mahler allusions, coded critique; stylistic allusion
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
studied music with his father; independently conceived many of the developments of
European avant-garde music
influence of Ives' father
experimentation; music is about substance, not the "manner" of expression; overtly
misogynist
The Unanswered Question (1906-08; revised 1930-35)
, experimental; program music; musical juxtapositions; self-parody
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
prodigy/excellent pianist, but focused on composition after marrying; principal influence was
Brahms
Gaelic Symphony (1894-96)
set out to prove that a woman could write a symphony; critical response to Dvořák's New
World Symphony; setting of an Irish tune; theme is developed before it is presented in full;
complete command of late 19th-century orchestration, harmony, and texture
Florence Price (1887-1953)
graduated from the New England Conservatory; studied composition with (George W.)
Chadwick; Music Department Chair at Clark University
Price's compositional maturity
moved to Chicago in 1927; large genres; first Black woman to have a work performed by a
major U.S. orchestra
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (1938-39)
4 movements, stylistic heterogeneity reminiscent of neoclassicism
Symphony No. 3, first movement
Wagnerian/Brucknerian opening, vernacular qualities, sonata form/clear outlines, features
typical of European modernism
Ragtime
Correct Answers
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
ethnomusicologist, fused folk music and art music, anti-Romantic tendency
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (1936), 3rd mvt
folk techniques: melody played in octaves over a drone, 2 pentatonic scales; symmetry, arch
form; tone clusters; polytonality
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75)
worked within the Soviet system: some of his compositions have been interpreted as pro-
Soviet; however, he experienced conflicts with the regime
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1934)
western modernist elements, e.g. collage-like treatment of style
5th Symphony (1937), 2nd mvt
Socialist-Realist symphony; subtle Mahler allusions, coded critique; stylistic allusion
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
studied music with his father; independently conceived many of the developments of
European avant-garde music
influence of Ives' father
experimentation; music is about substance, not the "manner" of expression; overtly
misogynist
The Unanswered Question (1906-08; revised 1930-35)
, experimental; program music; musical juxtapositions; self-parody
Amy Beach (1867-1944)
prodigy/excellent pianist, but focused on composition after marrying; principal influence was
Brahms
Gaelic Symphony (1894-96)
set out to prove that a woman could write a symphony; critical response to Dvořák's New
World Symphony; setting of an Irish tune; theme is developed before it is presented in full;
complete command of late 19th-century orchestration, harmony, and texture
Florence Price (1887-1953)
graduated from the New England Conservatory; studied composition with (George W.)
Chadwick; Music Department Chair at Clark University
Price's compositional maturity
moved to Chicago in 1927; large genres; first Black woman to have a work performed by a
major U.S. orchestra
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor (1938-39)
4 movements, stylistic heterogeneity reminiscent of neoclassicism
Symphony No. 3, first movement
Wagnerian/Brucknerian opening, vernacular qualities, sonata form/clear outlines, features
typical of European modernism
Ragtime
