Music 101 Exam 3 Study Guide
Questions and Answers
Impressionism - Answer-A French movement developed by visual artists who favored
vague, blurring images intended to capture an "impression" of the subject.
Impressionism in music is characterized by exotic scales, unresolved dissonances,
parallel chords, rich orchestral tone color, and free rhythm.
Expressionism - Answer-A style of visual art and literature in Germany and Austria in
the early twentieth century. The term is sometimes also applied to music, especially
composers of the Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern).
Neo-Classicism - Answer-A twentieth-century style that combined elements of Classical
and Baroque music with modernist trends.
Modernism - Answer--characterized by artists' self-conscious attempts to make their art
"modern," not only by expressing their own creative visions but suggesting progressive
directions for others to follow.
Futurism - Answer--one of the two influential arts movement that arose
-whose manifesto of 1909 declared an alienation from established institutions and a
focus on the dynamism of twentieth-century life.
Dadaism - Answer--founded in Switzerland in 1916
-rejected the concept of art as something to be reverently admired but instead to make
their point they produced works of absolutely absurdity.
Surrealism - Answer-Merged with Marcel Duchamp, Salvador, Dali and Joan Miro.
Cubaism - Answer-The paris-based style of painting in geometric patterns embodied in
the works of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris.
Avant-Garde - Answer-A French term originally used to describe the part of an army
that charged first into battle.
Vaudeville - Answer-Combined all kinds of comedic theatrical and musical acts, many
written by immigrant composers and often satirizing new immigrants in ways similar to
the portrayal of African Americans in minstrelsy.
Tin Pan Alley - Answer--Nickname for the popular music industry centered in New York
from the nineteenth century through the 1950s. Also the style of popular song in the
United States during that period.
, -Most successful composer was Irving Berlin (Alexander's Ragtime Band followed by
White Christmas and Easter Parade).
The Great Depression - Answer--Banning of selling alcohol
-Granting women right to vote
-George Gershwin (Girl Crazy, I Got Rhythm.
WWII - Answer-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and God Bless America was sung by Katie
Smith.
Changing Meter - Answer-Shifting between meters, sometimes frequently, within a
single composition or movement; also shifting meter.
Polyrhythm - Answer-The simultaneous use of several rhythmic patters or meters,
common in twentieth-century music and certain African musics.
Polyharmony - Answer-Two or more streams of Harmony played against each other,
common in twentieth-century music.
Atonality - Answer-Total abandonment of tonality. Atonal music moves from one level of
dissonance to another, without areas or relaxation.
Serialism - Answer-Method of composition in which various musical elements (pitch,
rhythm, dynamics, timbre) may be ordered in a fixed series.
Twelve-tone music - Answer-Compositional procedure of the twentieth century based
on an ordering of all twelve chromatic pitches (in a tone row), without a central pitch, or
tonic, according to prescribed rules.
Arnold Schoenberg - Answer--Born in Vienna
-Expressionism composer
-Atonal music
-2nd viennese school
Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Part 3, No. 18 - Answer--Sprechstimme (speechlike
melody)
-Klangfarbenmelodie (tone-color melody)
-Each poem is a rondeau, a 15th century verse form in which the opening lines of the
poem return as a refrain in the middle and at the end.
-Lyrics in German
-Disjunct line, dissonant
-Genre: Song Cycle
Igor Stravinsky - Answer--Born in Russia
-Series of ballets (The Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring)
-Impressionism
Questions and Answers
Impressionism - Answer-A French movement developed by visual artists who favored
vague, blurring images intended to capture an "impression" of the subject.
Impressionism in music is characterized by exotic scales, unresolved dissonances,
parallel chords, rich orchestral tone color, and free rhythm.
Expressionism - Answer-A style of visual art and literature in Germany and Austria in
the early twentieth century. The term is sometimes also applied to music, especially
composers of the Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern).
Neo-Classicism - Answer-A twentieth-century style that combined elements of Classical
and Baroque music with modernist trends.
Modernism - Answer--characterized by artists' self-conscious attempts to make their art
"modern," not only by expressing their own creative visions but suggesting progressive
directions for others to follow.
Futurism - Answer--one of the two influential arts movement that arose
-whose manifesto of 1909 declared an alienation from established institutions and a
focus on the dynamism of twentieth-century life.
Dadaism - Answer--founded in Switzerland in 1916
-rejected the concept of art as something to be reverently admired but instead to make
their point they produced works of absolutely absurdity.
Surrealism - Answer-Merged with Marcel Duchamp, Salvador, Dali and Joan Miro.
Cubaism - Answer-The paris-based style of painting in geometric patterns embodied in
the works of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris.
Avant-Garde - Answer-A French term originally used to describe the part of an army
that charged first into battle.
Vaudeville - Answer-Combined all kinds of comedic theatrical and musical acts, many
written by immigrant composers and often satirizing new immigrants in ways similar to
the portrayal of African Americans in minstrelsy.
Tin Pan Alley - Answer--Nickname for the popular music industry centered in New York
from the nineteenth century through the 1950s. Also the style of popular song in the
United States during that period.
, -Most successful composer was Irving Berlin (Alexander's Ragtime Band followed by
White Christmas and Easter Parade).
The Great Depression - Answer--Banning of selling alcohol
-Granting women right to vote
-George Gershwin (Girl Crazy, I Got Rhythm.
WWII - Answer-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy and God Bless America was sung by Katie
Smith.
Changing Meter - Answer-Shifting between meters, sometimes frequently, within a
single composition or movement; also shifting meter.
Polyrhythm - Answer-The simultaneous use of several rhythmic patters or meters,
common in twentieth-century music and certain African musics.
Polyharmony - Answer-Two or more streams of Harmony played against each other,
common in twentieth-century music.
Atonality - Answer-Total abandonment of tonality. Atonal music moves from one level of
dissonance to another, without areas or relaxation.
Serialism - Answer-Method of composition in which various musical elements (pitch,
rhythm, dynamics, timbre) may be ordered in a fixed series.
Twelve-tone music - Answer-Compositional procedure of the twentieth century based
on an ordering of all twelve chromatic pitches (in a tone row), without a central pitch, or
tonic, according to prescribed rules.
Arnold Schoenberg - Answer--Born in Vienna
-Expressionism composer
-Atonal music
-2nd viennese school
Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire, Part 3, No. 18 - Answer--Sprechstimme (speechlike
melody)
-Klangfarbenmelodie (tone-color melody)
-Each poem is a rondeau, a 15th century verse form in which the opening lines of the
poem return as a refrain in the middle and at the end.
-Lyrics in German
-Disjunct line, dissonant
-Genre: Song Cycle
Igor Stravinsky - Answer--Born in Russia
-Series of ballets (The Firebird, Petrushka, The Rite of Spring)
-Impressionism
