MUS 121-001 Final Questions with CORRECT Answers (Grade A+)

MUS 121-001 Final Questions with CORRECT Answers
(Grade A+)

Question 1:
Question What is program music?
Answer:
Music that uses the sounds of the instruments to recreate an image, scene, or event in the listener's
mind.

Question 2:
Question Symphonie fantastique was like an autobiography of Hector Berlioz's feelings for ____.
Answer:
Harriet Smithson

Question 3:
What is an idée fixe?
Answer:
The concept of associating a melody with a person, object, or idea (similar to the leitmotifs found in
Richard Wagner's music dramas).

Question 4:
In the story of Symphonie fantastique, the Artist character sees his Beloved at places like the local
tavern, recalls the feeling of fear he has when near the Beloved, avoids the Beloved's murderous
attacks, and, in a massive turn of events, marries the Beloved and they live happily ever after.
Answer:
False

Question 5:
Soon after the premiere of Symphonie fantastique (in which the Artist ultimately kills the Beloved),
Harriet Smithson and Hector Berlioz get married.
Answer:
True

,Question 6:
During the fifth movement of Symphonie fantastique, loud funeral bells are heard, followed by brass
instruments that boldly play a parody of the _____ melody from the Catholic Requiem (Mass for the
Dead).
Answer:
Dies Irae

Question 7:
_____ was an art style in which painters sought to capture an impression of a scene or subject rather
than depicting it literally with crisp detail. Composers sought to mimic the style in music by
emphasizing atmosphere and mood, avoiding pomp, and drifting melodies in and out smoothly.
Answer:
Impressionism

Question 8:
Impressionism was heard around the world, but it most thrived in _____.
Answer:
France

Question 9:
Claude Debussy was born in what country?
Answer:
France

Question 10:
Who composed Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)?
Answer:
Claude Debussy

Question 11:
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun) is best described with which
musical style?
Answer:
Impressionism

,Question 12:
What answer below best fits with the musical style of primitivism?
Answer:
Melodies do not flow smoothly (they are harsh and angular) and contain many unexpected accents.

Question 13:
Though his total compositional output included works beyond the style, which composer was the main
composer of music of the primitivism style?
Answer:
Igor Stravinsky

Question 14:
Question not clearly extracted from source.
Answer:
True The story of Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) involves a young girl who, as part of
pre-historic Russian pagan culture, has to dance herself to death in order to convince the gods to end
winter and bring on spring.

Question 15:
The story of Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) involves a faun who awakens from sleep and,
because of too much wine consumption, is confused about his earlier activities. Perhaps he brought two
nymphs home, perhaps not. But figuring it out is too hard, so he goes back to sleep.
Answer:
False

Question 16:
Question Igor Stravinsky was a composer from what country?
Answer:
Russia

Question 17:
When Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered in Paris in 1913, the Parisian audience
loved it because it contained the smooth, elegant, and graceful dancing that was traditionally found in
ballet at the time.
Answer:
False

, Question 18:
Arnold Bocklin's painting, Self Portrait with Death Playing the Violin, corresponds with the aesthetic
of which musical period?
Answer:
Romanticism

Question 19:
George Bizet's operas, especially Carmen, present life as indifferent to hu-
Answer:
Verismo man emotion, the term that best describes this artistic tradition toward realism is called

Question 20:
The invention of what modern device compelled painters to begin experimenting with Impressionism
in the mid-1800's?
Answer:
Camera

Question 21:
In twelve tone music, a tone row could be played forward (as written), in retrograde (backwards), in an
inversion, or in an inverted retrograde.
Answer:
True

Question 22:
The serialism and twelve tone system was primarily created by what composer?
Answer:
Arnold Schoenberg

Question 23:
What is atonal music?
Answer:
Music that rejects tonality