MLIT EXAM 3 (questions well
answered) A+ graded 2025/2026
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔1862-1918; France; considered national treasure to French
music
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔Studied music in Paris; rules rules of conventional music
got him into trouble. Used different scales and broke the rules of Functional Harmony
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔winner of Prix de Rome- kicked off his career (Berlioz also
won); could have had career as a piano virtuoso, took piano to a new level
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔had many scandalous affairs; one lover tried to commit
suicide by shooting herself in the chest
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔Died of rectal cancer during WWI bombing of Paris
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔wrote 2 important works for solo piano- 2 Preludes and 1
Etude
Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun - correct answer ✔✔ORCHESTRA PIECE; written by Debussy;
tone poem; based on French symbolist poem; later used as ballet music
Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun - correct answer ✔✔half goat/half man wakes up and goes out
in the field, messes with the nimphs and goes back to sleep.
, Debussy-"Claire de Lune" - correct answer ✔✔Oceans 11 soundtrack, piece started out as piano
and morphed into an orchestra
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔1882-1971; Russia; French citizen in 1934, American citizen
1945,
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔does not think of himself as a composer but an inventor of
music
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔wrote ballets, took folksongs and incorporated them into
his music-PANDIATONICS;
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔built a house after married, father was a well known singer;
father kept a diary of his life now kept by niece.
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔suffered from poor health, short and brothers were
tall/athletic; had inferiority complex but felt it built character
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔created Swan lake
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔never went to music school; learned everything from his
teacher; teacher was a part of the Nighty Handful-Russian composers who wrote Russian
sounding music
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔Wanted to write primal music; inspired by the villagers in
summers at the cabin; also he bought a book of Russian ritual songs as inspiration; he put
melodies in different ranges for different instruments to get more primal sounds.
answered) A+ graded 2025/2026
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔1862-1918; France; considered national treasure to French
music
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔Studied music in Paris; rules rules of conventional music
got him into trouble. Used different scales and broke the rules of Functional Harmony
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔winner of Prix de Rome- kicked off his career (Berlioz also
won); could have had career as a piano virtuoso, took piano to a new level
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔had many scandalous affairs; one lover tried to commit
suicide by shooting herself in the chest
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔Died of rectal cancer during WWI bombing of Paris
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔wrote 2 important works for solo piano- 2 Preludes and 1
Etude
Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun - correct answer ✔✔ORCHESTRA PIECE; written by Debussy;
tone poem; based on French symbolist poem; later used as ballet music
Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun - correct answer ✔✔half goat/half man wakes up and goes out
in the field, messes with the nimphs and goes back to sleep.
, Debussy-"Claire de Lune" - correct answer ✔✔Oceans 11 soundtrack, piece started out as piano
and morphed into an orchestra
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔1882-1971; Russia; French citizen in 1934, American citizen
1945,
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔does not think of himself as a composer but an inventor of
music
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔wrote ballets, took folksongs and incorporated them into
his music-PANDIATONICS;
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔built a house after married, father was a well known singer;
father kept a diary of his life now kept by niece.
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔suffered from poor health, short and brothers were
tall/athletic; had inferiority complex but felt it built character
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔created Swan lake
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔never went to music school; learned everything from his
teacher; teacher was a part of the Nighty Handful-Russian composers who wrote Russian
sounding music
Igor Stravinsky - correct answer ✔✔Wanted to write primal music; inspired by the villagers in
summers at the cabin; also he bought a book of Russian ritual songs as inspiration; he put
melodies in different ranges for different instruments to get more primal sounds.
