MLIT Study Exam 2 questions n
answers rated A+ 2025/2026
Opera - correct answer ✔✔Sung Drama
Recitative - correct answer ✔✔(speech-like songs) vocal line that imitates the rhythms & pitch
fluctuations of speech
Impressionism - correct answer ✔✔Whole-tone and Pentatonic scales
Expressionism - correct answer ✔✔Atonal, Sprechstimme, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg &
Wozzeck
Sprechstimme - correct answer ✔✔halfway between speaking and singing, does not emphasize
particular pitches, or hold pitches, syllabic
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔Impressionism, French, Voiles
Leonard Bernstein - correct answer ✔✔American, Composer, West Side Story
Max Steiner - correct answer ✔✔Father of Film Music
John Williams - correct answer ✔✔Revived symphonic film score, star wars
Bernard Herrmann - correct answer ✔✔Innovator of orchestra
, Bedrich Smetana - correct answer ✔✔Bohemian composer, Czech, The Moldau, My Country,
Nationalism
Frederic Chopin - correct answer ✔✔Polish, most of his works are for piano, Mazurka
Louis Moreau Gottschalk - correct answer ✔✔American Pianist & Composer, Incorporates
national & ethnic elements, The Banjo
Henry Cowell - correct answer ✔✔American, Composer, Aeolian Harp
William Grant Still - correct answer ✔✔Harlem Renaissance, Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American",
"Dean of African-American Composers"
George Gershwin - correct answer ✔✔o Rhapsody in Blue
o Porgy & Bess
Aria - correct answer ✔✔(Italian for "air" or "melody") - Solo lyrical song, frequently virtuosic
Overture - correct answer ✔✔orchestral piece that precedes the opera
Ensemble - correct answer ✔✔2 or more singers singing in an aria/melodic style
Libretto - correct answer ✔✔the text of an opera
Chorus - correct answer ✔✔comments on the action
Librettist - correct answer ✔✔writes the text
answers rated A+ 2025/2026
Opera - correct answer ✔✔Sung Drama
Recitative - correct answer ✔✔(speech-like songs) vocal line that imitates the rhythms & pitch
fluctuations of speech
Impressionism - correct answer ✔✔Whole-tone and Pentatonic scales
Expressionism - correct answer ✔✔Atonal, Sprechstimme, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg &
Wozzeck
Sprechstimme - correct answer ✔✔halfway between speaking and singing, does not emphasize
particular pitches, or hold pitches, syllabic
Claude Debussy - correct answer ✔✔Impressionism, French, Voiles
Leonard Bernstein - correct answer ✔✔American, Composer, West Side Story
Max Steiner - correct answer ✔✔Father of Film Music
John Williams - correct answer ✔✔Revived symphonic film score, star wars
Bernard Herrmann - correct answer ✔✔Innovator of orchestra
, Bedrich Smetana - correct answer ✔✔Bohemian composer, Czech, The Moldau, My Country,
Nationalism
Frederic Chopin - correct answer ✔✔Polish, most of his works are for piano, Mazurka
Louis Moreau Gottschalk - correct answer ✔✔American Pianist & Composer, Incorporates
national & ethnic elements, The Banjo
Henry Cowell - correct answer ✔✔American, Composer, Aeolian Harp
William Grant Still - correct answer ✔✔Harlem Renaissance, Symphony No. 1 "Afro-American",
"Dean of African-American Composers"
George Gershwin - correct answer ✔✔o Rhapsody in Blue
o Porgy & Bess
Aria - correct answer ✔✔(Italian for "air" or "melody") - Solo lyrical song, frequently virtuosic
Overture - correct answer ✔✔orchestral piece that precedes the opera
Ensemble - correct answer ✔✔2 or more singers singing in an aria/melodic style
Libretto - correct answer ✔✔the text of an opera
Chorus - correct answer ✔✔comments on the action
Librettist - correct answer ✔✔writes the text
