Music History 3 Final Exam questions
well answered to pass
Impressionism - correct answer ✔✔Late 19th century term derived from art, used for music
that evokes moods and visual images through colorful harmony and instrumental timbre
Neoclassicism - correct answer ✔✔Trend in music from the 1910s to the 50s in which
composers revived, imitated, or evoked the styles, genres, and forms of pre-Romantic music,
especially those of the 18th century
Futurism - correct answer ✔✔20th century movement that created music based on noise
Blue Note - correct answer ✔✔Slight drop or slide in pitch on the third, fifth, or seventh degree
of a major scale, common in blues and jazz
Atonal - correct answer ✔✔Terms for music that avoids establishing a central pitch or tonal
center
Chromatic Saturation - correct answer ✔✔The appearance of all 12 pitch-classes within a
segment of music
Sprechstimme - correct answer ✔✔German, "speaking voice"; a vocal style developed by
Arnold Schoenberg in which the performer approximates the written pitches in the gliding tones
of speech, while following the notated rhythm
Neotonal - correct answer ✔✔Term for music since the early 1900s that establishes a single
pitch as a tonal center, but does not follow the traditional rules of tonality
, Serial music - correct answer ✔✔Music composed in the 12-tone method; used especially for
music that extends the same general approach to series in parameters and other than pitch
Polytonality - correct answer ✔✔The simultaneous use of two or more keys, each in a different
layer of the music (such as melody and accompaniment)
Cumulative form - correct answer ✔✔Form used by Charles Ives and others in which the
principal theme appears in its entirety only at the end of a work, preceded by its development
New Objectivity - correct answer ✔✔Term coined in the 1920s to describe a kind of new realism
in music, in reaction to the emotional intensity of the late Romantics and the expressionism of
Schoenberg and Berg
Gebrauchsmusik - correct answer ✔✔German "utilitarian music" or "music for use": Term used
from the 1920s to describe music that was socially relevant and useful, especially music for
amateurs, children, or workers to play or sing
Bebop - correct answer ✔✔A style of Jazz appearing in New York in the 1940s that developed
an enriched harmonic vocabulary and required an increased level of technical and
improvisational skill to play rapid melodies and complicated rhythms
Contrafract - correct answer ✔✔In Jazz, a new melody composed over a harmonic progression
borrowed from another song
Total serialism - correct answer ✔✔The application of the principles of the 12 tone method to
musical parameters other than pitch, including duration, intensities, and timbres
Just intonation - correct answer ✔✔A system of tuning notes in the scale, common in the
renaissance, in which most (but not all) thirds, sixths, perfect fourths, and perfect fifths are in
perfect tune
well answered to pass
Impressionism - correct answer ✔✔Late 19th century term derived from art, used for music
that evokes moods and visual images through colorful harmony and instrumental timbre
Neoclassicism - correct answer ✔✔Trend in music from the 1910s to the 50s in which
composers revived, imitated, or evoked the styles, genres, and forms of pre-Romantic music,
especially those of the 18th century
Futurism - correct answer ✔✔20th century movement that created music based on noise
Blue Note - correct answer ✔✔Slight drop or slide in pitch on the third, fifth, or seventh degree
of a major scale, common in blues and jazz
Atonal - correct answer ✔✔Terms for music that avoids establishing a central pitch or tonal
center
Chromatic Saturation - correct answer ✔✔The appearance of all 12 pitch-classes within a
segment of music
Sprechstimme - correct answer ✔✔German, "speaking voice"; a vocal style developed by
Arnold Schoenberg in which the performer approximates the written pitches in the gliding tones
of speech, while following the notated rhythm
Neotonal - correct answer ✔✔Term for music since the early 1900s that establishes a single
pitch as a tonal center, but does not follow the traditional rules of tonality
, Serial music - correct answer ✔✔Music composed in the 12-tone method; used especially for
music that extends the same general approach to series in parameters and other than pitch
Polytonality - correct answer ✔✔The simultaneous use of two or more keys, each in a different
layer of the music (such as melody and accompaniment)
Cumulative form - correct answer ✔✔Form used by Charles Ives and others in which the
principal theme appears in its entirety only at the end of a work, preceded by its development
New Objectivity - correct answer ✔✔Term coined in the 1920s to describe a kind of new realism
in music, in reaction to the emotional intensity of the late Romantics and the expressionism of
Schoenberg and Berg
Gebrauchsmusik - correct answer ✔✔German "utilitarian music" or "music for use": Term used
from the 1920s to describe music that was socially relevant and useful, especially music for
amateurs, children, or workers to play or sing
Bebop - correct answer ✔✔A style of Jazz appearing in New York in the 1940s that developed
an enriched harmonic vocabulary and required an increased level of technical and
improvisational skill to play rapid melodies and complicated rhythms
Contrafract - correct answer ✔✔In Jazz, a new melody composed over a harmonic progression
borrowed from another song
Total serialism - correct answer ✔✔The application of the principles of the 12 tone method to
musical parameters other than pitch, including duration, intensities, and timbres
Just intonation - correct answer ✔✔A system of tuning notes in the scale, common in the
renaissance, in which most (but not all) thirds, sixths, perfect fourths, and perfect fifths are in
perfect tune
