Loyola Marymount University

MUSC 102

Quiz #5 - (Wagner of the Romantic Era) & Modern Era

1)Wagner has an opera built specifically for the performance of his own operas in the German town of .

1. 1. Bayreuth
   2. Cothen
   3. Leipzig
   4. Eisenach

2. Which pair operatic compositions by Wagner?            

1. 1. La Boheme and Tosca
   2. Rigoletto and Aida
   3. Tannhauser and The Ring
   4. Wozzeck and Lulu

3. In music, the early twentieth century was a time of   .

1. 1. revolt and change
   2. the continuation of old forms
   3. stagnation
   4. disinterest

4. All of the following composers worked in the early years of the twentieth century EXCEPT     .

1. 1. Claude Debussy
   2. Arnold Schoenberg
   3. Igor Stravinsky
   4. Hector Berlioz

5. The glissando, a technique widely used in the twentieth century, is   .

1. 1. a motive or phrase that is repeated
   2. a rapid slide up or down a scale
   3. the combination of two traditional chords
   4. a chord made up of tones only a half-step apart

6. The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of      .

1. 1. Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder
   2. Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
   3. Stravinsky’s Firebird
   4. Wagner’s Siegfried

7. Of the following, who was not a major influence on the breakdown of realism in the early 20th century?       

1. 1. Freud
   2. Einstein
   3. Copland

8. A fourth chord is      

1. 1. A combination of four tones
   2. the chord built on the fourth step of the scale
   3. a chord in which the tones are a fourth apart, instead of a third
   4. all of the above

9. Striking a group of adjacent keys on a piano with the fist or forearm will result in         .

1. 1. tone cluster
   2. a broken piano keyboard
   3. a polychord
   4. polytonality

10. When two different triads, such as that built on E and that built on A, are played at the same time, the technique is known as  .

1. atonality
2. a tone cluster
3. a polychord

11. Rhythm in music of the 20th century tends to be either very asymmetrical or very symmetrical as in the        .

1. whole tone scale
2. ostinato
3. retrograde
4. polyglot

12. A scale made up of just the black keys within the octave on the piano keyboard is called a    scale

1. pentatonic
2. whole tone
3. octatonic
4. gypsy

13. Impressionism in music is characterized by .

1. the recurrence of strong accents on the downbeat
2. a stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity
3. an adherence to traditional harmonic chord
4. all of the above

14. The most impressionist composer was  .

1. Richard Wagner
2. Bela Bartok
3. Anton Webern
4. Claude Debussy

15. Impressionist painting and symbolist poetry as artistic movements originated in       .

1. Bohemia
2. France
3. England
4. Spain

16. Of the following, who was known as a creator of orchestral versions of his own and others’ great piano works?

1. Ravel
2. Bartok
3. Berg
4. Copland

17. The immense success of Stravinsky’s 1910 ballet   the first original work he composed for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe, established him as a leading young composer.

1. The Firebird
2. Jeux
3. Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste
4. The Rite of Spring

18. After studying law at the University of St. Petersburg, Stravinsky at the age of 21 to study composition privately with        .

1. Claude Debussy
2. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
3. Sergei Diaghilev
4. Arnold Schoenberg

19. Expressionism is an art concerned with  .

1. depicting the beauties of nature
2. emotional restraint, clarity, and balance
3. social protest and nightmarish states of mind
4. creating abstract geometrical forms