Legato Learning - Introduction to Music Exam #5

Who composed The Rite of Spring?
Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso were close friends and were arrested for urinating on the Louvre.
True

Political events, wars, and technology greatly influenced 20th-century music.
True

Artistically, the twentieth-century was a time of anything goes.
True

Technique of composition in which all material is derived for a 12 tone row.
Serialism

Which term describes the bend of ethnic-flavored music from across the globe?
World Music

A Russian composer associated with primitivism
Stravinsky

Art or music that is marked by emotional restraint, balance, and clarity, inspired by the forms and traditions of 18th century art?
NeoClassicism

An electronic instrument invented in 1919, which bears the name of its inventor.
Theramin

I was born in Vienna and am associated with 12 tone/serlialism
Schoenberg

Who composed Variations for Orchestra?
Schoenberg

Primitivist influences also made their way into the work of Pablo Picasso’s painting Les Demoiselles d’Avigon.
True

Who composed Poeme electronique?
Varese

The tormented feeling of people stuck in a world of pain and conflict.
Expressionism

I was born in France and came to music through engineering and mathematics
Varese

Artists associated with France who weren’t happy with the direction of the Germanic style were associated with which movement?
Impressionism

Fascination with the art and music of non-western and nonliterate societies
Primivitism

Who composed Concerto for Orchestra?
Bartok

Which term refers to the manipulation of timbre?
Klangfarbenmelodie

The technique which used any sounds from street noises, to people talking, to abstract sounds of chains clanging or a car door slamming is called?
Musique concrete

Developed in Germany in the 1930s for wartime and espionage use was magnetic tape recording called the Magnetopone.
True

The following listening example is
Quiz 5, example 1.mp3
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

The following listening example is
Quiz 5, Example 2.mp3
Poeme electronique

The following listening example is
Quiz 5, example 3.mp3
Concerto for Orchestra

The following listening example is
Exam 5, example 4.mp3
The Rite of Spring