Chapter 27 Quiz

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. Jean Sibelius frequently wrote music based on a national epic, called ___________.

a) The Ring of the Niebelungen correct incorrect

b) Des Knaben Wunderhorn correct incorrect

c) Kalevala correct incorrect

d) Má Vlast correct incorrect

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. Jean Sibelius's music supported the fight for national independence of ___________.

a) Sweden correct incorrect

b) Finland correct incorrect

c) Denmark correct incorrect

d) Russia correct incorrect

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. Which two musicians symbolized the English sound in the early twentieth century?

a) Edward Elgar and Ralph Vaughan Williams correct incorrect

b) Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel correct incorrect

c) Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy correct incorrect

d) Charles Ives and Amy Cheney Beach correct incorrect

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. What is a zarzuela?

a) A Cuban urban dance genre correct incorrect

b) A Spanish light opera correct incorrect

c) An Italian chamber orchestra correct incorrect

d) A collection of Finnish folk tales correct incorrect

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. Béla Bartók studied the folk music of ___________, his home country.

a) Hungary correct incorrect

b) Poland correct incorrect

c) Bulgaria correct incorrect

d) Romania correct incorrect

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. In Bartók's Kossuth, the influence of __________ is evident.

a) Strauss correct incorrect

b) Stravinsky correct incorrect

c) Mahler correct incorrect

d) Verdi correct incorrect

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. Béla Bartók believed that "peasant music" was valuable but should not be incorporated into modern art music.

a) TRUE correct incorrect

b) FALSE correct incorrect

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. Of the following, which composer wrote "speech melodies" that attempted to recreate patterns of the Czech language?

a) Béla Bartók correct incorrect

b) Alexander Scriabin correct incorrect

c) Jean Sibelius correct incorrect

d) Leoš Janáček correct incorrect

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. Alexander Scriabin's belief that his music could act as an agent of religious revelation was significantly influenced by ___________.

a) Theosophy correct incorrect

b) Transcendentalism correct incorrect

c) Futurism correct incorrect

d) Symbolism correct incorrect

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. Which of the following best describes "aggregate harmony" as it was used by Alexander Scriabin?

a) A chord that features both a major and a minor third correct incorrect

b) The combined chord value of the first and last chord of a piece correct incorrect

c) A chord containing all twelve pitches of the chromatic scale correct incorrect

d) The simultaneous depression of all eighty-eight keys on a piano correct incorrect

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. Charles Ives was ___________.

a) A British symphonist correct incorrect

b) An American experimentalist composer correct incorrect

c) A French opera composer correct incorrect

d) An Australian composer of musicals correct incorrect

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. The philosophy of New England Transcendentalism influenced which composer?

a) Jean Sibelius correct incorrect

b) Alexander Scriabin correct incorrect

c) Charles Ives correct incorrect

d) Manuel da Falla correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was a compositional technique used by Charles Ives?

a) Polytonality correct incorrect

b) Polyrhythm correct incorrect

c) Quotation of American hymns correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. The simultaneous use of more than one key area is called ___________.

a) Polyrhythm correct incorrect

b) Aggregate harmony correct incorrect

c) Polytonality correct incorrect

d) All of the above correct incorrect

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. Of the following, which composer was most concerned with using "authentic" folk music, transcribed from fieldwork?

a) Alexander Scriabin correct incorrect

b) Charles Ives correct incorrect

c) Franz Liszt correct incorrect

d) Béla Bartók correct incorrect