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Music 101 Exam 5 Questions and Answers
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Music 101 Exam 5 Questions andAnswers
Character piece - Answer-brief instrumental work seeking to capture a single mood; a
genre favored by composers of the Romantic era
Symphonic poem - Answer-one movement work for orchestra of the Romantic era that
gives musical expression to the emotions and events associated with a story, play,
political occurrence, personal experience, or encounter with nature
Ballet - Answer-Music composed to accompany a ballet, with short bursts of tuneful
melody and captivating rhythm, all intended to capture the emotional essence of the
scene
Art song - Answer-genre of song for voice and piano accompaniment with high artistic
aspirations
12 tone serialism - Answer-a method of composing music, devised by Arnold
Schoenberg that has each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale sound in a fixed,
regularly occurring order
Modern era - Answer-1900-now
Sprechstimme - Answer-A vocal style developed by Schoenberg, in between singing
and speaking. An extreme example of the avant-garde composers' search for new
expressive means.
Impressionism - Answer-Suggestion rather than description. late-nineteenth-century
movement that arose in France; the Impressionists were the first to reject photographic
realism in painting, instead trying to re-create the impression that an object produces
upon the senses in a single, fleeting moment.
Expressionism/modernism - Answer-powerful movement in the early-twentieth-century
arts, initially a German-Austrian development that arose in Berlin, Munich, and Vienna;
its aim was not to depict objects as they are seen but to express the strong emotion that
the object generates in the artist
Emancipation of dissonance - Answer-Phrase coined by Schoenberg. Meaning that
dissonance was now liberated from the requirement that it resolve into a consonance.
Klangfarbenmelodie - Answer-(German for sound-color-melody) is a musical technique
that involves splitting a musical line or melody between several instruments, rather than
assigning it to just one instrument (or set of instruments), thereby adding color (timbre)
and texture to the melodic line.
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