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MUS 354 Question and answers 100% correct MUS 354-01 Final Exam Claude Debussy - Nocturnes: No. 1, Nuages (Clouds) - correct answer symphonic poem; 1897-99; a play of musical images, depicts shifting clouds, began as a set of pieces for solo violin and orchestra; opening image is adapted from...

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MUS 354-01 Final Exam
Claude Debussy - Nocturnes: No. 1, Nuages (Clouds) - correct answer
✔symphonic poem; 1897-99; a play of musical images, depicts shifting
clouds, began as a set of pieces for solo violin and orchestra; opening image
is adapted from a song by Musorgsky, alternating 3rds and 5ths depicts slow
moving clouds; similar composers: Musorgsky


symphonic poem - correct answer ✔also known as "tone poem"; orchestral
music in which the context of a poem source is illustrated; used in Debussy's
"Nuages", Penderecki's "Threnody", and Revueltas' "Sensemayá"


gamelan - correct answer ✔Javanese orchestra made up of gongs and
percussion mainly; used in Debussy's "Nuages"


Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire, Op. 21, No. 8: Nacht - correct answer
✔Melodrama (song cycle) for speaker and chamber ensemble; 1912; a
passacaglia; unrhymed 13-line poem that depicts giant moths casting gloom
over the world; written in Spring 1912 when the composer moved from Vienna
to Berlin; use of Sprechstimme and developing variation, atonal, and
reappearing motives; similar composers: Brahms and Wagner


Sprechstimme - correct answer ✔speaking voice; used in Schoenberg's
"Pierrot lunaire" and Babbitt's "Philomel"


atonal - correct answer ✔no pitch serves as the tonal center; used in
Schoenberg's "Pierrot lunaire", Berg's "Wozzeck", and Webern's "Symphone,
Op.21"

, developing variation - correct answer ✔variation of the features of a basic
unit produces all the thematic formulations thus elaborating the idea of the
piece; used in Schoenberg's "Pierrot lunaire" and Zwilich's "Symphony No. 1"


Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire, Op.21, No. 13: Enthauptung - correct
answer ✔Melodrama (song cycle) for speaker and chamber ensemble; 1912;
unrhymed 13-line poem that depicts the main character imagining his own
beheading by the moonbeam for all of his crimes; written in Spring 1912 when
the composer moved from Vienna to Berlin; use of Sprechstimme and
developing variation, atonal, parallel augmented chords; similar composers:
Brahms and Wagner


Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Suite, Op.25: Prelude - correct answer ✔Suite;
1921-23; illustrates use of twelve-tone method; composer was obsessed with
numbers by this time, publishing one opus a year, which was reflected in the
opus number; use of 12-tone methods and tetrachords, different prime rows in
each hand, somewhat free form; similar composers: Brahms and Wagner


twelve-tone method - correct answer ✔method that ensures that all twelve
tones of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another; used in
Schoenberg's "Piano suite, Op.25" and Webern's "Symphony, Op. 21"


tetrachords - correct answer ✔tone series broken up into smaller units and
formed into chords, specifically three segments of four notes; used in
Schoenberg's "Piano suite, Op. 25"


Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Suite, Op. 25: Minuet and Trio - correct answer
✔Suite; 1921-23; illustrates use of twelve-tone method; composer was
obsessed with numbers by this time, publishing one opus a year, which was
reflected in the opus number; use of twelve-tone method in two-part
counterpoint, strict dance form with light texture, standard rounded binary form
w/o repeated second section, tone rows are separated by brief rests; similar
composers: Brahms and Wagner

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