MLIT 1003 Final Salonen (UARK) Questions with Correct Answers
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Claude Debussy Correct Answer-French; Impressionist; Got in trouble in school for breaking the rules of conventional music; Winner of 1884 Prix de Rome composition contest; Had many affairs; One lover shot herself in public; Wrote the Prelude "a lapres-midi d'un faune" that was a tone poem based on...
MLIT 1003 Final Salonen (UARK) Questions with
Correct Answers
Claude Debussy Correct Answer-French; Impressionist; Got in trouble
in school for breaking the rules of conventional music; Winner of 1884
Prix de Rome composition contest; Had many affairs; One lover shot
herself in public; Wrote the Prelude "a lapres-midi d'un faune" that was
a tone poem based on a French symbolist poem and was later used as
music for a ballet
Igor Stravinsky Correct Answer-Russian; Wrote ballet; Considered
greatest composer of all time; Lived down the street from Merinski
theater where he learned about ballets; Did NOT go to music school but
took lessons from the top composers of that time
Arnold Schoenberg Correct Answer-Austrian composer and painter;
Sprechstimme; The creator of the twelve-tone system of atonal music;
Wrote "Pierrot Lunaire"
William Grant Still Correct Answer-Born in Little Rock, AR; Known for
Afro American Symphony; first African American to have an orchestra
performed; apart of the "Harlem Renaissance" and "New Negro
Movement"; arranged music for Paul Whiteman orchestra
Bela Bartok Correct Answer-Hungarian; Musicologist who studied
contemporary music; wrote pedagogy books; taught piano; used
folksongs as basis of his music; best known for instrumental works of
piano pieces and string quartets; worked in tonal center with harsh
dissonances
,Aaron Copland Correct Answer-American; Abstractionist; Best know
for "Appalachian Spring"; know as "Billy the Kid"; Supported
innovations of new music; Wanted to write music that gave the feel of
Brooklyn; Was accused of being a communist
Gustav Holst Correct Answer-English; Best known for orchestra work
"The Planets"; Borrowed ideas from Shoenberg, Stravinsky, and
Debussy; Never wrote another piece link to "The Planets"; Hated his
popularity; Mars the bringer of war; Venus the bringer of peace;
Mercury the winged messenger; Jupiter the bringer of jollity; Saturn the
bringer of Old Age; Uranus the magician
Isao Tomita Correct Answer-Japanese; Composer for film television and
theatre; inspired by Wendy Carlos' album "Switched on Bach"
Charlie Parker Correct Answer-American saxophonist nicknamed
"Bird"; Innovator of Jazz; known for Be-Bop
Miles Davis Correct Answer-American trumpeter; Known for
innovating "Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz, and Jazz Fusion"; Influenced by
Church music; Constantly produced music
John Coltrane Correct Answer-American tenor saxophonist; Known for
improvisation; Nicknamed "Trane"; Started playing with Miles Davis;
Developed Avant Garde Free Jazz
, Gyorgy Ligeti Correct Answer-Hungarian; Known for
"micropolyphony" or slowly changing tone clusters
Krzystof Pendericki Correct Answer-Polish; Known for the use of
"microtones" or pitches that are smaller than a half step; Wrote
"Interminancy/Chance Music/Aleatory Music" or music with an element
of unpredictability or music written through chance procedures
John Adams Correct Answer-American; Minimalist; Taught and
conducted at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; Worked on the
"Transmigration of Souls" that commemorated the victims of 9/11; Won
the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for music
Symbolism Correct Answer-A movement in the late 19th century; The
belief that art should aim to capture more absolute truths which could
only be accessed by indirect methods
Impressionism Correct Answer-Music where the harmonies, melodies,
and rhythms are clouded, shifting, and obscure; Usually used to describe
the music of Debussy, Ravel, and others
Major Scale Correct Answer-WWHWWWH
Whole Tone Scale Correct Answer-WWWWWWW
Chromatic Scale Correct Answer-HHHHHHHHH
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