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Part #1- Listening: Each question is worth 1 point unless otherwise noted. Total= 17pts.

Example 1:
1. This piece was composed by _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Gioacchino Rossini
'-( Giuseppe Verdi
c. Richard Wagner
d. Gilbert and Sullivan

2. This composer was known for working at the La Scala Theater (Milan) with the Italian
opera impresario _ _ _ _ _ __
a. Metastasio
b. Cesare Sterbini
@ Domenico Barbaia
d. Pierre Beaumarchai

Bonus: The origins of the characters in this piece come from the Italian Theatre tradition
called _ _ _ _ _ _ ___, a tradition that also influenced works like Pierrot Lunaire and
Petrushka. (lpt)

Example 2:
3. This piece is by the composer _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
a. W.C. Handy
b. Duke Ellington
A Noble Sissie
Scott Joplin

4. It is an example of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , a style of music first popularized in Chicago in

the late 19th century.
~Ragtime
Y.oixieland
c. Jass music
d. Big Band Swing

Example 3:
5. This example comes from the opera
a. Rigoletto --------
(!) Tristan und Isolde
c. La Boheme
d. Salome
 6. This composer was known for creating total works of art-described in the German
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himself.
a. Hauptstimme
Gesamtkunstwerk
c. Klangfarbenmelodie
d. Gebrauchsmusik

7. This piece uses dozens of variations of a dominant seventh chord, also known as the
st
Tri an Chord, to represent specific characters ideas and actions on stage. This
technique is called______ ' '
a. Non-Diagetic Sound
b. Diagetic Sound
@ Lietmotiv
d. Mickey-Mousing

Bonus: Spell the original permutation of the Tristan Chord. (lpt)

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Example 4:
8. This piece is called _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and was composed by _ _ _ __
a. The Things My Father Loved; Charles Ives
b. Pierrot Lunaire; Arnold Schoenberg
c. The Banshee; Henry Cowell
@) The Cage; Charles Ives

9. T~ piece makes use of _ _ _ _ _ harmonies.

/2 Quartal
@9-uintal
c. Pentatonic
d. Whole tone

10. ~ r False: Numerous scholars originally questioned the truth of this composer's
composition dates, because he composed the works over a long period of time due to
his primary occupation as an insurance salesman. (lpt) ---<
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Bonus: This composer composed during vacations into the wilderness, which were actually
a prescribed treatment for his medical diagnosis of £ ' M , """'f ,
an illness that
affected affluent urban-dwellers. The Viennese com ser _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ also
suffered from this "condition." (2pts)
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Richard Strauss; Bavarian Stadtsopfer
c. Theodore Thomas; The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
d. Anton Seidl; Metropolitan Opera in New York

12. The shifting sound of Major and Minor 3rds in this piece, as well as the emphasis of reed
instruments and cymbals, comes from _ _ _ _ ____, a style of music associated
with the Romani of Eastern Europe and a popular style among Jewish people living in
the region at the turn of the century.
@ Sephardic music
~Klezmer music
c. Cossack music
d. Hungarian folk music

Bonus: Due in part to this composer's Jewish heritage and in part to the shear length of his
symphonic works, this composer was not often performed until the mid-1950s when the
American composer and conductor
(lpt) ------
began reviving his compositions.

Unknown Example 6:
13. Inspired by a Japanese Print called "The Great Wave of Kanagawa," this unknown work
uses exoticism and modernist language of the turn of the century in a programmatic
way. First, describe _some of the timbres, scale systems, or ensemble requirements you
are hearing in this example. Second, how would we describe the style of this example?
Third, provide the name of a possible composer and tell me why you think it may be this
composer. (S pts)
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14. The Bayreuth Festspielhaus, an opera hall designed by Gottfried Semper and_ u~ed by l ti.-la 5/
Richard Wagner, is a good example of architectural _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . This 1s a '4. I ~)
process where a secular cultural form appropriates elements of sacred culture to
elevate its own status.
~ -Secularization
~ Sacralization
c. Modernization
d. Anti-modernization
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dodecaphony, a technique that favors the theme and vanat,on form, 1s better known as

@ 12-tone serialism
b. Total serialism
c. Atonality
d. Dissonant Counterpoint

16. The Midway Plaissance, a carnival ground outside of the World's Columbian Exposition
in Chicago, was one of the first locations in US history where Americans could hear non-
Western music like the Javanese Gamelan and Egyptian Tahkt ensembles. Yet, the
Midway was also constructed in an orientalist fashion, depicting the "evolution" of man
based on the racist pseudoscience called _ _ _ _ __
a. Primitivism
~Phrenology
c. Ethnology
d. Comparative Musicology

17. Stravinsky's Augur's of Spring Chord is spelled:

a. F-B-D#-G#
CE)c-G#-B-E-A
~ b-Cb-Eb-G-Bb-Db
d. C#-B-A-G-F-D#

18. Modernism was a movement that roughly lasted from 1890 to 1960 and sought to

~Create constant change within musical culture

b. Cling to musical forms of the past, like the symphony and the sonata
c. Reject the processes of modernization and rapid urbanization
@ Compose tonal and absolute music

19. Provide two sonic elements for each of the three film types listed below (6pts) :
Silent Film (2pts) Part-Talkie (2pts) Sound Film (2pts)
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bonus points for including the turn-around (Spts):

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20r False: Primitivism was a type of anti-modernism that appropriated the sounds of
...~n-Western "other" to depict nostalgia for a golden age that no-longer existed due
to rapid Urbanization.

22. True o ~ ~&R Viao, ia of E, 1gh1rKI used Giuseppe Verdi's name in a series of
propa~Wads that read "Viva Verdi" during her rise to power-a period in England
called the Risorgimento.

Part #3 - Score Analysis: Total = 15 pts.

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composition. Second, what unique scale forms are used in this example and how might
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composer to use this instrument and how does it relate to the program of the music?
Third, who choreographed this piece and why was the music and choreography
considered so "riotous" at the time?

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26 • Desc'.ibe two ways music changed during the fin-de-siecle (end of the century) and with
th e nse of modernism (1890-1915). Your answer must include key terms from class, two
works of music as examples, and at least two of the following composers (Charles Ives,
Henry Cowell, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Luigi Russolo,
Paul Hindemith, Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Anton
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