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Music History IV—Dr. Robert Vodnoy
Spring, 2008—Test 3 Study Guide
Take-Home Question: Choose one of the following works and write a 350-500 word
essay about it which: 1) describes the work in detail including its literary or
programmatic background, 2) explains its importance in music history, and 3) explains its
position/importance in the composer’s creative life.
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Debussy—Nuages from Three Nocturnes
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Schoenberg—Pierrot Lunaire
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Schoenberg—Piano Suite, Op. 25
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Berg—Wozzeck
1. What distinguishes Ravel’s treatment of dissonance from Debussy’s?
2. Why is Debussy considered by many to be the father of modern music?
3. What music and art effected Debussy’s music?
4. How did Rachmaninov solve his writer’s block?
5. Who was Louis Leroy?
6. What is theosophy?
7. What is Sprechstimme?
8. What is chord streaming or streaming harmony?
9. What is chromatic saturation?
10. What other form of artistic expression did Schoenberg pursue besides
composition?
11. Be able to match the definition, composer, or painter with the correction “-ism”.
12. Be able to name/match the composer with the country who nationalist movement
he championed.
13. Who were the following people? Be able to match them with the correct
biographical sketch:
a. Ivan Pavlov
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Henry Ford
d. Wilbur and Orville Wright
e. Alexander Fleming
f. Stéphane Mallarmé
g. Marcel Proust
h. James Joyce
i. Virginia Woolf
j. T.S. Eliot
k. John Steinbeck
l. Jean-Paul Satre
m. Paul Cezanne
n. Claude Monet
o. Edvard Munch
p. Pablo Picasso
q. Diego Rivera
r. Thomas Hart Benton
14. Be able to match the above list with the correct literary work or work of art:
a. Impression—Sunrise
b. Rememberance of Things Past
c. Electric Power. Motorcars
d. The Wasteland
e. Orlando
f. The Treble Clef
g. The Scream
h. Conditioned Reflexes
i. Being and Nothingness
j. The Grapes of Wrath
k. Mont Sainte-Victoire
l. Discovery of penicillin
m. The Interpretation of Dreams
15. How did the new views of the human mind effect music?
16. What are the major political and social upheavals which shaped the first half of
the 20th century? Which led to World War I?
17. What characterizes nationalist in music?
18. What wars and revolutions occurred between the two great wars?
19. What was the Holocaust?
20. Be able to briefly define, or write out:
a. An octotonic scale
b. A pentatonic scale
c. A bitonal chord
d. A quartal chord
e. The R, RO and I forms of a row, given the O
f. The opposite hexachord, if given the first hexachord
21. Why did Berg compose his Violin Concerto?
22. What are the distinguishing characteristics of the tone row which Berg
constructed for his violin concerto?
23. How did Berg die? How did Webern die?
24. What are the speculated reasons why Sibelius stopped composing?
25. What was the League of Nations?
26. Know the basic biographical details of the lives of the following composers. Be
able to match their name with a brief biographical sketch or be able to fill in the
blanks (with word bank) for a paragraph description of their life.
a. Debussy
b. Ravel
c. Scriabin
d. Schoenberg
e. Berg
f. Rachmaninov
g. Sibelius
h. Webern
27. What is the United Nations?
28. What is the Fibonacci number series? Who may have used it?
29. What are pitch-class sets?
30. Who was part of the Second Viennese School? Why was it named that?
31. What did Ravel do during World War II?
32. On what literary works did Berg base his operas Wozzeck and Lulu?
33. What is synesthesia?
34. With which major composer are the following people associated? Or, be able to
match these people with the correct biographical sketch:
a. Alexander von Zemlinsky
b. Arensky
c. Lilli Texier
d. Friedrich Nietzsche
e. Georg Buechner
f. Gropius
g. Nijinsky
h. Taneyev
i. Gerstl
j. Gabrielle Dupont
k. Stephan Mallarmé
35. Who wrote the following pieces of music:
a. Bolero
b. Wozzeck
c. Symphony, Op. 21
d. Nights in the Gardens of Spain
e. Erwartung
f. The Cunning Little Vixen
g. Tzigane
h. Pierrot Lunaire
i. La Mer
j. Moses und Aron
k. Finlandia
l. Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
m. Prelude a la pre-midi d’un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
n. Tombeau de Couperin
o. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
p. Variants on Dives and Lazarus
q. The Three-Cornered Hat (El Sombrero de tres picos)
r. Survivor from the Warsaw Ghetto
s. Jeux
t. From the House of the Dead
u. Lulu
v. Pelléas et Mélisandre (more than one)
w. Poem of Ecstasy
x. Verklärte Nacht
y. Variations on an Original Theme (Enigma)
z. Daphnis et Chlóe