ASTR 102 Exam Questions All Correctly Answered New Verified Edition
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ASTR 102 Exam Questions All Correctly Answered New Verified Edition
Expression - Answer -Artistic movement that aspired to represent inner experience, explore the worlds of psyche, and to render visible the stressful emotional life of the modern person—isolated
-represents the tormented feeli...
ASTR 102 Exam Questions All Correctly
Answered New Verified Edition
Expression - Answer -Artistic movement that aspired to represent inner experience,
explore the worlds of psyche, and to render visible the stressful emotional life of the
modern person—isolated
-represents the tormented feelings of people stuck in world of pain + conflict
Second Viennese School: - Answer -Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and Alban
Berg.
Arnold Webern - Answer -Best know for his atonal and twelve tone pieces, such as
Pierrot Lunaire.
- Legacy of innovation
Early American music - Answer -primarily functional and was used for worship
Fuging Tunes - Answer -hymns or psalm tunes with brief polyphonic sections that have
imitative entrances (like a figure).
Largely written for an uneducated (musically uneducated) public
The hymns inspired the African-American spiritual tradition
Often include coded language that connects the trials of African-American slaves to
those of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt
Stephen Foster - Answer -most popular American songwriter of the pre-Civil War era
-music written for amateurs which everyone could sing
Native American Music - Answer --Invention of the phonograph, many Native American
songs were collected in the late 1800's and early 1900's
-Frances Densmore was a leading collecter of Native American music
Amy Beach - Answer -Known for "Gaelic Symphony"
-Felt you should use traditions you were familiar with.
-Decided to use the music of the Irish (Boston has one of the largest Irish immigrants in
the U.S.)
-Put Irish folk tunes into her symphony, which supposedly has a program that depicts
the sufferings and struggles of the Irish people.
Swing jazz - Answer -Swing is commonly associated with big bands
, Swing is meant to be danced to.
Bebop - Answer --Style of jazz that focused on *individual* expression of the musician
through opportunities to solo.
-Not meant to be danced to, meant for listening
-had jam sessions: free form solo work w/improvisation
Front Line - Answer -Instruments responsible for playing the melodies in Bebop
Rhythm Section - Answer -Section responsible for the beat
Collective Improvisation - Answer -Front line players improvised melody
Scat - Answer -Singers sing nonsense syllables to imitate instruments
-came to be basic element of jazz vocals
-created by Louis Armstrong
Louise Armstrong - Answer -Helped bring jazz to an international audience via radio/tv
inventor of scat singing
Field Hollers - Answer -Rhythmic free singing of field workers
Work songs - Answer -Singing in rhythm with the slave work being done
The Blues - Answer -Lyrical pattern: AAB
twelve bar harmonic progression
quadruple meter and is subdivided
Blue Notes - Answer -(Lower + slower notes)
Bessie Smith - Answer -"Empress of the Blues"
Primitivism - Answer -Refers to lack of tradition sense of perspective
-vivid in color
Sprechstimme - Answer -a style of dramatic vocalization between singing and speaking
Bela Bartok - Answer -first major composer to study folk music by making field recording
-interested in (Hungarian) folk derived rhythms+melodic patterns
Arch Form - Answer -Beginning + ending of pieces are related, 2nd+2nd to last are
related, 3rd+3rd to last parts are related, etc.
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