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Short Essay Questions:
1. What French composer best represents the impressionistic style of music? Claude Debussy
2. What painting and artist is reported to have given the style of impressionism its name? 3. What percussion instrument(s) did Debussy use in his work Prelude to the Afternoon of a 5. According to Yale professor Craig Wright, what 40-year time period is considered the
6. According to Yale professor Craig Wright, what poem was Debussy's inspiration for Prelude
to the Afternoon of a Faun? Stephane Mallarme “The Afternoon of a Faun”
7. According to Yale professor Craig Wright, what is a "faun?" Randy satyr, half man, half beast
who spends his afternoon in pursuit of sexual gratification in the heat of the midday sun. –
sexually supercharged than the story of Bambi
8. According to Yale professor Craig Wright, what five musical techniques did Stravinsky use in
his The Rite of Spring that caused such a strong reaction from his audiences?
Definitions - Please define each term below.
1. Impressionism: a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s,
characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in
terms of the shifting effect of light and color.
2. Symbolism: the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities. Impressionism was translated
into a movement called Symbolism.
3. Exoticism: Composers at the turn of the twentieth century delighted in music that drew on
colorful material from foreign lands, a trend known as musical exoticism
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4. Atonality: music without a key or home center
5. Polyrhythm: different meters sounding at the same time
6. Bitonality: two different keys sounding at the same time
7. Ostinato: constantly repeated phrases
8. Sprechstimme: literally speech-voice—halfway between speaking and singing.
9. Serialism: applied to music that use this manipulation of elements in a series (particular
order)
10. Expressionism: was primarily an Austrian/German development whose aim was to paint an
object or person's most innermost feelings, anxieties, and fears.
True/False Questions - Please label each statement as true or false.
1. The first performance of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring was a big success. F
2. In the particular performance of Debussy's Clair de lune used in the course lesson on
Debussy, there is a loud "bang" from somewhere in the audience during the performance. T
3. The particular performance of Debussy's Clair de lune used in the course lesson on Debussy
is played before a live audience. T