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Arnold Schoenberg
Test created by
Christopher Brunt, Millsaps College
1. Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) studied in Vienna with which composer?
A
Richard Strauss
B
Hugo Wolf
C
Alexander von Zemlinsky
D
Gustav Mahler
2. Schoenberg's compositional idiom from 1898-1906 can best be characterized as
A
Post-Tristan
B
neo-classic
C
primitivist
D
atonal expressionist
3. Of his earlier compositions, this was the most romantically expansive:
A
Pelleas and Melisande (1903)
B
Transfigured Night (1899)
C
First Chamber Symphony (1906)
D
Gurrelieder (1900-11)
4. With this work Schoenberg made a complete break with traditional tonality:
A
First Chamber Symphony (1906)
B
The Book of the Hanging Gardens (1909)
C
First String Quartet (1905)
D
Pelleas and Melisande (1903)
5. Which work listed below was not composed during Schoenberg's atonal-expressionist period:
A
Pierrot Lunaire
B
Ode to Napoleon
C
Erwartung
D
Die Gluckliche Hand
6.The following composer is a Schoenberg pupil and composer of the atonal-expressionist operatic masterpiece Wozzeck (1925):
A
Anton von Webern
B
Franz Schreker
C
Alban Berg
D
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
7. This work was Schoenberg's first large-scale orchestral work in an atonal idiom:
A
Variations for Orchestra
B
Pelleas and Melisande
C
Second Chamber Symphony
D
Five Orchestral pieces, Op. 16
8. The tone poem Transfigured Night (1899) was originally composed for which medium:
A
string orchestra
B
chamber orchestra
C
string quartet
D
string sextet
9. Which of the following list of composers was not a student of Schoenberg?
A
John Cage
B
Darius Milhaud
C
Hanns Eisler
D
Leon Kirchner
10. Schoenberg uses sprechstimme in all but one of the following works:
A
Erwartung (1909)
B
Ode to Napoleon (1942)
C
Moses and Aron (1932)
D
Pierrot Lunaire (1912)
11.Schoenberg's well-known harmony textbook Harmonielehre was published during this year:
A
1912
B
1911
C
1951
D
1900
12. All of the following works date from Schoenberg's dodecaphonic period except:
A
Violin Concerto
B
Friede auf Erden
C
A Survivor from Warsaw
D
Phantasy for violin and piano
13. This Schoenbergian 12-tone principle would have a significant effect on the compositions of later serial composers, especially the American composer Milton Babbitt (b. 1916):
A
klangfarbenmelodie
B
sprechengesang
C
combinatoriality
D
total serialism
14. Highly influential Schoenberg pupil, whose music makes much use of klangfarbenmelodie and pointillist effects:
A
Roberto Gerhard
B
Alban Berg
C
John Cage
D
Anton von Webern
15. Schoenberg was a professor of composition at this American school from 1936-44:
A
UCLA
B
Yale
C
Harvard
D
Mills College
16. This religious testament, begun in 1917, was never finished:
A
Kol Nidre
B
Die Jakobsleiter
C
De profundis
D
A Survivor from Warsaw
17. Schoenberg's first wholly 12-tone composition was:
A
Suite for Piano, Op. 25
B
Piano Concerto
C
String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
D
Chamber Symphony No. 2
18. After Schoenberg's death in 1951, this notable 20th century figure would adapt the 12-tone method to his personal style in works such as Canticum Sacrum (1955) and the Requiem Canticles (1966):
A
Aaron Copland
B
Roger Sessions
C
Howard Hanson
D
Igor Stravinsky
19. A Classic form which Schoenberg would never fuse with 12-tone procedure:
A
variations
B
Baroque dance suite
C
fugue
D
none of the above
20. Schoenberg's only comic opera (1929):
A
Von Heute auf Morgen
B
Moses und Aron
C
Die Gluckliche Hand
D
Erwartung
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