MUS 139
Exam 3 Review
PLEASE NOTE:
The exam will be multiple choice. This exam will cover material from the Romantic period and
20th Century music to present.
Listening Examples:
Be able to identify the following selections. You should know the title, composer, genre, time
period and additional information listed on the listening guide in the book about the piece such as
form, style, characteristics, ensemble, voices, text etc.
IMPORTANT: If you are unable to listen to examples marked with SS (Study Space), they can
be found in either Listen and Download, imusic, or Composers in the Chapters indicated.
16
20
21
SS Ch 28
24a
26
SS Ch 30
28
Beethoven
Symphony No. 5, I
Schubert
Erlking
Chopin
Polonaise in A major, Op. 40
Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique (Fourth Movement!
March to the Scaffold) Note: your CDRom may
be incorrect, please use study space for this
example
Verdi
Rigoletto, Act III La Donne e Mobile
Tchaikovsky March from the Nutcracker
Wagner
Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walkure
Debussy
Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun”
SS Ch 34
SS Ch 34
SS Ch 38
SS Ch 36
SS Ch 38
Stravinsky
Schoenberg
Cage
Joplin
Bernstein
Sample Listening Questions:
Who is the composer?
What is the title?
What is the form?
Rite of Spring, Introduction
Pierrot Lunaire
Sonata V, from Sonatas and Interludes
Maple Leaf Rag
West Side Story Mambo
What era is it from?
This listening example is written for which instrument/group of instruments?
This listening example is from which larger work?
Be prepared to answer multiple-choice and/or true or false questions about the following:
The Romantic Era
Ch 24 - Beethoven!!!! (we saved him for the romantic period)
Ch 26 – The Spirit of Romanticism
Romanticism in music – improved musical instruments, Romantic Style Traits - melody,
harmony, the growth of the orchestra, new instruments
Ch 27 – The Romantic Miniature
strophic, through composed, lied, Schubert, piano and literature, lyric piano pieces, Chopin,
tempo rubato
Ch 28 – Romantic Program Music
Programmatic music, incidental music, program symphony, symphonic poem, Berlioz,
Symphonie Fantastic basic story, idée fixe, nationalism
Ch 29 Romantic Opera
Grand opera, Verdi, Rigoletto plot
Ch 30 – The Late Romantics
Choral music, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Nutcracker
Music of the 20th Century to Present
Ch 32 – The Impressionist Era
Post romanticism, impressionism, Debussy,
Ch 33 – Main Currents in Early 20th Century Music
Reaction against Romanticism, Expressionism, Neoclassism, melody, harmony, 12 tone method,
emancipation of dissonance, orchestration
Ch 34 – Early 20th Century Innovators
Stravinsky, Rite of Spring, Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire, Sprechstimme, klangfarbenmelodie
Ch 36 – Ragtime, Blues, and Jazz – jazz, Joplin, ragtime, roots of jazz, new Orleans style jazz,
swing era, big band era, Duke Ellington, bebop, cool jazz, west coast jazz, later jazz styles
Ch 37 – New Directions
Technology and music, electronic music
Ch 38 – Contemporary Composers Look to World Music
Tone clusters, microtonal music, John Cage, prepared piano
Ch 39 – Stage and Screen
Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story
Be prepared to answer questions about performances or videos shown during class