Multiple Choice Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	Schoenberg's teacher was
		A)	Johannes Brahms
		B)	Richard Wagner
		C)	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
		D)	Schoenberg himself


2	When Schoenberg arrived in the United States after the Nazis seized power in Germany, he obtained a teaching position at
		A)	Harvard
		B)	Yale
		C)	UCLA
		D)	Columbia


3	The text of A Survivor from Warsaw
		A)	was written by Schoenberg
		B)	is partly based on a direct report of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto
		C)	is set to a kind of speech-singing
		D)	all of the above


4	Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Schoenberg's
		A)	teachers
		B)	students
		C)	predecessors
		D)	jealous rivals


5	In addition to being a composer, Schoenberg showed skill as a
		A)	chemist
		B)	painter
		C)	music critic
		D)	economist


6	A Survivor from Warsaw used three languages: English, German, and
		A)	Italian
		B)	French
		C)	Hebrew
		D)	Russian


7	Schoenberg's third period, in which he developed the twelve-tone system, began around
		A)	1874
		B)	1908
		C)	1921
		D)	1933


8	Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called
		A)	Klangfarbenmelodie
		B)	Sprechstimme
		C)	atonality
		D)	serialism


9	Which of the following statements is not true of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method of composition?
		A)	The tones of a row may be presented at the same time to form chords.
		B)	Each tone of a row must be placed in the same register.
		C)	The tones of a row may be placed one after another to form a melody.
		D)	A tone row may be shifted to any pitch level.


10	Which of the following terms is not used to describe the special ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in twelve-tone composition?
		A)	polychord
		B)	set
		C)	tone row
		D)	series

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