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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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