Music 130 B - Final Exam Guidelines

Thursday May 9, 2002

11:00 AM-1:00 PM

Room 146

The test will include listening and general identification questions. The format will be multiple choice, matching, and true/false.

Part One will focus on listening identifcation.

Know items 27-29, 31-59 on your listening list:

The location and call numbers for each selection are printed on your listening list.

Be able to identify each work by composer, title, main performer(s), date (of composition or performance for popular styles), style, genre, and typical performance context (original and current). Know important features of instrumentation and structural design (form).

Part Two will cover pages 14-17 in the Wright text, as well pages 400-402 as well as chapter7 and the conclusion in Cook.

Know the keywords at the end of each chapter (pp. 298, 319, 332, 376)

Other items to review for indentification:

• Indonesia (be able to locate Bali and Java on map) A good resource for those who wish to review Balinese music is the Bali and Beyond website.
• Wayang kulit
• dalang (and the range of responsibilities of this puppet master and singer); rember the visit of I Nyoman Sumandhi
• gender type instruments
• court patronage
• Hindu tradition
• Dutch colonial rule
• Gong Kebyar (example 50 on the listening list)
• Scale types: slendro, pelog
• Colotomic structure
• gamelan
• tuned gong sets such as bonong and trompong
• struck metallophone such as the saron and the gender
• cymbals (cengceng)
• drum (kendhang)
• sustained melody instruments: flute (suling), rebab (bowed spike lute)
• legong
• Mahabarata
• Ramayana
• Gamelan Pegulingan
• Colin McPhee
• Paris community of artists, poets and musicians including: Nadia Boulanger, Stravinsky,Copland
• Charles Baudelaire
• symbolists
• Claude Monet
• Pan American Society (associated with Varese)
• International Composers Guild
• American composer associated with writings of Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau
• Paris Exposition of 1889
• concertino
• ritornello
• I Ching

Larger topics to Review:

• the backgrounds of the composers we have studied this half of the semester [very important]
• the formal structures and techniques employed by the composers we have studied, including: concerto grosso, symphonic poem, concert overture, orchestral song.
• new performance settings for music during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• twentieth century attitudes towards musical sound
• renewed interest in chamber music
• use of music to indicate social position and identity (Cook, conclusion)
• aspects that make music both an artifice and something natural