Sound Reasoning
Table of Contents
Part I: Sound Reasoning
1. Sound Reasoning: A New Way of Listening
2. How Music Makes Sense
3. Listening Gallery: How Music Makes Sense
4. Musical Emphasis
5. Listening Gallery: Musical Emphasis
6. Musical Form
7. Listening Gallery: Musical Form
8. Expository and Developmental
9. Listening Gallery: Expository and Developmental
10. Overall Destiny
11. Listening Gallery: Overall Destiny
12. Time’s Effect on the Material
13. Listening Gallery: Time’s Effect
14. Summary: A Quick Guide for Listening
15. Making Music Modern
16. Listening Gallery: Making Music Modern
17. Conclusion: What is Music Trying to Express?
16. Listening Gallery: Making Music Modern
CHOICES
Changing pulse and meter
Unpredictable continuity
Absence of literal repetition
Heightened dissonance
Dissonances left unresolved
ANSWERS
CHOICES
Prominent use of silence
Weakened sense of pulse and meter
Unpredictable continuity
Absence of literal repetition
Heightened dissonance
Dissonances left unresolved
ANSWERS
CHOICES
Prominent use of silence
Minimal exposition
Harmonic independence
Absence of literal repetition
Heightened dissonance
Weak rhetorical reinforcement
ANSWERS
Carter writes in a personal musical language. His second etude for winds consists of a rapid passage that is played over and over by each of the four winds. However, each starts on a different note, leading to dissonant combinations; and the voices are out-of-phase, leading to weak rhetorical reinforcement.
Silence does not play a role. The flute begins alone, establishing an expository statement. Each instrumental part consists only of literal repetition–so these three choices are less accurate.
CHOICES
Prominent use of silence
Weakened sense of pulse and meter
Unpredictable continuity
Absence of literal repetition
Heightened dissonance
Dissonances left unresolved
ANSWERS
All are true.