1. In music, the early twentieth century was a time of revolt and change
2. The most famous riot in music history occurred in Paris in 1913 at the first performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.
3. Composers in the twentieth century drew inspiration from folk and popular music from all cultures, the music of Asia and Africa, and European art music from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century.
4. Twentieth-century composers incorporated elements of folk and popular music within their personal styles because they were attracted to the unconventional rhythms, sounds and melodic patterns
5. A great twentieth-century composer who was also a leading scholar of the folk music of his native land was Béla Bartók.
6. Which of the following composers was not stimulated by the folklore of his native land? Anton Webern
7. In twentieth-century music string players are sometimes called on to use the wood instead of the hair on their bows, percussion instruments have become very prominent and numerous, & dissonance has been emancipated
8. Among the unusual playing techniques that are widely used during the twentieth century is the glissando, a rapid slide up or down a scale.
9. In modern music instruments are played at the very top or bottom of their ranges; uncommon playing techniques have become normal; noiselike and percussive sounds are often used
10. A piano is often used in twentieth-century orchestral music to add a percussive edge
11. The combination of two traditional chords sounding together is known as a polychord
12. A fourth chord is a chord in which the tones are a fourth apart, instead of a third
13. A chord made of tones only a half step or a whole step apart is known as a tone cluster
14. Striking a group of adjacent keys on a piano with the fist or forearm will result in tone cluster
15. To create fresh sounds, twentieth-century composers used scales borrowed from nonwestern cultures, scales they themselves invented, & ancient church modes
16. The technique of using two or more tonal centers at the same time is called polytonality
17. The absence of key or tonality in a musical composition is known as atonal
18. Using all twelve tones without regard to their traditional relationship to major or minor scales, avoiding traditional chord progressions, is known as atonality
19. The first significant atonal pieces were composed around 1908 by Arnold Schoenberg
20. The use of two or more contrasting and independent rhythms at the same time is known as polyrhythm
21. A motive or phrase that is repeated persistently at the same pitch throughout a section is called ostinato
22. Recordings of much lesser-known music multiplied in 1948 through the appearance of long-playing disks
23. Radio broadcasts of live and recorded music began to reach large audiences during the 1920s.
24. The first opera created for television was Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors.
25. Composers from which area rose to importance during the Twentieth Century? Latin America
26. One of the most important teachers of musical composition in the twentieth century was Nadia Boulanger
27. The most influential organization sponsoring new music after World War I was the International Society for Contemporary Music.
28. During the first quarter of the Twentieth Century many composers left Russia because of the violence of the Russian Revolution.
29. Impressionist painting and symbolist poetry as artistic movements originated in France
30. The most important impressionist composer was Claude Debussy.
31. The term impressionist derived from a critic's derogatory reaction to Impression: Sunrise, a painting by Claude Monet.
32. When viewed closely, impressionist paintings are made up of tiny colored patches.
33. Impressionist painters were primarily concerned with the effect of light, color, and atmosphere
34. The impressionist painters were particularly obsessed with portraying water
35. Debussy's music tends to sound free and almost improvisational.
36. Impressionism in music is characterized by a stress on tone color, atmosphere, and fluidity.
37. In order to "drown the sense of tonality," Debussy developed the whole-tone scale, borrowed pentatonic scales from Javanese music, & turned to the medieval church modes.
38. A scale made up of six different notes each a whole step away from the next is called a whole-tone scale.
39. The poem that inspired the Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" was written by Stéphane Mallarmé
40. The faun evoked in Debussy's famous composition is a creature who is half man, half goat
41. The neoclassical movement in music roughly encompassed the years 1920-1950.
42. Neoclassical composers favored tonality
43. Neoclassical compositions are characterized by forms and stylistic features of earlier periods
44. Neoclassical composers modeled many of their works after the compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach
45. Neoclassicism was a reaction against romanticism and impressionism
46. The famous riot in 1913 was caused by the first performance of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring
47. Stravinsky's enormous influence on twentieth-century music is due to his innovations in rhythm, harmony, & tone color
48. Stravinsky's second phase is generally known as neoclassical
49. During the period about 1920 to 1951, Stravinsky drew inspiration largely from eighteenth-century music
50. In the 1950s Stravinsky dramatically changed his style to favor Anton Webern
51. The deliberate evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds is known as Privitism
52. Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is an example of primitivism
53. Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is scored for an enormous orchestra
54. The expressionist movement in music and art flourished in the years 1905-1925
55. The twentieth-century artistic movement that stressed intense, subjective emotion was called Expressionism
56. Expressionism as an artistic movement was largely centered in Germany and Austria
57. Expressionism grew out of the same intellectual climate as Freud's studies of Hysteria and the unconscious.
58. The operas of Richard Strauss use chromaticism and dissonance to depict perversion and murder
59. Expressionist painters, writers, and composers used Deliberate distortions to assault and shock their audience.
60. Which of the following statements is not true? in his later years, mozart was financially well off, widely acclaimed, and sought after by an adoring public [not sure]
61. Expressionism is an art concerned with Social protest
62.The expressionists rejected Conventional prettiness
63.Expressionist composers avoided tonality and traditional chord progressions
64.Schoenberg's teacher was Schoenberg himself
65.Schoenberg acquired his profound knowledge of music by going to concerts; playing in amateur chamber groups; studying scores
66.Alban Berg and Anton Webern were Arnold Schoenberg's Two of his disciples and students.
67. Schoenberg's third period, in which he developed the twelve-tone system, began around 1921 and lasted in the 1920s.
68. Schoenberg developed an unusual style of vocal performance, halfway between speaking and singing, called Sprechstimme.
69. The ordering of the twelve chromatic tones in a twelve-tone composition is called a A series, tone row, or set
70. The text of A Survivor from Warsaw was written by Schoenberg, is partly based on a direct report of a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto, & is set to a kind of speech-singing
71. A Survivor from Warsaw used three languages: English, German, and Hebrew
72. When he was nineteen, Alban Berg began to study music privately with Arnold Schoenberg.
73. The vocal lines in Wozzeck include distorted folk songs, speaking, & Sprechstimme.
74.Anton Webern's twelve-tone works contain many examples of strict polyphonic imitation
75.Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra are scored for a chamber orchestra of eighteenth soloists
76.Béla Bartók was a leading authority on Peasant music.
77.Béla Bartók evolved a completely individual style that fused folk elements with Changes of meter and a powerful beat, twentieth-century sounds, and classical forms.
78. While remaining within the framework of a tonal center, Béla Bartók often used Harsh dissonances, polychords, and tone clusters in his music.
79. Charles Ives's music contains elements of Revival hymns and ragtime, patriotic songs and barn dances, and village bands and church choirs.
80. The Gershwin song that became a tremendous hit in 1920 was Al Jolson
81. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue opens with Solo clarinet.
82. William Grant Still's works in African American style, such as his Afro-American Symphony of 1931, were performed to critical acclaim in New York
83. As a composer, William Grant Still wrote film scores, concert works, operas, and band arrangements.
84. The flowering of African American culture called the "Harlem Renaissance" spanned the years 1917-35
85. Aaron Copland's name has become synonymous with American music because of his use of revival hymns, cowboy songs, and other folk tunes, jazz, blues, and ragtime elements, & subjects from American folklore.
86. In addition to his compositions, Copland made valuable contributions to music in America by directing composers' groups, organized concerts of American music, lectured around the country, and wrote books and magazine articles.
87. One of Ginastera’s early works, Estancia Suite, is nationalistic and uses Argentinean folk material, including popular dances.
88. Composers began to shift from tonality to the twelve-tone system because they discovered it was a compositional technique rather than a special musical style.
89. Twelve-tone compositional techniques used to organize rhythm, dynamics, tone color, and other dimensions of music to produce totally controlled and organized music are called Serialism.
90. In chance, or aleatory music the composer Chooses pitches, tone colors, and rhythms by random methods.
91.An example of aleatoric music is John Cage
92.Minimalist music is characterized by A steady pulse, clear tonality, and insistent repetition of short melodic patterns.
93. Intervals smaller than the half step are called Microtones.
94.Around 1940, John Cage invented the prepared piano, a(n) grand piano whose sound is altered by objects such as bolts, screws, rubber bands, pieces of felt, paper, and plastic inserted between the strings of some of the keys.
95.Edgard Varèse's Poème électronique All answers are correct. designed for the 1958 Brussels World Fair; one of the earliest masterpieces of electronic music created in a tape studio; composed in collaboration with the famous architect Le Corbusier.
96.Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto Grosso 1985 is an example of quotation music
97.Leonard Bernstein was a well-known conductor, author-lecturer, & composer of orchestral and vocal works
98.The musical loosely based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is westside story
99.West Side Story contains An unprecedented fusion of song and drama with electrifying violent choreography
100.In West Side Story the tempo used in the main part of the song “America” comes from a type of Mexican dance known as Huapango