20th Century Music

Schoenberg invented the 8-tone system.

Shostakovich is considered a modernist composer.

Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki is a symphonic work and has brass and woodwind instruments.

The Modernist movement pushed composers to stick to traditional rules and denounce individuality.

Composers tended to stick to the styles and lots of the music written during those times had a similar '____________.'

Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima has fifty-two _________ players.

Impressionism had a charm that contrasted the darkness of the previous Romantic era.

The Interwar years saw a shift back to a more "Classical" sound, being influenced by the Classical and _________ eras.

_____________ describes the particular sound of a pitch sounded by a specific instrument.

War Requiem was composed by

Music that took place in the 20th century and was inspired by the _____________ era music is called Neoclassism.

Claude Debussy's piano composition, La Mer, depicts the __________.

All the Western classical _____________ ___________ up until the turn of the 20th century had dominating styles.

The two World Wars did not impact the progression of 20th century music.

Russian composer, Dmitri Shostsakovich, was forced to return back to the Classical-inspired style.

____________________ is a late 19th and early 20th century movent that focused on mood and atmosphere.

The Common Practice era made a return in the 20th century, which was established in the _________ era.

The 20th century saw composers escaping from broad traditions of the era, off into different _________________.

Schoenberg is to pitch as Igor Stravinsky is to

Arnold Schoenberg was a pioneer for the _______________ movement.