Mod & Postmod Music

Question 1

The "Second Viennese School" of composition is: Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

Decision-making elements are the result of non-musical decisions:

Accepted Answer

chance music

Question 3

In 12-tone composition, the collection of pitches that are always used in order

Accepted Answer

Tone Row

Question 4

Music of the Modern era was designed to please the listener

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

In Postmodern Music, almost anything can be considered music

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

When was Modernism in music?

Accepted Answer

1900s

Question 7

Who invented 12-tone composition?

Accepted Answer

Schoenberg

Question 8

Postmodern Music always uses traditional notation

Accepted Answer

False

Question 9

Which event prompted the change from Romanticim to Modernism?

Accepted Answer

World War I

Question 10

Classical & Romantic genres were still used in the Modern era

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

The Second Viennese school of composers includes Schoenberg, Webern, & Berg, who wrote atonal music

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Who invented the "prepared piano" and composed 4'33"

Accepted Answer

John Cage

Question 13

This Post-Modern compositional style uses very small musical cells and repeats them with slight variations

Accepted Answer

Minimalism

Question 14

Polymeter and Polyrhythms are common in Modern Music

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Edgar Varese's piece Poeme Electronique was one of the first pieces of music to use synthesizer

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

The Postmodern Era in music started roughly after WWII (1945)

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

The compositions "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out to Show Them" by Steve Reich use this technique:

Accepted Answer

looping

Questions 17