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V.4 Early 20th Century Classical Music Review
V.4 Early 20th Century Classical Music Review
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A Review of Early 20th Century Music
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This composer first gained attention with the opera Wozzeck.
Alban Berg
Anton Webern
Aaron Copland
Arnold Schoenberg
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What is a polychord?
A chord that has more than three notes
Two chords played at once
A chord that uses all 12 notes of the chromatic scale
A chord with all seven notes of the scale
3
What is serialism?
Use of a rhythmic sequence to create a piece of music
Use of a limited set of tones to create a piece of music
Use of a harmonic sequence to create a piece of music
Use of a series to create a piece of music
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What is polytonality?
Multiple chords at once
Multiple keys at once
Multiple meters at once
Multiple rhythms at once
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What is a quartal chord?
A chord made up of fifths instead of thirds
A chord made up of fourths instead of thirds
A chord where the notes are a whole or half step apart
Two chords played at once
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What is the title of the piece?
Rhapsody in Blue
A Survivor from Warsaw
Pierrot Lunaire
Appalachian Spring
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Which composer was part of the Second Viennese School?
Arnold Schoenberg
Bela Bartok
Anton Webern
Alban Berg
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What is polyrhythm?
Multiple time signatures at once
Multiple chords at once
Multiple contrasting rhythms at once
Multiple keys at once
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What is an ostinato?
A repeated chord pattern
A repeated rhythmic pattern
A repeated lyric fragment
None of the included
10
This ballet caused a riot on opening night
The Firebird
The Rite of Spring
Petrushka
The Nutcracker
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Rhapsody in Blue was the first classical composition by whom?
William Grant Still
Charles Ives
Aaron Copland
George Gershwin
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What is a whole tone scale?
A scale with a lowered seventh, third, and fifth
A scale made up of whole steps
A scale made up of only five notes
A scale that alternates half and whole steps
13
Who composed the ballet that caused a riot?
William Grant Still
Alban Berg
Bela Bartok
Igor Stravinsky
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This composer won the Pulitzer Prize for his Third Symphony
Claude Debussy
Charles Ives
Arnold Schoenberg
Aaron Copland
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Whose breakout opera was Pelias et Melisande?
Igor Stravinsky
Claude Debussy
George Gershwin
Arnold Schoenberg
16
This composer was influenced by Hungarian Nationalism
Anton Webern
Bela Bartok
Igor Stravinsky
Claude Debussy
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Who composed this piece?
Bela Bartok
Arnold Schoenberg
Igor Stravinsky
William Grant Still
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What is it called when the tone row is played upside down?
Retrograde
Inversion
Retrograde Inversion
Permutation
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Who is the composer of the piece?
Bela Bartok
Igor Stravinsky
Arnold Schoenberg
William Grant Still
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Atonal music is:
Music written with in several keys
Music written in all keys
Music written in no key
Music written in two keys
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This composer's primary income source was conducting
Igor Stravinsky
Charles Ives
Arnold Schoenberg
Anton Webern
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What technological innovations were important in the early 20th Century
Television
Radio
Records
Telegraph
23
What is the title of the piece?
Concerto for Orchestra
Afro-American Symphony
The Rite of Spring
A Survivor from Warsaw
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William Grant Still was a major contributor to what cultural movement?
Exoticism
Modernism
Art Deco
The Harlem Renaissance
25
Which political movements forced many composers from their jobs?
Jingoism
Fascism
Communism
Nazism
26
Consonant intervals are:
Intervals that make up major and minor triads
Intervals that are stable and act as a point of arrival
all the major and perfect intervals
only intervals of a 3rd and a 6th
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Expressionist art was a reaction against what?
Romanticism
Exoticism
Impressionism
Neoclassicism
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This composer was the first African American conductor of a major orchestra.
Aaron Copland
Anton Webern
Charles Ives
William Grant Still
29
Which non-western cultures became inspiration for composers in the early 20th Century?
African
South American
Middle Eastern
Asian
30
The goal of Expressionist Art in the early 20
th
Century was:
to express anti-war sentiment
to shock their audience
to rebel against classicism
to create cognitive dissonance
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Who composed this piece?
Bela Bartok
William Grant Still
Igor Stravinsky
Arnold Schoenberg
32
Who composed this piece?
George Gershwin
Aaron Copeland
Igor Stravinsky
Arnold Schoenberg
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What is it called when the tone row is played upside down and backwards?
Permutation
Inversion
Retrograde Inversion
Retrograde
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What is the title of the piece?
Afro-American Symphony
Concerto for Orchestra
A Survivor from Warsaw
The Rite of Spring
35
Dissonant Intervals are:
only used if they are part of a seventh chord
unstable and tend to resolve
only augmented or diminished
stable and a point of arrival
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What is the title of the piece?
Pierrot Lunaire
Appalachian Spring
A Survivor from Warsaw
Rhapsody in Blue
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What technology became the first recording device available to the public?
Radio
Telegraph
Compact Disc
Phonograph
38
What is the title of the piece?
A Survivor from Warsaw
Rhapsody in Blue
Appalachian Spring
Pierrot Lunaire
39
Who composed this piece?
Bela Bartok
William Grant Still
Arnold Schoenberg
George Gershwin
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What is the title of the piece?
Concerto for Orchestra
A Survivor from Warsaw
Afro-American Symphony
The Rite of Spring
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What is it called when the tone row is played backwards?
Permutation
Inversion
Retrograde Inversion
Retrograde
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Who composed this piece?
George Gershwin
Arnold Schoenberg
Bela Bartok
Aaron Copeland
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What is a rhapsody?
A piece in triple meter based on dance rhythms
A one movement sectional work with elements of improvisation
A piece where a main theme alternates with new material
A piece for solo instrument and orchestra
44
What is a tone row?
A way to organize rhythm in expressionist music
A way to alter the major scale to make the piece atonal
A specific sequence of pitches organized using math
The sequence of pitches used in serial music
45
Neoclassicism uses the forms from what previous eras?
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Romantic
46
What is a tone cluster?
Two chords played at once
A chord where the notes are a whole or half step apart
A chord based on fourths instead of thirds
A chord based on fifths instead of thirds
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The definition of extended technique is:
Using an instrument in a way it was not originally intended
Use of electronics to manipulate the sounds
Use of amplification to extend the sound of the instrument
Use of one instrument to imitate another
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What became a primary characteristic of music in the early 20th century?
Melody
Texture
Rhythm
Timbre
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What is a quintal chord?
A chord made up of fifths instead of thirds
A chord where the notes are a whole or half step apart
Two chords played at once
A chord made up of fourths instead of thirds
50
Who composed this piece?
Bela Bartok
Igor Stravinsky
Arnold Schoenberg
William Grant Still
51
Bitonality is:
Music written with several tonal centers
Music written in two tonal centers
Music written in major and minor keys
Music written in no tonal center
52
What is the title of the piece?
A Survivor from Warsaw
Appalachian Spring
Pierrot Lunaire
Rhapsody in Blue
53
Which of the following are the only consonant chords?
Diminished
Minor
Augmented
Major
54
What was Stravinsky's first ballet?
The Rite of Spring
The Firebird
Petrushka
Swan Lake
55
This composer studied with French teacher Nadia Boulanger:
Claude Debussy
Bela Bartok
Arnold Schoenberg
Aaron Copland
