How did Shostakovich put his signature on his compositions?

By using a short musical motive that represented the letters in his name

Which of the following is an identifiable trend in music of the last three decades?

Women and minorities have become more fully accepted in the world of music

Which musical trend characterizes pieces composed from 1945 to the 1960s?

Intellectualization and experimentation

Why is Stravinsky considered the musical equivalent of Picasso?

He evolved several distinct styles throughout his career

What childhood experience influenced Ives's Modernist approach to music?

His father used to play tunes in two different keys at once

How is Debussy connected to the Symbolist movement?

He based several works on Symbolist writings

What is an octatonic scale?

Eight notes, alternating whole steps and half steps

Why has classical music struggled to survive in the 20th century?

It has to compete with popular music

What problem did Schoenberg face after abandoning tonality?

Atonal pieces lacked an organizing structure

How did World War II influence the development of classical music in the 20th century?

Refugees made the U.S. the center of Western culture

Which of the following is true of the length of Western musical works of the twentieth century?

They are often much longer or much shorter than traditional music

A constantly repeated musical phrase

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1
How did Shostakovich put his signature on his compositions?
By using a pen given to him by Joseph Stalin
By using a rubber stamp
By using a short musical motive that represented the letters in his name
By signing his name in reverse
2
Which composer was a conductor of the NY Philharmonic Orchestra and composed West Side Story?
Leonard Bernstein
Charles Ives
George Gershwin
Benjamin Britten
3
Which of the following is an identifiable trend in music of the last three decades?
Women and minorities have become more fully accepted in the world of music
The great composers of today are easily identifiable
World music has become the most important source material for composers
Contemporary and classical music developed a similar set of conventions
4
Which musical trend characterizes pieces composed from 1945 to the 1960s?
Intellectualization and experimentation
Expanded tonality
Postmodernism
Predictable structure and simplicity
5
Why is Stravinsky considered the musical equivalent of Picasso?
He was fascinated by "exotic" cultures
He was deeply influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud
He went to the South Sea Islands to live among the islanders
He evolved several distinct styles throughout his career
6
What childhood experience influenced Ives's Modernist approach to music?
His father used to play tunes in two different keys at once
He corresponded with Stravinsky via letters
He dropped out of school and never learned the "correct" way to compose
His father died during World War I
7
How is Debussy connected to the Symbolist movement?
He began his career as a Symbolist poet
He commissioned several volumes of Symbolist poetry
He published a manifesto praising the movement
He based several works on Symbolist writings
8
What is an octatonic scale?
Eight notes that are all a whole step apart
Any eight pitches arranged in ascending or descending order
A succession of eight adjacent half steps
Eight notes, alternating whole steps and half steps
9
In its earliest incarnation, fusion was a musical style formed by combining:
Jazz and Neo-Classical
Serialism and chance
Rock and folk
Jazz and rock
10
What 20th-century musical innovation called for the simultaneous sounding of more than one tonal center?
Polytonality
Atonality
Non-triadic harmony
Quartal harmony
11
Where was the center of the Expressionist movement?
Paris
Vienna
New York
London
12
Which of the following composers was not a part of the "Second Viennese School?"
Anton Webern
Arnold Schoenberg
Sergei Prokofiev
Alban Berg
13
What special singing technique is used in Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire?
Scat
Sprechstimme
Bel canto
Falsetto
14
Who composed Rhapsody in Blue?
George Gershwin
Charles Ives
Benjamin Britten
Leonard Bernstein
15
Which of the following composers was also an ethnomusicologist?
Sergei Prokofiev
Charles Ives
Dmitri Shostakovich
Bela Bartok
16
How does the music of Claude Debussy represent the ideals of musical impressionism?
It is designed as an expression of the subconscious mind
It evokes the directness and exoticism of non-urban cultures
It was composed in direct response to impressionist paintings
It is dreamy and suggestive
17
Each of the following is a feature of Primitivism except:
Ostinato
Whole tone scale
Polyrhythms
Bitonality
18
What literary movement paralleled the Impressionist movement in painting?
Postmodernism
Symbolism
Expressionism
verismo
19
Which musical trend characterizes music composed from the 1960s to the end of the century?
Postmodernism
12-tone serialism
Chance music
Intellectualism and experimentation
20
Which Stravinsky work is considered one of the most revolutionary works of the 20th century?
Petrushka
The Rite of Spring
Pulcinella
The Firebird
21
Why has classical music struggled to survive in the 20th century?
Composers have been unable to meet the large demand for new music
Many classical musicians died in the two world wars
It has to compete with popular music
Classical music has become too familiar to most listeners
22
What problem did Schoenberg face after abandoning tonality?
Atonal pieces tended to be too long
Atonal pieces lacked an organizing structure
Atonal pieces were too difficult to perform
Atonal pieces could not include text
23
How did World War II influence the development of classical music in the 20th century?
Destruction of compositions led to re-creation of ealier musical forms
The rebuilding of Europe led to a renewed embrace of Western art music
Refugees made the U.S. the center of Western culture
Refugees to the Soviet Union made it the new center of Western culture
24
Which of the following is true of the length of Western musical works of the twentieth century?
They are modeled on the length of Baroque music
They are based on the limitations of recording technology
They are comparable to the length of Romantic era music
They are often much longer or much shorter than traditional music
25
What literary movement paralleled the Impressionist movement in painting?
Symbolism
Verismo
Expressionism
Postmodernism
26
Which of the following composers was not a 20th century composer from Russia?
Stravinsky
Prokofiev
Debussy
Shostakovich
27
What global event shattered the sense of optimism that characterized the early 20th century?
World War I
The atomic bombing of Japan
The Great Depression
The Holocaust
28
What is an ostinato?
A syncopated rhythmic pattern
A piece with minimal changes in harmony
A chromatic melodic passage
A constantly repeated musical phrase

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